Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1887.
Complete Left, 29th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 29th Apr. 1887
I, GEORGE RANDALL of 79 Strand in the City of Westminister, Boot Maker, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My improvement has for its object to more effectually secure metal heel plates to the
heels of boots and shoes, whereby all liability of their becoming detached or loosened
in wear is prevented.
To this end the heel plate (which is preferably of segmental form) is provided on
its inside (which is made straight to save labor in fitting the leather thereto) with a
projecting flange extending nearly the entire length of the plate, by means of which,
the plate is secured to the heel before it is made up, by nailing, the flange being then
covered by a top lift or thickness of leather to form the wearing surface, flush with
the surface of the metal plate, and secured by nails driven through a slot provided for
the purpose, in the flange before mentioned.

page_text: I, GEORGE RANDALL of 79 Strand in the City of Westminster Boot Maker do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to bo
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
My Invention relates to metal heel-tips or plates for preventing undue wear of boot
and shoe heels; and has for its object to save time and labor in fitting the tip or plate
to the heel and enable the tip or plate to be so securely fixed that it is not liable to
become detached in wear.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings wherein figure 1 shews a part
sectional elevation of a boot heel with segmental heel plate applied, the section being
taken on line 1-1 figure 2 which is an underside plan of the heel with the metal plato
screwed to the top lift before the top piece or filling is applied thereon. Figure 3 shews
an underside plan of the finished heel. Figures 4 and 5 shew underside plans of two
forms of segmental heel plates. Figure 6 is a vertical section of figure 5. Figure 7
shews the leather top piece or filling. Figures 8, 9 and 10, shew a section and under-
side plans of different forms of heel plates with their corresponding filling pieces. The
same letters of reference serve for the same parts in all the figures.
a is the heel plate which conforms in shape on the outside to the curvature of the
heel, and is cast either with a straight or curved inner edge as shewn, in one piece
with a thin plate or web b. The plate or web b is affixed to the top lift c of the heel,
so as to take a firm bearing thereon, and is secured by screws or nails d which are
invisible after the heel is made. It may extend over a portion only of the heel, as in
figure 2, or over its entire surface, as in figures 89 and 10. Besides the holes for the
nails or screws, it is provided with one or more slots e to give passage to the nails by
which the top piece is fixed, the said slot or slots being situated at a point or points
as near the edge of the filling piece as it is desirable to insert the nails by which it is
secured.
The heel having been built up to the required height, and the heel plate then
applied upon the top lift c and secured by nails or screws d as described, the top or
filling piece Figure 7 (which has been previously cut to the desired shape by a
machine knife or punch) is then applied upon the plate and secured by nails or
screw-pins g passing through both the said top or filling piece and the slot e in the
plate b.
In figures 89 and 10 the heel plate a is continued entirely around the two sides of
the heel in the form of a narrow rim a', and the plate 6 covers the whole surface of
the heel. It is made with a number of slots e just inside the heel plate and rim, the
position of the slots, when covered by the top piece, being easily ascertainable.
In either case, when the top piece is thus nailed on, the nails assist the nails or
screws first used in holding the heel plate securely in position.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would observe that I make no
claim broadly to a flanged heel plate for boots and shoes, but what I claim is ;
The herein-described heel plates, having one or more slots in the plate or web in
combination with the double means of fixing it-namely-invisible nails or screws
passing through the heel plate only, and nails or screw pins passing through the top
or filling piece, and also through the slot or slots in the heel plate, substantially as
specified.
GEORGE RANDALL.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.