Year: 1888

page_text: 1, ARTHUR HAWLEY of No. 117 Bridge Street Burdett Road Mile End, London E.
Boot and shoe manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has reference to and is based upon the specification of my invention
No. 14353 dated 6th November 1886 in which I have described a durable and
inexpensive method of forming the soles and heels of boots and shoes of leather
combined with tips and transverse bars or plates of metal, hard wood or other suitable
material.
Now in accordance with my present invention, I cast, stamp or otherwise form the
tips and transverse bars or plates, plain or perforated for attachinent, by means of nails,
screws or equivalents, to the soles and heels of boots and shoes. Upon each edge of
said bars or plates and upon the inner edges of the tips are cast circular lugs or
projections, bored, drilled or otherwise perforated for the reception of nails, screws or
like means of attachment, or I may form the lugs of the transverse bars of dove-tailed
shape, perforated or otherwise as may be desired. Otherwise, said lugs or projections,
which may be of only half the thickness of the transverse plates, are of greater length
than the lugs or projections last above described, and have their ends turned up at right
angles to said plates; or they may, if preferred be flat, and holes formed in the ends
for the purpose above described.
As a modification of the foregoing method of forming the bars or plates, I may cast
thereon thin flanges, either perforated with a number of holes, or having longitudinal
slots formed therein to facilitate attachment to the leather sole, or, upon said flanges
may be formed projections level with the faces of the plates, and drilled, bored or
otherwise perforated to allow of attachment to the soles of boots and shoes.
Under some circumstances I may, during the process of casting form on that end
of the transverse bars which is at the outside of the sole of the boots and shoes, strips
at right angles thereto, for the purpose of imparting increased durability to the part of
the sole subjected to the greatest wear and tear.

page_text: Also, the toe and heel tips, instead of being formed in one piece, may be cast in two
or more segments, whereby only those segments would be employed to protect the
parts subjected to the greatest degree of wear and tear.
In preparing the soles preparatory to giving them out to the workmen, the metal
tips, and transverse bars or plates are arranged or assembled in a metal mould, and the
leather sole, intermediate leather strip, and toe piece, which have been previously
shaped and soaked, are placed in position, the leather in each case overlapping the lugs
or projections aforesaid. The whole is now subjected to pressure, by which process
said lugs or projections are forced into the substance of the leather, thus ensuring an
intimate connection of the various parts of leather and metal, whereby all longitudinal
and lateral movement is prevented. The heels are formed in the same manner as
that described in the case of the soles.
Soles and heels made up in the manner above described may be passed into the
hands of the workmen in the same manner as ordinary leather soles and heels, and
may be adapted and fixed to boots and shoes with equal facility, the metal bars or
plates and tips being secured by nails, screws or equivalents as above described.
Dated this Twenty first day of Inl, 1000
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers,
20, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Boots and Shoes.
L, ARTHUR HAWLEY of No. 117 Bridge Street, Burdett Road, Mile End, London, E,
Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, 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, reference being also had to the accompanying 3 sheets
of drawings in which my improvements are fully illustrated :—
My invention has reference to and is based upon the Specification of my invention
No. 14353 dated 6th November 1886 in which I have described a durable and
inexpensive method of forming the soles and heels of boots and shoes of leather, com-
bined with tips and transverse bars or plates of metal, hard wood or other suitable
material.
Now in accordance with my present Invention, I cast stamp or otherwise form the
tips B and transverse bars or plates A, plain or perforated as shown at a for attachment
to the soles and heels of boots and shoes by means of nails, screws or equivalents.
Upon each edge of said bars or plates A, and upon the inner edge of the tips B, are
cast circular lugs C Figures 3, 4, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19 and 24 bored, drilled or
otherwise perforated, said perforations serving if desired for the reception of nails
screws or like means of attachment; or, I may form the lugs of the transverse bars or
plates A, of dove-tailed shape as shown at Figure 9 perforated or otherwise as may be
desired. Otherwise, said plates A may be cast of a combination of thin and thick
parts as shown at Figures 1, 2, 7, 8, 28 and 26 whereby only the ends and thicker
parts are on a level with the surface of the sole of a boot or shoe to which this type of
transverse plate or bar may be adapted.
As a modification of the foregoing method of forming the bars or plates A, 1 may
cast thereon thin flanges d, Figures 20 and 21, either perforated with a number of
holes e. Figure 20, or having longitudinal slots Figure 21, formed therein to facilitate
attachment to the leather sole, or a number of tongue pieces having screw holes formed
therein as shown in Figure 22; or, upon said flanges may be formed projections, the
vertical points of which are level with the faces of the plates A as shown in Figure 27.
Under some circumstances I may, during the process of casting, form on that side
of the transverse bars which is at the outside of the sole of the boots and shoes, strips
at right angles thereto, shown at g Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 for the purpose of imparting
increased durability to the part of the sole subjected to the greatest wear and tear.
The toe and heel tips, in addition to being formed in one piece, may also be cast in
two or more segments E Figures 13. 14 and 15, in which only those segments might
be employed to protect the parts subjected to the greatest degree of wear and tear.
Figures 20 to 27 represents some of the types of transverse bars or plates A which
I employ according to my invention.
In preparing the soles preparatory to giving them out to the workmen, a metal tip B
Figure 17, or other suitable tip, and transverse bars or plates A are arranged or
assembled in a metal mould F Figure 16, and the intermediate strips or pieces of

page_text: leather G (which, in combination with the metal tips B and transverse bars A form the
soles and heels of boots and shoes) having been previously shaped and soaked, are
placed in position, the leather in each case overlapping the lugs or projections aforesaid.
The whole is now subjected to pressure, by which process said lugs or projections are
forced into the substance of the leather, a portion of which latter being pressed into
the perforated lugs C serve as plugs thereto thus ensuring an intimate connection of
the various parts of leather and metal, whereby all longitudinal and lateral movement is
prevented. The heels are formed in the same manner as that described in the case of
the soles; the special feature in the toe, heel and side tips being the employment of
perforated lugs the surface of which is level with the surface of the sole or heel of the
boot or shoe.
The pins h in the mould Figure 16, which take into the perforations in the transverse
plates A aforesaid, are devised with the object of keeping said transverse plates in
position during the process of pressing the soles as herein before described.
Soles and heels made up in the manner above described, may be passed into the
hands of the workmen in the same manner as ordinary leather soles and heels, and
may be adapted and fixed to boots and shoes with equal facility, the metal bars or plates A
and tips B being secured by nails, screws or equivalents as 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 :-
In forming the outer soles of boots and shoes of alternate bars or plates of metal and
pieces of leather the casting or stamping upon said bars or plates and toe, heel, and
side tips of lugs or projections substantially as and for the purpose herein described
and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this in 1
1000
Dated thi. Di
1000
13374
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers,
20, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agent for Applicant.