Inserted Metal Protectors for Heels and Soles of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application 28th Sept, 1886.
Complete Left, 7th Feb., 1887
Complete Accepted, 8th Mar., 1887
GEORGE MAHAFFY 72 Palatine Road, Stoke Newington Middlesex Commission
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Out of the back part of the toppiece punch a bow piece, leaving a rim of leather on
the outside, insert a piece of metal, same size as piece of leather punched out, to be
attached by a flange on under side projecting inwards, and fastened by means of
screws or nails to toppiece and lifts or the Metal Protector can be fastened by screws
or nails from the surface to the lifts.
Inserted Metal Protectors can be fastened to any part of the soles of boots and
shoes by similar means to those described for the heels.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION..
Inserted Metal Protectors for Heels and Soles of Boots and Shoes.
I, GEORGE MAHAFFY of 72 Palatine 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 :-
My Invention is to protect those parts of the heels and soles of Boots and shoes most
exposed to wear without in any way disfiguring their appearance, and permits the

page_text: free use of machinery in finishing the edges of Boots and shoes which cannot at present
be done when ordinary tips are used, which come flush with the edge of heel. My
Invention is constructed of wrought or malleable iron, gunmetal, brass, hard wood, or
composition of hard resistance, of either a crescent, segmental, or circular shape, the
edges being bevelled, to fit in the bevelled seating of the leather, the guard being
the exact thickness of the top piece or sole, and securely fastened by a metal plug in the
positions indicated in the accompanying drawings. By fixing a section of my tip and
placed in the position where wear is greatest; the wear of the heel of the boot is greatly
preserved by the adoption of my Invention.
My Invention is set in from the outside edge about one sixteenth of one inch or
more, leaving room for a row of rivets to hold the slight rim of leather close to the
tip, and also firmly to the lifts with a row of rivets driven in the leather all round
the tip, thus it is entirely cased in with the leather in building up the heel or sole of
a boot.
The crescent, segmental or circular bevelled slots are cut in the leather by a
machine constructed for that purpose and the tip being the exact size of the piece of
leather cut out of the slot, it inserts itself into a natural bed.
And in order that my Invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawings thereof, reference being had to letters and figures
marked thereon :-
Figure I represents the bottom of the heel with a portion of the leather cut out to
take the tip.
Figure II, the transverse and longitudinal sections of the tip. Figure III, the top
and bottom of the bevelled edges of the tip and the countersunk plug holes.
Figure IV, the iron or steel plug. Figure 5, the bottom of the heel with the tip
fixed in its proper position. Figure 6, denotes the whole of the sole and heel of the
boot fitted up with tip on the heel and also circular tips round the sole.
Like letters refer to like parts in each of the figures. A, the heel. B, the slot cut
to receive the tip. C, the sole and heel tips. D, the countersunk plng or screw holes.
E, the plug.
Having now fully described the nature and object of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I claim as new and novel, the following :-
First. The combination of the tip, crescent, segmental or circular shape C, bevelled
all round the edges, to permit the tip being fitted into a bevelled slot B, cut into the
leather of the heel A, and securely fastened with countersunk plug E, substantially
herein described and according to the accompanying drawings.
Secondly. The combination of any shape tip with bevelled edges, permitted to be
built into the sole and heels of boots and shoes, where the exact shape of the tip has
been cut out in the leather, to form a solid guard against the wearing down at heel or
the side of the soles of boots, herein substantially described and according to the
accompanying drawings.
Thirdly. That any boot fitted with this Invention, is a sure guard to prevent the
wear of the sole and heel wearing any other way than level, substantially herein
described and according to the accompanying drawings.