Improvements in Boot and Shoe Protectors.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 14th N.v., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 14th Sept., 1891-Accented 17th Ont 1901
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boot and Shoe Protectors.
I, JAMES DERHAM of No. 111 Osbaldeston Road, Stoke Newington in the
County of Middlesex Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :—
The object of my invention is to produce a simple and cheap appliance to
minimise the wear of boots and shoes.
My invention consists in a metal plate, fixed upon the front or breast of the heel
of a boot or shoe. The adjustment of said plate, for the purpose of compensating
wear is provided by elongation of the holes through which the retaining screws
pass.
Dated this 14th day of November 1890.
FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boot and Shoe Protectors.
I JAMES DERHAM of No. 111 Osbaldeston Road, Stoke Newington in the
County of Middlesex Commercial Traveller 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:-
The object of my invention is to produce a simple and cheap appliance to
minimise the wear of boots and shoes.
My invention consists in a metal plate fixed upon the front or breast of the heel
of a boot or shoe. The adjustment of said plate for the purpose of compensating
wear is provided by elongation of the holes through which the retaining screws
pass.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I have appended the
accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Figure 1 represents a plate affixed to the front or breast of the heel of a boot
or shoe.
Figure 2 is a front view of a plate with two ordinary countersunk screw holes
made or formed therein.
Figure 3 is a front view of a similar plate with an elongated hole and a series of
countersinks.
The application of a plate A to the front or breast of the heel B of a boot
or shoe C to which it is firmly attached by countersunk screws DD constitutes a
cheap simple and efficient means for the prevention and compensation of wear of
the heel of the boot, it being intended that when the heel and plate have become
vorn away the screws D D can be withdrawn and the plate reversed, that is to say,
he worn edge of the plate A is turned towards the upper and sole of the boot or
hoe C and the plate firmly secured to the heel by the screws D D as before or if
he plate is worn down on one side it may be reversed from left to right boot
vice-versa."
In most cases however I prefer to use a plate cut and countersunk in the manner
hewn by Figure 3, by the use of which I am enabled to compensate any wear of
he plate and heel of the boot by simply loosening the screws which will permit of
he plate A being moved downwards until the heads of the screws are opposite the
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page_text: second countersink, the screws being in all cases screwed into the first or bottom
countersink when fastening the plate to the heel for the first time, in which position
they will allow of a greater number of adjustments, and so prolong the useful life of
the boot or shoe said adjustment being limited only by the number of countersinks
formed in the plate A. of which there may be more or less according to the size of
the head of the screw.
From the foregoing it is obvious that new plates can be affixed to the heel
without making fresh holes, the same holes and screws being serviceable for any
number of plates.
The application of the plates to the heels of boots or shoes will also effectually
prevent the person wearing them from slipping in wet or frosty weather.
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:
The construction and use of a wear resisting plate, arranged so as to be reversible
and adjustable to the breast of the heels of boots and shoes substantially as described
and as shewn by the appended drawing.
Dated this 12th day of September 1891.
FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.