IMPROVEMENTS IN SPURS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Kanzow Bowley and Kanzow Thomas
Bowley, both of 53, Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPURS."
Sealed the 28th April 1865, and dated the 4th November 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Kanzow.Bowley
and Kanzow Thomas Bowley at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents; with their Petition, on the 4th November 1864.)
We, ROBERT KANZOW BOWLEY and KANZOW THOMAS 'BOWLEY, both of
53, Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPURS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to spurs formed with plugs or pins for attaching
them by sockets or holes to the heels of boots. The mode heretofore
practised of constructing spurs formed with plugs or pins has been to fix
said plug or pin in a direct line with the neck of the spur.

page_text: Now this Invention consists in forming said plug bent or cranked so as
to bring that part of the plug or pin that fits into the socket or hole in
the heel of the boot in a line with the boss or projection of the spur, which
is employed to conceal the box or hole in the heel of the boot; by these
means the spur is raised higher on to the seat of the boot than when the 5
plug is formed straight, as commonly practised.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Kanzow Bowley and Kanzow Thomas Bowley, in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th May 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
KANZOW BOWLEY and KANZOW THOMAS BOWLEY, both of 53, Charing Cross,
in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight. hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Robert Kanzow Bowley and Kanzow Thomas Bowley, Her special licence
that we, the said Robert Kanzow Bowley and Kanzow Thomas Bowley, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Robert
Kanzow Bowley and Kanzow Thomas Bowley, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPURS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Robert Kanzow Bowley and Kanzow
Thomas Bowley, our executors or administrators, by au instrument in
writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Robert Kanzow Bowley and Kanzow
Thomas Bowley, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in

page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say:
:-
This Invention relates to spurs formed with plugs or pins for attaching
them by sockets or holes to the heels of boots. The mode heretofore practised
of constructing spurs formed with plugs or pins has been to fix said plug.or
pin in a direct line with the neck of the spur.
Now this Invention consists in forming said plug bent or cranked so as to
bring that part of the plug or pin that fits into the socket or hole in the heel
of the boot in a line with the boss or projection of the spur, which is employed
to conceal the box or hole in the heel of the boot; by these means the spur
is
raised higher on to the seat of the boot than when the plug is formed straight
as commonly practised.
And in order to explain our said Invention as completely as possible, we
now proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying
the same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Drawing
accompanying these Presents, and to the numeral figures and letters of
reference marked thereon respectively as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a side elevation of our improved spur; Figure 2 a top
plan view thereof; Figure 3 a vertical section, taken through the line A, B, at
Figure 2; Figure 4, our improved plug, detached from the other part of the
spur; Figure 5, vertical section of an ordinary plug spur. At each of the
foregoing Figures we employ similar letters of reference to denote corresponding
parts in so far as such parts appear or can be seen at each of such said Figures
respectively.
A marks our improved plug, which is formed bent or cranked at a, as at
Figures 3 and 4, which fits into a corresponding shaped recess formed in the
boss B of the spur into which it may be securely fixed by brazing or in the usual
manner of fixing the plug in the boss of the spur. The spur may be made in
the ordinary manner, either cast or forged, but in lieu of making the hole in
the neck and boss of the spur straight as at Figure 5, as commonly practised,
we form said hole crooked to receive the crooked or cranked part a of the
plug A. In making spurs according to our Invention care should be taken
to have the metal at the angle of the plug A as strong and thick as possible
in proportion to the size of the boss of the spur.
.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of our
said Invention for "Improvements in Spurs," together with the best means

page_text: we are acquainted with for carrying, the same into practical effect, we would
remark in conclusion that what we claim as our Invention, and desire to
secure by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is as follows:-
We claim forming the plugs of spurs bent or cranked instead of straight
for the purpose of raising the spur higher on to the seat of the boot as
above stated.
In witness whereof; I, the said Kanzow Thomas Bowley, one of the
parties hereto, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Third day
of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five.
KANZOW THOS. BOWLEY. (L.S.)