US35329A

US35329A - Improvement in metal-plates for protecting the soles of boots or shoes

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Publication number: US35329A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1862-05-20
Anticipated expiration: 1879-05-20

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GERARD SICKELS, 'OF ROXBURY, ll'lASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMNT IN METAL 4PLATES FOR PROTECTING THE SOLES OFVBOOTS 0R SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,329, dated May 20, .1862.

To @ZZ 'L1/7.1.0111, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERARD SICKELS, of the city of Roxbury, county of Norfolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Application of Metal to the Soles of Boots and Slices, called Shoe- Sole Protectors, for the purpose of econoinizing the wear; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1A is a perspective view of the article on a scale about four times larger than the size for use. Fig. 2 is a vertical view of the saine. Fig. 3 represents a flat piece of metal of suitable shape `to be converted into a protector, as hereinafter described. Fig. t represents a shoe-sole with protectors applied to it.

This invention consists in the application of small plates of metal to the soles, each plate l1L ving a series of points or spurs attached to the periphery, said spurs projecting at a right angle tothe plane of the disk for the purpose of securing the plates firmly to the leather by merely driving them.' It will be seen that by constructing these plates about the size of a large nail-head they may be applied to thin soles the same as to` thick ones in just sufficient quantities to relieve the wear and not interfere with the elasticity or lightness of the shoefor boot, the several short points or spurs being situated around the periphery,

securing it more lfirmly than the ordinary one long stein or nail in the center of an ordinary nail head or plate which receives the wear. These articles are made by first punching or pressing blanks out from sheet metal, said blanks being shaped with wings or projections,

around the periphery of which to form thespurs aforesaid. Said blanks are afterward passed through another die, which is just the size of the body of the blank or lozenge in order to turn the spurs up at a right angle to the disk thereof. The punch which drives the lozenge through the raising-die is luted to receive the spurs as they are turned up in passing through the die, said flutes being graduated so as to draw out and sharpen the ends of the spurs, thereby iitting them to enter the leather easily andhcld firmly. Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent as a new article of manufacture- A protector for the soles of boots and slices, consisting of a small disk of metal formed with sharp points or spurs around its periphery projecting at right angles to the plane of the disk and adapted to secure it to the sole by driving into the leather7 all as hereinbefore described.

GERARD sIcKEILs.