Improvement in Colliers' and like Clogs..
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 5th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1897
PRO
ONAL SPE
ATION.
Improvement in Colliers' and like Clogs..
I, JOHN HARVEY, of 44 Mealhouse Lane, Atherton, in the County of Lancaster,
Boiler Attendant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Heretofore the wooden soles and heels of colliers' and like clogs have usually
been shod with metal bars so shaped and arranged as to leave the middle portion
of such soles and heels entirely unprotected, the consequence being that said middle
portions are often soon worn away entirely through, or sufficiently thin to 'cause
them to break before the clog uppers and the protected portions of the sole have
suffered from wear to any appreciable extent.
Now my object is to remedy this defect and for this purpose I secure to the
otherwise unprotected surface of the soles and heels of such clogs metal plates
preferably perforated to reduce the weight thereof, and of suitable thickness.
These plates may when desired be roughened to prevent slipping, and are
preferably secured in position either by allowing their edges to project under the
ordinary protecting irons, or by screws, nails, or equivalent means which will
permit of them being removed and replaced by others when required.
2000
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
I, JOHN HARVEY, of 44, Mealhouse Lane, Atherton, in the County of Lancaster,
Boiler Attendant, 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 :-
Heretofore the wooden soles and heels of colliers' and like clogs have been
usually shod with metal bars so shaped and arranged as to leave the middle portions
of such soles and heels entirely unprotected, the consequence being that said middle
portions are often soon worn away entirely through, or sufficiently thin to cause
them to break before the clog uppers and the protected portions of the soles have
suffered to any appreciable extent.
Now my object is to remedy this defect and for this purpose I secure to the
otherwise unprotected surface of the soles and heels of such clogs metal plates,
preferably perforated to reduce the weight thereof, aud of suitable thickness.
The plates may when desired be roughened to prevent slipping, and are preferably
secured in position either by allowing their edges to project under the ordinary
protecting irons, or by screws, nails, or equivalent means which will permit of
them being removed and replaced by others when required.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING.
a is the ordinary protecting irons as at present worn.
B are the protectors as claimed by me, to be made of one single plate for sole and
one plate for the heel, or if preferred to be made in sections as shewn by the dotted
lines in drawing, or any other sections as found most convenient, and to use any or
all of the sections as desired.
c nails as driven through the plates and into the soles and heels of said clogs to
keep the plates in. position.
The plates may be made in one or more sections either by casting, stamping, or
any other convenient manner.
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;
The manufacture of metal plates to protect the present unprotected parts of the
soles and heels of colliers' and like clogs.
Dated this 4th day of November 1896
JOHN HARVEY.