Improvements in Boot and Shoe Heels.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1897-Accepted, 24th July, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boot and Shoe Heels.
We, JAMES HILL, of 134 Brunswick Road, Brunswick, in the Colony of Victoria,
Bellfounder, and WILLIAM EDWARD CANNING, of 475 Bourke Street, Melbourne,
in the Colony of Victoria, Importer 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 :-
The object of our invention is to provide heels for boots and shoes, sufficiently
elastic to give great ease to pedestrians and adapted to be quickly and cheaply
repaired when worn.
Referring now to the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows portion of a boot
heel in vertical middle section containing our invention; Figure 2 shows a
similar heel with the invention applied in a modified form; Figure 3 shows a
section for covering the rubber section: Figure 4 shows the said rubber section;
and Figure 5 shows one of the nuts used.
In Figures 3 to 5 each part is shown with the underside uppermost, Figures 3
and 5 being in perspective.
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A shows the insole, and B the sole of the boot or shoe, C the rubber section, D the
section covering the rubber section, E an outside or wear taking section.
In Figure 1, A B C and D are each shown perforated with corresponding holes
(or nipples as the case may be one of which is shown at G through which are
screwed home into nuts I, the screws F. Holes J in C are counter sunk, and the
material of I) is correspondingly swelled out to form nipples K as shown, the nuts
fitting into the recesses on the inside of nipples K without rising flush with the
surface L of section D) Figure 1. In Figure 2, C and D) have respective holes and
nipples as before, but nuts are not required because the head of each screw fits into
nipple K the said heads acting as the nuts do is Figure 1, the point of each screw
being screwed into the sole B to which it holds.
Sometimes the wear taking section is provided with holes to allow of the
screws being inserted after said section is fastened to the rest of the heel. N shows
a filling or plug for such a hole, said plug being preferably of rubber sprung in.
The peculiar form of the parts J and K enables the sections containing said
parts to be fitted securely together in "register" besides allowing room for the
nut or screw head as the case may be. It should be understood that in our inven-
tion the india rubber section is always interposed between two sections of other
material preferably leather.
It is further desirable to state here that various slight changes of construction
and arrangement might be made without departing from the spirit of this
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
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1. The general combination of parts of the boot or shoe heel hereinbefore
described with reference to Figure 1 of the drawings.
2. The general combination of parts of the boot or shoe heel herein before
described with reference to Figure 2 of the drawings.

page_text: 3. In a boot or shoe heel as hereinbefore described an india rubber section
interposed between two other sections as set forth and having counter sunk holes
therein as J substantially as set forth.
4. In a boot or shoe heel as hereinbefore described a section to cover the rubber
section having holes and nipples as K in register with counter sunk holes in said
rubber section substantially as set forth.
Dated this 21st day of June 1897.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.