Improvements in Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 11th July, 1890-Accepted, 6th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boots and Shoes.
I ROBERT MELVILLE, of No. 13 Arthingworth Street, Stratford, in the County of
Essex, Builders Foreman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in boots and shoes whereby I give greater
elasticity to the tread of the wearer and it consists particularly in the application of a
spring or springs within the heel of the boot or shoe.
I now give preference to the use of a single coiled or helical spring placed within
the heel and I may make the heel in two parts so united that they may telescope or
slide the one within the other as the spring contracts or expands under the action of
the wearer in walking. Or the top plate of the heel of the boot or shoe may be made
movable under the pressure of the wearer upon the inner leather sole, the sides of the
heel remaining rigid.
The heel may be made as a metal box enclosing the spring and having a leather
treading surface, or it may be of wood or of leather, the spring being preferably held
between a top and bottom metal plate, or the heel may be made of any material and
form which I may find most suitable for containing and allowing play to the spring
and I may use more than one spring, either coiled or of other shape as I may find
most desirable.
Dated this Twelfth day of Catcher 1880
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boots and Shoes.
I ROBERT MELVILLE of No. 13 Arthingworth Street, Stratford, in the County of
Essex, Builders Foreman, 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 relates to improvements in boots and shoes whereby I give greater
elasticity to the tread of the wearer and it consists particularly in the application of a
spring or springs within the heel of the boot or shoe.
I now give preference to the use of a single coiled or helical spring placed within
the heel and I may make the heel in two parts so united that they may telescope or
slide the one within the other as the spring contracts or expands under the action of
the wearer in walking. Or the top plate of the heel of the boot or shoe may be made
movable under the pressure of the wearer upon the inner leather sole, the sides of the
heel remaining rigid.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawing
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Figure 1 illustrates a longitudinal section through a shoe having a spring in the
heel in combination with a top plate within the shoe-and
Figure 2 a plan of same, as seen from above.
Figure 3 being a sectional elevation of a shoe having a spring in the heel, the heel
being in two parts so that it may telescope under the pressure of the foot in
walking-and
Figure 4 a plan of same.
A represents a helical spring-B hinge plate secured within the sole of the boot or
shoe-Ċ the heel-D recess in same to receive spring A-E upper portion of

page_text: compound heel-F lower portion of same-G metal bush or socket-H flange formed
on upper portion of socket-I metal top plate secured in shoe.
In Figures 1 and 2 the plate B is shown hinged but it may be of one piece, it may
also be made no larger than the heel and arranged to rise and fall within it and the
spring or springs may or may not be fixed thereto.
The heel may be made as a metal box enclosing the spring and having a leather
treading surface, or it may be of wood or of leather, the spring being preferably held
between a top and bottom metal plate, or the heel be made of any material and form
which I may find most suitable for containing and allowing play to the spring and
I may use more than one spring, either coiled or of other shape, as I may find most
desirable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a boot or shoe the use of a heel provided with a spring or springs as herein-
before described for the purpose specified.
2. In a boot or shoe, a heel having within it a spring or springs in combination
with an inner plate substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated Figures 1
and 2 of the drawing.
3. In a boot or shoe, a heel provided with a spring or springs and made in two
parts arranged to telescope or slide the one within the other substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated Figures 3 and 4 of the drawing.
Dated this Eleventh day of July 1890.
For the Applicant,
W. E. GEDGE,
Agent.