Title: Adjustable boot type composition horseshoe

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1. An improved composition molded shoe for horses comprising a sole and integral walls conforming in shape to a horse's foot, a re-entrant fold on each side of the front shoe wall having the fold creases lying in the plane substantially that of the front of the hoof, a pair of brackets symmetrically located and affixed to the shoe upper portions rearward of and proximate the re-entrant folds, each of said brackets being generally rhombic shaped and adapted to be affixed inside the shoe side walls, a cable engaging grooved means affixed to each of said brackets at a front upper portion, a plurality of inwardly and downwardly inclined teeth on the lower edge of said brackets, a elongated composition strap having downwardly inclined serrations positioned inside the shoe in approximately a semi-circle around the inside of the rear part of the shoe, means attaching the ends of the strap to the shoe side walls and the brackets, a continuous loop binding cable, a pair of vertically spaced apertures in each front portion of the shoe side wall located to be tangential, substantially to the top and bottom of cable engaging grooved means, a cable anchoring bracket affixed to the upper midpoint of the shoe front wall, means affixing the cable to said bracket, said cable then dividing to the right and to the left of the front of the shoe, passing into the shoe through the lower apertures, engaging the cable engaging grooved means, passing out of the shoe through the upper apertures for engagement with over-center buckle means.

2. The improved composition molded shoe for horses of Claim 1 in which the cable engaging grooved means is a sheave, means rotatably affixing the sheave to the brackets.

3. The improved composition molded shoe for horses of claim 1 in which the cable attaching bracket is provided with a keyhole slot whereby the length of the free part of the cable can be adjusted by looping the cable about the bracket prongs formed between the keyhole slot and the edges of the bracket.

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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.

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