Improvements in Metal Plates or Protectors for the Undersides of Boots or Shoes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 5th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 4th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metal Plates or Protectors for the Undersides of
Boots or Shoes.
I SAMUEL POOLEY, junior, of 42 Pottergate Street, Norwich in the County of
Norfolk, Timber Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in the manufacture of metal plates or
protectors for the undersides of boots and shoes.
The object of the invention is to maintain the appearance and to obtain the wearing
qualities or protective advantages of solid plate applied around the edges, and in solid
plate down the centre, or similar part of the sole of a boot or shoe, but according to
the improvements whilst retaining these advantages to secure flexibility of the sole
of the boot by division of the plates into parts, further preserving elasticity by means
of incisions or scollopings of the mass of metal, either in the form of cuts or V-shaped
removals.
Another advantage of this mode of construction is to enable one set of side and
centre plates or protectors to be adapted to fit a number of sizes of boots, in other
words to make the parts not only interchangable on a given size of boot, but also to
adapt them to be modified in their arrangement, so as to serve for larger or smaller
sizes of boots.
The metal plates or protectors, are according to my invention, made from cast iron,
or they may be made from steel in less short pieces, fitting in general contour to
what will be in situ their line of coincidence with the outer line of the sole, or sole and
heel, or heel; and in some cases a line of plate will be run down the middle of the
sole or otherwise. These portions of plates or protectors are, on the inside of the
plates forming the edging of the soles and heels, formed scolloped, or in a series of
weakened, divided or recessed parts, and in the broader portions are provided fangs or
pins, which when driven into the sole serve to secure the plates thereto.
Or there may be holes through the plates at those parts, into which are driven
specially formed ribbed headed fangs, nails or pins, which serve to secure them to
the under sole. For this purpose ordinary hobbed nails can be employed.
This method of construction will be found extremely useful for protecting the heels
of boots and shoes, enabling either a continuous, or a partial, or a divided plate to be
applied, without necessitating an entirely new model being provided for each size of
heel. The same sizes of plates will also serve for a portion or an entire fore-
plate.
The middle row of plates are preferably formed of two recurved edges, the meetings
of the curves forming weak junction or division parts.
Separate plates can be applied at any given point in the sole of the shoe, by the
wearer, without any particular skill, to meet any local wear, and by expanding or
contracting the arrangement of the parts forming the larger or smaller set, a larger or
smaller boot sole may be economically covered.
Dated the 4th day of July 1889

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metal Plates or Protectors for the Undersides of
Boots or Shoes.
SAMUEL POOLEY Junr. 42 Pottergate Street Norwich Timber Merchant 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 certain improvements in the manufacture of metal plates
or protectors for the undersides of boots and shoes.
The object of the invention is to maintain the appearance and to obtain the wearing
qualities or protective advantages of solid plate applied around the edges, and solid
plate down the centre, or similar parts of the sole of a boot or shoe, but according to
the improvements whilst retaining these advantages to secure flexibility of the sole of
the boot by division of the plates into parts, further preserving elasticity by means of
incisions or scollopings of the mass of matal either in the form of cuts or V-shaped
removals.
Another advantage of this mode of construction is to enable one set of side and
centre plates or protectors to be adapted to ɓt a number of sizes of boots, in other
words to make the parts not only interchangable on a given size of boot, but also to
adapt them to be modified in their arrangement, so as to serve for larger or smaller
sizes of boots.
The metal plates or protectors, are according to my invention, made from cast iron,
or they may be made from steel in less short pieces, fitting in general contour to what
will be in situ their line of coincidence with the outer line of the sole, or sole and heel,
or heel, and in some cases a line of plate will run down the middle of the sole or
otherwise. These portions of plates or protectors are, on the inside of the plates
forming the edging of the soles and heels, formed scolloped, or in a series of weakened,
divided or recessed parts, and in the broader portions are provided fangs or pins,
which when driven into the sole serve to secure the plates thereto. They are also
provided with small raised heads on the wearing surfaces. Or there may be holes
through the plates at those parts, into which are driven specially formed ribbed headed
fangs, nails or pins, which serve to secure them to the under sole. For this purpose
ordinary hobbed nails can be employed.
This method of construction will be found extremely useful for protecting the heels
of boots and shoes, enabling either a continuous, or a partial, or a divided plate to be
applied, without necessitating an entirely new model being provided for each size of
heel. The same sizes of plates will also serve for a portion or an entire fore-plate.
The middle row of plates are preferably formed of two recurved edges, the meetings
of the curves forming weak junction or division parts.
Separate plates can be applied at any given point in the sole of the shoe, by the
wearer, without any particular skill, to meet any local wear, and by expanding or
contracting the arrangement of the parts forming the larger or smaller set, a larger
or smaller boot sole may be economically covered.
The drawings supplied are explained as follows:
Figures one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight; show the patterns and
effect when fitted. A new and novel construction, consists in the toe and heel being
in two pieces at toe, and two pieces at heel, the same set of protectors thus fitting any
size of boot, whether mens, "womens, or childrens. Sections of figures one, three,
and five; show the protectors in separate order; as fixed. Sections of figures two,
four, and six; show the protectors in separate order ready for fixing. The toes, and
heels, may be in one piece each for toe, and heel. The protectors may be cast iron
plates, without the small cast iron heads.
They may be affixed by hand in the usual way of hobnails, and boot protectors.

page_text: 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 1
claim is;
Toe and heel protectors, each in two parts, so that the same set of protectors will fit
any size in mens, womens, or childrens, boots and shoes.
Protectors with, or without, hobnail heads, in one, or two, pieces at toe, and heel
substantially as described and illustrated. Protectors which present the appearance of
hobnails, and being much larger, yet retain the flexibility of the soles, substantially as
described and illustrated.
Dated this 2-1 1
f A l 1000
SAMUEL POOLEY, JUNR.