Improvements in or relating to Boots for Cricket, Foot Ball, and other Athletic Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 15th Jan., 1889-Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Boots for Cricket, Foot Ball, and
other Athletic Purposes.
We, GEORGE NICHOLS, THOMAS GUY EVANS, and JOSEPH BENJAMIN FIELDS CLOW
of Gladstone Shoe Works, Northgates, Leicester, Boot and shoe Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:—
This invention has special reference to boots used for foot ball, cricket and other
athletic purposes and is designed to afford complete protection to the feet and ankles
of the wearer from injury, either by being kicked or by coming into contact with the
cricket ball, while engaged in the field.
To carry out our invention we prefer to employ ribs of indiarubber provided with
a flange on either side.
These flanged ribs may be placed on the exterior of the upper leather of the boot
and be secured thereto by one or more rows of stitches passing through the said flange
as an alternative arrangement a
and the upper leather, or by any suitable means, or
slit or opening may be made in the leather and the indiarubber rib forced through it to
appear on the outer surface of the upper leather and the flange allowed to remain on
the under surface of the upper and be secured thereto as before stated.
These ribs may be of suitable size, shape, and number and may be placed on the
upper any suitable position and to radiate or extend in any desired direction.
in
We do not confine ourselves to the employment of projecting ribs only as studs or
other kinds of projections are equally applicable for the purpose and such projections
may not only be made of indiarubber but of any other suitable or resilient
material.
11° 011
Amount 1000

page_text: other Athletic Purposes.
We, GEORGE NICHOLS, THOMAS GUY EVANS, and JOSEPH BENJAMIN FIELDS
CLOW, of Gladstone Shoe Works, Northgates, Leicester, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers,
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 special reference to boots and shoes used for foot-ball, cricket,
and other athletic purposes, and is designed to afford complete protection to the
feet and ankles of the wearer from injury, either by being kicked, or by coming into
contact with the cricket ball, while engaged in the field.
To carry out our invention we prefer to employ ribs of india-rubber provided with
a flange on each side. These flanged ribs may be placed on the exterior of the
leather of the boot and be secured thereto by one or more rows of stitches passing
upper
through the said flange and the upper leather, or by any suitable means; or as an
alternative arrangement a slit or opening may be made in the leather and the india-
rubber rib forced through it to appear on the outer surface of the upper leather, and
the flange allowed to remain on the under surface of the upper and be secured thereto
as before stated.
These ribs may be of suitable size, shape, and number & may be placed on the
upper in any suitable position, and to radiate, or extend, in any desired direction.
We may also employ studs or other shapes of projections for the purpose of protection.
In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1, 2 and 3 are sections of the ribs and
studs Figure + shewing a number of the studs upon a single strip which serves as
the flange for all the studs.
:
A. A. are the protecting ribs or bars, which as indicated in Figure 1 project
through a slot or opening in the upper of the boot and appear on the exterior of
the upper, and. the flanges A¹ to which the ribs are connected are secured against
the interior surface of the upper leather by one or more rows of stitches B or
equivalent means.
The protecting ribs A and the flanges A¹ in Figure 2 are placed on the exterior of
the upper, and a row of stitches worked round the said flanges keep them in position.
In the event of any of the ribs or bars A becoming injured, this method of securing
them admits of such injured ribs or bars being readily removed & others substituted
for them.
The studs D shewn in fig. 3 are spherically shaped and provided with the flange D'
by which they can be sewn on to the leather.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
A flanged strip or stud of indiarubber such as A A'D D' adapted to be stitched to
the boot or material substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated the 14th day of January 1889.
GEORGE NICHOLS.
THOS. GUY EVANS.
JOSEPH BENJAMIN FIELDS CLOW.