Protecting the Heels of Boots and Shoes with Tips or Plates Capable : of being Removed from one Heel to the without Damage to the Heels.
Year: 1888

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Protecting the Heels of Boots and Shoes with Tips or Plates Capable
: of being Removed from one Heel to the other without Damage
to the Heels.
THOMAS BOWEN, 8 Court, 5 House, Bishop Street, Birmingham JAMES ERNEST
EVANS, 55 Summer Hill Street, Birmingham Boot Manufacturers, do hereby declare
'the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention consists in a heel-tip or plate secured by a screw working into a
socket within the heel, so that it can be removed by the wearor from right to left and
left to right without the heels requiring to be repaired. Thus when the tips are worn
down on one side they can be exchanged and so made to last twice as long as the
ordinary tips. Further when one pair of tips is worn out, the wearer can easily
replace them by another without damaging the heels and without requiring skilled
labour.
THOMAS BUWEN.
JAMES ERNEST EVANS.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Protecting the Heels of Boots and Shoes with Tips or Plates Capable
of being Removed from one Heel to the other without Damage
to the Heels.
THOMAS BOWEN 5 House 8 Court Bishop Street Birmingham & JAMES ERNEST
EVANS 55 Summer Hill Street Birmingham Boot Manufacturers, 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 :-
Our invention consists of a plate or tip for protecting the heels of boots and
shoes and secured to them by the following method:-
In the middle of the plate or tip is a box of triangular, square, horseshoe or
any other convenient shape, and having a hole in the base of it through which passes
a screw for the purpose of securing the said plate or tip to the heel. Within the lifts
of the heel is a socket of iron brass, or other convenient material, inserted during
the building of the heel. Into this socket the screw works. The upper lifts of the
heel are punched with holes of the necessary shape to allow of the passage of the
screw, and the reception of the box or recess in the plate or tip, the lifts being
rivetted on in the ordinary manner. The object of the box or recess is to protect the
screw-head & it is made sufficiently deep to allow of the head of the screw being
below the level of the wearing surface of the plate or tip, even when the latter has
become considerably worn down. By this arrangement a plate or tip is produced
which can be easily removed, and changed from heel to heel, without damage to the
heels, & without requiring the aid of skilled labour.
Additional security against rotary action is obtained by means of teeth on the
surface of the plate or tip next the heel.
The nature of our invention and its mode of application are shewn by the accom-
panying diagram.
Fig. 1. shews a plan of the outer surface of the Plate or Tip, which may be of any
general shape or design, but having a recess A for receiving & protecting the head
of the fastening screw.
Fig. 2. shews a sectional elevation of a boot-heel with the tip or plate attached, and
its mode of attachment.
Fig. 3. shews the screw for fastening the plate or tip.
Fig. 4. shows in elevation the socket which is inserted within the lifts of the heel
for the purpose of receiving the screw. It is provided with flanges to enable it to
retain its position.
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Fig. 5. shews a plan of the same.
Fig. 6. shews an oblique view of part of a boot or shoe with the said plate or tip
attached to the heel.
Fig. 7. shews a plan of another form of plate fastened by the same method but
filled with leather so as to have the appearance of a tip.
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page_text: Fig. 8. shews a sectional elevation of a heel with the plate as in Fig. 7 attached &
secured.
Having now particularly described the nature of our said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :—
1. A plate or tip secured to the heels of boots and shoes by means of a screw
working through the lifts of the heel into a socket inserted within the lifts of
the heel.
2. A box or recess in the middle of the plate or tip for the purpose of protecting
the head of the said screws.