Improvements in Boot and Shoe Protectors.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Mar., 1896-Accepted, 25th Apr., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boot and Shoe Protectors.
I, WILLIAM CHARLES PHILLIPS, of 8, Cunliffe Terrace, Manningham, in the
County of York, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in boot and shoe protectors, and its
object is to provide a noiseless non-slipping boot protector adapted to be fitted on
the sole or heel of boots or shoes and requiring little or no preparation of the
surface to which it is fixed.
For this purpose I employ a metal frame or skeleton piece preferably circular in
form and having a number of spikes or pins cast or formed on the back adapted
to be driven into the surface to which the protector is intended to be secured.
A number of divisional bars radiate from the centre to the circular periphery of
the frame. In the openings formed by these bars and the periphery of the frame
india-rubber or other suitable composition is moulded which may completely cover
the front of the bars and present an unbroken face of india-rubber or composition.
To prevent the india-rubber or composition becoming detached from the frame the
said bars and the internal periphery of the frame are "undercut " so that the india-
rubber or composition is "dovetailed" in. The outer periphery of the frame is
preferably bevelled from front to back.
The sides of the openings may also be slightly champhered or bevelled to meet
the bevel of the undercut faces.
The form of the protector may be modified.
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DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
Improvements in Boot and Shoe Protectors.
I, WILLIAM CHARLES PHILLIPS, of 8, Cunliffe Terrace, Manningham, in the
County of York, Commercial Traveller, 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 boot and shoe protectors, and its
object is to provide a noiseless non-slipping boot protector adapted to be fitted on
the sole or heel of boots or shoes and requiring little or no preparation of the
surface to which it is fixed.
For this purpose I employ a metal frame or skeleton piece preferably circular in
form and having a number of spikes or pins cast or formed on the back adapted to
be driven into the surface to which the protector is intended to be secured.
A number of divisional bars radiate from the centre to the circular periphery of
the frame. In the opening formed by these bars and the periphery of the frame
india-rubber or other suitable composition is moulded which may completely cover
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page_text: the front of the bars and present an unbroken face of india-rubber or composition.
To prevent the india-rubber or composition becoming detached from the frame the
said bars and the internal periphery of the frame are "undercut" so that the india-
rubber or composition is "dovetailed" in. The outer periphery of the frame is
preferably bevelled from front to back.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part of
this Specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts
in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a side elevation of my improved protector.
Figure 2, represents a plan view of the same.
Figure 3, represents a diametrical section.
Figure 4, represents a diametrical section of the said metal frame alone.
Figure 5, represents a plan view of the same.
The metal frame a is preferably made in malleable cast iron and the spikes 6 are
cast upon it. The india-rubber covering c is moulded and vulcanized upon this
frame and preferably completely covers the back as well as the front. The
interior faces e of the frame as well as the sides i of the radial bars a 2 are
preferably bevelled from both the back and the front to assist in retaining the
india-rubber in the frame as it becomes worn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would have it understood
that I am aware combined india-rubber and metal protectors have been previously
used and that I do not broadly claim such a protector, but what I do claim is :
The improved protector substantially as herein shown and described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of March 1896.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Patent Agents.