Improvements in Soles for Boots, Shoes, Clogs, and like Foot Coverings.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left. 14th July, 1892-Accepted. 20th Aug., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Soles for Boots, Shoes, Clogs, and like Foot
Coverings.
I, RICHARD HUNT of Waterloo, near Liverpool in the County of Lancaster,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to the soles for which I obtained British Letters Patent
No. 13576 of the year 1889, and the object is to improve the appearance of such
soles and to render them more efficient and durable.
My invention consists essentially in the combination with transverse blocks as
set forth in the Complete Specification to the said British Letters Patent
No. 13576 of the year 1889 leather or like flexible binding pieces passing around
the sole across the ends of the transverse pieces and secured thereto by nails rivets
screws or like agents in such a manner as to regulate the amount of opening or
yielding of the said transverse blocks when the sole is bent and of such substance
as to act as a shield to prevent the edges of the timber from becoming worn or
frayed and allow of the heads of the nails or rivets being sunk out of sight.
Dated this 14th dox of October 1901
Per pro J. T. KING,
*J. Johnson,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Soles for Boots, Shoes, Clogs, and like Foot
Coverings.
I RICHARD HUNT of Waterloo near Liverpool in the County of Lancaster
Gentleman 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 :-
The invention relates to the soles for which I obtained British Letters Patent
No. 13576 of the year 1889 and the object is to improve the appearance of such
soles and to render them more efficient and durable.
My invention consists essentially in the combination with transverse blocks,-as
set forth in the Complete Specification to the said British Letters Patent
No. 13576 of the year 1889,-of leather or like flexible binding pieces passing around
the sole across the ends of the transverse pieces and secured thereto by nails, rivets,
screws, or like agents in such a manner as to regulate the amount of opening or
yielding of the said transverse blocks when the sole is bent, and of such substance
as to act as a shield to prevent the edges of the timber from becoming worn or
frayed and, if desired, to allow of the heads of the nails, rivets, or screws being
sunk out of sight.
Fig. 1 is an elevation and Fig. 2 a plan of a sole constructed in accordance with
my invention.
a are the transverse blocks, 6 is the leather or flexible binding commencing
at the heel piece c where it gradually tapers off and passing along the edges of
the blocks around the toe piece d until it reaches the heel piece on the other side
of the boot, shoe, or clog. The leather or flexible biuding is secured to the
blocks a by nails, rivets, or screws e. The blocks a are chamfered at their top
edges to receive the upper f, which is nailed, rivetted, or screwed, to the said
blocks, and the flexible binder b is of such a width as to rise above the chamfer and
Price B7

page_text: hide the fastenings of the upper and to project from the said upper so as to give the
appearance of an ordinary leather sole and boot instead of a clog.
Having now particularly described and ascertained 'the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
The combination of transverse blocks with a flexible 'binding agent and means for
securing together the said blocks and agent for the purposes set forth.
Dated the 13th day of July 1892.
Per pro J. T. KING,
J. Johnson,
Agent.