Improvements in Protectors for the Heels of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept., 1894-Accepted. 27th Oct., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Protectors for the Heels of Boots and Shoes.
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We, THOMAS CHAMBERS WHITNEY, of 4 Darenth Cottages, Shoreham, near
Sevenoaks, in the County of Kent, Master Bootmaker, and HENRY LASLETT
GIBBS DANE, of 2 Wildernesse Villas, Camden Road, St. John's Hill, Sevenoaks,
in the County of Kent, Grocer's Traveller, 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 :-
Our invention relates to improvements in protectors for the heels of boots and
shoes, and has for its object to provide means for compensating for the wear and
tear upon any particular part of such heel-protectors.
And in order that the said invention may be the more readily understood, we
have shewn same upon the accompanying of illustrative drawings, in which,
Fig. 1, is a plan of the underside of a boot heel with our protector applied
thereto.
Fig. 2, being a similar view. with the protector turned partly round and fixed in
that position, while,
Fig. 3, is a section of the boot heel and protector drawn upon line c. x.
Referring to the drawings, we have there shewn a beel of a boot a upon which
we fix, by means of nails, screws, rivets or their equivalent, a plate 6 fashioned to
conform to the shape of the boot heel, and provided with raised sides 6' 6', one of
which bis recessed or cut away upon its inner side in a circular manner as shewn
by b, while the other which is fashioned of narrower width than the former, is
diminished toward the rear.
Both sides 6' 6' terminate within a short distance of the rear of the heel a,
thereby leaving an opening between such sides at the rear, similar to the opening
between the sides at the forward end of the heel.
A metal or other disc c is provided, which disc is of such a size as to fit, and be
capable of turning between the broad recessed side b' and the narrow side b*.
The said disc is provided with three or more rivet or screw-holes c¹ corresponding
holes or recesses & being formed in the bed-plate b.
In use the bed-plate is fixed to the under or wearing side of the heel by any
suitable means, and the disc c is then rivetted, nailed or screwed to such heel-plate
by means of a central screw, rivet or nail and the similar means on either side of
the latter. The relative sizes of the central hole C¹ and the screw or the like c³,
are such as to allow of the said disc e being turned upon such central screw or
the like c', as upon a pivot when the additional rivet or the like on either side of
same, are removed, so that when the rear or any other part of the disc c wears
down during use in undue proportion to the other parts, the side fixing means c³ are
withdrawn and the said disc turned upon the central pivot, so as to cause a less
worn part of the disc to assume the position of the worn-out portion. When this
has been done the disc is fixed again by re-inserting the rivets or the like * at
either side of the central pivot.
By this means as will be readily understood, unequal wear of the protector is
obviated. The space between the sides and the disc c is filled by a piece of
leather d fixed in position by means of the nails or their equivalent d¹.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:
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1. The improvements in protectors for the heels of boots and shoes, consisting in

page_text: a bed-plate having raised sides, one of which is recessed upon one surface in
combination with a disc capable of being turned upon a central pivot, and fixed in
any desired position, substantially as described and illustrated.
2. The improvements in protectors for the heels of boots and shoes, substantially
as specified and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 12th day of September 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG, -
12, Basinghall Street, London, E.C., Agents.