CERTAIN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE PUTTING ON OF BOOTS TO THE FEET
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,. we, WILLIAM
GREEN, of Hyde, in the County of Chester, Baker, and MARK WALKER, of
the same place, Grocer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eleventh day of March, in the ninth year of Her reign.
and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said William
Green and Mark Walker, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that we, the said William Green and Mark Walker, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, and such others as we, the said William Green
and Mark Walker, our executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England and Wales and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, our Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE
PUTTING ON OF BOOTS TO THE FEET;" in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso that we, the said William Green and Mark Walker, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had; will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
William Green and Mark Walker, do hereby declare that the nature of our
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is
particularly described and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereto annexed,
and the following explanation thereof (that is to say):
This Improved Apparatus for Facilitating the Putting on of Boots to the
Feet is designed to facilitate the operation, and also entirely dispense with
the straining of the muscles of the arms and back, frequently experienced
under the old method of pulling on boots, and consists of a semicircular
frame supported upon three legs or rods affixed to a bottom board or other
solid base, two of the legs being furnished with suspending hooks
upon which
the boot is hung by means of the ordinary loops or straps at the top of the
boot, and the other leg having a hold-fast or clip for holding the back of
the boot firm whilst the foot is being thrust into it. These hooks and clip
are adjustable to any height by means of set screws to accommodate any length
of boot. There may also be appended to the bottom board or base a small
contrivance, similar to a common boot jack, for facilitating the taking off

page_text: commonly practised of pulling on the boots by hand. o, o, is a contrivance
similar to a common boot jack for facilitating the taking off of boots, which,
when in use, is turned over upon its hinges p, and is supported by the
rest g.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Green and Mark Walker, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Tenth day of September, One
thousand eight hundred and forty-six.