IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ADAPTA- TION OF ELASTIC MATERIAL TO BOOTS AND SHOES, AND SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Uriah Scott, of Camden Town, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ADAPTA-
TION OF ELASTIC MATERIAL TO BOOTS AND SHOES, AND SHOES FOR HORSES AND
OTHER ANIMALS."
Sealed the 6th June 1854, and dated the 11th April 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Uriah Scott at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th
April 1854.
I, URIAH SCOTT, of Camden Town, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE ADAPTATION OF ELASTIC MATERIAL TO BOOTS AND SHOES, AND SHOES FOR HORSES
AND OTHER ANIMALS" to be as follows:-
I construct a plate which I secure to the boot or shoe, such plate being
provided with a socket for a screw, and a screw to correspond therewith, which
screw is provided with a flange, by which another plate is attached to that first
mentioned, between which two plates the elastic material is to be introduced,
in order that the pressure of the foot may be exerted against an elastic
substance.
Instead of a socket and screw attachment for the two plates, other modes of
securing them together might be resorted to, and instead of having one pair of
plates with socket and screw, several will in some cases be adopted.

page_text: For shoes for horses and other animals the first-named plate is to be secured
to the hoof.
The elastic material might be adapted to boots and shoes by having a plate
against the under side of the heel or sole, around which soft or yielding leather
may be secured, such leather being also secured to another plate, or a piece of 5
leather with elastic material between.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Uriah Scott in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th October 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, URIAH
SCOTT, of Camden Town, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Uriah Scott, Her special licence that I,. the said Uriah Scott, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Uriah
Scott, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ADAPTATION
OF ELASTIC MATERIAL TO BOOTS AND SHOES, AND SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER
ANIMALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Uriah Scott,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Uriah Scott, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be perforined,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment :-
The nature of this Invention, as heretofore described in the Provisional
Specification already filed in the Great Seal Patent Office, is hereby further
and particularly described, and the manner in which the same is to be performed

page_text: is ascertained in and by the following Specification thereof; and with the view
to fully describe the nature of my said Invention, and to indicate in what
manner the same is to be performed, I now proceed to state the method I
pursue, referring first of all to boots and shoes.
I take a plate (for which a piece of leather may be sometimes substituted),
which I secure to the boot or shoe, such plate being provided with a socket or
orifice for a screw, and a screw to correspond therewith, which screw is pro-
vided with a flange or ordinary projecting screw head, by which another plate
is attached to the first-mentioned plate, between which two plates the elastic
material is to be introduced, in order that the pressure of the foot may be
exerted against an elastic substance. Instead of a socket and screw attach-
ment for the two plates, any other mode of securing them together might be
resorted to, as, for instance, several sockets or orifices and screws; and instead
of having one pair of plates with socket or orifice and screw, several pairs may
in some cases be adopted.
For shoes for horses and other animals the first-named plate is to be
secured to the hoof.
The elastic material can be adapted to boots and shoes by having a plate
against the under side of the heel or sole, soft or yielding leather being
secured thereto, and such leather being also secured to another plate or a piece
of leather with the elastic material between.
Now, in order fully to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I have hereto annexed
illustrative Drawings, which are herein-after referred to by the words, figures,
and letters following:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, side view of part of a boot or shoe, with this Invention applied
thereto; Fig. 2, a detail plan view; Fig. 2*, a vertical section of Fig. 2;
Fig. 3, a detail plan view; Fig. 3*, a vertical section of Fig. 3; Fig. 4, another
detail view in plan; Fig. 4*, vertical section of Fig. 4; Fig. 5, another detail
view in plan; Fig. 5*, vertical section of Fig. 5; Fig. 6, a longitudinal vertical
section of a boot or shoe heel complete, the yellow lines at each end of which
illustrate the manner of connecting the plates (with elastic material between)
by means of yielding leather, as above referred to; Fig. 7, sectional view. The
following Figures all illustrate the manner of applying this Invention to shoes
for horses and other animals, viz.:-Figs. 8 and 8', plans of upper portion, and
83, edge view; Figs. 9 and 9', plans of lower portion, and 9%, edge view; Figs. 10
and 10*, plan and edge views of the elastic material; Figs. 11, 11, 112, details.

