Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 17th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted. 22nd Jan., 1889
I JOHN SIDNEY CROWLEY of Corporation Street Manchester in the County of
Lancaster Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in and in connection with metal heel plates
for boots and shoes and the chief object of my improvements is to obtain a strong and
durable heel and at the same time enable waste scraps of leather to be utilized in place
of the ordinary solid and comparatively expensive top piece.
I effect this object by a special construction of metal heel plate which in one form
consists of two segmental tips or raised wearing surfaces cast or otherwise formed
upon a metal plate or web upon which is also cast or formed a raised bridge piece
preferably placed centrally so as to divide the whole plate or web into two nearly
equal parts. This improved metal plate when secured by nails or otherwise upon the
top lift of a boot heel would have one segmental tip at one corner or extremity of the
straight edge of the heel the bridge piece would extend from the other corner
diagonally across the heel and the other segmental tip would be at the outside edge of
the heel. Tho parallel spaces between the two segmental tips or wearing surfaces and
the bridge piece are then filled up flush with the metal wearing surfaces with two or
more waste strips of leather and these strips are secured to the heel by nails or
equivalents which pass through the leather strips and may also pass through the metal
web into the top lift.
By the use of my specially constructed heel plate I am able to dispense with the
ordinary solid leather top piece and to build up a strong neat and durable boot heel
with wasto scraps of leather which so far as I am aware have never been previously
used for this purpose."
It is obvious that the form of the improved metal plate may be varied or modified
in several ways as for example instead of having two segmental tips or wearing surfaces
there may be one three or any other suitable number and similarly there may be more
than one bridge piece and it may be placed otherwise than as above described.

page_text: I might also utilize waste pieces of leather in combination with a modified construction
of my improved heel plate made of one thickness of metal and having a number of
conical holes or slots with bevelled edges the smallest diameter being nearest the
_wearing surface. These conical holes or equivalents would be filled with corresponding
plugs or wads of leather or other suitable material and a combined wearing surface of
inetal and leather thus obtained. The heel plate could be secured to the top lift by
nails or other suitable means and small spikes may be cast on one or both sides of the
improved plates in order to secure the plates to the top lift and the leather filling up
pieces to the plates.

page_text: Boots and Shoes.
I JOHN SIDNEY CROWLEY of Corporation Street Manchester in the County of
Lancaster Engineer, 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 improvements in and in connection with metal heel plates
for boots and shoes and the chief object of my improvements is to obtain a strong and
durable heel and at the same time enable waste scraps of leather to be utilized in place
of the ordinary solid and comparatively expensive top piece.
I effect this object by a special construction of metal heel plate which in one form
consists of two segmental tips or raised wearing surfaces cast or otherwise formed upon
a metal plate or web upon which is also cast or formed a raised bridge piece preferably
placed centrally so as to divide the whole plate or web into two nearly equal parts.
This improved metal plate when secured by nails or otherwiso upon the top lift of a
boot heel would have one segmental tip at one corner or extremity of the straight
edge of the heel the bridge piece would extend from the other corner diagonally across
the heel and the other segmental tip would be at the outside edge of the heel. The
parallel spaces between the two segmental tips or wearing surfaces and the bridge
picce are then filled up flush with the metal wearing surfaces with two or more waste
strips of leather and these strips are secured to the heel by nails or equivalents which
pass through tho leather strips and may also pass through the metal web into the top
lift.
By the use of my specially constructed heel plate I am able to dispense with the
ordinary solid leather top piece and to build up a strong neat and durable boot heol
with waste scraps of leather which so far as I am aware have never been previously used
for this purpose.
It is obvious that the forin of the improved metal plate may be varied or modified in
several ways as for example instead of having two segmental tips or wearing surfaces
there may be one three or any other suitable number and similarly there may be more
than one bridge piece and it may be placed otherwise than as above described.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings reference being bad to the
figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a view of the sole of a boot or shoe showing one of my improved
metal heel plates attached thereto.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the line A A, Fig. 1.
Figs. 3 and 4 aro views respectively of right and left heel plates with the leather
filling up pieces removed.
Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 are detail views illustrating alternative constructions of the

page_text: Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
Referring first to the improved metal heel plato illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4.
a designates the metal plate or web, a' a' the two tips or raised segmental wearing
surfaces formed thereon, a² the raised bridge piece also formed with the web a; a³ are
holes in the web a by means of which the plate can be nailed or otherwise secured upon
the heel.b; cc are the strips of leather which in this case are shown secured to tho
heel b by nails d.
Fig. 5 shows the improved heel plate made with three diagonal bridge pieces or
parallel bars a formed upon the web a.
Fig. 6 shows the improved heel plate with two transverse instead of diagonal bridge
pieces or parallel bars a².
Figs. 7.and 8 show the improved heel plate formed with spikes or pins a' formod
on one of its sides for securing the leather strips c to the said plate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that
what I claim is
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1. A metal heel plate having a tip or raised segmental wearing surface or two
or more such tips and a raised bridge piece or two or more such pieces cast or other-
wise formed with the metal web of said heel plate substantially as and for the purposes
described.
2. The several constructions herein described and shown embodying my improve-
ments in and in connection with metal heel plates for boots and shoes.
Dated this 15th day of December 1888.
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for Applicant.