AN IMPROVED PORTABLE BOOT JACK, WITH A GUARD TO PREVENT THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY ACCIDENT TO THE LEGS OR ANKLES IN PULLING OFF THE BOOTS
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
FROME, of Spring Gardens, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eleventh day of
May, in the forty-seventh year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said Francis Frome, my exors, adññors, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilego and authority, that I, the said Francis Frome, my
exors, adñiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of
years therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED
PORTABLE BOOT JACK, WITH A GUARD TO PREVENT THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY ACCIDENT
TO THE LEGS OR ANKLES IN PULLING OFF THE BOOTS;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained 'a proviso obliging me, the said Francis Frome, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Francis Frome, do hereby declare that my said Invention and improvement are

page_text: described by the Drawings, Figures, and -explanations hereunto annexed, and
by the following description (that is to say) :-
The principal Invention and improvement in the. boot jack is a guard to
prevent accidents to the legs or ankles from the slipping of the heel of the
boot in the action of pulling it off.
Fig. 1 is a boot jack in the common form, composed of mahogany, beech,
or any other wood. A, the guard rising over the joint B, supposed here to be
of wood, made with hinges of brass or other metal to support it and for the
purpose of folding up when used; the joint may be wood, iron, or brass; the
guard may stand upright, or be made to incline a little backwards.
Fig. 2 is the guard applied to a boot jack in a different form, equally.
portable with Fig.-1,-but-the-guard_contrived to admit the foot through at D,.
giving a greater purchase to the heel of the boot about to come off.
Fig. 3 is the like guard admitting the foot applied to a jack in a different
shape, suited to any sized foot.
Fig. 4 is the same guard applied to the common shaped jack.
Fig. 5 is the boot jack and guard reversed, adapted for cavalry, so as to
admit the spur at E, and thereby prevent accidents.
Fig. 6 is the boot jack and guard shut or folded up. The guard may be
varied in its dimensions or shape, and made of any kind of wood, or of iron,
or other metal, its sole use being to prevent accidents by the slipping of the
boot.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Frome, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One