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WILLIAM E. HAMLIN, JR., or PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

Letters Patent No. 81,777, elatedv September 1, 1868,

IMPROVBD HEEL-PLATE FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

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'lO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. HAMLIN, Jr., ofthe city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have' invented a new and useful Improvement in Heel-Plates for Boots and Shoes; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings making apart of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereo-f. I v

Figure 1 exhibits 'in perspective the two parts of which the heelplate is composed.

Eigures 2 and 3 exhibit respectively the same heel-plate applied to hoot-heelsof diiferent widths.

The object of a. heel-plate is to furnisha metallic surface to"`the edge of the heel of a hoot or shoe, and thereby prevent it from being worn away by the pavement so soon as it otherwise would be.

A device for this purpose has heretofore been employed, made'in the form of a l1orse-shoe,and' conforming to the outline of the heel of the'boot, but it is objectionable, on the ground that each such plate is fitted only for one size of heel, and is not capable of being set upon either a broad or a narrow heel at pleasure.

My invention consists in' forming a. heel-plate in two parts, so fitted to each other that the two, so constitoting a complete plate, can be adjusted to boot-heels of all usual sizes. 1

In the drawings, it will be seen that the heel-plate' is composed ofthe two members, A and B. The portion A has one end madewith. a circular outline, a b, and the end of the other portion, B, fitting the same, is cut away upon a. curved line, c d, corresponding with the curved outline a b of the portion A.

When the two portions A andlB areplaced with their ends so prepared injuxtaposition, it is evident that the two surfaces a b and c d can be made to slide one upon the other, in the same manner as they would do if the two portions A4 and B were hinge-jointed, and thereby the plate can be conveniently adjusted'to boot-heels of any of the common sizes.

y The plates are secured to the heel-tap by means of screws, e, and they may be let into the leather so as to make a iiush surface with it, orthey may be screwed upon the surface of the outer lift' of the heel.'

I prefer, also, to malle the surface of the plate roughened, by dividing its surface into squares, or lozenges, by intersecting lines, as shown, and also to make the plate thicker at the back edge than at the front. These features, however, are mattersof construction merely.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters'Patent, is-

rlhe improved heel-plate for boots and shoes, consisting of a plate made in two parts, A and B, constructe and fitted to eachother so as t-o accommodate heels of different sizes in the way substantially as describedf WM. E. HAMLIN, JR.

Witnesses:

BENJ. F. Tunnsron, GEoReE B. BAuRows.

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