IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIANCES CONNECTED WITH FOOT COVERINGS AND CLOGS, FOR THE PROTECTION OF SAME PROVISIONAL SPATION
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Martin and Tom Henry Sneyd, both of Sheffield,
in the County of York, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIANCES
CONNECTED WITH FOOT COVERINGS AND CLOGS, FOR THE PROTECTION OF
SAME
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Martin and Tom
Henry Sneyd at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
19th January 1881.
PETER MARTIN and TOM HENRY SNEYD, both of Sheffield, in the County of
York. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIANCES CONNECTED WITH FOOT COVERINGS AND
CLOGS, FOR THE PROTECTION OF SAME."
"
This Invention relates to appliances for protecting foot coverings and clogs.
This Invention relates to the "irons worn on the soles and heels of boots, being
more especially applicable to that form of foot covering known as a "clog."
As ordinarily made the "irons" are of rolled grooved wrought iron which wear
away rapidly in the "tread" of the sole and heel, leaving the other parts thereof
practically as when first put on.
The Invention consists in forming the "iron" with one or more projections or
wearing plates on each of the inside edges thereof at that part or the parts where the
greatest wear takes place, namely, at the "tread " of the sole and heel, the projections
or plates and the rim of the "iron" (forming the improved "iron") being in one piece
and being made of malleable cast iron, steel, or any other suitable material, the
improved "iron" being secured to the sole in any ordinary manner.
"
"
As a modification the projections or wearing plates can be separate from the
"rim" or "iron," and be formed with a set off or ledge which will pass under the
"rim "
or "iron" and be secured to the sole by the rivets or pins which pass
through the "iron" into the sole, or the projections or wearing plates may have
projections which will fit into recesses in the "iron or rim," the said rivets or
pins passing through the said projections, or the said plates may have projections
which will fit into transverse recesses in the "iron" or "rim," and be pinned to
the sole of the clog or boot so that the said plates may be taken off when worn
and replaced by new ones without removing the "rim" or "iron." The wearing
plates can be made to stand below and project beyond the "rim" so that the said
"rim" need not be worn at all.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Peter Martin and Tom Henry Sneyd in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th July 1881.
PETER MARTIN and TOM HENRY SNEYD, of Sheffield, in the County of York.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIANCES CONNECTED WITH FOOT-COVERINGS AND CLOGS,
FOR THE PROTECTION OF SAME.'
"
This Invention relates to the "irons" worn on the soles and heels of clogs or
boots, being more especially applicable to clogs.
As ordinarily made the "irons" are of rolled grooved wrought iron which wear
away rapidly in the "tread" of the sole and heel, leaving the other parts thereof
practically as when first put on.
"
This Invention consists in forming the "iron" with one or more projections.or
wearing plates on the inside edges thereof at that part, or the parts where the
greatest wear takes place, namely, at the tread" of the sole and heel, the pro-
jection and the rim of the "iron" (forming the improved iron) being in one piece,
and being made of malleable cast iron, steel, or any other suitable material, the
improved iron being secured to the sole in any ordinary manner. For boots a
similar wearing plate for the toes will be employed.
As a modification the projections or wearing plates can be separate from the
irons, and be formed with a set off or ledge which will pass under the "rim" or
"iron," and be secured to the sole by the rivets or pins which pass through the
"iron" into the sole, or the projections or wearing plates may have projections
which will fit into recesses in the "iron" or "rim," the said rivets or pins passing
through the said projections; or the said plates may have projections which will
fit into transverse recesses in the "irons" or "rim," and be pinned to the sole of the
clog or boot, so that the said plates may be taken off when worn and replaced by
new ones without removing the "rim" or "iron." The wearing plates can be
made to stand below and project beyond the "rim" or "iron," so that the said
"rim
or "iron" will not be worn at all.
"
In the accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1 is a side view of the wooden sole of a
clog, and Fig. 2 is a plan of the bottom thereof showing our improved iron with
projecting or wearing plates. A is the rim of the sole iron, and B, B¹, are the
projections or wearing plates; C is the rim of the heel iron, and D the projection
or wearing plate.
Fig. 3 is a side view of or part of a wooden sole of a clog, and Fig. 4 is a plan
of the bottom thereof showing a detached rim E and wearing plate F, and Fig. 5
is a cross sectional view thereof as taken through the dotted line Y, Z, (Fig. 4).
The plate F has projections, as shown at G, which fit into corresponding
cavities H and H' in the sole of the clog under the detached rim E. Fig. 6 shows
a clog iron with solid wearing plates, as cut out from a strip of rolled grooved
steel or iron; Figs. 7 and 8 show a strip of rolled grooved steel, from which double
rows of "irons are cut or flyed, the said irons being afterwards bent to the form
shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 9 is a plan, and Fig. 10 is a side view of heel irons with
solid wearing plates as flyed out from rolled grooved steel or iron strips.
"
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be or may be performed and carried
into effect, we wish it to be understood that what we claim as novel and original,
and secured to us by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
Firstly,
The construction of "clog irons," in which wearing plates are combined with
the rim (or ordinary "clog iron,") the said "clog iron" being of malleable cast

page_text: iron, substantially as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, or of rolled grooved steel or iron,
substantially as illustrated in Figs. 6, 9, and 10 of the accompanying Drawings.
Secondly,
The combination of the ordinary "clog iron" with loose wearing plates, sub-
stantially as illustrated in Figs. 3, 4, and 5 of the accompanying Drawings, the said
wearing plates having projections which fit into recesses in the wooden sole,
substantially as hereinbefore specified and drawn.
In witness whereof, we, the said Peter Martin and Tom Henry Sneyd, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifteenth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
PETER MARTIN.
(L.S.)
TOM HENRY SNEYD.
(L.S.)