IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE SOLES AND HEELS OF BOOTS AND SHOES, IN STUDS, NAILS, TIPS, AND TOE OR OTHER PLATES USED THEREWITH, AND IN PLACING AND SECURING THEM
Year: 1863

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Pidding at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th
January 1863.
I, WILLIAM PIDDING, of Cole Street, Southwark, in the County of Surrey,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE SOLES AND HEELS OF BOOTS AND SHOES, IN STUDS, NAILS, TIPS,
AND TOE OR OTHER PLATES USED THEREWITH, AND IN PLACING AND SECURING
THEM," to be as follows:-
I form the inner soles and heels of boots and shoes of divisions of any non-
elastic, or non-pliable or pliable material or compound, such being perforated
for the purpose of ventilation, or not perforated; and I place and fasten in
any way between each such division other divisions of any elastic or pliable
material or compound to allow of their bending by the action of the wearer's
feet when walking, and for the purpose of economy, by using cheap materials
or compounds in their manufacture, or I form the inner soles and heels of
boots and shoes of perforated. leather or any elastic or other pliable material or
compound.
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After the uppers have been attached to any inner soles and heels, I fasten
any way thereto perforated soles and heels made of caoutchouc or other
elastic material or compound; the perforations in such soles and heels I
prefer to form of sizes to admit the insertion of the following described studs,
nails, tips, and toe or other plates, and which will come in contact when

page_text: inserted therein with the inner soles and heels when furnished with some of
the following described projections from their under surfaces; or I form the
perforations in such soles and heels smaller at their under surfaces and in a
portion of their thickness so as to leave a space between the studs, nails, tips,
and toe or other plates and the inner soles and heels after they have been
placed and secured on to the under portion of the perforated soles and heels,
and by the elasticity of the material to allow of their receding action when
the wearers of them walk on rough ground; or I make cavities in the soles
and heels of boots and shoes formed of caoutchouc, or of any elastic material
or compound of sizes which will allow of the following described studs, nails,
tips, and toe or other plates being placed in them.
I form some of the studs, nails, tips, and toe or other plates of stone, metal,
wood, bark, porcelain, stoneware, glass, papier machê, cement, plaster of Paris, or
any plastic material, concrete, shell, horn, bone, cork, leather, imitation leather,
pith, resinous gum, or of any compound thereof; and I sometimes partly encase
or surround some of such studs, nails, tips, and toe or other plates at their edges,
and under or at a portion of their under surfaces in metal; and I sometimes
insert in some of them nails, screws, or tacks to increase their durability, and
I form such studs, nails, tips, and toe or other plates of such sizes and shapes
as will fit tightly the perforations or cavities in the herein described soles and
heels, and in some of them I form small and short projections on their under
surfaces, or I place and fasten on some of such surfaces small pieces of
caoutchouc or other elastic material or compound, the object of forming such
projections, or of placing and fastening small pieces of any elastic material on
their under surfaces being to cause the studs, nails, tips, and too or other plates
to recede on coming in contact with pebbles or raised or uneven surfaces when
worn. I make holes in the studs, nails, tips, and toe or other plates of sizes
more than large enough, and of forms to admit of screws to pass, and
their heads partly, or a portion of their thickness through them. After
placing collars or rings of caoutchouc or other elastic material or compound
round the screws in close contact with their heads, I put them in the holes
described, and after placing the studs, nails, tips, and toe or other plates in
the perforations or cavities described in the soles and heels, I screw, fasten,
and secure them with such screws to the inner soles and heels.