Year: 1898

page_text: We, GEORGE PEELING, of 30, Walworth Road, in the County of London, Boot-
maker, and WILLIAM MEAKIN, of 84, Baker Street, in the County of London,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
1
Our invention relates to the heels of boots and shoes, and has for its object to
provide rotatable, detachable and renewable heels by the use of which worn parts
on the parts subject to greatest wear may be turned to fresh positions and an
unworn or less worn part substituted, and the whole may be bodily renewed when
worn out, with great facility and at small cost. We are aware that movable and
detachable heels have been tried, but they have always been open to objections
due to working loose, clinking, leaking and becoming unintentionally detached
and so forth. By our improvement we avoid all such inconveniences and defects
and our detachable heel piece is so firmly secured as to be practically integral with
the fixed part of the heel.
In carrying out our invention we form a hollow or recess in the heel of the boot
or shoe of convenient diameter and depth, and we may employ a metallic lining
for same if desirable. To the face of the walls of the recess we rivet strongly
a steel ring or washer, the annulus of which is of smaller diameter than the said
recess in the heel so as to overlap around same internally for a suitable distance,
or we may form a groove around the recess or its metallic lining near its base or
in suitable position. We provide a separate heel attachment, the face of which is
of required thickness of leather or suitable substance and to it is strongly secured
by through rivetting or otherwise a metal crown or cap provided with a series of
peripheral springs or spring tongues which may conveniently be formed by stamp-
ing out and then bending to required directions. These tongues or springs are
adapted to be compressed when forced inwardly through the said annulus or into
the recess but when clear thereof to spring outwardly and engage either the inner
projecting face of the washer or the groove in the recess as the case may be, and
also the walls of the recess all around same. The spring crown or cap is of practi-
cally the same diameter and depth as the recess and it fits accurately the annulus
of the washer or the recess while the spring tongues engage the walls of the recess,
thus the whole heel attachment is firmly secured and cannot shake, work loose or
become accidentally detached. It can, however, be turned by hand as required to
compensate for wear. When the movable heel is worn out it is detached by
insertion of a tool between itself and the washer and sprung off.
It may then be
thrown away and a new one substituted, the cost of such detachable heels being
very small.
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We, GEORGE PEELING, of 30, Walworth Road, in the County of London, Boot-
maker, and WILLIAM MEAKIN, of 84, Baker Street, in the County of London,
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:-
In carrying out our invention, we form a circular hollow or recess in the heel
of the boot or shoe, of convenient diameter and depth, and we may employ a
metallic lining for the same, if desirable. On to the face of the heel we rivet
strongly a steel ring or washer, the hole in which is of smaller diameter than the
said recess in the heel, so as to overlap around the same internally, or we may
form a groove around the recess or its metallic lining. We provide a separate
heel attachment, the face of which is of required thickness of leather or suitable
substance, and to it is strongly secured, by through rivetting or otherwise, a metal
crown or cap, provided with a series of peripheral springs or spring tongues, which
may be conveniently formed by stamping out and then bending to required
directions. These spring or spring tongues are adapted to be compressed inwardly
when forced through the hole in the said washer, or into the grooved recess in the
heel but, when clear thereof, to spring outwardly and engage either the inner
projecting face of the washer, or into the groove of the recess, as the case may be.
The crown or cap fits accurately the hole in the washer, or the recess, while the
spring tongues engage the walls of the recess.
In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1; represents a side view, and Figure 2,
a plan of a boot fitted with our improved heel; in which A is the fixed heel, pro-
vided with a circular recess, and having the circular washer B firmly rivetted to it.
C is the crown or cap, furnished with a series of projecting spring tongues, and
fitting the hole of the washer B. D is the wearing portion, or body, of the loose
heel; firmly rivetted to the cap C.
The exact details may be varied in many ways, retaining the principle of a
secure spring attachment of the loose heel which shall allow of its free rotation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
The construction of a renewable rotatory heel, substantially as herein before
described.
Dated thi 04th J. of T
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