Improvements in Boots and Shoes and similar Coverings for the Feet.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd June, 1894-4ccepted, 28th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boots and Shoes and similar Coverings for the
Feet.
"
I, WILLIAM PULMAN of 6 Grosvenor Street, Piccadilly, Manchester
Manufacturers' Agent, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be
as follows:-
The object of my invention is to so prepare a boot, shoe or the like that an
unskilled person may readily apply a clump sole or heel thereto. To accomplish
this the first sole or welt and sole and heel of the boot or shoe is formed with a
number of holes or punchings extending by preference over the surface of the
sole and at equal distances apart. Into each of these holes one part of a screw
socket is fitted which is, by preference of a tubular form with flanged head.
In the clump sole or heel to be applied to the boot or shoe a number of holes
is formed corresponding to the number of holes aforesaid in the first sole, or sole
and welt and heel and coming opposite thereto. In order now to fix the clump
sole or heel to the boot or shoe the counter-part of the screw socket is introduced
through the holes which being by preference, of a screw form with a disc head,
screws into the other part of the socket aforesaid and so fixes the clump sole or
heel to the boot.
It will be obvious that these improvements are applicable to all classes of boots,
shoes and other coverings for the feet which can be prepared in the manner herein-
before described.
Dated this 6th day of August. 1893.
JOHN G. WILSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boots and Shoes and similar Coverings for the
Feet.
I, WILLIAM PULMAN of 6 Grosvenor Street, Piccadilly, Manchester,
Manufacturers' Agent, 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 object of my invention is to so prepare a boot, shoe or the like that au
unskilled person may readily apply a clump sole or heel thereto. To accomplish
this the first sole (or welt and sole) and heel of the boot or shoe is formed with a
number of holes or punchings extending, by preference over the surface of the sole
and heel and at equal distances apart. Into each of these holes one part of a
screw socket is fitted which is, by preference of a tubular form with flanged
head.
In the clump sole or heel to be applied to the boot or shoe a number of holes is
formed corresponding to the number of holes aforesaid in the first sole (or sole and
welt) and heel and coming opposite thereto. In order now to fix the clump sole or
heel to the boot or shoe the counter-part of the screw socket is introduced through
the holes which being by preference of a screw form with disc head, screws into

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And in order that my said invention shall be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings and will
now proceed to describe the same with the assistance of the various figures and
letters of reference marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 an inverted plan view of a boot or shoe
with my improvements shewn applied thereto.
Fig. 3 illustrates my improved clump sole and heel separately and a boot
prepared to receive them.
In accordance with my invention (A) is the clump sole to be attached to the
first sole (or sole and welt) (B) of the boot (C). (C) is the improved attachable
heel.
In the said first sole (or sole and welt) and in the heel I form the holes or
punchings (D) sufficiently large to admit of the part (E) of the screw sole and
heel fastenings shewn in Figs. 4 & 4 and such openings are, by preference disposed
at equal distances apart and near the edges of the boot. In the clump sole and
heel and exactly corresponding in position to the holes (D) in the first sole and
heel is a series of holes (F) into which fits the part (G) of the above named
fastening.
In fixing my improved clump sole and heel the same are placed upon the first
sole and heel and adjusted thereon until the holes (F) come over and exactly
opposite the holes (D).
The part (E) of the fastening being already fixed in the hole (D) the screw or
part (G) is introduced through the holes (F) and screwed into the part (E), thus
securing the sole and heel to the boot.
By thus making and preparing the soles and heels of boots and shoes and
separate detached soles and heels which will be made in pairs and in fixed standard
shapes and sizes to suit standard shapes and sizes of boots and shoes the wearer of
such boots and shoes may be his or her own boot and shoe repairer.
A considerable advantage in cost and time will accrue to the trade from my
invention in that a series of attachable soles and heels may be kept in stock to suit
the various sizes of boots and shoes.
By making the clump soles and heels in various sizes and each size to correspond
with a particular first sole and heel and which clump soles will probably be marked
or numbered to shew the corresponding boot or shoe, there will be no necessity for
paring or cutting down the clump sole or heel to suit the boot.
In preparing the boot for resoling or heeling any part of the old worn down sule
or heel which may be left is first removed together with the old rivets or fastenings,
which operation can readily be done by a sharp nosed tool inserted between the
thicknesses of leather.
In addition to the rivets or fastenings aforesaid the clump soles and heels may
be studded by slugs, nails or pegs (H) (see Fig. 2) extending over the surface of
the sole and heel for increasing the durability of the same.
In lieu of the screw and socket fastening aforesaid I may employ a rivet or
peg (I) similar to that shewn in Fig. 5 which in first making the boot or shoe is
driven through the several thicknesses of leather, thus fixing the sole or heel as
well as forming the holes for guidance in subsequent mending of the boot. This
form of fastening is more simple and cheaper to make than the screw fastening.
It will be obvious that other forms of fastening may be employed, my invention
consisting essentially in the preparing of a boot or shoe to receive a prepared
clump sole or heel. To ensure of the holes in the clump sole & heel being in
exact register with those in the boot a gauge or template may be used.
It will also be obvious that these improvements are applicable to all classes
of boots, shoes and other covering for the feet which can be prepared in the manner
aforesaid.

page_text: Having thus 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 :-
1st. The manufacture of boots, shoes and other similar coverings for the feet
with the first sole (or sole and welt) and heel having holes or punchings corre-
sponding to holes or punchings in attachable clump soles or heels substantially as
and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying
drawing.
2nd. The manufacture of clump soles and heels having holes or punchings
corresponding to holes or punchings in the first sole (or sole and welt) and heel of
boots and shoes and attached thereto by screw rivet or other similar fastenings
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated on the
accompanying drawing.
Dated this 21st day of June 1894.
JOHN G. WILSON & Co.,
Agents.