IMPROVEMENTS IN REVOLVING HEELS For BOOTS AND SHOES."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Brown, of King Street North, Camden Town,
and William Peover, of Leigh Street, Burton Crescent, both in the County of
Middlesex, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN REVOLVING HEELS For
BOOTS AND SHOES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Brown and
William Peover at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
20th September 1881.
"
WILLIAM BROWN, of King Street North, Camden Town, and WILLIAM PEOVER,
of Leigh Street, Burton Crescent, both in the County of Middlesex.
MENTS IN REVOLVING HEELS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.”
IMPROVE-
The Invention has for its object improvements in revolving heels for boots and
shoes, and relates to those descriptions of revolving heels which are not removed
for adjustment, but are capable of adjustment around a central axis or holding
screw, and which are not provided with any mechanical means for preventing the
revolution of the revolving heel around its axis when the boot or shoe is in use,
and our Invention consists in applying to one part of the heel or to the fittings
thereof a plate formed with a number of teeth, notches, holes, or recesses, and in
applying to the other part of the heel or to the fittings thereof a pin, peg, or tooth,
or stop, which is capable of moving freely up and down in a socket or space
formed for it.
By these means when the boot or shoe is in use the pin, peg, tooth, or stop falls
down and comes into action with the teeth, notches, holes, or recesses in the plate,
and thus prevents the rotation of the revolving part of the heel in use, but when
it is required to adjust the revolving part of the heel and thereby bring a fresh
part thereof into wear, the pin, peg, tooth, or stop can be readily removed from
the teeth, notches, holes, or recesses, by simply turning the boot or shoe upside
down when the pin, peg, tooth, or stop will fall back into its socket or space,
thereby enabling the revolving part of the heel to be readily rotated for
adjustment.

page_text: recess c¹ to receive a pin, peg, tooth, or stop i, loosely fitting such socket or recess c¹,
and capable of freely moving up and down in the same, and we form in the
fitting d a number of teeth, notches, holes, or recesses d', into any one of which the
pin, peg, tooth, or stop i can fall when the boot or shoe is on the foot or in position
for wear, as shown at Figures 1, 3, 4, and 5, in which position it is impossible for
the revolving portion b of the heel to be revolved, but when the boot or shoe is
turned upside down, as shown at Figure 2, the pin, peg, tooth, or stop i falls back
into its socket or recess c¹ and thereby liberates the revolving part 6 of the heel,
when such part can be readily revolved for adjustment; Figure 3 represents a
slight modification in which the socket or recess c¹ for the pin, peg, tooth, or stop i,
is formed in the fixing d, and the teeth, notches, holes, or recesses d' are formed in
a plate d fixed in position on the screw e by the stop screw h.
In the arrangement shown at Figures 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, instead of fixing
the part c of the fittings to the underside of the fixed part a of the heel, it is
placed on the upper side of the sole between it and the inner sole, and in lieu of
being screwed in position, as shown in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7, such fixed part o
is according to the present arrangement provided with pins c', which by being
forced into the leather of the sole and of the fixed part a of the heel hold such
part c firmly and prevent rotation thereof; and when employing more than one pin,
peg, tooth, or stop, in lieu of forming the pins, pegs, teeth, or stops i separate and
independent of each other, they are according to the arrangement shown at
Figures 5, and 8 to 13, applied to a ring i, and may extend entirely around such
ring as shown, or only partially around the same, and such ring is provided
with two or more studs which work loosely in the sockets or recesses c¹.
It will be evident that our present Invention is applicable to other adjustable
revolving heels requiring the employment of means to prevent the accidental
revolving of the heel in use.
Instead of employing one or more sliding pins, pegs, teeth, or stops i, pivotted
stops may be employed.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the mode in which
we carry the same into effect, we would have it understood that what we claim is,
applying to adjustable revolving heels requiring a means for preventing the
accidental revolution of the heel in use, one or more pins, pegs, teeth, or stops i to
act in combination with teeth, notches, holes, or recesses d¹ in manner substantially
as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Peover, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord One