IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS, SHOES, AND THAT KIND OF SPATTERDASHES TERMED ANTIGROPELOS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Parker, of the firm of William Parker
and Sons, of Northampton, in the County of Northampton, Boot
and Shoe Manfacturer, and William Dicks, of Leicester, in the
Dant M-J.-
Scaled the 7th May 1853, and dated the 8th January 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Parker and
William Dicks at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 8th January 1858.
We, FRANCIS PARKER and WILLIAM DICKS, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS, SHOES, AND THAT
KIND OF SPATTERDASHES TERMED ANTIGROPELOS," to be as follows, viz. :-
This Invention consists in or has reference to improvements in boots,
shoes, and that kind of spatterdashes termed "antigropelos," by mak-
ing the "uppers" thereof either partially or wholly of elasticated
leather or cloth, such as is known in the. trade as patent corrugated
elastic leather, or corrugated elastic cloth, which in the case of an ancle
or half boot is to be applied to the sole in two parts, with a seam over
the instep and behind the heel, or cut whole, with a seam behind only';

page_text: or in case of a goloshed ancle boot to be attached to the golosh or not,
as may be deemed advisable; and in the case of the Wellington, or
Albert, or jockey boot or shoe, or antigropelo, to the sole in one piece,
without any seam over the instep, but with a seam at the back or the
side, or both at the back and side, and in boots with a tongue and back
strap made of the elasticated leather or elasticated cloth. Boots or shoes
so made will fit tightly to the ancle without having a gore or gusset of
any kind, and will admit of being taken off and put on the wearer with
little trouble or difficulty......
SPECIFICATION in pursuance-of-the-conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Francis Parker .and. William Dicks in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 8th July 1853..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
FRANCIS PARKER, of the firm of William Parker and Sons, of North-
ampton, in the County of Northampton, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers,
and WILLIAM DICKS, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Boot
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth
year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Francis Parker and William Dicks, Her special
license that we, the said Francis Parker and William Dicks, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Francis Parker and William Dicks, our executors, administrators, 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, with n the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS, SHOES, AND THAT KIND
OF SPATTERDASHES TERMED ANTIGROPELOS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Francis Parker and William Dicks, or one of

page_text: us, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under
the hand and seal of one of us, 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 William Dicks, on behalf of myself
and said Francis Parker, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, that is to say:
This Invention consists in or has reference to improvements in boots,
shoes, and that kind of spatterdashes termed "antigropelos," by
making the uppers thereof either partially or wholly of elasticated
leather or cloth, such as is known in the trade as patent corrugated
elastic leather, or corrugated elastic cloth, which, in the case of an ancle
or half boot, is to be applied to the sole in two parts, with a seam over
the instep and behind the heel, or cut whole, with a seam behind only;
or in case of a goloshed ancle boot to be attached to the golosh or not,
as may be deemed advisable; and in the case of the Wellington; or
Albert, or jockey boot, or a shoe, or antigropelo, to the sole in one
piece, without any seam over the instep, but with a seam at the back
or the side, or both at the back and side, and in boots with a tongue
and back strap made of the elasticated leather or elasticated cloth. Boots
or shoes so made will fit tightly to the ancle without having a gore or
gusset of any kind, and will admit of being taken off and put on the
wearer with little trouble or difficulty.
And in order that our said Invention may be most fully understood,
and readily carried into effect, we will proceed to describe the means
pursued by us. And we would at the outset state, that our Invention
consists of employing two descriptions or classes of flexible elastic manu-
factures in the making of the "uppers," or parts thereof which come
over the feet of the wearer, such two manufactures consisting, first, of
a surface or portion of leather cemented on to another surface of
leather, or it may be on to a woven or other fabric; and, secondly,

page_text: of a surface of woven fabric cemented to another surface of woven or
other fabric. In each manufacture the two surfaces are cemented
together by the use of india-rubber cement, there being thin and
narrow strips or thread of vulcanized india-rubber at short intervals
apart, and held distended and parallel to each other, cemented
between each two surfaces of such manufactures, and in such manner
that when the india-rubber strips or threads are released they contract
the manufactures into numerous small longitudinal plaits or puckers.
And in carrying out our Invention such manufactures are cut, when
forming the uppers, in such manner that the strips or threads of india-
rubber run across the foot, and hence admit of enlargement laterally.
We would, however, state that we make no claim to the making of
sich flexible and elastic manufactures, they in themselves not being
new; and we have only been thus particular in describing then in
order that it may be understood that we do not claim to use elastic
fabrics in general, but only such as above explained.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figures 1, and 2, shows two views of a boot having that part (except-
ing at the toes) of the upper whicli passes over and round the foot made
of the elastic flexible leather fabric above described, the plaits or puckers
running in a direction from the toes upwards over the instep, by which
there will be a capability of expansion laterally, and there will also be a
capability of expansion between the heel and the instep. In this
arrangement the. seani is up the back.
Figures 3, and 4, show two views of a high shoe. The front of the
upper only is of the manufacture of elastic leather manufacture abové
described, the hinder parts being of ordinary or inclastic leather, the
direction of the plates or puckerings being in a direction from the toe to
the instep, allowing for expansion of the front of the "upper" to take
place laterally, as in. the previous case.
;
Figures 5, and 6, show two views of another high shoe, having
only part of the front of the "upper" formed of the manufacture of
elastic leather above described, the other parts of the shoes being
ordinary inelastic leather, or it might be of other material.

page_text: Figures 7, and 8, shows two views of another boot (a ladies' boot),
the back and part of the front being made of the manufacture of elastic
woven fabric above described. In this construction the seam is in front
and also at the back, and part of the front over the tocs is of ordinary
in elastic leather, or it may be of other materials, and the plaits or
puckers run in a like direction to that previously mentioned.
Figures 9, 10, 11, show three views of another form of boot, part of
the upper" being of the second fabric above described, the lower part
and toe being of ordinary inelastic leather, or it may be of other material.
In this construction there is a seam at the back and also at the front.
Figure 12, shows a view of that kind of spatter dashes termed "anti-
gropelos." The part a, is made of the corrugated leather, attached in
the ordinary manner, and there is a piece of the same material inserted
at the part b, so as to allow of its giving way to the motion of the leg.
Figure 13, shows a view of a jockey or riding boot, capable of being
converted into another form of riding boot, as seen at Figure 14. At the
part e, Figure 13, a piece of corrugated leather is inserted which
answers the double purpose of rendering it flexible and capable of being
turned down into the inside of the boot, when the top may be slipped
over the outside of the boot, and fastened by means of the straps e, e.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, we would have it understood that we do not
confine ourselves to the precise details, so long as the peculiar character
of our Invention be retained. But what we claim is, the manufacture
of boots, shoes, and antigropelos by applying the two class of elastic
flexible manufactures herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Dicks, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
FRED* HARRIS.
WILLIAM DICKS. (L.S.)