Improvements in Boot Soles and Heels.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application. 13th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Feb., 1892-Accepted, 12th Mar., 1892)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boot Soles and Heels.
JOSEPH HAYWARD BORRETT 700 Holloway Road London, N., Boot Manu-
facturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I prepare them by taking a piece of leather the required size and by a suitable
machine forceing through the material a number of metal tubes which cut their
own way in the same manner as a hollow punch.
The core being compressed and remaining in the tube which it quite fills, thereby
forming a "Birds Eye Sole." The tube may have a solid head or otherwise-as
found most convenient.
J. H. BORRETT.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boot Soles and Heels.
I, JOSEPH HAYWARD BORRETT, of 700 Holloway Road, London, N., Boot
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to give an improved wearing surface to the soles
and heels of boots and shoes.
In carrying out this invention, solid-headed steel tubular pieces, or other hollow
metal pieces, are employed, which tubular pieces are forced through the outer
sole of leather or other material from the back. These tubular pieces act as a kind
of hollow punch, and cut their way through the sole material, a small plug of the
material entering and being compressed in the tube. The lengths of tube will be
slightly longer than the thickness of the sole, and when forced through, will
project slightly beyond the surface of the sole. The projecting portions are ground
off by means of an emery wheel, or removed in any other convenient manner, so
as to leave the studs flush with the sole.
The small plugs of leather or other material inside the tubular pieces, form an
important feature of this invention, as being compressed in the tubular pieces, the
material forms a hard wearing surface, which has the effect of prolonging the wear
of the tubular metal pieces.
These tubular pieces, with the leather or other core, by reason of their being
flush with the treading surface of the sole externally, will not collect mud and
dirt, as is the case with hob nails, while they are not liable (by reason of the
heads on the inner side of the sole) to drop out of the sole, as wire pins or hob
nails are liable to do, leaving holes in the sole for the entrance of wet and dirt.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 is an underside view of an outer sole with my invention applied thereto.
Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line a a, Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a cross section, and Fig. 4 an underside view, of one form of hollow
stud, on an enlarged scale.
A is the sole, B is a solid-headed tubular piece, which is driven through the
sole from the back; and C is the plug of the sole material, which is compressed
in the tubular piece as it passes through the sole.
For the heels of boots and shoes, the tubular pieces will be applied to the bottom
"lifts" of the heel.

page_text: The tubular pieces may be manufactured in any convenient manner, but it is
preferred that they should have a solid head, or be otherwise closed up at the head
end; the mode of manufacture, however, forms no part of the present invention.
The outer end of the tubular pieces should be bevelled off to form a cutting edge,
as indicated at Fig. 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what-I
claim is
1. Improving the wearing surface of the soles and heels of boots and shoes, by
combining therewith solid-headed tubular or other hollow pieces of metal in the
manner herein set forth.
2. The combination with the soles and heels of boots and shoes, of headed
tubular or other hollow pieces of metal, and plugs of compressed material, obtained-
by forcing the tubular pieces through the sole or heel, as set forth.
3. A wearing surface for the soles and heels of boots and shoes, consisting of
short lengths of metal tube, or other hollow metal pieces, in combination with
plugs of compressed leather or other material, as set forth.
Dated this 2nd day of February 1892.
NEWTON & SON.
Agents for the Applicant.