Improvements in or relating to Heel Tips or Heel Protectors for Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 16th Dec., 1896-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Heel Tips or Heel Protectors for
Boots and Shoes.
I VICTOR ADOLPHE PHIZACKLEA LOUIS of Bank Cottage, Backbarrow,
Ulverston, Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be
as follows:-
This invention has for object improvements in or relating to heel tips or heel
protectors for boots and shoes whereby the contour, squareness, or tread of the
heel is maintained for a longer period than is possible with existing tips or
appliances.
For the purpose of my invention. I construct heel tips, half tips and quarter
tips with a chamfered face or faces from the outer edge or from both outer and
inner edges and by suitable stud eyes, as part thereof or not, I secure by nails or
screws the tip, half tip or quarter tip to the heel of a boot or a shoe said stud eyes
being at suitable distances apart.
I fill the channels, grooves, or spaces of the metal with strips of leather or
other desired material and secure said strips by nails, screws or pegs which also
pass into the body of the heel or heel proper.
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The tip, half tip or quarter tip can be recessed into the "top-piece" or a
filling in piece can be inserted and secured like ordinary top pieces.
The value of the invention to hardwearers will be readily understood from the
following, particularly if the tips, balf tips or quarter tips be applied to heavy
boots and shoes such as those worn by policemen, soldiers, postinen, messengers,
carmen and others.
I purpose making my metal parts of chilled steel or other hard metal the fine
edge of which, with the leather filling strips conjointly coming into contact with
the ground which renders the step almost noiseless and yet sufficiently solid for a
firm tread without risk of slipping.
11000
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said V. A. P. Louis.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Heel Tips or Heel Protectors for
Boots and Shoes.
I, VICTOR ADOLPHE PHIZACKLEA LOUIS, of Bank Cottage, Backbarrow,
Ulverston, Gentleman, 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 has for object, improvements in or relating to heel tips or heel

page_text: protectors for boots and shoes, whereby the contour, squareness, or tread of the
heel is maintained for a longer period than is possible with existing tips or
appliances.
For the purpose of my invention, and as I show on the annexed drawings,
I construct heel tips, Figure 1, half tips, Figure 2, and quarter tips, Figure 3, with
a chamfered face A or faces from the outer edge, or from both outer and inuer
edges, said tips having suitable stud eyes B as part thereof. I secure by nails or
screws the tip, half tip, or quarter tip to the heel of a boot or a shoe, said stud
eyes B being a suitable distance apart.
I fill the channels, grooves, or spaces C of the metal with strips of leather or
other desired material D, and secure said strips or fillings by nails, screws, or
pegs E which also pass into the body of the heel or heel proper.
The tip, half tip, or quarter tip can be recessed into the "top-piece," or a
filling in piece D can be inserted and secured like ordinary top-pieces, as at
Figure 4.
The value of the invention to hard wearers will be readily understood from the
following, particularly if the tips, half tips, or quarter tips are applied to heavy
boots and shoes such as those worn by policemen, soldiers, postmen, messengers,
carmen, and others.
I purpose making my metal parts of chilled steel or other hard or a malleable
metal, the fine edge of which with the leather fillings D conjointly coming into
contact with the ground, which renders the step almost noiseless and yet sufficiently
solid for a firm tread without risk of slipping.
Figure 5 shows a full tip with the stud eyes B within two walls F, G, said walls
being connected by cross bars or rails H having angle edges which with the depth
of the walls F, G, as at Figure 6, serve to hold the fillings D and present a large
surface of the fillings to that of metal for some period of wear before the filling
and the breadth metal appear.
The stud eyes may be as inside extensions, as at Figures 1, 2, and 3, or be
connected by the cross bars or frame shown by the dotted lines at Figure 1.
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 :-
1. The improvements in tips, half tips, and quarter tips for the heels of boots
and shoes, as shown on the annexed drawings, and as described for the purpose or
purposes set forth with reference to Figures 1, 2, and 3.
2. The manufacture of metal tips or heel protectors for boots and shoes, as
described with reference to Figures 5 and 6 of the aunexed drawings.
The 16AL 1
2000
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said V. A. P. Louis.