Improvements in or relating to Boots or Shoes for Cricketing, Running, Jumping, and such like purposes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 26th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1899
Improvements in or relating to Boots or Shoes for Cricketing,
Running, Jumping, and such like purposes.
I, JAMES SAGAR, of Croft House, Read, near Blackburn, in the County of
Lancaster, Weaver, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
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This invention relates to boots or shoes for the use of athletes, and for such
purposes as cricket, running, jumping, etc. The essential feature of the invention
consists in a novel construction of the spikes of such boots or shoes as are used
by athletes in order to render the spikes detachable, so that the athlete or sports-
man may walk to and from the field with the same boots or shoes on his feet as
he uses in running, jumping etc., instead of carrying such athletic boots in his
bag, as at present.
To accomplish this object, I attach an additional sole to the boot or shoe to be
used for cricket or like purposes, but previous to attachment, I bore a number of
holes in the leather, and fit into the same a small tapped bush or ferrule having
formed with it in one piece a square sided flange, which flange is on the face of
the leather, which is fixed against the piece of leather constituting the first attach-
ment of the sole. Nails are now driven through the sole to take the respective
corners of the square flange of the small bush or ferrule to prevent it turning
round.
I now form a spike with a screw thread at one end, and pointed at the other,
and formed with square, hexagonal, or other sides, so that the spike may be screwed
into the aforesaid tapped bush or ferrule, and tightened in the same by a key,
or the like. The spikes may be thus removed, when leaving the field, and the
boots used in the ordinary manner. Screws may be inserted on the adverse side
of the leather in preference to nails for retaining the flange of the bush in position.
One or two of the lifts of the heels are fitted with the bushes and provided
with the spikes as already described respecting the soles.
Dated this 25th day of January 1899.
RICHMOND & Co.,
Chartered Patent Agents, 12, Standish Street, Burnley.
Improvements in or relating to Boots or Shoes for Cricketing;
Running, Jumping, and such like purposes.
I, JAMES SAGAR, of Croft House, Read, near Blackburn, in the County of
Lancaster, Weaver, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
n and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to boots or shoes for the use of athletes, and. for such

page_text: purposes as cricket, running, jumping, etc. The essential feature of the invention
consists in a novel construction of the spikes of such boots or shoes as are used
by athletes in order to render the spikes detachable, so that the athlete or sports-
man may walk to and from the field with the sanie boots or shoes on his feet as
he uses in running, jumping etc., instead of carrying such athletic boots in his
bag, as at present.
To accomplish this object previous to attachment of the sole, I bore a number
of holes in the leather and fit into the same a small tapped bush or ferrule,
having formed with it in one piece a square sided flange, which flange is on the
face of the leather, which is fixed against the piece of leather constituting the
first attachment of the sole. Nails are now driven through the sole to take the
respective corners of the square flange of the small bush or ferrule to prevent
it turning round.
I now form a spike with a screw thread at one end, and pointed at the other,
and formed with square, hexagonal, or other sides, so that the spike may be screwed
into the aforesaid tapped bush or ferrule, and tightened in the same by a key.
or the like. The spikes may be thus removed, when leaving the field, and the
boots used in the ordinary manner. Screws may be screwed into the sole in pre-
ference to nails for retaining the flange of the bush in position. One or two
of the lifts of the heels are fitted with the bushes and provided with the spikes as
already described respecting the soles.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a detached perspective view of a boot
sole and heel, fitted with spikes for cricket, running, jumping, and like purposes,
constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a section of the insole and the
sole proper. In a hole in the latter is introduced the socket A tapped to receive
screw threaded spike B. Socket A is provided with a square sided flange C,
which is prevented from turning round by nails or screws D. The square sided
flange occupies a position between the insole and the ordinary sole, so that the
socket cannot possibly come out. The sole is then nailed or stitched to the
insole in the usual manner.
The respective parts of my improved spike for athletic boots & shoes are shewn
detached in Fig. 3. E is a plan of the socket and flange. Fa sectional elevation
thereof G represents the screw-threaded spike, which is screwed into the tapped
hole of the socket as shewn in Fig. 2. H represents a key for screwing up the
spike into the socket when the former has been inserted.
By this means, the spikes are detachable, and the boots and shoes may be used
for ordinary wear, when not intended for athletic purposes. The socketed portion
for receiving the spike for the heel of the boot may be made deeper than those
for the sole, and may extend through two lifts of the heel, as heels generally wear
quicker than the soles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. Spikes for boots and shoes used for cricket, running, jumping and other
athletic uses constructed substantially as described and illustrated with reference
to the accompanying drawings.
2. A boot or shoe fitted with spikes constructed substantially as described and
shewn.