Improvements in Protectors for Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 11th Dec.. 1895-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Protectors for Boots and Shoes.
We, THOMAS JONES of 45 St. Margarets Road, Brockley, in the County of
Kent, Commission Agent, and THOMAS BELVOIR of No. 200 Monument Road
Edgbaston, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Engineer do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the improvements (hereinafter described) in protectors.
for boots and shoes, and consists in making the said articles in such a manner to
render them non-slipping and reducing the wear to a minimum.
Our invention consists essentially in making the aforesaid protectors of a com-
bination of steel and lead or other suitable ductile alloy, or of a combination of
steel and india-rubber, caoutchouc or other suitable fibre."
In carrying our invention into practice we take a strip of sheet steel of the
required length and width, equal to that of the protectors, the said strip being
thicker at one edge and somewhat resembling the figure >. The body of the strip.
being flat, by means of raising tools worked in a stamp or press we give to the
body of the strip while in a flat condition a trough form the shape part of the
strip forming one side of the trough, the opposite side being of uniform thickness
with that of the body or bottom of the trough, which we bend slightly inward at
the top edge. The said strip will thus be wider at the bottom than top. We take
the said trough shaped strip and twist or wind the same round a mandril or former,
forming convolution thereon. The said mandril or former being of a circular or
nearly circular figure, or other desired figure to resemble the heel of a boot or
shoe. The shaped side of the trough being on the outside of the mandril or
former. In this position we cut by the aid of cutting tools or a circular saw, the
convolutions of the trough strip which form semi-circular or nearly semi-circular
figures constituting a number of partly made protectors.
We take the partly made protectors and fill the trough or cavity with lead or
other alloy either by a press or by a rolling process. Or we may fill the trough
or cavity with india-rubber, caoutchouc, or other suitable fibrous material, the said
protector being pierced with holes for fixing to the heel of a boot or shoe.
Our invention may be modified in any detail as may be necessary to carry the
same into effect without departing from the nature thereof.
Dated this 9th day of March 1895.
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicants.
Improvements in Protectors for Boots and Shoes.
We, THOMAS JONES of No. 45 St. Margarets Road, Brockley, in the County
of Kent, Commission Agent and THOMAS BELVOIR of No. 200, Monument.
Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be.
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page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to the improvements hereinafter described in protectors
for boots and shoes, and consists in making the said articles, in such a manner to
render them non-slipping and reducing the wear to a minimum.
Our invention consists essentially in making the aforesaid protector of a com-
bination of steel and india-rubber, caouchouc, or other suitable fibre, or a combina-
tion of steel and lead or other suitable ductile alloy.
In carrying our invention into practice we take a strip of sheet steel the
said strip being thicker at one edge than the other and tapering from a fixed
point.
By means of raising tools worked in a stamp or press or by a suitable machine,
we give to the said strip while in a flat condition a trough form, the taper edge
forming one side of the trough. The top edge of the trough opposite the taper
side we bend slightly inward. The said trough will thus be wider at the bottom
than the top.
We cut the said trough-shaped strip into short lengths and bend the same by
suitable bending tools into a semi-circular or nearly semi-circular figure to resemble
the heel of a boot or shoe. The taper side of the trough being on the outside of
the curve.
We take the partly made protectors and fill the trough or cavity with lead or
alloy either by a press or by a rolling process. Or we may fill the trough or
cavity with india-rubber, caouchouc or suitable fibrous material, the said protector
being pierced with holes for fixing to the heel of a boot or shoe.
Our invention may be modified in any detail as may be necessary to carry the
same into effect without departing from the nature thereof.
We will describe our invention by reference to the accompanying drawings, the
same letters of reference indicating similar parts throughout.
Figure 1 represents a strip of iron or steel having a flat part A tapering towards
one end B we cut the strip in lengths represented at the dotted lines D, and by
suitable tools worked in a press or stamp or by a rolling process give to the strip
Figure 1 the form represented in Figure 2 and 3. That is we form a trough or
channel the taper end B being on one side and the other side C being of uniform
thickness with the wide part or bottom E. The trough-shaped strip Figure 2
and 3 is next bent or fashioned by hand on a properly shaped mandrel or by the
use of shaping tools into the form representing the finished protector suitable for
the heel of a boot or shoe shown at Figure 4 with wide edge B on the outside.
The trough or channel is ther filled with india-rubber, caouchouc, or other
suitable fibrous material or we may use lead, or alloy.
We may in some cases employ strips of equal thickness for making the protector
as represented at Figures 5 and 6.
Figures 7, 8 and 9 represent different sections which we may make trough or
channel shape.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
An improved protector for boots and shoes having a trough shaped body of iron
or steel filled with india rubber caouchouc or other suitable material or lead or
alloy, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 10th day of December 1895.
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicants.