CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOGS
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MOSES
POOLE, of the Patent Office, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex,
Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eleventh day of January, in the second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Moses Poole, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Moses Poole, my exors, admors, or assigns, or
such others as I, the. said Moses Poole, my exors, adñiors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
CLOGS," communicated to me by a certain Foreigner residing- abroad; in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Moses
Poole, shall cause a particular description of the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in
Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Moses Poole, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and the

page_text: manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon (that is to say):
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The Invention relates to a mode of constructing clogs, whereby only a
portion of the under part of the shoe or boot (the sole and heel) is covered
by the sole of the clog in place of having the sole of the clog to proceed
from end to end of the foot, as has been the case heretofore.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a plan and Figure 2 a side view of a clog for the left foot,
constructed according to the Invention; Figure 3 shows an under side view
of the elastic coupling which connects the side of the clog with the sole of
the shoe or boot with which it is worn. The clog, so far as the sole and
fore part or shield go, is similar to the ordinary construction of clogs, except-
ing as to the length of the sole. A is the sole, having attached thereto the
elastic coupling B, which consists of the bent rod or wire B', which is hinged
to the sole A, as is shewn in the Drawing; B2 is a plate of brass, or other
suitable metal or material, having a slot or opening at B³, the object of such
opening being to attach it to the sole of the boot or shoe, there being a screw,
or other suitable attachment, in the sole of the same. The plate B is bent
over, in order partly to cover the wire B', around which a spiral spring is
wound, and as there are holes through which the wire B¹ passes, when the
plato is drawn back, and held by the screw, the spring will be condensed, as
shown by dotted lines, and cause the sole of the clog to be securely held to
the sole of the boot or. shoe, notwithstanding the movement produced in the
act of walking.
Figures 4 and 5 show two views of another elastic attachment. In this
case the connection of the plate B and the sole of the clog is by means of a
strap of leather or other suitable material C, through which the rod D. passos,
on which is wound a spiral spring, which is condensed when the plate B is
drawn back, in order to attach it to the sole of a boot or shoe, as is shewn by
dotted lines.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, I would remark that
although I have only shown two arrangements of means to attach the sole
of the clog to the sole of a boot or shoe with which it is worn, yet it will be
evident that these means may be varied, so long as the connection allows of
such play or movement as is required to retain the sole of the clog to the sole
of the boot or shoe with which it is worn, in such manner as to allow of the

page_text: necessary freedom or elasticity and bending of the sole of the clog and of the
boot or shoe in the act of walking. I do not therefore confine myself to the use
of the connecting means shewn, but what I claim is the mode of constructing
clogs, as herein described.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of July, in
o the year of our Lord 1839, the aforesaid Moses Poole came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
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Inrolled the Eleventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-nine.