page_text: In Figs. 1 to 7 inclusive, a denotes the upper plate secured to the leather
of the boot or shoe heel; b, the indian-rubber or elastic material placed
between the same; and the lower plate c, c, being the orifice or socket in the
piece d, which is the wearing piece of leather beneath the lower plate. Fig. 2
and 2 shew the combination of the wearing piece d with the plate c, from
which it will be perceived that the orifices in d to receive the flanges or screw
heads, being larger than the orifices c* in the plate c for the screws, will allow
for the play of the screw head produced by the resiliency of the elastic material b.
Fig. 3 and 3* shew that the upper plate a may be turned over at the edges
so as to form downward flanges as at a*, and also that the elastic material b
within the flange is there exhibited as formed similar to a horse-shoe, except
that instead of having two ends at *,*, it is continued transversely from * to *.
Figs. 4 and 4 correspond in character with the foregoing, except that the plate a
has no rim or flange. Figs. 5 and 5* shew the plates and elastic material in
combination, the upper plate having the flange above described, the elastic
material being fixed against it within the flange, and the plate c covering it,
which plate c is small enough to pass freely within the flange, the wearing piece
covering all, and being countersunk against the orifices, so as to allow play for
the screw heads. Figs. 6 and 7 will need no further and specific description
after what has been stated above. Figs. 8 to 12 shew a horse-shoe, to which
this Invention is applied in manner similar to the above.
It will be seen that this horse-shoe differs from others in being composed of
several parts or pieces; in fact, it may be said that there are two distinct shoes,
an upper (Fig. 9, 91, 92,) and a lower one, (Fig. 8, 8, 8%) with elastic material
between them, corresponding to the upper and lower plate in the boot and shoe
heel, as before described. The upper plate also is made in two parts, the
object being that the elastic material attached may exert its resiliency not only
against the tread of the hoof, but allow for any lateral expansion or contraction.
Thus, I make a thin horse-shoe of brass or other metal, as Fig. 9, with slot
holes (9) and clips (w), (such as are adopted at the toes of ordinary horse-shoes,)
around the whole of the shoe; this is the upper shoe next the hoof, and is
divided at the toe into two parts. It is provided with nail holes situate in the
nail grooves (h) for fastening it to the hoof, if necessary, though the clips
with the aid of the other arrangements will usually secure it sufficiently. I then
take the piece of vulcanized india-rubber or other elastic material, Fig. 10,
which I fix to Fig. 9, so as to secure them together, or act as a spring to keep
the shoe on the hoof of the horse or other animal, for the furtherance of which
I use a bolt i, Figs. 11' and 112, and nut k, Figs. 11' and 112; this bolt passes
through the orifices m, m*, (Fig. 8). being large enough to allow play to the nut.

page_text: The indian-rubber between the upper and lower shoe isolates the one in
respect of the other, and gives an elastic tread to the horse or other animal.
In some cases I only make use of the inner shoe and the indian-rubber or
other elastic material, the rubber acting as a spring to keep the shoe on and
an elastic tread for the horse. Fig. 9 shews the shoe as fixed to the horse or
other animal.
It will be observed that two of the clips (at the end of the upper shoe) are
much extended and have orifices, which are for the purpose of attaching them
together by an elastic strap or band, to aid in keeping the shoe in its proper
position.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I would further state that I prefer to construct
the plates used for boots and shoes of brass, as these will allow of indian-
rubber being vulcanized with and cemented to them; also, that metal plates
need not be used in all cases, as horn, tough wood, or other tough substance
might be adopted, and in the cases where the plates are connected together by
the edge leather, slices of stifl' leather may be adopted. And I would remark,
that in all cases I cover the arrangements by an edging of leather to obtain
neatness and other advantages.
It is obvious, that although I have shewn the Invention applied to the heels
of boots and shoes, that it might be applied to the soles also, if desired, by
simply varying the contour of the plates.
And I declare that I claim the said Invention of the nature and character
stated at the commencement of this Specification.
In witness whereof, I, the said Uriah Scott, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eleventh day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Signed and sealed in my presence,
F. W. CAMPIN,
Patent Office,
156, Strand.
URIAH SCOTT. (L.S.)