An Improvement in Tips and Plates for Heels and Toes of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 5th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 5th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Tips and Plates for Heels and Toes of
Boots and Shoes.
WILLIAM HENRY KING Leather Merchant 390 & 392 Euston Road
London N.W. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention has for its object the preventing of clanking as is frequently the
case with tips & plates as now fastened, the nail heads wearing off before the tip or
plate is worn out.
This tip & plate is made with projections on its inner side, by which it is nailed
or screwed to the heels or toes of the boots or shoes, and then the filling covers the
nails, thus preventing the nails from wearing till the tip is worn through.
The tips & plates are made of wrought or cast iron, brass, steel, etc.
June 11th 1891
WILLIAM HENRY KING.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Tips and Plates for Heels and Toes of
Boots and Shoes.
I WILLIAM HENRY KING, Leather Merchant of 390 and 392 Euston Road
London W. do hereby declare the nature of this invention for "AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN TIPS AND PLATES FOR HEELS AND TOES OF BOOTS AND SHOES
"
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 this invention is to prevent the clanking of the tips and plates of
heels and toes of boots and shoes so frequent when such plates and tips become
worn and loose, the result of the methods at present employed for securing such
articles to the boots and shoes; the nail heads wearing off before the tips and plates
are worn out.
To obviate these defects I construct the tips and plates with projections here and
there, on the inner sides, these projections are each provided with central apertures
for the reception of either nails or screws, by which they are firmly fixed to the
heels and toes, and when so attached a filling piece of leather is placed inside the
tips and plates, and beaten down level with the plates and tips (which are made of
wrought or cast iron, brass, steel or some equivalent substance) and then nailed or
otherwise fixed into the heel or sole, effectually concealing, covering, and protecting
the screw or nail heads, and preventing their wear, and in so doing guarding
against any possibility of the loosening of the tips or plates, and preventing the
clanking of the metal so objectionable and common in the customary method of
attachment.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings I have represented the tips and plates of
heels and toes as constructed on my principle.
Figs. 1 and 2 being a plan of a tip and heel plate respectively for a man's boot
or shoe, furnished with the inner projections as herein specified.
Figs. 3 and 4 represent the same as applied to a woman's boot or shoe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The construction of tips and plates of heels for boots and shoes having projections
ID

page_text: in the inside of the tips and plates in the manner and for the purposes precisely as
herein set forth.
Dated this 5th November 1891.
A. C. HENDERSON & Co.,
46, Southampton Buildings, Agents for the Applicant.