A NEW OR IMPROVED BOOT OR SHOE HEEL
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Everett Parlin, and John Orison Turner,
of the State of Maine, of the United States of America, for the
Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED BOOT OR SHOE HEEL."-A communi-
nction from Tabu
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Charles Everett Parlin and
John Orison Turner at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition and Declaration, on the 6th November 1872,
pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act,
1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
EVERETT PARLIN and JOHN ORISON TURNER, of the State of Maine, of
the United States of America, send greeting.
WHEREAS we are in possession of an Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED BOOT OR SHOE HEEL," and have petitioned Her most Excellent
Majesty Queen Victoria, to grant unto us, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made

page_text: solemu Declaration that said Invention was a communication to us from
one Johnathon R. Ryerson, of the State of Maine aforesaid.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Charles Everett Parlin, and John
Orison Turner, do hereby declare that the following Complete Specifi-
ation, under our hands and seals, fully describes and ascertains the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, in and by the following statement, reference being had to the
accompanying Drawings making part of this our Specification.
The Invention is a hollow or chambered heel cast or made of metal or
other suitable material with a flange projecting inward from its upper
edge or a part thereof, or with such flange so arranged, and with a pro-
jection extending from the middle of the back of the chamber, all being
substantially as herein-after explained and as represented in the said
Drawings, of which Figure 1 denotes a top view; Figure 2 a front
elevation; Figure 3 a side view; and Figure 4 a bottom view of it;
Figure 5 is a longitudinal section; and Figure 6 a transverse section of it,
showing its application to the sole and upper of a boot or shoe, or the
portions thereof to which it is to be applied.
For most purposes the heel may be constructed or cast in one piece of
metal. In its external form it is to be like that of a common heel but it
is to be made with a chamber A open at top, such chamber along its
upper curved edge except at the front end being provided with the
flange a arranged as shown. On the inside of the heel at the back is the
projection b, which when the heel is driven to place on the sole S forms
or may form for itself a slight indentation in the leather thereof, which
indentation with the said projection serves to prevent or aid in pre-
venting the heel from becoming displaced. Near the front of the heel
bottom is a hole c made therein to receive a fastening screw.d, which
after the heel may have been pressed or driven upon the boot or shoe sole
so as to cause the flange to enter the space or groove between the sole S
and the upper L is to be passed through the said hole and screwed into
the sole. The heel may have more of such holes to receive screws or
nails to be driven or inserted in the sole, and the bottom surface of the
heel may be a plane surface, or it may be concave or grooved. or ribbed
to prevent the heel from slipping while in wear.
The sole having been fastened in place upon and to the upper of a
boot or shoe, the heel is to be driven on the rear end of the sole so as to

page_text: embrace the sole, and cause the flange to enter the groove between the
sole and the upper.
Our Invention enables a heel to be produced very cheaply and of easy
application to a boot or shoe. It is a heel of great durability and
strength, and very light, and having little liability to work loose on a
sole after being fixed thereto.
We claim as our Invention the chambered heel provided with the
flange a arranged as described, or with such flange a and the projection
b all substantially as set forth and shown.
In witness whereof, we, the said Charles Everett Parlin, and John
Orison Turner, have hercunto set our hands and seals, this
Twenty-second day of October, 1872.