Improvements in or connected with Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 26th July, 1895-Accepted, 14th Sent., 1995
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Boots and Shoes.
I, GEORGE JOHN WAYLAND NAYLOR, of 55 Maury Road, Stoke Newington,
London, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
To prevent the jar and concussion and consequent ill effects upon the brain and
nervous system arising from walking upon hard roads, paths, and the like,
I interpose between the bottom of the heel of the foot and the top or inside of the
heel of the boot a spring of suitable construction.
A type of spring which I find in practice to be well adapted for the purpose in
question, is a V shaped steel spring, which may be covered with felt upon its upper
side, and attached to the boot by means of two screws, such steel spring being
shaped so as to fit into the boot at the lower part and the top part shaped to
receive the heel of the foot without discomfort.
Dated this 18th day of June 1895.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in or connected with Boots and Shoes.
1 GEORGE JOHN WAYLAND NAYLOR, of 55, Maury Road, Stoke Newington,
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:-
This invention relates to improvements in or connected with boots and shoes, and
has for object to reduce to a minimum the jar and concussion and consequent ill
effects upon the brain and nervous system, arising from walking upon hard roads
or the like.
Reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings
forming part of this Specification, in order that the said invention may the more
readily be understood and carried into effect.
Fig. 1. is a side elevation of the invention,
Fig. 2. a plan thereof, and
Fig. 3. a side elevation of a shoe, partly broken away in order to shew the
invention applied thereto.
Referring to the drawings, a a¹ are two plates of steel or other suitable resilient
material which may be of any desirable shape, the lower one a preferably being
flat, while the upper plate a' is given a slightly concave form and is bent upwardly
at the rear so as to form a spring as shewn.
If desirable the device may be formed integral instead of being fashioned in two
parts.
Two or more perforations are provided at the forward end or other suitable
part of the device, for the purpose of affixing same by means of the screws b¹ or
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page_text: their equivalent to the inner surface of the boot or shoe heel c upon which the heel
of the wearer usually rests.
Attached to the upper portion a' of the device, is a strip or pad of felt or similar
yielding material d of suitable thickness, which strip or pad is caused to conform
to the shape of the said portion a' at the rear thereof, the front of such strip or
pad being extended forwardly so as to form an inclined plane from the front of
the device to the inner surface c of the boot or shoe, by this means providing
against discomfort which would otherwise be caused to the wearer's heel, from
direct contact with the forward edge of the device a a¹. For the purposes of
ventilation may suitably perforate the upper plate and felt or the like of my
invention.
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 I
claim is
1. The improvements in or connected with boots and shoes, substantially as
described and shewn.
2. The application of a plate or plates of resilient material to the inner surface
of a boot or shoe heel to form a spring for the heel of the wearer of the boot or
shoe to rest upon, substantially as specified and as illustrated by the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 26th day of July 1895.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.