Improvements in Boot and Shoe Heels.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 14th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boot and Shoe Heels.
GEORGE HARRIS FOOKS, Boot and Shoe Maker, 51 Regents Park Road Primrose
Hill in the Parish of St. Pancras, Middlesex. I do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
The Heel to be the same shape as an ordinary boot heel to be made with two metal
plates, the bottom plate to be fitted to the boot with screws, the top plate to fit in a
grove or slot in the bottom plate the tip to be screwed on, the intire heel to be secured
to the boot, or shoe by a screw from the inside of the boot or shoe, the heeles to be
made in diferent sizes.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boot and Shoe Heels.
GEORGE HARRIS Fooks, Boot & Shoe Maker 51 Regents Park Road Primrose Hill
in the Parish of St. Pancras in the County of Middlesex 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 :-
Improvements in detachable Boot, & Shoe Heels, & that the Heels are made in the
ordinary shape as now worn, with or without, metal tips or plates on the top pieces
with instructions given for the public to fix them to boots, or shoes themselves.
The Heels are made in different sizes, separate from the boots, or shoes, with, or
without metal tips or plates, on the top pieces, and are made of wood, leather, metal,
or composition.
When the Heels are manufactured ready to fix to the new, or old boot, or shoe, they
will consist of two parts, called top part, and bottom part, of heel.
Bottom part of Heel, will be marked part one and the size of the heel will be
marked on.
Top part of Heel, will be marked part two.
The bottom part of Heel (which may be a metal plate) will be fixed to boot, or
shoe, by screws, or rivets.
The top part of Heel, will be made to correspond with the bottom part of Heel,
and will be fixed to the bottom part of Heel, by screws, called main screws, and
marked A, B, C, etc., which screws are inserted from the inside of the boot.
In some cases, a slot, groove, or dovetail, will be used to fix the top, and bottom,
parts of heel together.
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When a metal tip, or plate, is used, it will be fixed to the top part of heel, by
countersunk screws, inserted from the inside of this part of the heel.
The drawings will show how the Heels will be made and fixed, to the boot, or
shoe.
Also how the metal tip, or plate, will be fixed to the top piece of heel.
The Figures 1 & 2 represent parts of a heel without dovetails.
In part one or bottom part of Heel, Fig. 1, the screw-holes marked A, B & C, are for
main screws for fixing part one and part two together. The holes marked 1, 2, 3, 4
& 5 are for fixing part one to boot or shoe.
In part two or top part of Heel Fig. 2, screw-holes marked A, B & C, are for the
main screws, the other holes, will be countersunk, for fixing metal tip or plate, to part
two, or top part of Heel for boot or shoe.

page_text: Figures 3 & 4 represent plates, with dovetails which are attached to the two parts
of the Heel.
In part one or bottom part of Heel, Fig. 3, screw-holes marked A & B, are for main
screws, for fixing part one and part two together, holes marked 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, are for
fixing part one to boot or shoe, the other holes are for rivets to 'fix' the plates together
to make slot for dovetail.
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In part two or top part of Heel, Fig. 4, the holes marked 1, 2, 3 & 4, are for
screws or rivets for fixing top part of Heel to plate. The other holes shown on the.
centre are for rivets to fix the plate to form the dovetail, A & B are main screw holes.
I 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.
1st. That I am the Inventor of Improvements in Boot and Shoe Heels.
2nd. The Improvement is that the Heels be made in different sizes, seperate from
the boot, or shoe, for the public to fix them to the boot or shoe themselves, with or
without metal tip, or plate on top piece of Heels.
3rd. When a metal tip, or plate, be worn, it will be fixed by countersunk screws
from the inside of Boot or Shoe Heels.
Dated this 12th day of November 1889.
GEORGE HARRIS FOOKS.