Improvements in Boots and Shoes, specially applicable to Boots and Shoes used for Athletic Purposes, Cricket, Football, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 6th July, 1891-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boots and Shoes, specially applicable to Boots and
Shoes used for Athletic Purposes, Cricket, Football, and the like.
I RICHARD GIBBONS POPE of 16 Lorne Road Northampton Boot and Shoe
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my present invention is to produce a boot or shoe particularly
suitable for athletic use and out-door games and exercises such as cricket, football,
tennis, rowing and the like which whilst affording all the strength, clasticity and
endurance required in this class of boot or shoe shall also be lighter and less costly
than those in general use.
In carrying out my invention I first attach the usual inner sole to the upper of
the boot or shoe. I then cover this with a sole of felt, asbestos, wool or other light
and elastic material shaped to fit the inner sole and waist of the boot or shoe, and
over this I place the welt shaped so as to afford a hollow space which is more or
less filled with the elastic material before described; or I may so shape and form
the elastic material that it fits within the hollow welt or skeleton sole but without
extending to the full width of the boot or shoe. The whole is finally covered by
the ordinary sole leather properly blocked and is then securely attached to the
upper in any well known manner and the heel affixed in the usual position.
Dated this 27th day of September 1890.
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
17 & 18, Southampton Buildings, London, S.W., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boots and Shoes, specially applicable to Boots and
Shoes used for Athletic Purposes, Cricket, Football, and the like.
I RICHARD GIBBONS POPE of 16 Lorne Road Northampton Boot and Shoe
Manufacturer 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 object of my invention is to produce a boot or shoe particularly suitable for
athletic purposes which whilst affording all the strength, elasticity and endurance
required in this class of boot or shoe shall also be lighter and less costly than those
in general use.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings and to the figures and letters
of reference marked thereon,
Figure 1. is a plan view of the insole having in dotted lines the approximate
position of a blocked sole leather marked thereon.
Figure 2. shews a skeleton welt divided at the toe.
Figure 3. is a plan of a blocked sole leather shewing the hollow part intended
to be filled by felt or other suitable material.
Figure 4. is a section of a boot or shoe made according to my invention and
Figure 5. is a section shewing a boot or shoe made in a modified form employing
a blocked sole leather in place of the outer sole.
In constructing my boot or shoe I first attach the usual inner sole A Figure 4
to the upper B I then place over the inner sole A a sole or layer of felt, asbestos,
wool or other light and elastic material C shaped to fit the said inner sole and waist
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page_text: or nearly so and over this or at the outside I place the skeleton welt D. affording a
hollow space E within which the elastic material may lie.
The whole is then covered by the ordinary outer sole. F and the various parts
secured to the insole in any well known manner.
Or instead of using an outer sole such as F. Figure 4 I may construct my boot
or shoe as shewn in Figure 5. and in this case-I form a blocked sole leather
(Figure 3) having a hollow.G within which, I place. the felt or other material.C. and
this is then secured to the insole A. I then place around the blocked hollow sole a
skeleton welt D such as before described and fasten the whole together and to the
insole in the ordinary manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same may be performed I declare that what I
Iclaim is
1st. In athletic and like boots and shoes the use of a hollow space occupying the
greater portion of the forepart and the waist of the boot or shoe the said hollow
being filled with a light and elastic material such as felt substantially as herein
described.
2nd. The boot or shoe for athletic purposes and the like substantially as herein-
before described and as illustrated by Figure 4.
3rd. The modified construction of boot or shoe for athletic purposes substantially
as hereinbefore described with reference to Figures 3. and 5.
Dated this 6th day of July 1801
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
17 & 18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.