IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOT PROTECTORS
Year: 1884

page_text: I JAMES PARR of No 1 Nelson Street Earlestown Newton Le Willows in the
County of Lancaster Spring Maker do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOT PROTECTORS and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This Invention relates to wrought or malleable iron or other mettal bars or plates
either plain or groved or part groved from 1/4 inch to 5 inch wide or wider and
from / to /, thick to suit the various strengths of Boots and Shoes or other foot
coverings.
The edges or sides of the bars or plates are flat as scrap leather when put in
betwen the plates when on the sole will joint well to the bars or plates and form
a levil and solid bottom.
The bars or plates can be worn without being filled betwen the bars or plates
with leather or any other substance the edges or sides may then be flat round or
bevill or any ornimental shapo.
The plates or bars are punched and countersunk to the bottom with two or more
holes to fit a countersunk headed or taper nail and the bars or plates put on the
sole distanced from each other to alow of leather or other filling to be put betwen
or as before stated they can be worn without filling.
The first bar or plato to join against a toe plate of the same thickness to prevent
the plates or bars from being kicked off as shown in the Drawing accompanying
this Specification marked Fig 1.
The plates or bars are put on across the sole bottom from side to side with a
squair or a round bevill end.
A bevell end will give a light apperance to the side of the Shoe A squair end
when filled with leather and finished will have the apperance of a clumped sole
A round end when put on an old Shoe bottom will take away the apperance of any
slight eregularity of the lengths of the bars or plates.
The bars or plates when on the Shoe as before stated and worn without filling
between the bars or plates they will answer the purpose as strong nails do in
strong nailed Shoes-But they will not cut rot or distroy the Shoe bottom samo as
strong nails do in strong Shoes for they cut rot and distroy the heavey nailed Shoes
as to render them unfit for repairing.
These bars or plates when on and worn filled or unfilled they will enable the
Shoe sole to bend as if there was no bars or plates on and when filled up with
leather or other substance will form a levil Shoe bottom and will not be injurous to
boarded floors or carpets.
The plates or bars when part worn on one end they can be taken off reverco
the ends and put on again or replaced with fresh ones by puting a small wooden
peg in the old nail or prong hole in the Shoe bottom.
They are very easey to put on by any one possessed of an iron last or foot to put
in the Shoe or other Foot Coverings and is suitable for heavey or light Shoes.
In repairing a shoe with large or small hole in the sole or worn down on the sido
by puting a patch of sole leather on and crossing with the bars or plates and filling
betwen with leather will form a good sound and dry Shoe bottom.
They can be secured on the sole to a poor quality of sole leather such leather
when wet that would not hold a strong headed nail.

page_text: Haveing thus discribed the nature and usefullness of my Invention I would havo
it understood that I claim
(Firstly) Plates or bars of wrought or malleable iron or any other kind of mettal
plain groved or part groved to be attached to the Shoe sole or the sole of any other
foot covering with detached countersunk or or taper headed nails wrought or
malleablo or any other kind of mettal nails or fast prongs substantially as
described.
(Secondly) The bars or plates to be placed in position as shown in the Drawing
accompenying this Specification illustrative thereof marked Fig. 1 (see Drawing).
(Thirdly) The bars or plates to vary in strengths from 1/4 inch to % inch wido
or wider and from 1/10 inch to 3/8 inch thick to suit the various strengths of Boots
or other Foot Coverings to be worn to a toe plate for the reason before stated (viz)
to prevent the bars or plates being kicked off.
Fourthly To cross the Shoo sole or any other foot coverings with the bars or
plates as shown on Drawing marked (Fig 1) with flat sides or any other ornimental
pattern with the ends squair round or bevell for the reasons before given in my
Specification and as many bars or plates as the length of the Shoe or other Foot
Coverings require with two or more holes in each bar or plate to be put on by
detached countersunk headed nails or fast prongs as before mentioned or discribed,
Dated this 1 day of September 1884.