Improvements in the Manufacture and Repairing of Boots and Shoes or other Coverings for the Feet.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 24th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 24th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 12th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture and Repairing of Boots and Shoes
or other Coverings for the Feet.
I, THOMAS GARE, of the Gare Machine Co. Ld. of Hopes Carr Stockport in the
County of Cheshire, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to and is of general applicability in the manufacture and
repairing of light and heavy boots or shoes or other coverings for the feet and has
for its object to provide a much more durable, lighter, flexible, and in the long run,
cheaper, fastening than heretofore has been the case.
My invention consists in the use and application as a fastening for uniting the soles
or heels to the uppers or for building heels of boots or shoes or other coverings for
the feet, of cane pegs, inserted either by hand or machine.
These cane pegs may be formed in suitable lengths from either split or unsplit
cane, which owing to its natural shape facilitates simpler forming of the pegs and
owing to its long fibres and toughness combines flexibility and strength therein,
besides not being subject to climatic influence, it will prevent the shrinking or
swelling of the peg.
The said cane pegs I preferably cement into their holes, the porousness of the cane
greatly assisting such operation, and increases the preservation of the peg.
The colour of the cane being nearly the same as that of leather it also permits of
a better and neater finish.
Dated this 001 M
1000
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture and Repairing of Boots and Shoes
or other Coverings for the Feet.
I, THOMAS GARE, of the Gare Machine Co. Ld. of Hopes Carr, Stockport, in the
County of Cheshire, Engineer, 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 :-
This invention relates to and is of general applicability in the manufacture and
repairing of light and heavy boots or shoes or other coverings for the feet and has
for its object to provide a much more durable, lighter, flexible, and in the long run,
cheaper, fastening than heretofore has been the case.
My invention consists in the use and application, as a fastening, for uniting the
soles or heels to the uppers or for building heels of boots or shoes or other coverings
for the feet, of cane pegs inserted either by hand or machine in the usual way.
These cane pegs may be formed in suitable lengths from either split or unsplit
cane, which owing to its natural shape facilitates simpler forming of the pegs, and
owing to its long fibres and toughness combines flexibility and strength therein,
besides not being subject to climatic influences, it will prevent the shrinking or
swelling of the peg.
Pegs made of cane, owing to its toughness and flexibility, are not liable to break
through the friction of the soles and render the same more pliable than is the case
with wood pegs.
The said cane pegs I preferably cement into their holes, the porousness of the cane
greatly assisting such operation and increase the preservation of the peg.

page_text: The colour of the cane being nearly the same as that of leather, it also permits of
a better and neater finish.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is :-
:-
In the manufacture or repairing of boots, shoes or other coverings for the feet,
the use and application of cane pegs as a fastening for uniting the soles or heels to
the uppers or for building heels, inserted either by hand or mechanically, substantially
as and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 22nd day of Februarr 1800
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.