IMPROVEMENTS IN TIPS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lorentz Albert Groth, K.G.V. Civil Engineer and
Managing Director of The Universal Inventors and Patentees Financial
Company Limited 30 Finsbury Pavement London E.C. for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TIPS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES Communicated to him
from abroad by Lazarus Loeser, and John Kyeser, both of the City of New
York, in the County and State of New York, United States of America
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Lorentz Albert Groth at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th December 1882.
LORENTZ ALBERT GROTH, K.G.V. Civil Engineer and Managing Director of The
Universal Inventors and Patentees Financial Company Limited 30 Finsbury
Pavement London E.C. " IMPROVEMENTS IT TIPS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES
A communication to me from abroad by Lazarus Loeser, and John Kyeser, both
of the City of New York, in the County and State of New York, United States of
America
"
This invention relates to improvements in shoe tips which can be quickly and
conveniently attached in a reliable manner to boots and shoes, so that they can be
entirely worn out even when the toe portion of the upper has been injured by use,
and the invention consists of a shoe tip made of leather or other suitable material
provided with a metallic binding frame at its lower edge, said binding frame being
provided with backwardly projecting spurs or teeth and with perforations at its
ends for the fastening of pegs or nails.
This improved tip for boots and shoes is preferably made of leather that is
stamped into proper shape but which may also be made of any other material
equivalent thereto and which possesses sufficient flexibility for this purpose.
To the bottom edge of the tip is applied a stiff metallic frame or binding as
aforesaid which is clinched or otherwise secured to the edge of the tip, the shape of
the binding or frame corresponding like that of the tip of the different sizes of
boots or shoes with which the tip is to be used

page_text: The frame or binding is provided at its front part preferably equidistant and at
each side of the longitudinal centre line of the tip with backwardly projecting
spurs or teeth which are preferably made integral with the frame or binding and
stamped out of the stock of the inner part of the same. These spurs serve to
attach the shoe tip to the boot or shoe after it has been placed into the required
position by forcing them in between the inner and outer sole. The ends of the
frame or binding are provided with perforations through which small round headed
wire nails or pegs are driven, so as to attach the ends of the tip to the boot or shoe
and secure thereby the entire tip at four or more points in a permanent and reliable
manner to the boot or shoe. The small nails are driven like the spurs into the sole
or between the innersole and the outer sole, so that the frame or binding is firmly
retained in the angular space formed between, the upper and the sole.
The frame or binding may either be japanned or nickel or silver plated as
desired, it forming in the latter case an an ornamental edge frame for the tips of
ladies or other shoes which are not blackened
These improved tips may be applied to boots or shoes without the aid of special
tools or skilled hands and are specially useful whenever a hole has been worn in
the toe portion of the upper which-is-most frequently the case with ordinary made
ladies and childrens shoes which can by the use of these improved tips be worn for
a considerably longer time.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Lorentz Albert Groth in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th June 1883..
"
LORENTZ ALBERT GROTH, K.G.V. Civil Engineer, and Managing Director of The
Universal Inventors and Patentees Financial Company Limited, 30 Finsbury
Pavement London 'E.C. "IMPROVEMENTS IN TIPS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES
A communication to me from abroad by Lazarus Loeser, and John Kyeser, both
of the City of New York, in the County and State of New York, United States of
America.
This invention relates to improvements in shoe tips which can be quickly and
conveniently attached in a reliable manner to boots and shoes, so that they can be
entirely worn out even when the toe portion of the upper has been injured by use,
and the invention consists of a shoe tip made of leather or other suitable material
provided with a metallic binding frame at its lower edge, said binding frame being
provided with backwardly projecting spurs or teeth and with perforations at its
ends for the fastening pegs or nails
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a shoe
provided with the improved tip
Figure 2 is a bottom view of the tip drawn on a large scale, and Figure 3 is a
vertical longitudinal section of the same on line x. x. of Figure 2.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts
A represents the improved tip for boots and shoes which is preferably made of
leather that is stamped into proper shape but which may also be made of any other
equivalent material which possesses sufficient flexibility for this purpose. To the
bottom edge of the tip A is applied a stiff metallic frame or binding B which is
clinched or otherwise screwed to the edge of the tip A, the shape of the binding or
frame corresponding like that of the tip of the different sizes of boots or shoes
with which the tip is to be used.
The frame or binding B is provided at its front part preferably equidistant and
at each side of the longitudinal centre line of the tip with backwardly projecting
spurs or teeth b b which are preferably made integral with the frame or binding B
and stamped out of the stock of the inner part of the same. These spurs serve to
attach the shoe tip to the boot or shoe after it has been placed into the required
position by forcing them in between the inner sole and outer sole. The ends of the
frame or binding B are provided with perforations & through which small round
headed wire nails or pegs e are driven so as to attach the ends of the tip to the boot
or shoe and secure thereby the entire tip at four or more points in a permanent and
reliable manner to the boot or shoe
The small nails d. d. are driven like the spurs into the sole or between the inner
sole and the outersole, so that the frame or binding B is firmly retained in the
angular space formed between the upper and the sole
The frame or binding may either be Japanned or nickel or silver plated as desired
it forming in the latter case an ornamental edge frame for the tips of ladies or other
shoes which are not blackened
Our improved tip may be applied to boots or shoes without the aid of special
tools or skilled hands and is specially useful whenever a hole has been worn in the
toe portion of the upper which is most frequently the case with custom made ladies
and childrens shoes which can by the use of the present improved tip be worn for
a considerably longer time
Having now described the nature of the said invention and the manner in which

page_text: the same is to or may be carried into effect I would have it understood that what I
claim is
A boot or shoe tip of leather or other suitable material provided with a metallic
frame or binding at its lower edge, said binding. being provided with backwardly
projecting spurs or teeth and with perforations at its ends adapted to receive the
fastening pegs or nails substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof I the said Lorentz Albert Groth have hereunto set my
hand and seal this nineteenth day of June in the year of Our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty three. .
LORENTZ ALBERT GROTH (L.S.)