An Improved Overshoe.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 4th June, 1894-Accepted, 7th July, 1894
An Improved Overshoe.
We MAX FREUDENTHAL and HERMANN FREUDENTHAL, of Marktstrasse 25, 28
St. Pauli, Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany, 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 has for its object the production of an overshoe without heel,
preferably of leather, which is drawn over the ordinary boot and fastened to the
heel part thereof in such manner that both the upper leather as well as the less
pliable sole fits entirely and immovably in place and the entrance of solid or liquid
particles between the boot and the overshoe is entirely prevented. Another use is
possessed by a component part of the apparatus used for the fastening, in so far
that this part prevents the lower edge of the trousers from touching the ground
and thus protects them from wear.
On the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 shows a side view and Fig. 2 the underneath view of the new overshoe
whilst Figs. 3 and 4 show by two similar views, this overshoe fitted to a boot.
Fig. 5 shows the metal fastener whilst Fig. 6 shows a variation of the same in
top view and in section on the broken line A-B.
Fig. 7 shows a section on the broken line C-D (Fig. 6).
Fig. 8 is a further modification.
The overshoe consists of the upper O and the sole S which only reaches as far as
the heel. At the back edge of the same is fixed a metal band provided with two
spikes d d². The outer ends of this band e e² are bent upwards at right angles and
provided with eyelet holes into which are hooked the spiral springs ff2 provided
with hook ends. In movable connection on one side with these springs and on the
other side with the double lever hare two short pieces of wire a a² which can be
pushed into the core space of the springs, and are rotatable about their axes of
length, and are prevented from being completely drawn out of the spring by the
piston or knob shaped ends k of the wires. The double lever serves as a hand
piece when putting on the overshoe and afterwards as a support for the under edge
of the trousers. The modification as in Fig. 6 shows the metal band m considerably
broadened and provided with slots i, by means of which and the screws r
fastened in the sole S, the band can be moved slightly backwards or forwards.
The flat heads of the screws are on the underside of the sole and the lower nut
on the inner side.
The form of construction of the belt, as in Fig. 8, shows an automatic spike d³
which can be pressed into a cylinder / connected to the belt. A spiral spring s
arranged between the back end of the spike and the closed end of the cylinder
presses the spike into the leather forming the heel of the boot. The cylinder is in
this arrangement suitably covered by the sole of the overshoe.
The action of the fixing arrangement is as follows:-
After two pointed openings v² have been made in the front of the heel
rising at right angles to the sole, and corresponding to the distance between
the spikes, the shoe is drawn in the ordinary manner over the boot whereupon
the projecting spikes are pressed into the openings in the heel.
The making
of such openings may be omitted as the points of the spikes, under pressure of
the springs ff, press deeply enough into the leather to keep the sole firmly
fastened. If now the double lever with wires and springs, is raised above
the back part of the heel, which can, by reason of the elasticity of the springs,
be effected without difficulty and the lever be given the position shown in Fig. 3,

page_text: when it is necessary to see that the wires lay in the channel formed where the
back of the boot and the heel meet, the reaction of the springs induces a firm
fastening of all the parts to the heel and makes the spikes fully enter the heel.
As the wires lie completely in the abovementioned groove the other parts of
the fastener keep their position unchanged. The fastening arrangement shown
in Fig. 8 works in a similar manner.
It should be also noted that it is advantageous to provide the sole of the overshoe
on the outside with a groove k (Fig. 4) so that it bends easily at this point, and fits
the boot sole well.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
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1. An overshoe without heel the fastening of which to the boot or other
corresponding body is effected by means of pointed spikes d d² attached to a
fixed or adjustable metal band m connected to the sole and which are pressed
into corresponding holes v2 in the side of the heel at right angles to the sole
by means of two spiral springs ff lying close to the heel, in connection with
two wires a a² united by means of a double lever and rotatable within the
hollow space of the said spiral springs, within which they can also be pushed.
2. As a modification of the fixed spike on the above described arrangement, the
use of a loose spike d³ in a cylinder on the underside of the band m and acted
upon by a spring s.
Dated this 4th day of June 1894.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.