Improvements in Revolving Heel Plates or Pads.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements in Revolving Heel Plates or Pads.
I, GEORGE WOOD of 4, Croft Street, Burnley, in the County of Lancaster, Mining
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to certain "Improvements in or in connection with
protectors for use on boots and shoes and for other purposes," for which Letters Patent
were granted to one John Milnes No. 4723 of 1890 In the specification of the said
recited Patent are described certain small studs or protectors for boots and shoes formed
with grooves or channels, into which fits a metal plate by which the studs or protectors
are secured to the boot heel by a screw or screws.
My invention consists in adapting a revolving heel pad or false heel on the principle
of the said patent, which is to be made in rubber leather, paper or a combination of
guttapercha, and such substances as can be suitably applied and made for wear. The
object of my invention is to provide a substitute to wear on the heel of boots and
shoes, so as not to wear down the original heel of the boot or shoe, and in case one
portion of the pad should become worn a fresh surface may be readily presented.
In carrying out my invention, I form a disc or circular piece of rubber or other
suitable material and make it of various sizes or thicknesses so as to be adaptable to the
largest or smallest heels, and this piece of rubber is so made or moulded that an
ordinary screw or nail shall, with the following devices be sufficient, to hold it in
position and allow it to be revolved as required.
The pad of leather, rubber, composition or material of which my revolving heel
plate is made is preferably formed circular in shape, and is grooved or channelled on
its exterior surface for the reception of a metal plate which fits into the said grooves
deeply, so as not to come in contact with the ground when being worn. This metal
plate is now bored at a central point, and into the hole thus formed a screw nail is
inserted to fix the pad to the boot heel. The metal plate may be in the form of a
cross and made to fit into corresponding grooves in the pad, or any other suitable
shape may be adopted. The pads instead of being formed circular may be heel shaped
or they may be of any desired form or thickness.
In a modification a plate is embedded in the rubber pad, and is provided with a
central hole, through which a nail or screw is passed to secure the pad to the boot heel.
The rubber is vulcanised over the loose nail, screw or spike head, in such a manner as
not to permit of the nail or screw leaving its position, but at the same time to allow
the rubber pad and plate to freely revolve thereon as required. By this means, a
revolving heel plate is provided which presents an entire and unbroken surface of rubber
for wear.
1000

page_text: provements in evolving heel Fiates or Pads.
I, GEORGE WOOD of 4, Croft Street, Burnley, in the County of Lancaster, Mining
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be perforined, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention has reference to certain improvements in or in connection with
protectors for use on boots and shoes and for other purposes for which Letters
Patent were granted to one John Milnes No. 4723 of 1890. In the specification of
the said recited patent are described certain small studs or protectors for boots and
shoes formed with grooves or channels, into which fits a metal plate, by which the
studs or protectors are secured to the boot heel by a screw or screws.
My invention consists in adapting a revolving heel pad or false heel on the principle
of the said patent, which is to be made in rubber, leather, paper, or a combination of
guttapercha, and such substances as can be suitably applied and made for wear. The
object of my invention is to provide a substitute to wear on the heel of boots and
shoes, so as not to wear down the original heel of the boot or shoe, and in case one
portion of the pad should become worn, a fresh surface may be readily presented.
In carrying out my invention, I form a disc or circular piece of rubber or other
suitable material, and inake it of various sizes or thicknesses, so as to be adaptable to
the largest or smallest heels, and this piece of rubber is so made or moulded that an
ordinary screw or nail shall, with the following devices, be sufficient to hold it in
position, and allow it to be revolved as required.
The pad of leather, rubber, composition or material, of which my revolving heel
plate is made, is preferably formed circular in shape, and is grooved or channelled on
its exterior surface for the reception of a metal plate, which fits into the said grooves
deeply, so as not to come in contact with the ground when being worn. This metal
plate is now bored at a central point, and into the hole thus formed a screw nail is
inserted to fix the pad to the boot heel. The metal plate may be in the form of a
cross, and made to fit into corresponding grooves in the pad or any other suitable
shape may be adopted. The pads instead of being formed circular may be heel
shaped or they may be of any desired form or thickness.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 represents the heel pad of rubber or other
material grooved on its external surface at B, and formed with a central hole C. It
may be ribbed as shewn. Fig. 2 shews the metal plate preferably cross-shaped, and
provided with a central hole D, which fits into the groove B formed for its reception in
the pad represented in Fig. 1. When the plate is placed in position, the screw shewn
in Fig. 3 is passed through the central holes in the metal plate, and rubber pad
respectively, and tightened on the boot heel, but nevertheless so as to allow the pad
to revolve on the surface of the boot heel.
The whole arrangement and construction of my improved heel plate or pad when
fixed is shewn in Fig. 4.
To prevent fraying of the edges, the rubber pad may be encased with a metal case,
which will considerably prevent wear.
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 :-
In revolving heel plates or pads, cutting or grooving or channelling rubber or
similar pad represented in Fig. 1 in such a way as to receive metal plate shewn in
Fig. 2, and providing the same with a central hole for the reception of a screw for

page_text: fixing to the boot heel, the said pad being free to revolve, and present a fresh surface
for wear, substantially as described.
Dated this 12th day of June 1897.
RICHMOND & Co.,
12, Standish Street, Burnley, Agents for the Applicants.