Improvements in Heel and Toe Tips and Sole Plates for Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1692
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Heel and Toe Tips and Sole Plates for Boots and
Shoes.
I, DANIEL ARTHUR BERRY, of 20 Stockley Street, Northampton, in the County
of Northampton, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to improvements in heel and toe tips and sole plates for
boots and shoes and has for its object to render the same lighter and facilitate the
attachment thereof to the boot or shoe.
Heretofore boot or shoe tips or plates have principally been either cast with a
flange having holes, or forged without a flange and holes drilled through the same
for the reception of nails. In applying cast tips or plates to the heel, the top lift
is placed onto the said flange or when applied to the sole, the flange is placed
underneath the sole, which covers the holes in the flange and thus renders it difficult
to drive the nails through the same, whilst in the case of forged tips or plates the
nail holes require to be drilled through the same, which is a source of great trouble
and loss of time.
To obviate these defects my improvements consist in forming or providing heel
or toe tips or sole plates for boots and shoes, with a sheet metal flange, thin enough
to permit of driving nails through the same without the necessity of forming holes.
This may be carried out in a number of various ways.
When producing heel or toe tips or sole plates of malable iron, according to one
form of my invention, I cast the said sheet metal flange into the heel or toe tip or
sole plate, as near to the underside thereof as the metal will allow, or I may form
the flange of angular section and cast the vertical portion thereof into the underside
of the heel or toe tip or sole plate.
According to another form of my invention, the said sheet metal flange may be
soldered to the inner or outer edge or underside of either a cast or forged heel or
toe tip or sole plate. In forged tips or plates, in lieu of soldering the said sheet
metal flange thereto, a slit may be formed in the inner edge or the underside thereof
and in a hot or cold state the said sheet metal flange inserted and afterwards by
pressure secured therein.
Another form of my invention consists in producing forged tips or plates with a
flange out of one piece, by rolling the metal taper, wedge shaped or recessed in
section and bending the thin edge thereof at right angle, so as to form a flange,
whilst the other part furnishes the wearing surface for the tip or plate. The said
flange may be formed continuous or intercepted as may be found most suitable.
When using wooden heel tips, one form of applying the said sheet metal flange
thereto consists in forming the outer edge with teeth and forcing the same into the
inner edge of the tip or plate.
Dated this 4th day of February 1892.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Heel and Toe Tips and Sole Plates for Boots and
Shoes.
I, DANIEL ARTHUR BERRY, of 20, Stockley Street, Northampton, in the County
of Northampton, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, 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 improvements in heel and toe tips and sole plates for
boots and shoes and has for its object to render the same lighter and facilitate the
attachment thereof to the boot or shoe.
Heretofore boot or shoe tips or plates have principally been either cast with a
flange having holes, or forged without a flange and holes drilled through the same
for the reception of nails. In applying cast tips or plates to the heel, the top lift is
placed onto the said flange or when applied to the sole, the flange is placed under-
neath the sole, which covers the holes in the flange and thus renders it difficult to
drive the nails through the same, whilst in the case of forged tips or plates the nail
holes require to be drilled through the same, which is a source of great trouble and
loss of time.
To obviate these defects my improvements consist in forming or providing heel
or toe tips or sole plates for boots and shoes, with n sheet metal flange, thin enough
to permit of driving nails through the same without the necessity of forming holes.
This may be carried out in a number of various ways.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Figs. 1, 3 & 5 are cross sections of a heel or toe tip and sole plate, respectively,
constructed in accordance with one form of my invention, and Figs. 2, 4 & 6,
respectively, plans thereof.
Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16 & 18 are sections, and Figs. 14, 17 & 19
respectively plans of Figs. 13, 16 & 18 of other forms of heel or toe tip and sole
plates constructed according to my invention.
In carrying out my invention and when producing heel or toe tips or pole plates a
of malable iron, according to one form of my invention, see Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, I
cast the sheet metal flange 6 into the heel or toe tip or sole plate a, as near to the
underside thereof as the metal will allow, or I may form the flange 6 of angular
section, see Fig. 7, and cast the vertical portion 6' thereof into the underside of the
heel or toe tip or sole plate a.
According to another form of my invention, the sheet metal flange b may be
soldered to the inner or outer edge or underside of either a cast or forged heel or
toe tip or sole plate a, as shown respectively in Figs. 8, 9 & 10. In forged tips or
plates a, in lieu of soldering the sheet metal flange b thereto, a slit a' may be formed
in the inner edge or the underside thereof, as shown respectively in Figs. 11 & 12,
and the sheet metal flange 6 inserted in a hot or cold state and afterwards secured
therein by pressure.
Another form of my invention consists in producing forged tips or plates a having
a flange b out of one piece. Such may be done by rolling the metal taper or wedge
shaped, or recessed in section, as shown respectively in Figs. 13 & 15, on one side
thereof and bending its thin edge a² at right angle, so as to form a flange b, as
shown on the other side in the said figures, whilst the thicker part a furnishes the
wearing surface for the tip or plate.
b
Another method of forming tips or plates with a flange 6 as aforesaid, consists in
stamping out the wearing surface a and flange 6 together in one piece, as shown in
Figs. 16 & 17. The flanges & may be formed continuous, as shown in the figures
described or intercepted as shown in Fig. 14, as may be found most convenient.

page_text: When using wooden heel tips a, see Figs. 18 & 19, one form of applying the sheet
metal flange b thereto consists in forming its outer edge with teeth 62 and forcing
the same into the inner edge of the tip or plate a.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is―
Furnishing or forming heel or toe tips or sole plates a, with a sheet metal or other
flange, respectively, thin enough to permit the driving of nails through it without
the necessity of forming holes for the reception of the nails substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of November 1892.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.