A HEEL FOR BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Barchou, 22, Cranbourn St., Leicester Sq.,
Parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, County of Middlesex, London, for the
Invention of "A HEEL FOR BOOTS AND SHOES."
Sealed the 16th November 1858, and dated the 1st June 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Barchou at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st June 1858.
ALFRED BARCHOU, 22, Cranbourn St., Leicester Sq., Parish of St. Martin-
5 in-the-Fields, County of Middlesex, London, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "A HEEL FOR BOOTS AND SHOES," to be as follows:-
A heel for boots and shoes to be made of a piece of leather stamped into a
tubular shape and filled with gutta percha and other materials.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Barchou in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th November 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
BARCHOU, 22, Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square, Parish of St. Martin-in-
the-Fields, County of Middlesex, London, send greeting.
:
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Alfred Barchou, Her special licence that I, the said Alfred Barchou,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Alfred Barchou, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A HEEL FOR
BOOTS AND SHOES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Alfred Barchou, my executors or administrators by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Barchou, do hereby declare the
nature of my said 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 consists of a hollow heel made of leather, to be adopted to
all kinds of boots, shoes, slippers, & the above-named hollow heel is stamped,
squeezed, or pressed out of one piece of leather, including the bottom. But,
if prefered, the bottoni can be taken off, the heel then takes a tubular shape.
In case the said heel be prefered without the bottom, a top piece is fixed by
means usually employed in the manufacturing of boots and shoes. When the
heel has taken whatever shape may be required, so to give a solid body, it
is filled with either of the following materials: gutta percha, wood, india-
rubber, cork or leather, made into paste, or solid, or other substances,
according to the weight and strength that may be required in tho use of the
said heel.

page_text: The heel can be fixed to boots, shoes, or slippers, by the following means,
either by sewing, screwing, nailing, rivetting, clinching, sticking, or whatever
means requisit to the adoption of the article it has to be adhered to.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Barchou, have heretofore set my
hand and scal, this Thirtieth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
ALFRED BARCHOU. (L.S.)