Improvements in the Heels of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 19th July, 1899-Accepted, 26th Aug., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Heels of Boots and Shoes.
I, CHARLES ALBERT WAITE, of 24, Durham Street, Vauxhall, London, S. W.,
Bootmaker, 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 improvements in the heels of boots and shoes, and has
for its object to provide a removable or interchangeable wearing surface to a
boot or shoe heel, composed of the same material as the body of the heel, such
interchangeable wearing surface being readily removed when worn and replaced
by a duplicate, while when in use, the said removable surface will to all appear-
ances form an integral part of the heel itself, and will render the use of heel
plates and similar inconvenient and unsightly metal protectors, unnecessary.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of
illustrative drawings, wherein:-
Fig. 1, is a rear elevational view of a boot heel, in accordance with my inven-
tion, the interchangeable wearing surface being removed therefrom.
Fig. 2, is a plan view of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3, is a rear elevation of the interchangeable wearing surface, the heel
proper being indicated by broken lines.
Fig. 4, being a perspective view of such interchangeable wearing part.
Fig. 5, is a plan of the upper side of the said interchangeable part, while,
Fig. 6, is a perspective view of the boot heel proper with the interchangeable
wearing part removed therefrom.
Referring to the drawings wherein like letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts throughout the various figures, a is the boot heel proper, which is
preferably of lesser depth than usual, such heel having a rectangular length-
wise slot in the bottom thereof, while the rear end is recessed or cut away
at a and channelled or grooved horizontally as at a³, so as to form two parallel
grooves, extending from the rear of the boot heel to a point adjacent to the
front of the latter. About midway between the front of the boot heel and the
front extremity of the slot a¹, a metal bushed hole is formed, such bushed
hole being tapped to receive an ordinary fixing screw.
c represents the interchangeable wearing surface, which is provided upon its
upper side with a fillet e having at the rear, side extensions e¹ to fit the
recess a² in the boot heel proper, while the rear edge of the said fillet is curved
to conform to the shape of the boot heel proper, and to the curved edge of the
interchangeable wearing part c.
The leather beneath the parallel sides of the fillet e is cut away so that the
parallel sides of the fillet form flanges e³, which in operation, are slid in to
the grooves a³, while the parallel flanges *, formed by channelling the boot
heel proper as aforesaid, fit within the grooves formed by the flanges e and the
upper face of the interchangeable portion c.
A countersunk opening is provided in the interchangeable portion c, such

page_text: opening a coinciding with the bushed screw-hole 6 in the heel proper, when the
two parts are in their united position.
In operation the interchangeable wearing surface is introduced at the rear
of the boot heel and pushed into position upon the under side of the said boot
heel, and the two parts securely connected together by means of a screw which is
inserted through the countersunk opening in the said interchangeable portion c.
When the latter has been worn out, the screw is withdrawn, and the interchange-
able wearing surface removed from the boot heel proper and a duplicate wearing
surface substituted for the worn out one, in the foregoing manner.
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. The improvements in the heels of boots and shoes, consisting in grooving and
slotting the heel proper to receive a flanged fillet upon the upper side of an
interchangeable wearing surface, the two parts being securely held together
by such grooves, slots and fillet in conjunction with a screw passing through an
opening in the said interchangeable part and engaging with a tapped socket in
the boot heel, substantially as described and illustrated.
2. In heels for boots and shoes, the interchangeable leather wearing surface
having a flanged fillet provided with side extensions at the rear end, in com-
bination with a lengthwise slot and horizontal grooves in the heel proper, said
heel also having a rearward recess and a tapped socket at its forward end, said
interchangeable wearing surface also having a countersunk opening near its
forward end, which opening coincides with the said tapped socket when the
interchangeable wearing surface is in position upon the boot heel, for the purpose
of receiving a fixing screw, all arranged, combined, and operating, substantially
as described and as illustrated by the drawings.
100
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1000
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for Applicant.