A MOVEABLE HEEL, FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1818

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME I, HENRY:
STUBBS, of Great James Street, in the Parish of Saint Jamės, Westminster,
and County of Middlesex, Blind Manufacturer, send greeting..
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WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, 'bearing date at Westminster,' the Seventh day of
September, in the fifty-eighth year of His reign, give and grant unto me;;
the said Henry Stubbs, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said; Henry Stubbs, my
exors,adñiors,and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned,should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MOVEABLE HEEL,
FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent there'
is contained a proviso. that if I, the said Henry Stubbs, shall not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to 'be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine,
and become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear."

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Stubbs, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention
in manner following, that is to say :-
That my Invention doth consist in a rotary revolving or otherwise moveable
heel, pelt, tip, or top piece for boots, shoes, and other purposes, and which
when applied or attached to the sole or heel of a boot or shoe, or to the end
of a wooden leg, or otherwise applied or attached to any manufacture, is
capable of having any part of that surface coming in contact with the ground,
which is found to receive the greatest friction or wear, turned into another
situation at pleasure, thereby exposing any other part of that surface to the
said friction or wear. The said rotary moving or revolving heel, pelt, tip,
or top piece may be made of metal, wood, leather, casutchove, or such com-
bination of such and the like substances as may be deemed most expedient
by the manufacturer; the shape also of many of the parts of the said rotatory
moving or revolving heel, pelt, tip, or top piece may be varied at pleasure,
but I prefer such combinations of substances and forms as are described in
the Drawings and Figures annexed; and a rotatory moving or revolving heel,
pelt, tip, or top piece, as before described, being entirely new, and an Invention
of my own, I am desirous to maintain this my exclusive right and privilege
to the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1: A, B, C, represent perspective views of the different parts of
the Iuvention, supposed to be raised vertically from their relative situations,
A being on the ground. S, L, a thick round piece of sole leather or other
suitable substance; H, a large hole pierced through the sole leather for
purposes herein-after described; X, X, X, X, X, small holes made to receive
the points of the screws in B; the sixth hole is hid behind P, which is a
small hoop of sheet copper or other metal, with a lip turned at its under edge.
This hoop is placed in the center of the said piece of sole leather. B is a
plate of sheet iron or other metal, with a rim turned up round the whole of
its circumference. This plate has a hole in it to correspond with the hole H
in A, and is to be screwed down by the screws C, C, C, C, C, C, upon the
surface X, X, X, X, X, of A. The hole Q is just large enough to pass over
the hoop P, which is thus held to its place, the lip keeping it from rising,
B being screwed down, as before described, upon A; the plate of sheet
copper or other metal C is next passed over the hoop P, and dropt down
upon the plate B just within the rim. The hoop P should be of such a
depth that when the plates B and C are both dropt over it, there will be left

page_text: sufficient for the hoop above the surface of the plate C to allow of its being
turned over downwards upon plate C, thus forming another lip to keep plate
C to its place upon plate B, and forming at the same time a center for it to
turn upon.
The holes K, K, K, K, K, K, should be so bored that their
centers may come exactly over the centers of the large holes in A and B,
when the plate C is turned round for that purpose. The necessity of this
arrangement will be shown by the next Figure.
Figure 2 is a section of the Invention cut through the line F, G, in
Figure 4. Pis the hoop before mentioned, showing how it is held by its under
lip R, R, down to the sole leather S, L, and how its upper lip G, G, holds the
plate C, C, to its place upon plate B, B. N is a section of the hole represented
at H, in A, Figure 1. Then the Invention is about to be attached to the sole
or heel of a boot, shoe, &c. &c., one of the small holes in plate C, C, is brought.
over the large hole N, when a screw made to fit the said small hole is intro-
duced into it through the large hole N, and by means of a screw-driver, as
atS, is screwed into the heel or sole of the boot, shoe, &c. &c. The sole leather
S, L, or lower part of the Invention being then turned partly round till
another of the holes in plate C, C, comes over the hole N, another screw is
introduced in like manner, and so on, until the plate C, C, is firmly secured
to the sole or heel of the boot, shoe, &c. &c., which will be found that the sole
leather S, L, with the plate B, B, attached to it will rotate at pleasure round
the hoop P.
Figure 3 is a bird's-eye view of the Invention, showing the surface that
goes next to the sole or heel of the boot, shoe, &c., &c., when in use.
Figure 4 is a perspective view of the Invention, shewing the large hole
which when all the screws required to fasten it to a boot, shoe, or other
manufacture, are screwed to their places, is plugged up with a piece of wood,
leather, or other suitable substance. The sole leather S, L, in order to make
the Invention more durable, may be bound or surrounded with a hoop of
iron, brass, or other metal, if thought proper, in which case such hoop may
be made a little deeper than the sole leather, and the rim which is turned up
round the circumference of plate B, in Figure 1, brazed to it.
Figure 5, a Wellington boot, showing the application of the Invention.
Figure 6, the sole of a shoe, showing the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Stubbs, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
HENRY (L.S.) STUBBS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Third day of March, in the
year of our Lord 1819, the aforesaid Henry Stubbs came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Third day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand