A Holder for Boots to which Skates are Attached.
Year: 1895

page_text: A Holder for Boots to which Skates are Attached.
1 RIVERS MONTAGUE TURNBULL of Hastings House, Norfolk Street, Strand
in the County of London, Solicitor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a device for holding boots to which skates are attached
so that the boots can be cleaned without risk of injuring the blade of the skate,
the device being furnished with an outer case or bag whereby it may be carried in
the hand, or be slung over the shoulder after the manner of a satchel.
The holder is preferably made of some waterproof material such as waterproof
flax or canvas and is made in the form of a box or case large enough to take the
boots when the skates are fitted thereto. The box or case is furnished with two
removeable blocks each having a longitudinal slot to receive the blade of the
skate. These blocks fit into recesses or grooves made to receive them in opposite
ends of the box or case.
When it is desired to clean the boots the blocks with
the skates and boots are removed, the blocks are placed flat on a table or other
surface, the boot trees, when such are used, are placed in the boots, and the latter
cleaned in the ordinary way.
Suitable means are provided for securing the boots in position in the box, for
fastening the box or case and for carrying it or slinging it.
Dated this 9th day of February 1895.
F. W. GOLBY,
36 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.
1, RIVERS MONTAGUE TURNBULL of Hastings House, Norfolk Street, Strand
in the County of London Solicitor, 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 relates to a device for holding boots to which skates are attached
so that the boots can be cleaned without risk of injuring the blade of the skate,
the device being furnished with an outer case or bag whereby it may be carried in
the hand, or be slung over the shoulder after the manuer of a satchel.
The holder is preferably made of some waterproof material such as waterproof
flax or canvas and is made in the form of a box or case large enough to take the
boots when the skates are fitted thereto. The box or case is furnished with two
removeable blocks each having a longitudinal slot to receive the blade of the skate.
These blocks fit into recesses or grooves made to receive them in opposite ends of
the box or case. When it is desired to clean the boots the blocks with the skates
and boots are removed, the blocks are placed flat on a table or other surface, the
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page_text: boot trees, when such are used, are placed in the boots, and the latter cleaned in
the ordinary way.
Suitable means are provided for securing the boots in position in the box, for
fastening the box or case and for carrying or slinging it.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a plan view of a form of my invention made as a box or case for
containing a pair of boots to which "Acme" skates are attached the lid or cover
of the box or case being open;
Figure 2 is an enlarged cross section taken through one of the foot-blocks
shewing the skate in position therein; and
Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively plan and enlarged cross section of a modified
form of foot block.
The same letters of reference where they occur are used to denote the same or
corresponding parts in all the figures.
A. A represents the sides or ends of the box or case and, in the interior thereof,
beads or fillets a, are so fitted as to form with the sides or ends A grooves or
recesses bat opposite ends or sides of the box or case. The said grooves or
recesses may however be formed as channels in the sides or ends or be otherwise
formed in the interior of the box or case as found desirable. Two removable foot
blocks F, are fitted into the grooves or recesses in opposite sides or ends of the
box or case.
Each foot-block F has a longitudinal slut f, a flat base f¹, and end
flanges 2 and 3. The blades B of the skates are fitted into the slots f in the
blocks (see Fig. 2) and the end flanges 2 and 3 of one of said blocks are
engaged in one pair of the grooves or recesses in the box, and the other block is
similarly fitted into the other pair of grooves or recesses as shewn in Fig. 1.
f4 and 5 are tabs on the sides of the blocks F whereby they may be drawn out
from the grooves or recesses in the box. S is a small buckle or other strap both
ends of which are secured to the block F and which is passed over the foot plate B¹
of the skate and buckled up or otherwise fastened so as to hold the skate firmly in
position in the foot-block F. C is the cover or lid of the box, H the handle, and
L the lock thereof.
Another method of securing the skate firmly in the foot block is shewn in
Figs. 3 and 4. In this case the foot-block is made in two longitudinal parts F1 F2
hinged together at F3 and opening outwards as shewn by the dotted lines
in Figure 3, and when closed, fastened by means of a hook and eye or other
device. In this form the longitudinal slot as shewn in Figure 4 is made to conform
to the shape of the skate blade B so that when the latter is in position and the
parts of the foot block closed and fastened, the skate blade is held tightly in the
foot block.
When the boots are to be cleaned the foot blocks F with the skates and boots
attached are removed and their flat bases f' are stood upon a flat surface. The
cleaning operation can then be carried on without risk of injuring the blades or
skates or of loosening the connections between the skates and the boots.
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 I am
aware that bags for containing skates and bags or cases for containing boots to
which skates are attached are now in use and to these I make no claim, but what
I do claim is;-
1. A holder for boots to which skates are attached made in the form of a box
or case fitted with interior grooves or recesses into which fit two removeable foot-
blocks having flat bases and slots to receive the skate blades and means for
securing said blades firmly in said blocks substantially as described and for the
purpose stated.
2. In a box or case for containing boots to which skates are attached providing
the interior with grooves or recesses and with two removeable foot blocks fitting

page_text: thereinto, said foot-blocks having flat bases, slots to receive the skate blades and
means for securing the blades in the foot-blocks substantially as described and
for the purpose stated.
Dated this 9th day of December 1895.
RIVERS M. TURNBULL.
F. W. Golby,
36 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.