Improvements in Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, [10th May, 1898
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Boots and Shoes.
ALBERT ISAIAH HOLMES, 56, Club Garden Road, Sheffield, Boot Foreman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Improvements in boots & shoes.
My invention relates to improvements in boots & shoes for footballing,
cricketing or ordinary use, which make in the following shape or design. In
the first place I make the sole & heel in the following manner, allowing suffi-
cient width for the purpose of corrugating I then use a corrugated or zig zug
knife for the purpose of corrugating the outer edge of sole & heel to any suit-
able design. The corrugating can also be done with a crimping or milling tool,
viz. by running it round the outer edge of sole & heel. This is for lauies &
gentlemens walking boots & shoes. The sole & heel can be made in leather
pulp, rubber or gutta percha, or any other suitable material. The edge of sole
can also be fluted if required. A quality in the improvements is that by the
process of making after considerable wear the wearer can in repairing have the
edge pared & squared so as to assume the appearance of the ordinary boots &
shoes.
Dated this 9th day of May 1898
Improvements in Boots and Shoes.
I, ALBERT ISAIAH HOLMES, 56, Club Garden Road, City of Sheffield, County of
York, Boot Examiner, 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 present invention relates to improvements in boots and shoes used for foot-
balling, cricketing, cycling or ordinary use: the word shoes also includes what
some people term slippers.
The main object of my present invention is to provide a boot or shoe so that the
person or persons playing football will be better able to prevent the ball from
slipping away from them or, if in cycling the feet will not be so liable to slip off
the treadles of the cycle, and in all classes of walking boots and shoes it will
materially add to the better and more stylish appearance of same.
Another object is that, after considerable wear the boot or shoe can be made
to assume the appearance of the ordinary boots and shoes now made.
In carrying out, my invention I make the sole and heel of the boot or shoe

page_text: either of leather, pulp, india rubber, gutta percha or other suitable material, of
sufficient length and width for the purpose of corrugating, fluting or zigzaging
the whole or portion of the outer edge of sole and heel.
I then use a knife or cutter of the required form of one or more corrugations
or flutes for the purpose of stamping or cutting the outer edge of sole and heel.
The sole and heel are then fastened in the ordinary manner to the upper portion
of the boot or shoe.
In another part of my invention instead of using a knife or cutter for cutting
or stamping out the corrugations or flutes, I use a crimping or milling tool which
I run round the outer edge of sole or heel and thus form the corrugations or
flutes by compression.
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Fig. 1 is an elevation of a boot shewing the corrugations “a on the outer
edge of sole and heel.
Fig. 2 is a plan of boot shewing the corrugations "a" on the outer edge of
sole and heel.
Fig. 3 is a plan of boot shewing the corrugations "a" on the outer edge of the
heel only.
Fig. 4 is a plan of a boot shewing the corrugations "a" on the outer of the
sole only.
Figs. 5. 6, 7 and 8 shew the alternate designs of corrugations, flutes, and zigzags.
intended to be used on the sole or heel on the outer edge only.
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:-
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Not the corrugations, flutes or zigzags on the top or underside of the sole or
heel but:
1. A boot or shoe having one or more corrugations, flutes or zigzags on the
outer edge of sole and heel substantially as herein shown and described.
2. A boot or shoe having one or more corrugations, flutes or zigzags on the
outer edge of sole only substantially as herein shewn and described.
3. A boot or shoe having one or more corrugations, flutes, or zigzags on the
outer edge of heel only substantially as herein shewn and described.
Dated this 8th day of February 1899.
ALBERT ISAIAH HOLMES.