An Improvement in Boots and Shoes, applicable also to Socks and Stockings.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 12th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left. 12th Mar., 1895-4ccepted, 4th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Boots and Shoes, applicable also to Socks and
Stockings.
I, WILLIAM FLETCHER of 15 Granby Street, and Medical Hall, Bath Street,
Ilkeston, Wholesale Druggist, Wine, Spirit and Ale Merchant and Mineral Water
Manufacturer, and Bottler, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to produce a simple, efficacious, and inexpensive
device for attachment, in its primary application, to the inside of the back of boots,
shoes and the like, and which said device shall fulfil the twofold functions of, firstly,
serving to overcome the inconvenience and annoyance hitherto arising from the
chafing of the heels of the wearers of boots and shoes due to the frictional contact
of the heel of the sock with the back inside leather at heel of the boot or shoe :
and, secondly, to allow of said attachment being utilised as a tache, tag or loop in
putting on or taking off boots or shoes.
In accordance with my invention and still in reference to the primary application
of the same, I employ a strip of leather or like or other suitable material, dressed
on one face only, made up into the form of a loop and of suitable width. This
loop is attached to the inside of the boot or shoe at a suitable distance from the
top, and in such manner as to cause the device to assume the form of a depending
loose flap or lappet, preferably of leather, with the undressed surface presented to
the heel of the wearer. This undressed surface of the lappet grips the sock or
stocking heel in such manner and with the result that the frictional abrading
action which occurs when walking &c. through the working up and down of the
heel in contact with the usual inside leather of the back of the boot or shoe is
entirely avoided, the undressed face of the flap or lappet aforesaid serving as it
were as a cushioning for the sock or stocking heel of the wearer which is kept
continuously in contact therewith and partakes of the same movement in the act of
walking.
To make the said loop or lappet available in the manner of the ordinary tag in
putting on or taking off boots and shoes, it is only necessary to employ the top
portion of the loop in the usual manner.
I wish it to be understood that although I have described in full the mode of
carrying out my invention in its primary application, yet, my improved device
might also be attached to the heel of the sock or stocking, instead of to the inside
of the boot or shoe. When, however, this latter application is adopted, leather
would not invariably be employed as the material of which the device is made, but
any other material which might be found more suitable, would be employed.
Dated this 12th day of June 1894.
VICTOR LAZARUS,
1, Furnival Street, Holborn, E.C., Agent for Applicant.

page_text: An Improvement in Boots and Shoes, applicable also to Socks and
Stockings.
I, WILLIAM FLETCHER of 15 Granby Street and Medical Hall, Bath Street,
Ilkeston, Wholesale Druggist, Wine Spirit and Ale Merchant, and Mineral
Water Manufacturer and Bottler, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to produce a simple, efficacious and inexpensive
device for attachment, in its primary application, to the inside of the back of boots,
shoes and the like, and which said device shall fulfil the twofold functions of
firstly, serving to overcome the inconvenience and annoyance hitherto arising from
the chafing of the heels of the wearers of boots and shoes due to the frictional
contact of the heel of the sock with the back inside leather at heel of the boot or
shoe and secondly to allow of said attachment being utilized as a tache, tag, or
loop in putting on or taking off boots or shoes.
:
And in order that my invention may the better be understood I have appended
the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Figure 1 represents a side sectional part view of a shoe with my improved lappet,
hereinafter more particularly referred to, adapted thereto.
Figure 2 a detached front view of the lappet and Figure 3 a detached side view
of same.
In accordance with my invention—and still in relation to its primary application-
I employ a strip of leather or like or other suitable material, dressed on one face
only, made up in the form of a loop a and of suitable width. This loop or lappet
is attached to the inside of the boot or shoe as shewn Figure 1 in any convenient
manner, say by a clipping device such as d, bereinafter more particularly referred
to, and in such a manner as to cause the device to assume the form of a depending
loose flap or lappet, with the undressed surface presented to the heel of the wearer.
This undressed surface e of the lappet, grips the sock or stocking heel in such
manner and with result, that the frictional abrading action which occurs when
walking &c. through the working up and down of the heel in contact with the
usual inside leather of the back of the boot or shoe, is entirely avoided; the
undressed face c of the flap or lappet a serving as it were, as a cushioning for
the sock or stocking heel of the wearer, which is kept continuously in contact
therewith and partakes of the same movement in the act of walking. In order to
make the loop or lappet a available in the manner of the ordinary tag, in putting
on or taking off boots and shoes, it is only necessary to employ the looped end of
the lappet, in the usual way of an ordinary tag.
The bereinbefore referred to clipping device d consists of a flat piece of metal to
which is secured by any suitable means, such for instance as by clipping tongue
pieces e, the two ends of the loop or lappet a. Said piece of metal is provided at
its top end with two or more hooks d for attaching my improved device to the
back of the boot or shoe as shewn Figure 1.
I wish it to be understood that although I have described in full the mode of
carrying out my invention in its primary application, yet, my improved device
might also be attached to the heel of the sock or stocking by stitching or the like
instead of to the inside of the boot or shoe. When however this latter application
is adopted, leather or like material would not invariably be employed as the
material of which the lappet is made, as any other material which might be
considered more suitable could be adopted.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
The improved attachment to the inside of boots and shoes applicable also to
socks and stockings substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
Dated this 19th der of March 1895.
V. LAZARUS,
1, Furnival Street, London, E.C., Agent for Applicant.