Improved Devices for Temporarily Roughing Shoes or Boots for Playing Golf, Cricket, Football, or other Outdoor Games, or for Touring.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 14th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 16th Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION:
Improved Devices for Temporarily Roughing Shoes or Boots for
Playing Golf, Cricket, Football, or other Outdoor Games, or for
Touring.
We, CHARLES WILLIAM Cox, of Mount Eden, Uddingston, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Agent for Messieurs Bass Ratcliff and Gretton, Limited,
and CHARLES MARCH, of Cleveland House, Uddingston, aforesaid, Nail Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is
to say:-
Our said invention has for its object to provide improved means for temporarily
roughing ordinary or other shoes or boots for playing golf, cricket, football, or
other outdoor games, or for touring.
In carrying out our invention we provide metal studs made with sharp points to
enter the soles of shoes or boots and with heads which may be square, or round, or
of other suitable form, and may have the outer surface grooved or notched; and
for use in combination with such studs we provide a metal key plate which has
formed in one face of it a socket or shallow recess shaped to nearly fit the head of
the stud. The key plate can be conveniently used for fixing or detaching the
studs. Thus the key plate with a stud in the socket may be placed on the ground
with the stud point upwards, and the user by treading thereon with his shoe or
boot in a suitable position will cause the stud to become fixed in the sole.. The
operation may be repeated with as many studs in different positions as may be
necessary. Or the key plate may be used, to force in each stud in any other way.
The key plate can also be used for removing the studs, the plate being applied
with its socket upon a stud and manipulated so as to loosen and draw out the stud;
or one or more edges of the key plate, may be bevilled for the purpose of prizing
out the studs.
Dated this Fourteenth day of April 1894.
EDMUND HUNI,
Applicants' Agent.
Improved Devices for Temporarily Roughing Shoes or Boots for
Playing Golf, Cricket, Football, or other Outdoor Games, or for
Touring.
We, CHARLES WILLIAM Cox, of Mount Eden, Uddingston, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Agent for Messieurs Bass Ratcliff and Gretton, Limited,
and CHARLES MARCH, of Cleveland House, Uddingston, aforesaid, Nail Manu-
facturer, 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, that is to say :-
Our said invention has for its object to provide improved means for temporarily
roughing ordinary or other shoes or boots for playing golf, cricket, football, or
other outdoor games! or for touring.

page_text: In carrying out our invention we provide metal studs made with sharp points to
enter the soles of shoes or boots, and with heads which may be square, or round,
or of other suitable form, and may have the outer surface grooved or notched; and
for use in combination with such studs we provide a metal key plate specially
constructed as hereinafter described for facilitating the application and removal of
the studs.
On an accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings examples of the studs and
key plate are delineated.
Figures, 1, and 2, of the drawings are a side elevation and an inverted plan of a
simple form of stud made with a plain square head, A, and a sharp tack point, B.
Figures, 3, and 4, are a side elevation and an inverted plan of a stud the bottom
or treading surface of which is grooved across so as to present projecting points at
the corners.
Figures, 5, and 6, are a plan and a sectional side or edge view of the key
plate, C.
The key plate, C, is flat on one side and has formed in its other surface a socket
or shallow recess, D, shaped to nearly fit the head of the stud, the shape being of
course made to correspond to whatever form is given to the stud head. In
Figure, 6, dotted lines show the stud in position in the socket, D; and when about
to fix a stud the key plate, C, is placed on the ground with the stud in the
socket, D, the stud point being upwards, and the user by treading thereon with his
shoe or boot in a suitable position will cause the stud to be fixed in the sole. The
operation may be repeated with as many studs in different positions as may be
necessary. Or the key plate may be used to force in the stud in any other way.
The key plate, C, can also be used for detaching the studs, the plate being applied
with its socket, D, upon a stud and being manipulated so as to loosen and draw out
the stud. For removing the stud, however, we prefer to form the key plate, C,
with a key notch, E, at one end, as shown in the drawings; and we make the key
plate, C, with the corners, F, at the key-notch end rounded and bevilled preferably
on the under side to be applied in prizing out a stud if required. The other
corners, G, are by preference made of the same thickness as the part in which the
key notch, E, is formed and the edges of the socket, D, are by preference made
slightly higher than any other part of the key plate.
The key plate, C, may be made of various forms and sizes, and there may be
two or more sockets (D) on one plate to allow of two or more studs being fixed at
once. Such a plate would however have the distances apart of the sockets
unalterable, and it would in some cases require to be larger, whereas the single-
socket plate can be made of a size convenient for the vest pocket. Two or more
plates each with one or more stud sockets may be connected so that they can be
folded or otherwise arranged in small compass.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
*claim is :-
Devices for temporarily roughing shoes or boots, and consisting of pointed studs
and a key plate for fixing and removing the studs substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this Twelfth day of January 1895.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.