INVENTION OR IMPROVE-:. MENT IN SPRING SPUR SOCKETS
Year: 1828

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY:
MAXWELL, of: Number 99, Pall Mall, in the County of Middlesex, Spur Maker,,
send greeting..
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WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing: date at
Westminster, the Thirteenth day of August, in the ninth year of. His reign,.
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and. grant unto me, the said
Henry Maxwell, His especial licence, that I, the said Henry Maxwell,..my.
exors, adñiors, and.. assigns,. or: such others as I, the said Henry Maxwell,.my
exors, admors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,..
from time to time and at all times during the term therein expressed,..
should and lawfully might make, .use, exercise, and vend, within England,..
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "INVENTION OR IMPROVE-:.
MENT IN SPRING SPUR SOCKETS;" in which said Letters Patent there is..
contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Henry Maxwell, by an instrument..
in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the:
nature of my said Invention or improvement, and in what manner the same is:
to be performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled-in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery, within two months next, and immediately after the date
of the said. recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being:
thereunto, had, will more fully and at large appear...
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Maxwell, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention or

page_text: improvement, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and the following description thereof (that is to say) :—
My said Invention or improvement in spring spur sockets consists in the
addition thereto of a valve or door closing by means of a spring of its own
accord when the neck of the spur is withdrawn, and yielding to admit of the
entrance thereof; and I hereby claim as the object of this Patent every ap-
plication of a valve or door closing by means of a spring or. springs to the
spring spur socket, and whether the said valve or door opens or moves upon a
hinge or joint placed above, below, or on either side of the mouth or entrance
of the said spring spur socket.
As, however, it is desirable that I should afford an instance of a method of
carrying my said Invention or improvement into effect, I shall do so by re-
ferring to the several Figures contained in the Drawing which, as aforesaid,
is annexed to this Specification, and in which Drawing the same letters of
referrence indicate the similar parts in all the Figures. I shall begin by first
describing the particular spring spur socket to which my said Invention or im-
provement is applied, and which spring spur socket is also of my Invention
several years since, but not having been patented by me it has become ex-
tensively used by boot and spur makers in general.
In Figure 1, A is a section of part of the heel of a boot; B, a section of a
metal socket secured in the heel by means of screws, as will be described here-
after; C, the spur heel, having a gap D formed upon it, into which a double
inclined plane made at the inner end of the spring E rises and secures tho neck
in its place; upon pulling the neck, however, with a sufficient force, the spring
E. yields and allows the spur neck to be withdrawn from the socket. This
contrivance, however, required the employment of a separate piece, shewn at
Figure 2, to be thrust into the socket when the neck of the spur was withdrawn,
in order to close the external hole in the socket and prevent the entrance of
any thing therein which might impede the passage of the spur neck, and:this:
extra piece was, of course, to be withdrawn when the spur neck was: to be
replaced in the socket. Now, in order to do away with the necessity of em
ploying this separate piece, I have added the valve or door F; Figure 8;
moving upon a pin affixed in the sides of the socket or box B; and kept slut:
by the action of the end of the spring G upon the inner side of it, as shewn in
that Figure when the spur heck is withdrawn; but yielding to admit that
neck as shewn in Figure 4; Figure 5 represents the spur and its neck, as..with-
drawn from either of tho sockets B, B.
- I do not mean or intend hereby to claim under this Patent' those parts: of.

page_text: the spring socket, which as aforesaid are already is use, and which are shewn
in Figure 1, but I do hereby claim the additional parts before mentioned,
namely, the valve or door F and the spring G, and their adaptation to the
spring spur socket and neck as shewn in Figures 3 and 4. Figure 6 is a top
view of the spring spur socket B, Figure 7 a side view, and Figure 8 an under
view of it as combined; and Figure 9 is an end or front view thereof. F, in
Figure 10, is a side view of the door F shewn separately. H, H, in the
different Figures, are ears with counter sunk holes in them, for the heads of
screws to enter and lodge therein, by which the socket is secured firmly in the
heel of the boot, and as shewn in the cross section Figure 11; Figure 12
represents part of the heel of a boot with a spur upon it having sides to it.
In witness whercof, I, the said Henry Maxwell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Thirteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
HENRY .MAXWELL. (L.B.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirteenth day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1828, the aforesaid Henry Maxwell came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica-
tion aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.