An Improvement in Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1893

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Ад шртоѵешень 10
I, WALTER KEMP, of Tankerton, St. Albans Road, Kingston-on-Thames,
in the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to the construction and application to the soles and heels of
boots and shoes of composite protectors, consisting of variously and suitably shaped
pieces of sheet metal faced with vulcanised caoutchouc or other suitable elastic
material, which, besides reducing local wear, give softness of tread and prevent
slipping. The elastic facing may be attached to the metal by cementing, rivetting,
engaging a lip of it in an undercut groove or otherwise, and the protector may be
cemented to the sole or heel or secured by screws, spikes or otherwise.
Dated this 10th day of November 1893.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
An Improvement in Boots and Shoes.
I, WALTER KEMP, of Tankerton, St. Albans Road, Kingston-on-Thames, in the
County of Surrey, 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 the construction and application to the soles and heels of
boots and shoes of composite protectors, consisting of variously and suitably shaped
pieces of sheet metal faced with vulcanised caoutchouc or other suitable elastic
material, which, besides reducing local wear, give softness of tread and prevent
slipping. The elastic facing may be attached to the metal by cementing, rivetting,
or otherwise, and the protector may be cemented to the sole or heel or secured by
screws, spikes or otherwise.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a plan looking from below, Fig. 2 is a
plan looking from above, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section on X X of Fig. 2, of one
form of protector according to my invention, to be fixed to a sole or heel by spikes
driven into the leather.
Figs. 4 and 5 are plans seen respectively from below and from above shewing a
form of protector to be fixed by nails or screws. The protector consists of a metal
frame A, which may be cut or punched from a steel or other plate, and a piece B
of vulcanised caoutchouc or other suitable elastic material. This piece is made
flanged to cover the metal of the frame A on the upper side, thus interposing an

page_text: elastic cushion between the metal and the sole or heel, and it projects a little
beyond the metal on the under side to as to give softness of tread and prevent
slipping. The protector may be fixed by spikes C projecting up from the metal
or by screws or nails driven through countersunk holes D, or the elastic material
might be cemented to the metal and to the leather. Although I have shewn in the
drawings protectors of circular form, they may obviously be made of various forms
to suit various parts of the sole or heel to which they may be applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A composite protector for the soles or heels of boots or shoes, consisting of
a metal frame combined with elastic material, substantially as and for the purposes
set forth.
Dated this
01 August 1894.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Application.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Application.