Improvements in Detachable Heels for Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by FRANK MCDONALD, of 22, Fountain Street,
Medford, in the County of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, United
States of America, Mechanic.]
Improvements in Detachable Heels for Boots and Shoes.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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:-
Reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which :.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a boot or shoe embodying my
invention.
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Figure 2 is a front elevation of the breast of my improved detachable heel and
heel coupler.
Figure 3 is a side elevation, partly in section, showing the heel part of the
boot or shoe combined with my improved removable heel by means of a coupler
permanently fixed to the heel.
Figure 4 is a top plan view of the preferred form of coupler, detached.
The object of my invention is to produce boots and shoes and other articles of
foot gear, the heels of which may be fastened in place by means of a suitable
coupler permanently attached to the heel; the heel being preferably of rubber or
other elastic composition.
My invention consists broadly in the combination of an article of foot gear with
a removable heel and a heel coupler which is adapted to grip the foot gear, and is
permanently connected with the heel.
In the drawings illustrating my invention in the best way now known to me, A
represents a boot, shoe or other article of foot gear; a the sole, and a¹ the heel. The
coupler may be made in various forms without departure from my invention, but
in this preferred form is a light, metallic casting having an upper inwardly-
turned lip b. This coupler B is provided below its upper edge with some suitably
formed part upon which the heel a is permanently secured, both without and within
the lowermost portion of the coupler. Preferably the coupler B is formed at its
said lowermost portion with an inward projection 61 at its rear portion, and is
shaped inwardly from said rear portion to its front end portions 6262, where the
coupler is preferably provided with inward extensions 6363, which pass across
the breast of the heel. The inner ends of these inward extensions 63 are secured
together by any suitable device, for example, by the screw 64 passing through holes
in the lapped ends of the inward extensions 63. The heel a¹ being moulded upon
the lower portion of the coupler (or otherwise permanently secured to the coupler),
is readily attached to and detached from the sole « by loosening the screw 64 and
springing the inward ends of the coupler to admit or remove the sole from the
inturned lip b at the upper portion of the coupler.
Rubber heels upon leather boots and shoes are much desired by policemen,
militiamen, motor men and others.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
the
As a new article of manufacture, a detachable boot or shoe heel made up of an
elastic heel and a metallic coupler provided with a clamping mechanism;
coupler being formed at its upper part with an inturned, sole-gripping lip, and at
its under part, with an inclined lip, and the heel being moulded on the inclined lip
with a sole edge receiving-space between its upper surface and the under surface
of the sole gripping lip.
Dated this 5th do..
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co., 0]
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.