IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOT AND SHOE RACK
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert Chambers Macdonald, of Brighton, in the County
of Sussex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOT AND SHOE RACK."
Sealed the 19th December 1879, and dated the 17th September 1879.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Herbert Chambers Macdonald
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at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th September 1879.
HERBERT CHAMBERS MACDONALD, of Brighton, in the County of Sussex.
PROVEMENTS IN BOOT AND SHOE RACK."
IM-
This Invention is designed for the purpose of providing a means or apparatus
which can be suspended or affixed to the wall of any apartment or to any other
surface, or which may be made to stand upon any table or other convenient surface
upon which boots and shoes can without soiling or defacing the coloring or paper
of such wall, table, or other surface, be conveniently suspended, and is an improve-
ment on an Invention for which Letters Patent were granted to me on the Twenty
ninth of November, Eighteen hundred and seventy eight, No. 4863.
My improved boot and shoe rack is constructed of a piece of wood or other
suitable material, upon which is fixed a strip of leather or other suitable material
forming a series of loops or divisions into which the boots and shoes are inserted;
or the apparatus may be constructed to hold the boots and shoes heel downwards
by means of a projection from the bottom of the back piece to catch the heel of
the boots and shoes, and a strip of leather or other suitable material forming a
series of loops or divisions to receive the toes of the boots and shoes.
Into the upper part of the apparatus rings or eyes are screwed or otherwise
attached, so that it may be conveniently hung on hooks, pegs, or nails against the
wall or other surface; or the apparatus may be attached by screws or otherwise to
the wall or other surface.
The combined standing and hanging boot and shoe rack I construct with two or
any number of parallel bars of suitable material attached to side picces, which

page_text: forms the stand, at an angle or otherwise. By means of rings screwed into the top
of stand it may, if required, be hung against a wall or other surface.
It is obvious that either apparatus can be readily furnished with a hood or
curtain to protect the boots and shoes from dust if necessary.
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In order that my said Invention may be fully understood I now proceed more
particularly to describe the same by the aid of the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings.
Figs. 1 and 2 represent a front and end view of a boot and shoe rack constructed
with loops into which the boots and shoes are placed toes downwards. a is the
back piece; b, b, b, are the loops; c, c, the rings by which it is suspended to the
wall; d is a shoe.
Figrs, 3 and represent a front and end view of a rack constructed to hold boots
and shoes heel downwards. a is the back piece; b, b, b, are the loops; e, the
projection; c, c, the rings; d is a shoe.
Figs. 5 and 6 represent a front and end view of a combined standing and
hanging rack. a, a, are two parallel bars; b, b, are pieces forming the stand; c, c,
are the rings by which the rack may, if necessary, be hung to the wall or other
surface;
d is a shoe.
In witness whereof, I, the said Herbert Chambers Macdonald, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this
day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.