IMPROVEMENTS IN TIPS FOR THE HEELS OF BOOTS AND SHOES.
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eli Morris, of 19, Wood Street, Northampton, in the County
of Northampton, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TIPS FOR THE
HEELS OF BOOTS AND SHOES.",
Sealed the 6th July 1877, and dated the 23rd January 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eli Morris at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd January 1877.
ELI MORRIS, of 19, Wood Street, Northampton, in the County of Northampton.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TIPS FOR THE HEELS OF BOOTS AND SHOES."
This Invention has for its object improvements in tips for the heels of boots and
shoes.
I employ a metal plate of the shape of the top piece; it is hollowed out at the
back slightly that it may clip on to the heel when fixed. On the face it has a
countersunk recess in it of an ornamental or suitable form and design. This plate
is fixed to the heel by one screw in the centre, and the recess is filled with leather
or other material formed to fit it, and fixed in its place by means of three screws
placed at equal distances the one from the other and from the central screw; or
the bottom of the countersunk recess may be provided with small spikes to keep
the filling when of leather in its position. In this case the four screws are all
inserted before the filling is put in.
In some cases, in place of the countersunk recess, I form a hole right through
the plate, and I provide lugs or flanges to receive the screws or nails, and these are
hidden under the filling. The filling or centre piece may be fixed by means of
points put into the lift made to receive the tip and filling; or the filling may be
secured from the face by small rivets or screws arranged according to an ornamental
device. The filling may also be secured by screws to the flanges or lugs of the
plate.
In some cases I form the plate or tip of a horse-shoe form, open at the front, and
with the recess or opening bounded by undercut sides, which serve to retain the
filling, when it is firmly pressed into the recess. This tip is secured by screws
inserted into a flange which is continuous around the three sides of the recess.

page_text: Figure 1 is an elevation; Figure 2 is a section; and Figure 3 is an under side
view of the heel of a boot or shoe furnished with a tip constructed according to my
Invention.
a, a, is the plate cast in brass to the form suitable for the top piece of the heel;
a, a, is the hole of ornamental form left in the centre of the plate ;a², a², are
the lugs formed around the interior of the hole a¹ to receive the screws for fixing
the plate. The lugs, as before stated, are of less thickness than the outer portion of
the plate a. The plate a is shown separately by the Figures 4. b is the filling
piece of leather; it is cut to the form of the hole a¹ by a punch from a piece of
leather of suitable thickness, and it is then pared away where it will come upon
the lugs, so that the centre portion of the piece may bed firmly and fairly upon the
body of the heel to which it is secured by points put into the lift of the heel imme-
diately below it. The form of the hole a¹ may be varied to the shape of the piece b,
being made to correspond. The exterior form of the plate a will also vary slightly
for different shapes of heels.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I claim, the construction of
tips for the heels of boots and shoes, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Eli Morris, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven.
ELI MORRIS.
(L.S.)