Improved Devices applicable as Boot and Shoe Protectors, Carpet Pins, and Stair Treads, and for other purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 20th Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Devices applicable as Boot and Shoe Protectors, Carpet
Pins, and Stair Treads, and for other purposes.
JOHN ISRAEL HEMMINGWAY Dixon Street Sheffield in the County of York
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An improved hoot protector which can be used in connection with the outer
soles and heels of boots and shoes for the better protection of their wear.
This invention consists of forming and using suitable pieces of steel plates or
other suitable metal and attaching the same by a shank or shanks formed and
projecting from the same piece of plate.
These pieces of plate may be made in any suitable size shape or thickness.
The main features of this invention consists in making from one piece of sheet
steel say in the shape of a disc and by punching or cutting, and bending pointed
shanks are formed thereon by which they can be secured to the boot. The disc or
plate may be plain and flat on the one side and a shank or shanks projecting or
standing out on the other or reverse side, or the pieces of plate instead of being
made plain may be made so as to form a cup or frame for holding india rubber,
gutta percha, leather, wood, or other suitable material and can be made any size
shape or thickness required and may be used for boot and shoe protectors, carpet
pins stair treads and other suitable purposes. In the place of steel, brass, copper,
or other rolled metal may be used.
Dated this 18th day of March 1893.
JOHN ISRAEL HEMMINGWAY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Devices applicable as Boot and Shoe Protectors, Carpet
Pins, and Stair Treads, and for other purposes.
I, JOHN ISRAEL HEMMINGWAY of Dixon Street, Sheffield in the County of
York, 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 :-
This invention relates to improved devices applicable as boot and shoe protectors,
carpet pins, stair trends, and for other purposes.
Many attempts have been made to stamp from sheet steel, brass and other metal
plates, objects with prongs for fixing same, similar to those mentioned in this
Specification; but bitherto this has not been successfully accomplished owing to
the delicate nature of the tools employed for producing the shanks or prongs.
Whereas by these improved methods and devices, tools of a much stronger
formation can be used so that numbers of the before mentioned objects can be
made, without any danger of breaking or damaging the tools employed, and so that
the operation may be clearly understood I append two sheets of explanatory
drawings:
In my invention, I purpose stamping the blanks from sheet steel, brass, copper,
tin, or other suitable material, to the shape required and either by the same or
subsequent operation, to form the prongs or shanks, either on the outside or the
n.

page_text: inside or centre of the blank. When I purpose forming the prongs or shanks, or
the inside of an object, I punch or otherwise cut a hole of suitable shape and by
the same or another punch and die. I cut suitable strips from the sides or end-
of the hole, which are bent to right angles by the peculiar formation of the punch
& die.
When forming the prongs on the outside of the object, the punches and dies, are
made of such a shape, that suitable strips may be cut from the sides or ends of
the blank, and bent to right angles, by the peculiar shape of such punch and die.
The blanks may be bent, or otherwise pressed, so us to accommodate them
to the various uses for which they may be employed; for example, in boot
protectors, purpose raising suitable hollow projections, around one or all the
Sides, to imitate nails, and to cause them to bite upon the floor, and in the case of
one of the modifications the plates or blanks, are bent into a U shape, and closed
upon the belt or strap; the two parts being then joined by a pin, inserted between
them, so as to form an hinge.
Figs. 1. 2 and 3, are plan, side elevation and end elevation, respectively of a
blank for torming a device for securing the edges of, or joining two carpets
together.
Figs. 4, 5 and 6, are plan, side elevation, and end elevation, respectively of the
same device with the prongs on the outside edges of the blank.
Fig. 7, 8, and 9, are plan, side elevation, and end elevation, respectively of a
similar device to the beforementioned one but with the prongs 6 formed on the
inside of the blank .
Figs. 10, 11 and 12, are plan, ite elevation, and end elevation, respectively of
a blank a for a similar object to the one before mentioned.
Figs. 13, 14, and 15, are plan, side elevation, and end elevation, respectively of
the same device, but with the prongs of another formation on the outside edges
of blank .
Figs. 16, 17, and 18, are plan, side elevation and end elevation, respectively, of
a similar device, the prongs, being formed both on the edges, and on the inside
or centre of the blank u.
Figs. 19, 20 and 21, are plan, side elevation and end elevation, respectively, of a
blank a for forming a device for protecting the heels of boots and shoes.
Figs. 22, 23, and 24, are plan, side elevation, and end elevation respectively of
the blank a with the metal removed from the inside.
