Improvements in Metal Boot and Shoe Protectors.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1895-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1896.
Improvements in Metal Boot and Shoe Protectors.
We, JOHN MASON, of 151, Great College Street, Camden Town, Bootmaker,
and GEORGE CLAMPITT, of 12, Rochester Terrace, Camden Town, both in the
County of London, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to.
be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements on the invention forming the subject of
our former Patent No. 956 of 1894.
In making use of the protectors constructed according to our said former Patent
it was necessary to first mark the leather to which the protectors were to be applied
to correspond with the blocks or segments and then to cut out the parts so as to
form openings to receive the said blocks or segments...
The object of our present improvements is to avoid the necessity of marking and
cutting the leather. For this purpose we form the said blocks or segments with a
raised cutting edge so that in applying the same it is simply necessary to place
them on the leather and apply suitable pressure whereby the blocks or segments
will punch out the leather at the places the blocks are to occupy thereby effecting
a considerable saving of time and labour.
Dated this 17th day of May 1895
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metal Boot and Shoe Protectors.
We, JOHN MASON, of 151, Great College Street, Camden Town, Bootmaker,
and GEORGE CLAMPITT, of 12, Rochester Terrace, Camden Town, Gentleman,
both in the County of London, 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 on the invention forming the subject of
our former Patent No. 956 of 1894.
In making use of the protectors constructed according to our said former Patent
it was necessary to first mark the leather to which the protectors were to be applied
to correspond with the blocks or segments and then to cut out the parts so as to
form openings to receive the said blocks or segments.
The object of our present improvements is to avoid the necessity of marking and
cutting the leather. For this purpose we form the said blocks or segments with a
raised cutting edge so that in applying the same it is simply necessary to place
them on the leather and apply suitable pressure whereby the blocks or segments
will punch out the leather at the places the blocks are to occupy thereby effecting
a considerable saving of time and labour.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a plau of a boot or shoe protector made according to our invention:
Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1 :

page_text: Figure 3 is a sectional view shewing the method of applying the protector to
the leather:
Figure 4 is a similar view shewing the protector forced through the leather:
Figure 5 is an underside view of a top piece with our improved protector forced
through the same:
Figure 6 is a plan of
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single stud protector.
a is the base plate of the protector, and b, bare holes in the same for attaching
it to the leather: c, c are the blocks or segments, and a, d are the cutting edges.
of the same.
The protector is attached to the heel or the like by forcing the segments through
the leather as shewn clearly in Figures 3 and 4 until the cutting edges project
through the same. The said edges are then removed by filing or by other suitable
means so as to produce a level surface.
It is to be understood that the protector may be formed with any desirable.
number of blocks or segments, and in some cases we make them with single segments
only, as shewn in Figure 6, which construction has the advantage that it permits
of our protector being applied to heels of any external contour without the necessity
for making a special protector as would be the case with a protector of the kind
shewn in Figures 1 and 5, which is only adapted for heels of one contour.
It is
also to be understood that protectors with one or more blocks or segments may be
applied to any part of a boot heel or sole, and in cases where such protectors are
not fixed at the edge of the sole or heel they are provided with cutting edges all
round so as to cut holes in the leather.
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
The improvements in boot and shoe protectors herein before described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 21st day of December 1895.
he 21st day of December 1895.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.