IMPROVEMENTS IN HEEL, HALF HEEL, AND SOLE AND TOE PLATES FOR SHOES AND BOOTS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Chapman, of the City of Westminster, in the
County of Middlesex, Shoe Maker, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
HEEL, HALF HEEL, AND SOLE AND TOE PLATES FOR SHOES AND BOOTS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Chapman at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd June 1880.
RICHARD CHAPMAN, of the City of Westminster, in the County of Middlesex,
Shoe Maker. "IMPROVEMENTS IN HEEL, HALF HEEL, AND SOLE AND TOE
PLATES FOR SHOES AND BOOTS."
My Invention has reference to heel plates or tips, or half plates, being well
adapted for both men, women, and children's boots, shoes, and clogs, also as toe and
sole plates. They may be made of brass, iron, copper, steel, or other suitable
material. Toe and sole plates are according to my Invention also applicable
thereto.
According to my Invention I place a socket firmly on the beel with screws, teeth,
or nails. This socket may be either of, say, brass, iron, copper or steel, and
contains wards, teeth, or stays, so that when placed on the boot heel with screws
or nails it will admit a slide. This slide is placed on with a stop tooth or screws,
and will hold firmly to the socket until it is worn out, when it can easily be
removed and a new one substituted; by these means the heel part is caused to last
a great length of time, or much longer than heretofore.
I fix the toe platos, clog plates, and half plates in a similar manner, also the sole
lates

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Richard Chapman in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd
December 1880.
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RICHARD CHAPMAN, of the City of Westminster, in the County of Middlesex,
Shoo Maker. IMPROVEMENTS IN HEEL, HALF HEEL, AND SOLE AND TOE
PLATES FOR SHOES AND BOOTS."
My Invention has reference to heel plates or tips, or half plates, being well
adapted for men's, women's, and children's boots and shoes and clogs, also as toe
or sole plates. They may be made of brass, iron, copper, steel, or other suitable
material.
According to my Invention I place a socket firmly on the heel with screws, teeth,
or nails. This socket may be either of, say, brass, iron, copper, or steel, and contains
wards, teeth, or stays, so that when placed on the boot heel with screws or nails it
will admit a slide. This slide is placed on with a stop tooth or screws, and will
hold firmly to the socket until it is worn out, when it can casily be removed and a
new one substituted; by these means the heel part is caused to last a great length
of time, or much longer than heretofore.
I fix the too plates, clog plates, and half plates in a similar manner, also the sole
plates.
And in order that this iny Invention may be more fully understood, I will
proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying Drawings.
Figure 1 is a plan, and Figure 2 an end elevation of a socket with its slide, or
wearing plate or tip. A is the socket, which is of the contour or shape of the heel,
but with a hole C in the middle; it is fixed to the heel by means of nails or screws a,
four in number in this case; it is further retained in place by the teeth or the
spikes 8, three in number in this case. If the socket A is made of malleable cast
iron, or other cast metal, the teeth 8 may be of a spike form and cast on, but if it is
made of wrought iron or steel (say, struck in a mould) the teeth may be turned up
parts along the inner edge. W, W, are two wards or stays, which may be of a
dove-tail shape, as shewn; these wards serve to retain the slide, or wearing part, or
tip B in place, the two parts A and B being moreover united by means of screws b,
in this case four in number, which pass freely through clearing holes in the socket
part A and are screwed into the heel, thus affording additional means of fastening
the whole plate A, B, to the heel. The middle space C will be filled with leather
flush with the outside of the wearing part or slide B.
In Figure 3 is shewn a plan, and in Figure 4 au end clovation of another
slightly different arrangement, in which the slide B is also formed as a completo
ring of the heel outline form, the other parts are as before described; Figure 3A
shows the plate in section and applied to the heel of a boot.
Figure 5 shews a plan, and Figure 6 an end view of a socket plate A with n
half tip or slide B, the plate A being formed with a raised part or rim A' on one
side flush with the outer face of the half tip A; the latter fits at one end against
the slightly undercut end of the rim A¹, and is near its other end retained in plate
by the ward or stay W; Figure 5ª shows this plato in section and applied to the
heel of a boot.
In Figure 7 is shewn a plan, and in Figure 8 a part sectional end view of a
half tip of a little different form, but otherwise the same construction as the
arrangement last described; W is a round stay on B.
In Figures 9 and 10 the half socket A has a lug A¹ flush with and serving to
retain the half tip B at one end, all the rest will be filled in with leather; W is a
square stay on B.
Figures 11 and 12 illustrate the Invention as applied to toe plates; the

page_text: construction is the same as in Figures 1 and 2, only that the socket A has a
projection A in front in order to retain it better on the sole.
Figures 13 and 14 show another form of toe plate, in which the wearing part or
slide B goes right across the front part of the sole, and slides into a grooved piece A³
on each side of the socket A.
Figure 15 is a plan, and Figure 16 an end view of a round heel plate; the
slide B is made with a square ward or projection W in the middle; the socket A is
formed with a corresponding Equare recess, and the two parts are united by screws b,
here four in number, as in the previous examples. If this heel plate slide B wears
uneven or one sided it can be removed, shifted one fourth round, and then fastened
again by the screws b.
And having now described and ascertained the nature of this Invention, I
declare that I claim,-
The combined "plate" for heels, toes, and soles, consisting of a socket or
foundation plate, which is fixed and retained on the heel or other part of the boot,
and a slide or wearing part which is fixed to the socket plate by means of screws,
and retained in position by one or more stays or wards, substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Chapman, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.
RICHARD CHAPMAN. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
above named Richard Chapman
in the presence of
HERBERT FRAN³. WOOD,
Clerk to Messrs. Watson, Sons, & Room,
Solicitors,
12, Bouverie Street, E.C.