Improvements in the Method of Fastening Soles to Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 28th June, 1889-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1839
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of Fastening Soles to Boots and Shoes.
A communication to mo from abroad by PAUL FICKERT, of Schwerin, in the
Empire of Germany.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patont Agents and Engineers,
of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object improved methods of fastening the soles to boots
and shoes, by which methods the soles are more firmly fixed than by the methods
ordinarily employed, the fastenings being light and easily used, whilst the soles
and welt are not weakened by a number of nails or pegs or by the stitching commonly
used.
Methods have sometimes heretofore been adopted in which screws are used for the
purpose required, but they have proved less effective than the ordinary means of
attachment.
By the present invention the attachment of the soles is also effected by means of
screws, which however are not screwed into the leather only, but into sockets or
nuts which are specially prepared and arranged to receive them and which remain
attached to the boot or shoe so that they can be used as often as may be desired.
The socket or nut consists of a plug or block preferably of hard wood of suitable
shape which is fitted into a corresponding light metal socket or holder provided with
a flange above, and an opening below through which the point of the screw passes
and is screwed into the plug, which is held so that it cannot turn in the socket.
The socket is fitted into a hole made for it in the inner sole or welt, and one or
more of the corners of its flange are turned down so that they are forced into the
leather and the socket is thus itself prevented from turning or moving.
A sufficient number of the sockets and plugs being fitted in the inner sole or welt,
a corresponding number of screws of proper length are screwed into them through
the soles, which are therefore held firmly and securely together, and the strength
and durability of the boot or shoe is considerably increased.
In a modified form of the invention, the point of the screw is screwed into a metal
plate which is fitted under the welt or inner sole, both ends of the plate being turned
up at right angles and passed through corresponding slits in the leather, and being
then bent down flat upon the upper side of the latter preferably with the intervention
of a thin ring or washer of suitable shape.
Or the ends of the metal plate last described may be divided or forked, so that
when turned up they pass through two smaller slits in the leather and are then bent
down as already described.
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EDWARDS & Co.,
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.COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of Fastening Soles to Boots and Shoes.
Communicated to me from abroad by PAUL FICKERT, of Schwerin, in the
Empire of Germany.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS of the firm of Edwards and Co. Patent Agents and Engineers,
of 35 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object improved methods of fastening the soles to boots

page_text: and shoes, by which methods the soles are more firmly fixed than by the methods
ordinarily heretofore employed, the fastenings being light and easily used, whilst
the soles and welt are not weakened by a number of nails or pegs or by the stitching
commonly used.
Methods have sometimes heretofore been adopted in which screws are used for the
purpose required, but they have. proved less effective than the ordinary means of
attachment.
In the accompanying drawing which is in illustration of the invention figure 1
is a plan view from below of a shoe shewing the improvement, figure 2 a side view
partly in section of the same, figures 3 and 4 shew the wood block fastened in
two different holders, figure 5 a top view of such a holder, figures 6 and 7 a section
and plan view of a somewhat modified form of fastening.
Figures 8, 9, and 10 are sections and plan of modifications of the fastening
shown in figures 6 and 7, and figure 11 a plan of a metal plate used in figures 8,
9, and 10.
By the present invention the attachment of the soles is also effected by means of
screws, which however are not screwed into the leather only, but into the sockets
or nuts a which are specially prepared and arranged to receive them and which
remain attached to the boot or shoe so that they can be used as often as may be
desired.
The socket or nut consists of a plug or block preferably of hard wood of suitable
shape which is fitted into a corresponding light metal socket or holder h, provided
with a flange above, and an opening below through which the point of the screw
passes and is screwed into the plug, which is held so that it cannot turn in the
socket.
The socket is fitted into a hole made for it in the inner sole or welt, and one or
more of the corners of the flange are turned down, so that they are forced into the
leather and the socket is thus itself prevented from turning or moving.
A sufficient number of the sockets and plugs being fitted in the inner sole or welt,
a corresponding number of screws of proper length are screwed into them through
the soles, which are therefore held firmly and securely together, and the strength and
durability of the boot or shoe are considerably increased. In a modified form of the
invention, represented in figures 6 and 7, the point of the screw is screwed into a
metal plate b, which is fitted under the welt or inner sole, both ends of the plate being
turned up at right angles and passed through corresponding slits in the leather and
being then bent down flat upon the upper side of the leather preferably with the
intervention of a thin ring r or washer of suitable shapo.
Or the ends of the metal plate last described may be divided or forked, so that
when turned up they pass through two smaller slits in the leather and are then bent
down as already described.
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 :-
1. In fastening soles to boots or shoes the wood blocks a fitted into metal sockets/
with flanges, which are fitted into holes in the inner soles, and have an opening
below through which the points of the screws pass and are screwed into the plug of
wood substantially as described and shewn in the drawing.
b
2. The metal plates & fitted under the inner sole, the ends being preferably forked
and bent up passing through slits in the leather and then bent down, preferably ove
a ring and pressed into the inner sole, in combination with screws s, which ar
screwed into holes in the metal plates b, and in the leather, for fastening th
soles to boots and shoes substantially as set forth and shewn in the drawing.
Dated thin 30th 1980
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Patentee.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Patentee.