AN IMPROVED METHOD OF CONNECTING LOOSE HEELS TO BOOTS OR SHOES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Wilkins Fessey, of Saint James' Street,
Sheffield, in the County of York, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF CONNECTING LOOSE HEELS TO BOOTS OR SHOES."
Sealed the 1st December 1871, and dated the 24th July 1871..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Wilkins Fessey
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 24th July 1871.
I, DANIEL WILKINS FESSEY, of Saint James' Street, Sheffield, in the
County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED METHOD OF CONNECTING LOOSE HEELS TO BOOTS OR SHOES," to be
as follows:-
The features of novelty of this Invention consist in connecting loose
or adjustable heels of the ordinary shape to boots and shoes instead of
making them fixtures, as commonly practised in the manufacture of
boots and shoes of the ordinary kind; and I would here remark that the
heels above referred to are not intended to revolve, but simply to be
capable of being ohanged or removed from one boot to the other as the

page_text: heels become worn, and by these means to maintain the boot or shoe
level or upright.
I propose to accomplish the above object by the following means:-
On the top of the loose heel I fix a metal plate, in the centre of which
there is a boss to receive a screw passed through a hole in the boot or
shoe, from the inside thereof a stud or pin in the aforesaid plate is
intended to take into a hole in the fixed heel part of the boot or shoe, or
another plate fixed thereto for keeping the heel steady when screwed to
the boot or shoe.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Daniel Wilkins Fessey in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 24th January 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DANIEL
WILKINS FESSEY, of Saint James' Street, Sheffield, in the County of
York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Daniel Wilkins Fessey, Her special licence
that I, the said Daniel Wilkins Fessey, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Daniel Wilkins Fessey, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED METHOD OF CONNECTING LOOSE HEELS TO BOOTS OR SHOES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Daniel Wilkins Fessey, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Daniel Wilkins Fessey, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
The features of novelty of this Invention consist in connecting loose
or adjustable heels of the ordinary shape to boots and shoes, instead of
making them fixtures, as commonly practised in the manufacture of
boots and shoes of the ordinary kind; and I would here remark that the
heels above referred to are not intended to revolve, but simply to be
capable of being changed or removed from one boot to the other as the
heels become worn, and by these means to maintain the boot or shoe
level or upright.
I propose to accomplish the above object by the following means:-
On the top of the loose heel I fix a metal plate, in the centre of which
there is a boss to receive a screw passed through a hole in the boot or
shoe, from the inside thereof a stud or pin in the aforesaid plate is
intended to take into a hole in the fixed heel part of the boot or shoe, or
another plate fixed thereto for keeping the heel steady when screwed to
the boot or shoe.
And in order to explain my said Invention more clearly I now
proceed to describe the means by which it may be effected, reference
being had to the illustrative Sheet of Drawings accompanying this
Specification, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference marked
thercon, as follows:-
Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section of the heel of a boot or shoe
shewing my said Invention applied thereto and the manner of fixing it;
Figure 2 is a top plan view of a piece of metal; Figure 3, a plan view of
the under side of the said piece of metal; Figure 4 is a section through
the line A, B, at Figure 2; Figure 5 shews another way of forming the
leather heel. At each of the above Figures similar letters of reference
are employed to denote corresponding parts.
A marks the leather part of the heel of a boot or shoe built up in the
usual way; B is a piece of cast metal made of the desired shape of the
bottom of the heel; C marks a boss cast on the piece B, and with a
screwed hole formed therein to receive the lower end of a screw D.

page_text: There is a hole made through the leather A for the screw D to pass
through, so that in order to connect the piece B to the part A it is
simply necessary to hold the piece B with one hand, and with the other
hand turn round the screw D with a screwdriver until the parts A
and B are screwed tightly together. If necessary a point a may be
fixed in the piece B to prevent this piece from moving sideways, or the
upper surface of B may be roughened to produce the same effect as
the pin.
The arrangement represented at Figure 5 differs from Fig. 1 in the
following respects:-Instead of building up the part A of the heel of
the entire height for the heel I form one-half or part on the boot or shoe
and the other part I place on the piece B over the boss C thereof, and
then screw the two parts of the heel together, as before stated. And in
this manner and by these means I connect loose heels made of leather
or leather and metal to boots or shoes, and enable them to be changed
or removed from one boot or shoe to the other as the piece B becomes
worn, as before stated.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my
said Invention for "An Improved Method of Connecting Loose Heels to
Boots or Shoes," together with the means by which it may be effected, I
would remark in conclusion that what I claim as my Invention intended
to be secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent
is, the method above described and represented of connecting loose heels
to boots and shoes, as above described and represented.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Wilkins Fessey, have here- 1
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of January,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.