A BooT AND SHOE STUD
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Moore, of New Windsor, in the County of
Berks, Dentist, for the Invention of "A BooT AND SHOE STUD."
Scaled the 29th May 1857, and dated the 5th December 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Moore at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th December
1856.
I, HENRY MOORE, of New Windsor, in the County of Berks, Dentist, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A BOOT AND SHOE
STUD," to be as follows:-
The formation of a small flat disc of ths of an inch in diameter (but more
or less according to the tension required) of a hard metal, commonly called
gilding metal, or any other hard metal that will receive solder, of a circular or
any other form, liko the head of an ordinary flat button, with a shank to the
same composed of soft copper wire, or wire of any other soft, tough, and
flexible metal, soldered to the said disc with hard solder, sufficient to form a
strong and perfect cohesion or union with the said disc, or riveted to the said
disc, the shank being only soldered at the point of junction with the disc, or
riveted through the same, and the two shafts or sides of the shank boing close
to each other, and fit to be inserted into a small hole to be mado through
leather, cloth, or any other fabric or texture, and which it is proposed to pass
through a small hole, aperture, or perforation in such leather, cloth, or fabric

page_text: sufficient to receive the said shank only; and after the said shank shall be
passed through such hole it is intended to expand the same on the outer side
of such leather, cloth, fabric, or texture, by means of a pair of forceps, having
on the one side a perforated shaft, and on the other a long sharp point of steel
to pass into the perforated shaft, or by means of any other instrument that
will expand the said shank without injury to the said leather, cloth, fabric,
or texture, so as to leave (after the shank shall have been passed into the hole)
on one side of the leather, cloth, or other fabric or texture the said disc, like
the head of a flat button, and on the other side a round metallic hole, like the
shank of an ordinary button, but by the expansion of the soft metallic shank
to fix the stud firmly and securely in the said leather, cloth, fabric, or texture,
leaving on the outside thereof the said round metallic hole or expanded shank,
so as to enable strings to be readily drawn through the same to draw the two
sides of any shoes or boots together, or to insert such studs only on one side
and use the ordinary shoe or boot holes in the fronts or sides of shoes or boots,
and draw such strings through such holes on the one side of the said shank of
the said stud on the other. And it is intended not only to apply the said stud
to shoes and boots, but to any purposes where it is necessary to bring two sides
of any leather, cloth, or other fabric or texture together by means of lacing or
strings.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Moore in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th
May 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
MOORE, of New Windsor, in the County of Berks, Dentist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Henry Moore, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Moore,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Henry Moore, 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 "A BOOT AND SECE

page_text: STUD," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Moore,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Henry Moore, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The formation of a small flat disc of ths of an inch in diameter (but
more or less according to the tension required) of a hard metal, commonly
called gilding metal, or any other hard metal that will receive solder, of a
circular or any other form, like the head of an ordinary flat button, with a
shank to the same composed of soft copper wire, or wire of any other soft,
tough, and flexible metal, soldered to the said disc with hard solder, sufficient
to form a strong and perfect cohesion or union with the said disc, or riveted to
the said disc, the shank being only soldered at the point of junction with the
disc, or riveted through the same, and the two shafts or sides of the shank
being close to each other, and fit to be inserted into a small hole to be made
through leather, cloth, or any other fabric or texture, and which it is proposed
to pass through a small hole, aperture, or preparation in such leather, cloth, or
fabric sufficient to receive the said shank only; and after the said shank shall
be passed through such hole it is intended to expand the same on the outer
side of such leather, cloth, fabric, or texture by means of a pair of forceps,
having on the one side a perforated shaft, and on the other a long sharp point
of steel to pass into the perforated shaft, or by means of any other instrument
that will expand the said shank without injury to the said leather, cloth, fabric,
or texture, so as to leave (after the shank shall have been passed into the hole)
on one side of the leather, cloth, or other fabric or texture the said disc, liko
the head of a flat button, and on the other side a round metallic hole, like the
shank of an ordinary button, but by the expansion of the soft metallic shank
to fix the stud firmly and securely in the leather, cloth, fabric, or texture,
leaving on the outside thereof the said round metallic hole or expanded shank,
so as to enable strings to be readily drawn through the same to draw the two
sides of any shoes or boots together, or to insert such studs only on one side
and use the ordinary shoe or boot holes in the fronts or sides of shoes or boots,
and draw such strings through such holes on the one side of the said shank of

page_text: the said stud on the other. And it is intended not only to apply the said stud
to shoes and boots, but to any purposes where it is necessary to bring two
sides of any leather, cloth, or other fabric or texture together by means of
lacing or strings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Moore, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named IIenry Moore, in
the presence of
HENRY POULTON, Sol",
Windsor.
HENRY MOORE. (L.S.)