AN APPARATUS OR MACHINE FOR PUTTING OR DRAWING ON OR OFF BOOTS
Year: 1834

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ISAAC
JECKS, junior, of Bennett's Hill, in the City of London, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Seventeenth day of June, in the fourth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, and His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Isaac Jecks, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Isaac Jecks, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Isaac Jecks, my exors, adññiors, or assigus, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "AN APPARATUS OR MACHINE FOR PUTTING OR DRAWING ON OR OFF
BOOTS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said
Isaac Jecks, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Isaac Jecks, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention, and the manner

page_text: in which the samo is to be performed, are fully described and ascertained in
and by the following description thereof, reference being had to the Drawing
hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon (that is to
say) -
My Invention consists of an apparatus or machine, by the aid of which
boots may with facility be put on or off, as will be fully described hereafter.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a front view of an apparatus or machine for putting or drawing
boots on or off, constructed according to my Invention; Figure 2 is an edge
view thereof, and Figures 3 and 4 are detached views of parts thereof. In
each of these Figures the same letters of reference indicate similar parts, A
being the base or ground plate to which the apparatus is affixed. B, B. B, are
three standards or uprights (affixed to the plate A), having hooks or racks h, h,
by which the boots are suspended by the loops usually affixed within them, are
by which the boots have heretofore been drawn on by means of the ordinary
boot hooks, as is well understood. At the top of the uprights B is formed
sockets or holes E for receiving the rods C, which are capable of being slided
up and down to regulate the height thereof, and at the tops of these rods are
affixed the handles D; the height of these rods C being regulated by a pin
or screw passing through the socket E, there being indents in the rods C at
short distances, by which means the height of the rods is regulated. F, F, are
the parts which serve the office of the ordinary boot jacks, and are similar
thereto. The foot being inserted at the opening G, the toe comes under one
end and the heel the other, so that the boots may readily be drawn off the fect.
1 would here remark that I usually construct the various parts of iron, but it
is evident that other materials may be used without departing from the nature
of my Invention, which consists in a combination of the various parts, not in
the materials of which the same are composed.
Having thus described the construction of an apparatus or machine con-
structed according to my Invention, I will proceed to describe the manner o
using the same. A pair of boots being suspended on the hooks or racks to
the height most convenient for the person using the apparatus, the foot is to
be inserted into a boot, pointing the toes downwards, at the same time holding
the handles D (one in cach hand); by this means the body will be in the mos
advantageous position for exerting force without inconvenience, and the foo
will consequently be inserted into the boot with much greater facility tha
heretofore. One foot being thus inserted into its boot the loops are to b
removed from the hooks or racks h by raising the foot; this foot is then to b

page_text: placed on the ground, and the other inserted into its boot in like manner, and
the boot to be removed from the hooks or racks h.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, I would have it under-
stood that although I have shown the apparatus consisting of three standards B,
which are intended for suspending a pair of boots at one time, yet I would
have it understood that I do not confine myself to that number of standards,
as it will be evident that a larger number of standards may be used, particularly
at an hotel or inn, where several pairs of boots may be required to be sus-
pended ready for their owners to put them on. In such cases I propose
having several standards B, depending on the number of pairs of boots it is
thought will be required.
Having now described my Invention, and the manner of carrying the same
into effect, I would have it understood that I am aware that the part F of the
apparatus or machine is similar to the ordinary boot jacks in use; I do not,
therefore, claim it in its individual capacity, but only when used in combination
as part of the apparatus or machine berein described; and I would have it
understood that what I claim as my Invention is the combination of the
standards B, having hooks or racks, into a machine or apparatus for putting
on boots, and also in combining the part F with the uprights B for drawing
off boots, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Isaac Jecks, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifteenth day. of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-four