Improvements in Protectors for the Undersides of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 14th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Protectors for the Undersides of Boots and Shoes.'
I, JOHN SHAW, of Burlington House, Willoughby Road, Hampstead in the
County of Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
This invention has reference to improvements in plates or attached protectors
for the undersides of boots and shoes designed to resist wear to the leather.
In protectors at present in use with which I am acquainted the metal when cast
is of such thickness that injury is likely to be done to carpets and floors by the
projecting metal, unnecessary increase of weight on the foot results and further
unpleasant obstruction often results in walking. Such thick plates are liable to be
knocked off or broken.
The object of my invention is to effect improvements in the manufacture of boot
and shoe sole and heel protectors in regard of economy of manufacture, simplicity
of application, increased resistance to wear, adaptability to any unevenness of the
boot surface, avoidance of projections, injurious to the floor covering trodden on,
and unsightly appearance besides providing protectors fitted for use on superior
classes of boots and shoes.
I construct my improved protectors preferably of thin sheet steel by stamping
with dies and pressure and one form of plate contour to form a protector consists
of a square or approximately square or other shaped plate with corner tails or
points, which can be turned over, or bent at right angles to the plate and sometimes
closed by pressure on themselves, in order by folding and consolidation to form pins
in either case to be pressed into the sole or underside of the boot or shoe so as to
form a secure attachment for the plate. The plate although of great thinness is by
its hardness and toughness adapted to resist great wear.
In place of steel, other hard thin plates of suitable metal or alloy of metals may
be used and the forms of the plates will be adapted to the particular requirements
of the application, and in some cases they will be adapted to fit to each other and
to the curve of the sole or heel.
The plates may be slightly incurved at their edges so as to slightly imbed
themselves in the sole and prevent any projection of sharp angles or corners to
catch the ground.
Dated 15th dow of January 1901
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Protectors for the Undersides of Boots and Shoes.
I, JOHN SHAW of Burlington House, Willoughby Road, Hampstead in the
County of Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has reference to improvements in plates or attached protectors for
the undersides of boots and shoes designed to resist wear to the leather.
In protectors at present in use with which I am acquainted the metal when cast
is of such thickness that injury is likely to be done to carpets and floors by the
projecting metal, unnecessary increase of weight on the foot results and further

page_text: unpleasant obstruction often results in walking. Such thick plates are liable to be
knocked off or broken.
The object of my invention is to effect improvements in the manufacture of boot
and shoe sole and heel protectors in regard of economy of manufacture, simplicity
of application, increased resistance to wear, adaptability to any unevenness of the
boot surface, avoidance of projections, injurious to the floor covering trodden on,
and unsightly appearance, besides providing protectors fitted for use on superior
classes of boots and shoes.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shews a face view of one of the protectors a in course of manufacture, that
is to say as it is struck from the plate.
Fig. 2 shows an edge view and Fig. 3 an end view of the same.
Figs. 4, 5 & 6 shew three corresponding views to the foregoing with the protector
completed by the turning up of the prongs, 1, 2, 3 and 4 at right angles to the plane
of the plate.
Fig. 7 shews to a reduced scale a boot with a number of the protectors applied.
Fig. 8 shews a section of part of the sole of a boot to a larger scale than Fig. 7,
and shewing a number of the protectors in edge view applied by driving the
prongs 1, 2,
and 4 into the substance of the sole. Any number of these protectors
may be applied as and wherever required such as around toe or heel or under ball
or other part of the foot.
I construct my improved protectors preferably of thin sheet steel by stamping
with dies and pressure and one form of plate contour to form a protector consists
of a square, or approximately square, or other shaped plate a with corner tails or
points 1, 2, 3, 4 which can be turned over, or bent at right angles to the plate and
sometimes closed by pressure on themselves, in order by folding and consolidation to
form pins in either case to be pressed into the sole or underside of the boot or shoe,
so as to form a secure attachment for the plate.
The plate a although of great thinness is by its hardness and toughness adapted
to resist great wear.
In place of steel, other hard thin plates of suitable metal or alloy of metals may
be used, and the forms of the plates will be adapted to the particular requirements
of the application, and in some cases they will be adapted to fit to each other and
to the curve of the sole or heel.
The plates a may be slightly incurved at their edges so as to slightly imbed them-
selves in the sole and prevent any projection of the sharp angles or corners to
catch the ground.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The manufacture and use of protectors for the undersoles and heels of boots and
shoes, of thin sheet steel by stamping with dies and pressure, with corner tails or
points turned up or bent at approximately right angles to the plane of the plate and
applied substantially as set forth.
Dated the 4th
ICTONOP IXYET
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.