US591646A

US591646A - Boot or shoe

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Publication number: US591646A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-10-12
Anticipated expiration: 1914-10-12

Description

(No Model.)

F. EPHRAIM. BOOT 0R SHOE.

No. 591,646. Patented Oct. 12,1897.

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UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND EPHRAIM, OF sA FRANoIsoQ'oA LIroRNIA.

BOOT OR SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters IE'atent N0. 591,646, dated October 12, 1897.

Application filedI'ebruary 11, 1897. Serial No. 622,926. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FERDINAND EPHRAIM, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boots or Shoes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The present invention relates to a certain new and useful protecting-plate for boots and shoes, which is designed for use more especially in connection with rubber boots or shoes; and it consists in the arrangement of parts and details of construction, as will be hereinafter fully set forth in the drawings, and described and pointed out in the specification.

The difficultyexperienced in protecting the soles of rubber boots and shoes by nails or by the ordinary plate secured thereon is that the holes or punctures formed by the nails or screws penetrating into the rubber causes the boots or shoes to leak, besides the tendency which the nails or plates have, owing to the elasticity of the rubber, to pull out or tear away from the sole.

The object of my invention is to provide protecting-plate so constructed as to permit of being secured to the sole of the boot or shoe without the employment of nails, screws, or other devices which penetrate into the sole of the boot or shoe.

Referring to the drawings forming a part of the application, Figure 1 is a side view, in

protecting-plates B, which are formed like unto a loop, the upper surface of which is interposed between the soles A A, while the under surface is exposed across or transverse the under face of the sole A. To an ordinary boot or shoe sole I secure four or more protecting-plates, which may vary from half an inch to one-inch in width. These plates are made of thin metal or other material pos sessing stronger wearing qualities than the sole itself. The size of the plates, it will be understood, varies in accordance with the various size soles.

In practice'the plates or bands are slipped onto and adjustedupon the outer sole A before the said sole is secured to the inner or upper sole A, after which the outer sole is secured to the upper or inner sole in the usual I do not claim or Wish to be understood as claiming such idea broadly.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure protection in by Letters Patent, is-

In a boot or shoe, the combination withthe inner and outer sole thereof, of a protectingplate consisting of a single piece of metal arranged between the said soles and having its lower body portion run transverse of the under face of the outer sole.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 1st day of February, 1897.

FERDINAND EPHRAIM.

Witnesses:

N. A. ACKER, ELMER WIcKns.