IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOT PROTECTORS
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Fieldhouse at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th March 1881.
JOSEPH FIELDHOUSE, of Keighley, in the County of York, Gentleman.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOT PROTECTORS."
The object of this Invention is to produce a boot protector which shall have a
firmer grip upon the ground, and thus ensure greater safety.
I accomplish the above object in the following manner:-I form the .boot
protector by means of castings, into which I introduce perforations and open spaces,
giving to the same more of the character of nails, thus giving greater grip to the
wearer and consequently ensuring greater safety.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joseph Fieldhouse in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th
September 1881.
JOSEPH FIELDHOUSE, of Keighley, in the County of York, Gentleman.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOT PROTECTORS.'
The object of this Invention is to produce a boot protector which shall have a
firmer grip upon the ground, and thus ensure greater safety; and it consists in
arranging the plate with a perforation in the centre, such perforation being parallel
to the contour of the outer edge of the plate. The side indentations, hitherto very
little below the surface of the plate, are in my improved plate carried right
through the whole thickness of the plate as recesses, so that the recesses remain as
long as there is any plate left to wear away, giving to the wearer a firmer gripe
upon the ground.
I form the protectors in sections of various sizes and configurations suitable to
the part of the heel or sole of the foot-covering that requires protection, as it is
well known that some persons wear the heels and soles more at some parts than at
others.
Figure 1 represents the outline of the sole and heel of a foot covering to which
a number of my improved boot protectors are secured, and shews the indentations
or recesses A along the sides of the metal plates; Figure 2 is an enlarged plan of
a boot protector suitable for the side of the sole of a foot covering; Figure 3 is a
section of the same through line a, b, shewing the teeth or projections by which
the plates are secured to the sole or heel, and the taper of the plate from the outer
edge toward the centre of the sole or heel; Figure 4 is a cross-section through my
beel-protector which is curved on the side next the heel to fill up the part
previously worn away.
When the protectors are made long, such as E, or of oval form, such as F, I place
cross bars K connecting the sides together. In every case the perforations are
made wider at the outside than at the side next the sole or heel of the foot covering,
by which means the perforations are less liable to become filled with foreign
matter. These plates are secured as before mentioned to the foot covering by
means of teeth or projections B, similar to those described in English Specification,
No. 760, A.D. 1876, and which are driven into holes formed in the heel or other
part of the foot-covering requiring protection, thereby securing the plate to the
same.
What I claim as my Invention is,―
A boot protector consisting of a metallic plate having internal perforations and
edge recesses, each of which passes entirely through the thickness of the plate,
substantially as shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Fieldhouse, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one
JOHN WAUGH,
Engineering and Patent Offices,
Bradford.
JOSEPH FIELDHOUSE. (L.S.)