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Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Laban Heath, of Boston, County of Suffolk, State
of Massachusetts, United States of America, for the Invention of
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Laban Heath at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th April 1875.
1, LABAN HEATH, of Boston, County of Suffolk, State of Massachu-
setts, United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "INPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention relates more especially to that class of boots or shoes
which are designed for men's wear, and consists in a novel construction
and arrangement of the parts by which an easier and better fitting,
cheaper, and more durable article of this character is produced than is
now in ordinary use.

page_text: The distinguishing features of my Invention consist primarily in
making the quarters integral, or cutting them in one piece, and moulding
or crimping them into the proper shape to fit the foot and form the
shank of the boot or shoc; and, secondly, in the combination therewith
of an clastic metallic shank piece, all as hercin-after set forth
In the construction of a boot or shoe according to my Invention I cut
the quarters in one piece, and mould or crimp them in any convenient
manner on a proper mould or block to fit the shape of the foot, and
form the shank, the quarters being united by a vertical heel seam and
to the vamp by the side seams in the usual manner
A tap sole is employed or one which ends near the side seams, there
being no shank piece or sole below or outside of the shank formed by
the quarters
An inner sole is also employed in the boot or shoe in the
usual manner, and between this sole and the shank formed by the
quarters I insort a curved metallic shank piece, which may be secured
in position by attaching it to-the heel and sole of the shoe by rivets or
in any convenient manner.
By the absence of an outer solo at the shank of the shoe, and the
peculiar construction of this part from the quarters as described the full
benefit of the metallic shank piece is gained, and a more elastic and
better fitting article produced than is practicable by any other method
of manufacture with which I am conversant.
It will be obvious however that the shank piece may be omitted
usabe danestive from the onest as
Invention
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said Laban Пeath in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 1st October 1875
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LABAN
HEATH, of Boston, County of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, United
States of America, send greeting.
. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-

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eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Laban Heath, Her special licence, that
I, the said Laban IIcath, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Laban Heath, my exccutors, admini-
strators, and assigns, should at any time agree with and no others,-
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Laban Heath, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
writing under my, or their, or one of then hands and scals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Laban leath, do hereby declarc
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawing forming a part of this Specification -
My Invention relates more especially to that class of boots or shoes
which are designed for men's wear, and consists in a novel construction
and arrangement of the parts, as hercin-after more fully set forth, by
which an casier and better fitting, clicaper, and more durable article of
this character is produced than is now in ordinary use.
The distinguishing features of my Invention consist primarily in
making the quarters integral, or cutting them in one piece and moulding
or crimping them into the proper shape to fit the foot, and form thic
shank of the boot or shoc, and, secondly, in the combination therewith
of an clastic metallic shank piece, all as hercin-after set forth.

page_text: A represents the quarters; B, the vamp; and C, the metallic shank
piecc.
In the construction of a boot or shoc I cut the quarters in one piece,
as shown in Figure 3, and mould or crimp them in any convenient
manner on a proper mould or block to fit the shape of the foot and form &
the shank m, the quarters being united at a, a, by a vertical heel scam,
and to the vamp B by the side seams n in the usual manner.
A tap sole is employed, or one which ends near the side seams, there
being no shank piece or sole below or outside of the shank formed by
the quarters: An inner solc is also employed in the boot or shoc in the 1
usual manner, and between this sole and the shank formed by the
quarters A. I insert a curved metallic shank piece C, which may be
secured in position by attaching it to the hoel and sole of the boot or
shoe by rivets or in any convenient manner.
By the absence-of-an outer sole at the shank of the boot or shoe, and
the peculiar construction of this part from the quarters, as described, the
full benefit of the metallic shank piece is gained, and a more elastic and
better fitting article produced than is practicable by any other method
of manufacture with which I am conversant.
It will be obvious however that the shank piece may be omitted with-
out entirely departing from the spirit of my Invention.
Having thus fully described my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I wish it understood that I claim,―
First. A boot or shoe having the quarters A cut in one piece, and
moulded or crimped to fit the shape of the foot and form the shank m, as !
herein set forth and for the purpose specified
Second. A boot or shoc having the quarters A cut in one piccc, and
moulded or crimped to fit the shape of the foot, and form the shank m,
and provided with the metallic shank piece C, as herein set forth, and
for the purpose specified.