IMPROVEMENTS IN GALVANIC SOLES FOR SHOES AND BOOTS, CHIEFLY APPLICABLE AS 'SOCKS' FOR SAME
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Gerard Wenzeslaus von Nawrocki, Proprietor of the
Firm of J. Brandt & G; W. v. Nawrocki, Patent Solicitor and Civil Engineer,.
of 124, Leipzigerstrasse, Berlin, Germany, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN GALVANIC SOLES FOR SHOES AND BOOTS, CHIEFLY APPLICABLE AS 'SOCKS'
FOR SAME." A communication from August Wienand, of Pforzheim, Baden,
Germany
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said. Gerard. Wenzeslaus von
Nawrocki at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th April
1881.
.
GERARD WENZESLAUS VON NAWROCKI, Proprietor of the Firm of J. Brandt
& G. W. v. Nawrocki, Patent Solicitor and Civil Engineer, of 124, Leipziger-
strasse, Berlin, Germany. "IMPROVEMENTS IN GALVANIC, SOLES FOR SHOES AND
A communication from
BOOTS, CHIEFLY APPLICABLE AS 'SOCKS' FOR SAME.'
August Wienand, of Pforzheim, Baden, Germany.
"
These solets are mainly composed of alternate strips or pieces of zinc and copper
united by brass eyelets. Applied as a "sock" to be placed inside a boot or shoe,
the underside is covered with leather, and the upper side with woollen material.
The metal parts are united to the leather part by ineans of eyelets, rendering the
sole or sock durable, and facilitating the exhalation of vapours from the wearer's
foot.
.
The acid animal exhalations produce with the zinc and copper parts a gentle
electric current, which is of great value in rheumatic affections. Instead of
copper and zinc, other substances of opposite electric or galvanic properties may
be used.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Gerard Wenzeslaus von Nawrocki in the. Great Seal Patent Office on
the 27th October 1881.
"
GERARD WENZESLAUS VON NAWROCKI, Proprietor of the Firm of J. Brandt
& G. W. v. Nawrocki, Patent Solicitor and Civil Engineer, of 124, Leipziger-
strasse, Berlin, Germany. IMPROVEMENTS IN GALVANIC SOLES FOR SHOES AND
BOOTS, CHIEFLY APPLICABLE AS 'SOCKS' FOR SAME." (A communication from
August Weinand, of Pforzheim, Baden, Germany.
These soles are mainly composed of alternate strips or pieces of zinc and copper
united by brass eyelets. Applied as a "sock" to be placed inside a boot or shoe,
the underside is covered with leather, and the upper side with woollen material.
The metal parts are united to the leather part. by means of eyelets, rendering the
sole or sock durable, and facilitating the exhalation of vapours from the wearer's
foot.
"
And in order that this Invention may be more fully understood, I will now
describe the same with reference to the accompanying Drawings, of which Figure 1
shows the underside of a
" sock
constructed according to this Invention;
Figure 2, the upper side of same with the wool covering removed; and Figure 3,
a cross section through the sock.
K and Z represent alternate strips of copper and zinc, which by means of
eyelets A are united to each other and to the upper woollen covering W, and
to the bottom or leather covering L.
The acid animal exhalations produce with the zinc and copper parts a gentle
electric current, which is of great value in rheumatic affections. Instead of
copper and zinc, other substances of opposite electric or galvanic properties may
be used.
I declare that I claim as the Invention communicated to me,-
An electropathic sole or "sock" consisting of a series of plates or pieces of
copper and zinc alternately, or other metals of opposite-electric properties, which
plates by contact produce galvanic electricity, the said plates being united by
eyelets and covered with. leather and woollen material, all substantially as
described and as shown..
In witness whereof, I, the said. Gerard Wenzeslaus von Nawrocki, have
hereunto. set my hand and seal, this Twentyfourth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and.eighty-one.
GERARD WENZESLAUS vVON NAWROCKI. (L.S.)