Title: Adjustable boot type composition horseshoe

Abstract: An improved horseshoe of molded composition having a tread portion shaped to cover the entire bottom of a horse's hoof and a flexible upwardly extending envelope portion shaped to conform to the walls of a horse's hoof and having a pair of triangular folds in the front portion to provide contractile flexibility, and an adjustable tensioning member being a flexible cable which is fastened at its ends to the front portion and which loops back on both sides of the horseshoe to engage sleeves secured the opposed surfaces of brackets affixed to the inside of the side walls of the horseshoe, and over-center tensioning means secured to the front part of the horseshoe for engagement with the flexible cable for snugging the shoe securely to the horse's hoof, the brackets also having inwardly downwardly slanting projecting barbs for non-slipping engagement with the side walls of the horse's hoof when the shoe is snugged on the horse's hoof.

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Inventors: Glass, Neel W. (Cuyamungue, NM, US)

Application Number: 861286
Filing Date: 1977-12-16
Publication_date: 1979-11-20
Assignee: Les-Kare, Inc. (Santa Fe, NM)
Primary Class(es): 168/18
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

122972	Jan, 1872	Sloat	168/18.
3703209	Nov, 1972	Glass	168/18.
3732929	May, 1973	Glass	168/18.

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Primary Examiner: Chamblee, Hugh R.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Heyman; Henry