An Improved Method of Protecting Surfaces of Wood or Leather, and of Joining Pieces of Leather, Woven or Felted Fabric, Wood, Paper, or other Material.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 31st Oct., 1889-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Protecting Surfaces of Wood or Leather,
and of Joining Pieces of Leather, Woven or Felted Fabric, Wood,
Paper, or other Material.
ERNEST LEA 98 High Holborn, London, Secretary of the Carbon Food Preserving
Safe Company, Limited, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
In protecting the soles and heels of boots the practice hitherto has been to use
plates of cast metal with spikes, cast, rivetted or screwed thereto, or plates or strips
of metal with holes therein through which nails or screws are passed.. This invention
provides for the protection of the soles and heels of boots and other surfaces and of
joining pieces of leather, woven or felted fabric, wood, paper or other material,..by
means of plates of metal cut or stamped and furnished with spikes or prongs in the
body or at the edge of the plate, such spikes forming a portion of the plate and
serving in the place of nails or screws.
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1 1000
P. VARNALS,
Agent.
SPECIFICATION.
COMPLETE
An Improved Method of Protecting Surfaces of Wood or Leather,
and of Joining Pieces of Leather, Woven or Felted Fabric, Wood,
Paper, or other Material.
ERNEST LEA, 98 High Holborn, London, Secretary of the Carbon Food Preserving
Safe Company, Limited, 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 :-
In protecting the soles and heels of boots the practice hitherto has been to use
plates of cast metal with spikes either cast therewith, or rivetted or screwed thereto,
or plates or strips of metal with holes therein through which nails or screws are passed.
This invention provides for the protection of the soles and heels of boots and other
surfaces and for joining pieces of leather, woven or felted fabric, wood, paper, or
other material by means of plates of metal. These plates are cut or stamped in such
a manner that spikes or prongs are formed in the body of the plate, the spikes or
prongs being portions of the plate of metal itself. Neither nails nor screws are thus
required and great economy is effected.
The method of using the spiked plates for joining leather and other articles is
illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The Figure A in such drawings represents
a metal plate cut or stamped to form spikes or prongs a. a. a.
Figure B represents in perspective the same plate with the spikes or prongs bent
downwards b. b. b.
The plate is preferably made as shown in the drawings but any other suitable shape
may be adopted and the number and shape of the spikes or prongs varied as circum-
stances may require. The figure C represents a plate of metal affixed to the angle of
a frame D the positions of the spikes or prongs being indicated by the letters c. c. C.,
the spikes or prongs themselves being driven into the frame and thus being invisible.
In the case of thin substances I join them by the same means and in order to keep
them together turn down on the side on which they project the spikes or prongs.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
Metal Plates cut or stamped so as to form spikes or prongs in the body of the
plate as described above for protecting surfaces of wood or leather and for joining
pieces of leather woven or felted fabric, wood paper or other material.
Dated this 7th day of December 1889
P. VARNALS,
2, Lancaster Place, Strand, Agent.