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Horseshoe
OwnerAnders Jungerseninventor
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A two-part horseshoe consists of a channel-shaped upper part (10) to be nailed to the horse's hoof and an exchangeable lower part (20), which is made of an elastic material and has a ridge member (22) that can be pressed up into the channel (15) of the upper part. The side walls of the channel have a plurality of inwardly extending projections (16) with end faces directed toward the channel bottom (11), and the side walls of the ridge member are formed with corresponding recesses (25) which the projections snap into when the ridge member is pressed into position in the channel. In the front portion of the lower part there is embedded a metal insert (40) having partly a locking hook (43) to cooperate with a corresponding locking hook (19) on the front side wall (13) of the upper part, partly a plate-shaped member (41) forming a toe wear bracket on the underside of the lower part. When the projections (16) of the upper part are brought into engagement with the recesses (25) in the lower part they prevent such displacement of the lower part with respect to the upper part as is required to release the locking hooks from the locking engagement. Thus, the lower part cannot be loosened by the influences which occur in use; it can only be removed in a specific manner, viz. progressively from the rear ends and starting with the use of a hoof cleaner or a similar object as a crowbar or lever.
In a horseshoe having a fixed, channel-shaped upper part with a bottom wall intended for engagement with a horse's hoof and a front and rear side wall and an exchangeable lower part of an elastic material, said lower part having a ridge member having side walls and a top side intended for insertion into the channel of the upper part and an exposed underside, the upper part being firmly connected to the ridge member of the lower part by cooperating projections and recesses, the improvement wherein the projections are provided on the upper part and have a top side that inclines inwardly and downwardly from the edges of the side walls toward the bottom wall of the channel of the upper part and that terminate in a flat end face extending substantially perpendicular to the side wall and spaced from the bottom wall of the channel, said projections engaging with an opposing face of a cooperating recess formed in the side walls of the ridge member of the lower part, said projections snapping into the recesses upon impression of the ridge member of the lower part into the channel of the upper part to thereby lock the parts together, and an insert of a hard, strong material embedded in the toe portion of the lower part, said insert having a locking member which engages with a cooperating locking member in the upper part, in which engaging position the two locking members are fixed by said snapping of said projections into said recesses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.