Improvements in Waterproof Sole and Heel Protectors for Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 7892
Complete Specification Left, 29th July, 1893--Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Waterproof Sole and Heel Protectors for
Boots and Shoes.
JOSIAH ROBERTS 57 Pope Road Bromley Common Kent JOSEPH GODFREY
COXHEAD 45 Alma Street Kentish Town London N.W. do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A process or method for attaching india rubber, gutta percha or any other
waterproof material in pieces or in the complete sole and heel to boots and shoes
by means of nails, the heads of which are imbedded in the india-rubber gutta-
percha or other waterproof material.
Dated this 28th day of October 1892
JOSIAH ROBERTS.
JOSEPH GODFREY COXHEAD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Waterproof Sole and Heel Protectors for
Boots and Shoes.
We, JOSIAH ROBERTS, Banker's Clerk, of 12 Clifton Terrace, Parish Lane,
Penge, S.E., and JOSEPH GODFREY COXHEAD, Banker's Clerk, of 45, Alma
Street, Kentish Town, London, do hereby declare the nature of the said 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 the formation in the improved manner hereinafter
described of sole and heel protective attachments made of gutta-percha or other
analogous or suitable waterproof or non-absorbent material and intended to be
applied to the ordinary leather or other absorbent soles and heels of boots and
shoes for the purpose of keeping such absorbent soles and heels from directly
treading on the ground.
In the accompanying drawings,—
Fig. 1, represents the underside of one of the improved attachments of a circular
form.
Fig. 2, represents the upper side thereof.
Fig. 3, represents a sectional elevation thereof.
Figs. 4 and 5, represent other shaped improved attachments.
Fig. 6, represents the underside of a boot fitted with some of the improved
attachments, also representing still other shaped attachments,-and-
Fig. 7, represents a side elevation thereof.
a, represents the improved attachments, which may be made of any required or
suitable shape and of any required size, and may even be made of the respective
shapes and sizes of the soles and heels of the boots to which they are to be applied.
The attachments a, are preferably made of gutta-percha, though they may also
be made of india-rubber, vulcanized, or of any other respectively analogous or
suitable waterproof or non-absorbent material which can be moulded or formed
with fastening nails secured in the manner hereinafter described.
In accordance with the invention, the attachments a, are moulded or formed with
fastening nails b, by means of which they are intended to be applied and secured to
the under surface of the ordinary leather sole or heel c, of the boot or shoe (ride
Fig. 7,) the nails being formed with heads d, (ride Fig. 3) of any suitable shape,
and being secured in their respective desired positions in the attachment by such
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page_text: head parts d, thereof being embedded within the substance of the attachments a,
which latter, to this end, are preferably formed by being moulded of gutta-percha
about the heads of the nails so as to effectually secure the same by setting there-
about. As it is only required that the heads of the nails should be embedded for
a little distance into the substance of the attachment in order to effectually secure
the nails, the greater part of the thickness of the attachment is reserved for wear,
so that the attachment is practically worn-out by the time it is worn through to the
nail heads, and there is, consequently, no liability of the attachments becoming
detached or falling from off the fastening nails while the attachments remain of
utility. As an additional means of securing the nails, we can, at the time of
moulding the attachment, apply a canvas insertion strip e, to the upper face thereof.
The attachments may be plain or may be serrated or made of any other suitable or
required formation on their wearing faces, and they may be either moulded of the
required forms, or they may be moulded in a sheet-form, from which, attachments
of any required form may be stamped or cut.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is ;-
The formation of sole and heel protective attachments for boots and shoes by
moulding or forming the same of gutta-percha or other suitable waterproof or
non-absorbent material in combination with fastening nails the heads of which are
embedded in the material of the attachment in such a manner as that the nails are
effectually held and secured substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 27th day of July 1893.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.