Improvements in Devices for Use with Boots and Shoes to Prevent Slipping thereof.
Year: 1897

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Use with Boots and Shoes to Prevent
Slipping thereof.
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I, ZARRAH JETHRO FRANCIS, of 2 Newton Terrace, Claypit Lane, Leeds, in the
County of York, Mechanic, 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:-
This invention consists in improvements in devices adapted to be applied to the
heels of boots and shoes for the purpose of preventing the wearer from slipping
whilst walking on ice and comprising a covering or part covering (hereinafter called
a covering piece) of non-slipping material, and means for securing the said covering
piece in position for use. Such devices are described in the Specification of Letters
Patent previously granted to me, numbered 4336 and dated 26 February 1896.
Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the accompanying drawings are respectively a plan, a front
elevation and a side elevation of a device according to this invention.
The covering piece a is secured at each end to a bi-partite frame be which is
adapted to fit approximately the front and sides of a heel and is formed at its ends
into eyes which are connected by an elastic band e adapted to be stretched around
the back of the heel and to secure the device thereto by its own elasticity. The two
parts and c of the frame are connected together by means of a rivet f in such
manner as to form a hinge-joint. Such a clip hinged in this way adapts itself more
readily to the configuration of heels of boots and shoes than in the arrangement
described in the specification of my previous patent.
b
Figs. 4 and 5 are similar views to Figs. 1 and 2 representing a modification in
which, to form the hinge-joint, the part carries at its corresponding end, a hollow
projecting boss g (somewhat similar to the eyelets used in lace boots) and the corre-
sponding end of the other part e has punched in it a hole into which is placed the
projecting boss I, whose end is then turned or slightly riveted over the part c so as
to secure the latter in place but still to allow it to turn relatively to the part b.
Instead of bending the free ends of the parts b and c into loops d, as shown in
Figs. 1 and 4, each of these parts may, at its free end, be slit as indicated at i in
Fig. 6, and the material; between the slits thus formed be pressed inwards so as to
form loops as shown in Fig. 7, to which the elastic band e may be secured by
rings as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, which represent views taken at right angles to
each other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The improved devices of the kind referred to constructed substantially as herein-
before described with reference to and shown in Figs. 12 and 3 and as modified
according to Figs. 4 and 5, and according to Figs. 6, 7, and 8 of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 18th January 1897.
R. E. P. CRAVEN,
Registered Patent Agent,
22 Victoria Chambers, South Parade, Leeds, Agent for the Applicant.