Figs. 25, 26 and 27 are plan, cross section and end elevation of the finished
device, with the prongs formed on the inside of the blank and the hollow
projections preferably of a spherical shape pressed out around the outer edges of
the blank a.
Figs. 28, 29 and 30, are plan, side elevation and end elevation, respectively of
a blank a for a device for protecting the toes of boots and shoes.
Figs. 31, 32 and 33, are plan, side elevation and end elevation respectively of
the same blank a, with the metal removed from the inside.
Figs. 34, 35 and 36, are plan, side elevation and end elevation, respectively of
the finished device, with the prongs formed on the inside of the blanka.
Figs. 37, 38, and 39, are plan, side elevation and end elevation, respectively of a
a blank for a device for protecting the sides of boots and shoes.
Figs. 40, 41 and 42, are plan, side clevation, and end elevation, respectively of
the same blank a, with the metal removed from the inside.
Figs. 43, 44 and 45, are plan, side elevation, and end elevation, respectively, of
the finished device, with the prongs & formed on the inside of the blank a.
Figs. 46, 47 and 48, are plan, side elevation and end elevation, respectively of a
blank for a device for the protection of stair treads the indiarubber, leather,
wood, or other substance being held by overlapping edges d'as shewn in Figs. 49,
51. 52 of the blank a.
Figs. 49, 50 and 51, are plan, transverse section & longitudinal section,
respectively, of the finished device, showing the prongs formed on the inside of

page_text: the blank a and the overlapping edges of the blank a bent into the position
they occupy when the indin rubber, leather, wood, or other substance is inserted.
Figs. 52 and 53, are plan and side elevation, respectively, of the device, after
the india rubber, leather, wood, or other substance has been inserted.
Figs. 54 and 55, are side elevation and end elevation, respectively of a blank a,
which may be fixed to a wall, for holding pictures and other like articles.
Figs. 56, 57 and 58. are side elevation, end elevation and plan, respectively, of
the finished device, with the prongs b, formed on the inside of the blank a.
Figs. 59, 60, and 61. are plan, side elevation and end elevation, respectively of
a device for joining the butt ends of straps, belts, horse reins and other similar
articles, with one set of prongs formed on the inside of blank a and similar
prongs formed on two of the outer edge of the blank a.
Figs. 62, 63, and 64, are plan, side clevation and end elevation respectively, of
a device, for the same purpose, as the foregoing one, but with two sets of prongs b
formed on the inside edges of the blank a.
Figs. 65, 66, and 67, are plan, side elevation and end elevation, respectively, of
a device for the same purpose, as the last mentioned, but with three sets of
prongs b, formed on the inside of blank a and similar prongs b, formed on all the
outside edges of the blank a.
Figs. 68, 69, and 70, are plan, side elevation and end elevation, respectively, and
Figs. 71, 72, and 73, are plan, side elevation and end elevation, respectively, of
parts of a device, which, when they are bent in the shape of a letter U, as shewn
in Figs. 74 & 75 and joined by a suitable pin, will form a flexible fastening for
joining the ends of straps belts on other like objects, the prongs are formed on the
inside and also on the two outer edges of the blank a, and parts punched or
otherwise removed from the centre of each blank, so as to form male and female
joint, when bent and coupled together by the joint pin e
Fig. 4 and 75, are plan and end elevation, respectively of the before mentioned
device, showing the same connected by the joint pin e, and the bent U, hape
blanks ready to be closed and attached to the strap, belt, or other like object.
It is obvious that the devices can be made, with any number of sets of prongs b,
on the insides of blanks a, projecting from the blank in the same, or opposite
directions also that the holes in the insides of blanks a, in any of the devices,
can be made of suitable shape, with any number of sides with the prongs b formed
therein, and that any number of prongs of any desirable shape, may project in the
same or opposite directions, on two, or all the outside edges of the blank a.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed declare what I
claim is.
1st. The formation of any number of prongs or shanks for securing the various
devices as herein before described and illustrated.
2nd. The securing or fixing the various devices without nails, screws, etc. as
hereinbefore described and illustrated.
3rd. The formation of prongs, spikes or shanks upon the top side or bottom
side or both sides of the plates or blanks, so that there are prongs or shanks
projecting from the plates or blanks in opposite directions a- hereinbefore described
and illustrated.
Dated this 18th day of December 1893.
JOHN ISRAEL HEMMINGWAY.