Improved Portable and Self Adjusting Metallic Grip for Fixing to the Boots of Golfers or others to Prevent Slipping.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 20th June, 1893-Accepted, 22nd July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Portable and Self Adjusting Metallic Grip for Fixing to
the Boots of Golfers or others to Prevent Slipping.
ROBERT TODD COCHRANE, 23 Richmond Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Stockbroker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a self adjusting metal grip, having a number of studs
rivetted thereto, for fixing to the boots of golfers or others to prevent slipping.
This grip can be carried in the pocket when not in use, and can be fixed firmly in
a few moments to any size and shape of boot.
It consists of two thin steel plates having a number of small studs rivetted
thereon to give the necessary foothold. These steel plates are jointed at A with
a rivet. This rivet works in slotted holes in the steel plates to give the necessary
adjustment to the various sizes and shapes of boots. The four grippers B., B. B. B.
may either be parts of the steel plates bent up, or they may be separate from and
loosely rivetted to these steel plates. These grippers have each a knife or saw
edge turned in to clip into the side of the sole or to grip over the welt of the
boot. The action of the crossed leather straps fixed to the ends C. C. of the steel
plates being tightened up, causes the four knife or saw edged grippers to simul-
taneously press against and to sink into the side of the sole of the boot. The
leather straps are either buckled, or laced, over the instep of the boot. All
substantially as described and illustrated.
Alternative methods of fixing the grip to the boot without the use of straps over
the instep, areFirst. By the ends CC of the steel plates being drawn together
with a screw and nut.. Second. By the grippers B. B. B. B. being drawn into the
side of the sole. of the boot by a lever motion acting directly on the grippers. The
end of the lever being fixed to an eye screwed in the heel of the boot. The grippers
being adjusted to the various sizes of boots by screw nuts working in slot holes.
All substantially as described.
Dated this Ninth dow of Januone Fightoau hundrad and ninety throa
ROBERT T. COCHRANE,
23, Richmond Street, Glasgow, Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Portable and Self Adjusting Metallic Grip for Fixing to
the Boots of Golfers or others to Prevent Slipping.
I, ROBERT TODD COCHRANE 23 Richmond Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire,
Stockbroker, 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 :-
My invention relates to self adjusting and other metallic grips for fixing to the
boots of golfers or others the grips having a number of studs rivetted to them to
prevent slipping. The grip as constructed under its various modifications can be
carried in the pocket when not in use, and it can be fixed firmly in a few moments
to any size and shape of boot sole.
As shown by the several figures on the accompanying drawings each of which
illustrates a different modification the improved grip consists of two steel plates A
having a number of small studs or tackets rivetted thereon to give the necessary
foothold. In the modification Figure 1 these steel plates are jointed at a by a
rivet or stud which is passed through holes in the plates the holes-being slotted to

page_text: permit of the adjustment necessary to enable the apparatus to be fitted to various
sizes and shapes of boot soles. Each plate A has four grippers B projecting
upwards from it, the upper edges of the grippers being bent inwards and formed
with a knife or saw edge to clip into the side of the sole or to grip over the welt
of the boot.
The grippers B, may either be made in one piece with the plates A or they may
be formed separately and rivetted thereto. To the inner end A' of each plate, in
the arrangement Figure 1, there is attached either by a chain or by a hook or
rivet a length of leather or other strap C these lengths at the connections to the
plates crossing each other. One length has a buckle and the other is punched
with eyelet holes and when the strap is passed over the instep and drawn tight it
causes the four knife or saw edged grippers B to simultaneously press against and
to sink into the side of the sole of the boot or to take over between it and the
welt. The leather straps instead of being buckled may be laced over the instep of
the boot. Instead of being attached directly to the plates A the straps may, as
shown by Figure 2, be connected to toggle or bell crank levers 6 these being
jointed together at c attached to the ends of the plates, or, as shown by Figure 3
straight levers d crossed and jointed together at e may be used as connections
between the plates A and straps C the levers d being attached at or about the
centres of the plates which in this case are not jointed together as in Figures 1
and 2.
In order to dispense with the use of straps altogether any of the arrangements
shown by Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 may be adopted, that is to say as shewn by Figure 4
the gripping plates A may be drawn together by a screw attached to one of the
plates, passed through an eye g on the other and having a nut h threaded on its
outer end by turning which the adjustment is effected. The like object may also
be gained by the arrangement Figure 5 in which two lateral arms i projecting over
each other are formed on the plates A those having slotted holes through which a
screw bolt passes. A nut kis threaded on to the bolt and when the plates have
been adjusted on the boot they are secured in position by turning the said nut.
Figure 6 illustrates another modification in which a lever l connected directly
to the grippers A is employed to secure them in position the said lever after it has
been operated to fix the grippers B in place being locked by passing the point /
of it through a staple or eye m fixed in the front of the heel of the boot. The
lever and the lateral arms n of the gripping plates A have a series of holes in
them to enable the position of the bolt and nut k connecting the lever and arms
together to be varied, such variation enabling the apparatus to be used with
different sizes of boots.
Figure 7 shows a modification in which the inner or rear ends of the gripping
plates are serrated with teeth o in conjunction with which a clasp p consisting of
two plates held together by pins u is provided. The said clasp is slipped over and
up the ends of the plates A, until the grippers B have taken hold when the pins u
entering the teeth maintain the apparatus in place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
The several combinations of parts constituting the improved grip to prevent
slipping illustrated on the accompanying drawings and wherein metallic plates
jointed together or not and having a series of studs or tackets and gripping
jaws are adjusted on and maintained in position substantially as described.
Dated this 10th day of June 1893
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.