Improvements in Protectors or Additions to Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 10th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Protectors or Additions to Boots and Shoes.
I, GEORGE HAYNES of Sutton Coldfield in the County of Warwick, Plumber,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to means for saving the wearing of the soles and heels of
boots and shoes, commonly called "protectors as hereinafter described.
"
These protectors usually consist of a series of spikes, studs, nails or pegs,
carried by a flat plate, and are attached to the wearing part or tread of a sole or
heel, by driving the said spikes, nails or pegs, into the top sole, leaving the metallic
plate part to form an arinature for the protection of the sole or tread of the
wearing surface.
The employment of such protectors to thus enhance the wearing, makes the said
boots clumsy, and unsuitable for boots and shoes worn by other than the lower
grades of society.
My invention is to adapt protectors to boots and shoes for all wearers, and to
make the protective or armature parts of the same, in common with the leather or
other material, with which they are associated.
My means of protection consists in employing blocks, studs, pegs, rivets or the
like, carried by plates at their inner, or inwardly disposed ends.
The plates, which may carry one, two or more of the said spikes, studs, plugs or
the like, which form as it were legs to them, are disposed or located, when in use,
between the lift sole or soles, and the under or welt sole or soles, layers of leather
or other material, whilst the legs of the said protectors, extend outwardly through
the top lift, up to the surface or outside of the same, so that the metal of the said
legs, which are the studs and spikes as aforesaid, wear with the leather or other
material, constituting the sole or heel of a boot or shoe.
The plates or flanges, which are the carriers for the legs, may be made of thin
metal, or when made of thicker metal, recesses may be sunken or formed, in either,
or both, of the meeting surfaces of the top and inner soles, where the said plates
come.
In fitting a top sole or lift with the protectors, the same is pierced with holes
corresponding to the number and dimensions of the legs. This done, the said legs
are passed forward through the holes, from the back or inner side of the sole, and
with the ends of the said legs, coming flush with the outer side of the tread of the
sole.
The plates or flanges lie on the inner side of the said sole, and are attached to
the welt of the other sole or other thickness of material, by rivetting, pegging,
nailing, sewing or otherwise, hence a boot or shoe fitted with protectors, with the
flanges of the same, coming between the soles or strata of material, of which the
soles are built up.
The plates may be made integral with the legs or studs, or the legs may be
attached, and made of a harder metal than the plates if desired. Or the plates
may be in the form of frames, made to be located between the soles, and further,
the said protector or armature legs may be made hollow, and fitted with spikes,
studs or plugs of hard and durable metal.
Dated this 5th day of February 1899

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Protectors or Additions to Boots and Shoes.
I, GEORGE HAYNES, of Sutton Coldfield, in the County of Stafford, Plumber,
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 :-
This invention relates to interposed and partly imbedded boot and shoe protectors
or armatures, as hereinafter described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents partly in side elevation, and
partly in vertical section, the lower part of a boot or shoe, fitted or provided with
imbedded or insertioned protectors, having compound armature studs, legs, stems
or projections, which latter are presented to the outside wearing surface of the sole
or heel of a boot or shoe, whilst the carrying plate of the same lies imbedded
between an outside and an inner sole, lift or the like.
By the employment of compound or composite studs, as hereinafter described,
and with the same extending outwardly through the leather or wearing surfaces
of the boot or shoe, the said wearing surfaces are made more lasting, or wear
materially reduced.
Figure 2 represents an underside plan of Figure 1, showing the dispositions of
the imbedded protectors, and the presented ends of the compound wearing studs,
which are imbedded, and passed through the outer sole, with their ends lying flush
with the said surface.
Figure 3 represents topside plans of the sole protectors as represented in
Figures 1 and 2.
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Figure 4 is the heel protector of the boot represented in the said figures, and
Figure 5 represents a section of the heel protector Figure 4, upon the dotted
lines A B. This last named view shows part of the protector in elevation, and one
of the composite studs in section.
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In the sole protectors Figures 1, 2 and 3, a are thin plates, carrying upon one side,
or upon their undersides, hollow studs, projections or legs b, and with the said studs,
projections or legs made integral or in one piece with the said plates, which are
carriers for both the said hollow studs, and also for solid studs c, of hard metal,
carried and fitted within the hollow ones.
These said hollow studs b, taper inwardly from the inner side of the plate to the
outer end thereof, and so do the said solid studs c, so that the said solid studs cannot
come. forwardly away from the hollow ones, hence the wearing of both studs
together. I prefer that the solid studs c, should be of hard metal, such as steel,
iron or other like suitable metals or alloys. The hollow studs b, which surround
the solid studs c, are preferably made of brass or such like soft metal, so that when
the said protectors are in use, slipping is prevented, by hard and soft metal being
in.juxta position. The protectors are secured in their imbedded positions by nails,
pegs, screws or their equivalents e, passing through holes d.
The affixing may be performed by the nails or rivets, passing inwards from the
outside of the outer sole, through the holes d, of the protector, and then with the
said nails passing into the inner or welt sole, as in Figure 2.
Or nails or rivets or equivalents may pass through the holes d, and take into the
welt or inner sole, prior to the securing into position of the top sole or lift.
It is understood that coincident holes, corresponding to the positions of the studs,
are made within the top sole or soles.
The affixing of the said protectors in position by nails or rivets passing through
holes in their plates, is not absolutely necessary, although they are, by such means,
made to take a solid bearing, as otherwise the said protectors would slightly spring,
if the said protectors were only secured in position by the nailing, rivetting or
affixing down of the top sole to an inner sole, although I wish it to be understood

