Improvements in and relating to Sole and Heel Protectors fɔr Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 15th May, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Sole and Heel Protectors fɔr
Boots and Shoes.
I, RICHARD STACHOW of 42 Grabowstrasse, Eberswalde in the Kingdom of
Prussia, Master Painter, 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 relates to a device for protecting the soles and heels of boots and
shoes. This protective device consists essentially of a plate of metal or other
sufficiently hard but elastic material, extending in one single piece or in a number
of pieces over the whole of the sole. This plate is fastened to the vertical sides of
the sole or the heel by means of special lugs or fillets, with the aid of nails, small
screws, springs or in any other suitable manner.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a boot provided with the new protective
device.
Figure 2 is an underside view of the same boot; and
Figure 3 is also an underside view of a boot which is provided with a somewhat.
modified arrangement of the protective device forming the subject of this..
invention..
Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.
In Figures 1 and 2 a is a plate which is provided with side lugs for the
purpose of attachment of the plate to the vertical sides of the sole or the heel.
These lugs may also have the form of fillets, and for connecting the same with the
sole, there may be employed as above stated, small screws or nails, suitably.
constructed springs, or other devices.
In Figures 1 and 2 it has been assumed that the plates a are provided with large
perforations d. These perforations may be wholly omitted, in which case the plate
is preferably roughened, or is formed with punched-out wart-like prominences or
with small crater-like formations whch are produced by completely piercing said
wart-like prominences. Further the plate may be provided with nails which are
rivetted in counter sunk holes formed on or in the inside of the plate in such a
manner that the heads are situated on the outside of the plate a.
The plate a,.
instead of being in one single piece, may be made by fixing a plate of wire gauze,
woven wire, or the like in a frame e (Figure 3).
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 :-
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(1.) The protective devices for boots and shoes substantially as hereinbefore
described and shown.
(2.) A device for protecting the soles and heels of boots and shoes, consisting of
plates fixed by means of vertical fillets or lugs to the side surfaces of the sole or
of the heel, said plates being composed of hard but elastic materials provided with
any desired perforations wart-like prominences, or being composed of woven wire-
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page_text: fabric or the like inserted in a frame substantially as hereinbefore described and
shown.
Dated this 20th day of March 1897
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Associate Agent.