Improvements in and connected with Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 18th June, 1894-Accepted, 21st July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Boots and Shoes.
1, JOHN BROWN of 18, St. George's Road, Peckham, in the County of Surrey,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a device to be used in connection with boots and shoes,
whereby the pressure of the foot is distributed over the whole of the sole thereof
instead of only upon the tread and the heel.
In carrying out my invention I employ a non-flexible plate adapted to fit within
the boot or shoe upon the waist portion of the insole so that the arch or instep of
the foot can press upon and be supported by the said plate.
The said plate is advantageously made of wood but it may be made of metal or
any other non-flexible material.
When the plate is made of wood, a metal fastening plate is advantageously fixed
to it through which pass or to which are connected the means for fastening, such
means consisting of screws passing through the same and into the insole of the
boot or shoe; or the fastening plate may be slotted so as to engage with a pin
fixed in the insole; or the said fastening plate may be provided with a pin adapted
to enter a hole in the insole.
By my invention a more even wear of the soles and heels of the boots or shoes is
obtained.
Improvements in and connected with Boots and Shoes.
I, JOHN BROWN, of 18, St. George's Road, Peckham, in the County of Surrey,
Engineer, 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 :-
My invention relates to a device designed to be applied to boots and shoes for
providing a support for the arch of the foot when such support is inadequate
through the defective shape of a boot or shoe or through the waist of the same
Bagging from wear, the pressure by the use of my device being borne by the whole
surface of the sole of the foot instead of only by the tread and the heel.
In carrying out my invention I employ a non-flexible plate shaped or adapted to
fit and to be fixed within a boot or shoe upon the waist portion of the insole thereof
in such a position that the arch of the foot shall press upon and be supported by
the said plate.
In the accompanying drawing,-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a boot provided with my arch supporting plate
or device:
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section on the line A A of Figure 1:
Figure 3 is a plan of one of the plates fixed to the sole which is shewn by a
dotted line:
Figure 4 is a side elevation of the plate:
Figures 5 and 6 are sections of the same on the lines B B and C C respectively
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page_text: a is the non-flexible plate made from wood, metal, vulcanite or other suitable
material and of a shape partly following the contour of the sole of the boot and
arched as shewn to fit under and support the arch of the foot; c is a screw passed
through a hole d in the plate a and into the sole 6 of the boot for securing the
plate in the required position. Or as will be obvious other suitable means may be
adopted for fastening the plate to the boot.
If it be required to ventilate the plate a it can be perforated.
The use of my supporting plates gives great comfort to the wearer and the soles
and heels of the boots and shoes are caused to wear more evenly than heretofore.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. A supporting plate or device substantially of the shape shewn designed to be
applied to a boot or shoe in the manner and for the purpose set forth.
2. A boot or shoe having a supporting plate or device of the kind hereinbefore
-described applied thereto substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in
.Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing.
Deted the 18th dox of June 1801
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.