An Improved Sole for Boots, Shoes, and other Foot Coverings.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Aug., 1991.
Complete Specification Left, 11th Mar., 1392-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Sole for Boots, Shoes, and other Foot Coverings.
I, ANTOINE FAFOURNOUX, of 38, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris, France,
Banker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved sole for boots shoes and foot coverings
generally, the improvement consisting in the combination, with an india-rubber or
leather sole, of studs or wearing pieces of metal, wood, bone, horn, or other hard
material of any suitable form embedded in the thickness of the sole for the purpose
of increasing its durability and protecting it from wear.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
Specification, wherein Figure 1 represents an underside view and Figure 2 a
cross-section on line 1-2 of the combination sole.
Figure 3 shews a plan, elevation and section of one of the studs.
Figures 4 and 5 shew modified forms of studs.
The same letters of reference denote like parts in all the figures.
« is the india-rubber or leather sole or clump sole in which are embedded, in the
manner shewn in the drawings, in recesses formed therein by any suitable means,
studs of iron, steel, or other metal or hard material disposed at various points
of its surface, as shewn, and which may be provided with a flange d, as in
Figures 2 and 3, and with a central nail hole c for the purpose of securely holding
them in place.
Or the studs may be formed with points e suitable for being twisted into the
sole in order to fix and render them non-detachable; or the wearing studs may
be provided with flexible lugs ƒƒ (Figure 5) for the same purpose.
Dated this 14th day of August 1901
A. FAFOURNOUX,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Sole for Boots, Shoes, and other Foot Coverings.
I, ANTOINE FAFOURNOUX of 38, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris, France,
Banker, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved sole for boots, shoes, and foot coverings
generally, the improvement consisting in the combination, with an india-rubber or
leather sole, of studs or wearing pieces of metal, wood, bone, horn, or other hard
material of any suitable form embedded in the thickness of the sole for the purpose
of increasing its durability and protecting it from wear.
Reference is to be had to the drawings accompanying my Provisional Specifi-
cation, and forming part of this Specification, wherein Figure 1 represents an
underside view, and Figure 2 a cross-section on line 1-2, of the combination sole.
Figure 3 shews a plan, elevation, and section of one of the wearing studs.
Figures 4 and 5 shew modified forms of studs.
The same letters of reference denote like parts in all the figures.
a is the india-rubber or leather sole or clump sole, in which are embedded, in
the manner shewn in the drawings, in recesses formed therein by any suitable
means, studs of iron, steel, or other metal or hard material of any suitable form,

page_text: disposed at various points of its surface, as shewn, and which may be provided
with a flange d, as in Figures 2 and 3, and with a central nail hole c for the purpose
of securely holding them in place.
Or the studs may be formed with tangs or points e suitable for being twisted
into the sole in order to fix and render them non-detachable; or the wearing studs b
may be provided with flexible lugs ƒ ƒ (Figure 5) for the same purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is―
The combination, with a leather, rubber, or other sole for boots, shoes, and
foot coverings generally, of wearing studs of any suitable hard material embedded
in the thickness of the sole, substantially in the manner, and for the purpose,
specified.
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1092.
A.
FAFOURNOUX,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.