Improvements in Heels for Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st July, 1891
Complete Specification Left. 21st Apr., 1892-4ccepted, 21st May, 1592
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Heels for Boots and Shoes.
I, JAMES WILLIAM ROGERS of 7 Hargrave Park Road, Upper Holloway,
in the County of Middlesex, Electrician, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to form the heels of boots and shoes in such
manner that the back portion of the heel which is most subjected to wear may
readily be renewed.
The lower portion of the rear end of the heel I cut away to the depth of about
th inch or more the cut being made preferably in a somewhat sloping direction
across the heel so that more is cut away on one side of the heel than on the other.
Across the underside of the heel and parallel with the shoulder so formed a metal
bar is fixed equal in thickness to the thickness of leather cut away. One side of
the bar rests against the shoulder the other has three or other number of spikes
projecting horizontally from it. The heel is completed by a piece of leather of
the same form as the piece cut away except that it is less in size to the extent of
the width of the metal bar-this piece of leather is driven on to the horizontal
spikes and the heel is then complete and appears just as an ordinary heel. When
the piece of leather so secured to the back of the heel becomes worn it can
quickly be taken off and a fresh piece put on in place of it so that the portion of
the heels subjected to wear may be replaced over and over again until the boot is
worn out. Renewable wearing pieces would have to be provided to suit heels of
varying size.
In place of the metal bar being first secured to the heel and the renewable
wearing piece afterwards driven on to the spikes which project from it-the wearing
piece might first be secured to the bar and the bar then secured to the heel. In
this case the bar might conveniently be secured to the heel by means of screws and
the spikes need not necessarily be horizontal. The bar might also be undercut along
the side which the renewable wearing piece comes against so that this side of the
bar may to some extent overlap the correspondingly shaped edge of the wearing
piece.
Dated this 21st day of July 1891.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Heels for Boots and Shoes.
I, JAMES WILLIAM Rogers, of 7 Hargrave Park Road, Upper Holloway, in
the County of Middlesex, Electrician, 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:—
The object of my invention is to form the heels of boots and shoes in such
manner that the back portion of the heel which is most subjected to wear may
readily be renewed.
.
The lower portion of the rear end of the heel I cut away to the depth of about
4th inch or more the cut being made preferably in a somewhat sloping direction
across the heel so that more is cut away on one side of the heel than on the other.
Across the underside of the heel and parallel with the shoulder so formed a metal
bar is fixed equal in thickness to the thickness of leather cut away. From the

page_text: bar three or other number of spikes or projections are made to stand out
horizontally. The heel is completed by a piece of leather of the same form as
the piece cut away except that it is less in size to the extent of the width of the
metal bar-this piece of leather is secured on to the horizontal spikes or projections
and the heel is then complete and appears just as an ordinary heel. When the
piece of leather so secured to the back of the heel becomes worn it can quickly be
taken off and a fresh piece put on in place of it so that the portion of the heels
subjected to wear may be replaced over and over again until the boot is worn out.
Renewable wearing pieces would have to be provided to suit heels of varying
size.
In place of the metal bar being first secured to the heel and the renewable
wearing piece afterwards driven on to the spikes which project from it-the wearing
piece might first be secured to the bar and the bar then secured to the heel. In
this case the bar might conveniently be secured to the heel by means of screws
and the spikes need not necessarily be horizontal. The bar might also be undercut
along the side which the renewable wearing piece comes against so that this side
of the bar may to some extent overlap the correspondingly shaped edge of the
wearing piece.
The manner in which I prefer to carry out my invention is illustrated in the
drawing annexed.
Figure 1 is an underside view of the heel of a boot or shoe fitted with a
renewable wearing piece in the manner above described.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same.
Figure 3 is an underside view and Figure 4 an edge view of the metal bar.
Figure 5 is a section of one of the renewable wearing pieces before it is placed
on to the heel.
:
A is the metal bar with two spikes or projections A' extending from it. The
rear portion of the heel is cut away as shewn-the metal bar fits within a recess so
cut away and is secured to the heel by a screw or screws. The renewable wearing
piece BI make of two thicknesses of leather rivetted together around the edge
which is to be at the back of the heel. Along the straight side of the piece B the
two thicknesses of which this piece is composed can be sprung apart somewhat one
from the other to allow of the piece being driven on to the projections A¹-onc
thickness passing under the projections and the other above them. The straight
edges of the two thicknesses are then secured together by driving in nails C. In
this way the outer thickness is held on to short spikes A which project from the
projections A and the renewable wearing piece is thereby securely held. When
the renewable piece is worn out and another one is to be substituted for it it can
readily be removed by forcing apart the two thicknesses of which the wearing
piece is composed-another wearing piece can then be put in its place in the manner
above described.
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 what I
claim is :-
1. Attaching renewable wearing pieces to the heels of boots and shoes by means
of spikes or projections which stand out horizontally or approximately so from
a metal bar that is let into and secured to the heel substantially as herein before
described.
2. Forming the heels of boots and shoes with renewable wearing pieces
substantially in the manner herein before described.
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CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.