IMPROVEMENTS. IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC SIDE SPRING BOOTS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Elijah Jennings, and John Butcher, trading as E. Jennings
and Company, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, of 72 and 74 Church Gate in the
borough of Leicester for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Elijah Jennings and John
Butcher at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th September
1883.
ELIJAH JENNINGS, and JOHN BUTCHER, trading as E Jennings and Company,
Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, of 72 and 74 Church Gate, in the borough of
Leicester, "IMPROVEMENTS. IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC SIDE SPRING
BOOTS."
This invention consists of the application of one piece of elastic gusset web,
which extends from one side of tho back portion of the upper part of the boot
round the front of the same to the opposite side of the said back portion, in lieu of
the ordinary two side springs and intermediate frontal portion of the "upper" of
the boot.
By the employment of one piece of gusset as hereinbefore described the necessity
for seams in the front of the "upper" of the boot is dispensed with thereby giving
to the wearer additional support, and as no stitches are consequently required in
such portion of the boot the tendency of the rubber threads to become cut and the
liability of the same to give way is greatly reduced.
The employment of an elastic gusset and the absence of front seams in boots
made as hereinbefore described render the same easy fitting, effect the maintenance
of the heel in its proper position, and facilitates the putting on and taking off of
the boot.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Elijah Jennings and John Butcher in the Patent Office on the
11th March 1884.
ELIJAH JENNINGS, and JOHN BUTCHER, trading as E. Jennings and Company,
Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, of 72, and 74, Church Gato, in the borough of
Leicester "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC SIDE SPRING
BOOTS."
Our said Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of elastic side
spring boots and consists of the application of one piece of elastic gusset web,
which extends from one side of the back portion of the upper part of the boot,
round the front of the same to the opposite side of the said back portion, in lieu of
the ordinary two side springs and intermediate frontal portion of the "upper" of
the boot..
We will now proceed to refer to the accompanying drawings-from which the
nature of our said Invention will be more clearly understood. Figure 1. is a top
view of the front of the boot, Figure 2. is a side view of the back of the same,
Figure 3. shows the elastic gusset web hereinbefore referred to, Figure 4. is a side
view, when folded, of an elastic gusset web differing slightly in pattern from that
shown in Figure 3., and Figure 5. is a side elevation of a boot manufactured in
accordance with this invention.
By the employment of one piece of gusset web as hereinbefore described the
necessity for seams in the front of the "upper" of the boot is dispensed with,
thereby giving to the wearer additional support, and as no stitches are consequently
-required in such portion of the boot the tendency of the rubber threads to become
cut and the liability of the same to give way are greatly reduced.
The employment of an elastic gusset of the nature hereinbefore described and the
consequent absence of seams in boots manufactured in accordance with this inven-
tion render the same easy fitting, effect the maintenance of the heel in its proper
position, and facilitate the putting on, and taking off, of the boot.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention and the
manner in which the same is to be performed we would observe in conclusion that
what we consider novel and original and therefore claim as constituting the
invention secured to us by the said hereinbefore in part recited Letters
Patent, is :-
The employment of one piece of elastic gusset web in the manufacture of elastic
side spring boots, substantially as hereinbefore described and set forth.
In witness whereof we the said Elijah Jennings and John Butcher have here-
unto set our hands and seals this Sixth day of March in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty four.