IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HEELS OF BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Ward Jones, of Holloway, in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HEELS OF
BOOTS AND SHOES.”
Scaled the 13th May 1875, and dated the 21st November 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Ward Jones at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st November 1874.
I, JOHN WARD JONES, of Holloway, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE HEELS OF BOOTS AND SHOES," to be as follows:
:—
This Invention has for its object improvements in the arrangement
and construction of rotary heels for boots and shoes. For this purpose
the body of a heel for a boot or shoe is made hollow, and may either be
formed of thin sheet metal, or for some purposes of cast metal, or it may
be made of gutta percha or other plastic material capable of being
moulded to the form required. This hollow body or heel piece is
attached to the heel of a boot or shoe by pins, screws, or otherwise to

page_text: secure it firmly and permanently thereto. A flat-headed screw pin is
passed from the inner part of the heel and through the hollow body or
shell previously described, a circular plate of metal or other suitablo
material being then dropped over the screwed end of the pin, on which
a screw nut is then screwed to secure the circular plate firmly in position.
If desired the pin or other fastening may be combined with the hollow
heel piece. The screw nut passes down into a hollow formed in the end
of the fixed hollow heel-piece-so as to protect and prevent its being
worn down when in use. A filling piece is inserted over the screw nut
filling up the hollow level with the outer surface of the circular plate,
which constitutes the wearing surface of the heel.
When the outer heel piece becomes worn on one side it is only
necessary to looson the screw nut and turn the outer circular plate
part of a revolution and then screw up the nut tightly again.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Ward Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st May 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WARD JONES, of Holloway, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Ward Jones, Her special license
that I, the said John Ward Jones, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Ward Jones, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE HEELS OF BOOTS AND SHOES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Ward Jones, my executors or admini-
strators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of

page_text: readily ascertained by means of a gauge corresponding with the outline
of the heel. The shell a is then placed in position, pressure being
applied thereto so as to force the points c' into holes previously punctured
in the heel part of the sole, by which means the shell a is firmly secured
in position. The rotary plate is then fixed in position by the screw b¹,
which can be readily loosened at any time for the purpose of altering
the position of the plate when worn or replacing it by a new one.
Leather or other material may be applied to the outer surface of the
plate as a wearing surface.
I would remark that I am aware that it has before been proposed to
construct metallic heels for boots and shoes, I therefore make no
exclusive claim thereto apart from the novel arrangement and con-
struction of the same as herein previously described, but what I claim
is, the improved arrangement and construction of metal heels of boots
and shoes with a rotating base, together with the improved method of
fixing the same to a boot or shoc, substantially in the manner herein-
before described and represented in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Ward Jones, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-five.
J. W. JONES. (L.S.)