Improved Heel Protector for Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left. 2nd Sept.. 1893-Accepted. 14th Oct.. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Heel Protector for Boots and Shoes.
HRANK SHEPPARD HOLTON 12 Crozier Street Lambeth Palace Road S.E.
Carpenter and Joiner do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This heel protector is made to protect the leather that forms the heel of the boot,
and is fixed with screws.
The heel protector is composed of malleable iron, and gun metal.
Brass screws are used in fixing protector to heel of boot, to avoid rust.
The screws are sunk below the surface of the plate to prevent them from wear.
Such screws are withdrawn for adjusting other plates when worn out.
Plates are grooved on surface and are of three sizes.
Dated this 26th day of June 1893.
FRANK SHEPPARD HOLTON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Heel Protector for Boots and Shoes.
I, FRANK SHEPPARD HOLTON No. 12 Crozier Street Lambeth Palace Road
London S.E. Carpenter and Joiner 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 said invention relates to an improved heel protector for boots and shoes,
which has for its object the protection of the leather that forms the heel of the boot
or shoe.
The said heel protector consists of a metal plate which is composed of malleable
iron or of gun metal, the same is attached to the heel of the boot or shoe, by
means of brass screws which are sunk below the surface of the metal plate to
prevent them from wear.
Brass screws are used for the purpose of the invention to avoid rust.
Such screws provide a simple means of applying and fixing the protector to the
heel of the boot or shoe and are so easy and convenient to withdraw for adjusting
other plates in place of those worn out.
The said metal plate is fixed or attached to the rim or edge of the heel by the
means of screws as above described and can be made in size to go partly round, or
wholly round edge of heel as may be required. In its shape it resembles an
ordinary boot or shoe heel tip or plate, or partial tip, it being made to go partly
round or wholly round edge of heel as above stated, but differs in this respect, that
there are slight projections inwards at those parts of plate which are countersunk
to provide for screws. The plates are grooved on the surface and are of three
kinds, one being small, and convenient for light wear, a second for medium wear,
and a third suitable for heavy wear.
The said protector can be made in any size to fit any size heel of boot or shoe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The fixing or attaching of a metal plate in the shape as above described, to the

page_text: heel of a boot or shoe, as a heel protector, by means of brass screws, which novelty
provides a simple means of fixing, replacing or adjusting the metal plate or protector
as required.
Dated this the 2nd day of September 1893.
FRANK SHEPPARD HOLTON.