IMPROVEMENTS IN HEELPLATES FOR BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1884

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, JOHN MARRISON of 80 West Street, Sheffield in the County of York
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
HEELPLATES FOR BOOTS AND SHOES and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
My invention relates to improvements in Heelplates, and in the method of
attaching them to Boots and Shoes, the object being to enable the wearer to adjust
the metallic heel plate as it wears, with the greatest facility, and without the
removal or loosening of screws or other fastening appliances.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood I shall refer to the
annexed sheet of drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon, the saine
letters of reference indicate the same parts in any of the figures.
Fig. 1, represents an elevation and Fig. 2 the underside of my improved heel
plate.
Fig. 3, is a complete section of the heelplato.
Fig. 4, top and edge view of the plate with losse parts removed.
Fig. 5, is the tightening screw.
Fig. 6, two views of the nut.
Fig. 7, the elastic plug or holder.
A is a circular metallic plato, hollowed on its underside to receive a pad of
leather or other material which is held securely in its place by the contracted
edges D, and the conical nut G. On the top side of the plate A is a boss or pap B,
with a square hole through it to receive the square part of the screw F, the top
face of the plate itself being concave or dished, so that the edges, of the plate will
close tightly against the leather of the Boot heel.
The elastic plug H (which resembles a short length of pipe, and is preferably
made of rubber,) is passed over the screw, before the screw is put through the
square hole C, the coned nut G is then screwed on and fits into a corresponding
hole formed through the centre of the pad E.
To attach the heel plate so constructed to the heel of a boot, a hole is bored into
the heel, so that the parts F, H, and B, will just fit when H in its original parallel
shape; when by a few turns of the nut, the head of screw F is draw down com-
pressing the elastic plug H, and swelling out its sides, This expansion of the plug

page_text: against inside of the hole in the boot heel, causes a powerful grip by reason of the
frictional contact, and effectually secures the heel plate without a possibility of it
slipping or becoming loose.
When the heel plate becomes worn on one side it is simply necessary to slacken
the nut, till the plate can be turned round to a new position when the nut is again
screwed up and the plate secured.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1st The method of attaching heel plates to boots and shoes, by means of a
compressible elastic plug or collar, fitting into a hole in the boot and acted upon by
a screw, as herein before described and illustrated.
2nd The Combination of an elastic plug or plugs with heel plates for the purpose
of attaching thom to the heels of boots and shoes substantially as herein before
described.
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