page_text: that, if desired, the said top sole, wherein the wearing studs of the protectors are
embedded, may alone constitute the securing means.
In the heel protectors, Figures 1, 2, 4 and 5, a is the carrying plate, b and c are
combined hard and soft metal studs, and d are holes or clearances, for the passage
of affixing nails, screws, rivets or the like, when the same are passed inwardly from
the outer sole of the heel. I wish it to be understood that the attachment, in the
heel, may be secured in position either by nailing, rivetting or screwing the same
on to the outer lift, or by the passing of the said rivets, screws or nails e, through
the outer lift into an inner one.
Or the plates of the protectors may be spiked upon their inner side, which spikes
are driven into the material of an inner lift, like an ordinary outside boot protector.
Figure 6 represents a top side plan, partly in horizontal section, of a heel
protector, constructed according to another form of my invention. In this arrange-
ment, the studs, projections or necks, both hollow and solid, are made angular.
instead of round.
a is the carrying piate, bare hollow studs or projections, preferably of soft metal,
and made integral or in one piece with the carrying plates, which take or extend
through the material of the upper sole, and with the end coming lignable with the
tread surface thereof. e are solid hard metal studs, enclosed within the soft metal
hollow ones, and with the said latter studs forming the wearing surface of the
protectors. I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself as to the metals.
employed, as the plates or carriers, with their hollow studs may be made of hard
metal, and the solid studs be made of soft metal, and with the former drifted into
the latter in any way as may be desired. The clearing holes in this figure are
marked d.
Figure 7 represents a further form of my invention in connection with the sole of
a boot or shoe, which is shown partly in section and partly in plan.
a is a carrying plate, bifurcated or branched in character, and comprehending a
large wearing area between the boundary edges of the sole, and with hollow studs b,
directed from it, and with hard metal plugs or cores c, as in the former arrange-
ments.
d are affixing or clearance holes, for the passage of nails, pegs, or the like.
Figure 8 represents a further form of my invention.
In this arrangement, the protector consists of a horse shoe shaped frame a, with
composite or combined soft and hard metal studs b and c, and clearance holes d, and
supplementary inwardly directed tongue flanges .
Figure 9 represents a boot provided with a further form of boot protector, con-
structed, or constructed and arranged according to a further form of my invention.
Figure 10 represents a perspective view of the sole protector separately, whilst
Figure 11 represents the heel protectors separately.
In the sole protector, a is the general framing, having upright and solid elongated
stud parts c, separated by intervening spaces c', and clearance or affixing nail
holes d, through the lower plate of the framing. The studs projections or elongated
parts c, pass through the top sole a', of a boot or shoe, and with the top edges c³,
being presented to the wearing surface of the said sole a', of a boot or shoe f.
In the heel protectors, the parts are alike in construction and arrangement to
those already described, and are marked with the same letters of reference.
Figure 12 represents the heel of a boot, fitted with a protector or protectors alike
unto those already described, other than that they differ in shape.
Figure 13 represents a protector made according to my invention, of a different
shape to those yet described.
Figure 14 represents the heel of a boot or shoe fitted with still another form of
my invention.
is the heel, and a the protector, consisting of a quadrant shaped solid frame,
having inwardly directed ears or plates a³, disposed at a lower level than the tread
of the heel to which the attachment is to be applied, and through the solid part of
which, which is made preferably of soft metal such as brass, hard steel or iron

page_text: studs. c, transversely pass, with their outer parts coming flush with the tread of th
heel, and the tread of the soft metal.
It may be observed that the ears or plates a², come between the top lift g', and
an under lift, and are affixed by nailing directly through holes d, or by passing
inwardly from the top lift, nails through the aforesaid top lift.
Figure 15 represents a heel, provided with a still further form of my invention.
In this arrangement, the carrying frame, with the composite studs, is made in the
form of a half wheel, with branched extensions.
In the protector part; a is a carrying plate, with arms a', and a centre piece a².
The boundary plate a, and the centre plate a², which is preferably of soft metal,
such as brass, have directed from, and made in one piece with them, hollow studs or
projections, fitted with steel or iron centres c. d are clearance holes in the said
frame, wherethrough nails, rivets, pegs or spikes take, on the affixing of the same
between the top lift and an inner one, and the said affixing appliances are driven
inwards through the top lift.
Figures 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23 represent various forms of protector
segments, constructed and arranged according to my invention, as already fully
described.
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Having now 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-
First-Insertioned boot protectors, consisting of an attachment or carrying
plate, provided with outstanding and hollow studs, lugs or parts, fitted with dis-
similar metal plugs or cores, adapted to take outwardly through the top lift of a
sole or heel of a boot or shoe, as described and set forth.
Secondly-Insertioned boot protectors, consisting of an affixing or carrying
plate, having upon one side of it, outstanding or outwardly projecting hollow lugs
or studs of soft metal, fitted or provided with hard steel or iron plugs or their
equivalents, and which composite studs take through the top lift or lifts of the sole
or heel of a boot or shoe, and with the ends of the said studs coming flush with, and
being presented to the tread of the said soles or heels, as described and set forth.
Thirdly-In insertioned boot protectors, making the same of an angular trans-
verse section, and with solid outstanding parts, lugs or their equivalents directed
from the boundary edge of the carrying base plate of the same, substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 9 and 10.
Fourthly A semi-insertioned boot protector, consisting of a hard or soft metal
solid tread plate, fitted or provided with hard or soft metal wearing studs, and with
the said tread plate carried by affixing plates or tongues, which, when in position,
come between the upper lift and an inner lift of a sole or heel of a boot or shoe,
substantially as described and set forth in Figure 14.
Fifthly The improvements in the construction arrangement and fitting of boot
protectors, or insertioned or semi insertioned boot protectors, or boot protector
segments, substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 8th day of October 1809
GEORGE HAYNES,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.