Improvements in and connected with Studded Soles and Heels of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 10th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Studded Soles and Heels of
Boots and Shoes.
I, WILLIAM Ross, of No. 60, Laurel Grove, Penge, in the County of
Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in and connected with studded soles and
heels of boots and shoes, and its object is to place these studs or nails, of whatever
material, flush with the inner face of the leather, and permit them to project any
required distance from the outer face of the sole or heel, or sections of soles or
heels, or protectors for soles or heels, so that when such soles and heels, sections of
soles and heels, or protectors are required to be affixed to the boot, the operator
has but to lay the piece to be attached in its proper place, and drive the studs or
nails flush with the wearing surface of the leather, when they, being screwed or
ringed or otherwise roughed on their sides, will insert themselves in the midsole,
or insole, of the boot, and cannot return on account of their roughness, or their
being screwed, or ringed. Thus no bradawl will be required, and the studs, having
no sharp points, cannot enter the foot but will remain firmly embedded where
inserted. Where preferred the studs may be the thickness of the sole and nails
used as above indicated.
Dated this 12th day of December 1890.
D
TTIALL
THILLITS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Studded Soles and Heels of
Boots and Shoes.
I, WILLIAM Ross of No. 60 Laurel Grove, Penge, in the County of
Surrey, Engineer, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide an efficient and economical means for
protecting the soles and heels of boots and shoes whereby, those parts more
particularly affected in walking may be readily removed and replaced by pieces of
material corresponding to the worn parts, and also the means for securing the
pieces to the soles and heels of boots and shoes.
In carrying out my invention I take scraps, cuttings or waste pieces of leather,
dermatine, linoleum or other convenient or suitable material or substance and cut,
stamp or otherwise form them into sections of regular or irregular shape, but
preferably at an angle diagonal to the horizontal and vertical axial lines of the
boot or shoe. The reason for shaping the sections of the material in irregular
form is primarily that, in the bending of the foot, there shall be no definite cross
division between the parts but, as the several sections are made to intersect each
other, the strain upon the outer surface shall be distributed over several of such
sections.
The soles and heels being formed of several pieces or sections, it follows that the
best leather may be used where the wear is greatest and an inferior leather
adapted to those parts subjected to the least wear, and, inasmuch as the sections
will be coated upon the inner surface and edges with a waterproof cement, the

page_text: sole or heel so prepared will not only be equal to a sole or heel cut out of solid
leather, but will be rendered impervious to moisture.
Each of the previously prepared sections may be studded and may be secured
to either new or partially worn boots and shoes in the manner to be hereinafter
described.
The studs may be of different materials to meet the requirements of each
individual wearer, for instance, for what might be called a heavy walker, a strong
material such as steel or equivalent slow wearing metal or material would be
required, and for a light walker, a lighter or softer metal or material may be
employed as, for instance, copper, metal alloys, vulcanite, wood or equivalents.
From the foregoing it will be obvious that the original structure of the soles
and heels of boots and shoes may be kept intact long after the uppers have
deteriorated from combined atmospheric influences and cleaning or polishing
compounds, inasmuch that, when any one or more sections has or have been much
worn, such section or sections may be readily removed and a new section or new
sections substituted therefor.
If desired, instead of an entire sole or heel of a boot or shoe being made up of
the sections hereinbefore described, any one or more sections may be adapted to
those parts most liable to rapid wear, and further, should the wearer of the boot or
shoe prefer an
even flush surface to the sole and heel, the sections to cover
those parts least liable to wear may be of plain material not served with studs.
For securing the sections to the soles and heels of boots and shoes, in addition
to the cement above referred to, I employ studs or nails of greater length than the
protecting studs so that, when flush with the inner surface of the section, they shall
project a convenient distance beyond the outer or wearing surface. When it is
desired to affix any section or sections upon the sole or heel, the boot or shoe is
placed upon the ordinary metal last and the nails or studs driven home flush with
the outer surface, or surfaces of such section or sections and, inasmuch as I prefer
to form a screw thread or rings upon said nails or studs, or otherwise roughen the
surfaces thereof, the sections are, by this means, held firmly in position. These
nails or studs, having no sharp points, will not hurt or in any way incommode the
wearer of the boot or shoe.
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 :-
First The employment of regularly or irregularly shaped pieces or sections
of leather or other material served with studs of metal or other substance
substantially as and for the purposes described and set forth.
Second The employment of studs or nails threaded ringed or otherwise
roughened for securing the soles and heels and also the protecting sections of
leather or other material to the soles and heels of boots and shoes as herein fully
set forth.
Third-The building up of the sole or heel of a boot or shoe of regularly or
irregularly shaped pieces or sections of plain leather or other suitable material as
set forth having the securing studs as herein described.
Dated this 10th day of October 1891.
W. A. BIROM,
8, Old Jewry, E.Ç.