Improvements in Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1595
Improvements in Boots and Shoes.
We, AUGUST ZIPPEL, of Stolpen, Manufacturer, and ANDREAS PITTROFF, of
6 Kirchplatz, Brockenheim, near Frankfort-on-the-Main, Fitter, both in Empire
of Germany, 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 :-
Our invention relates to boots and shoes in which no complete sole is used as
heretofore but which are provided with a half-sole, and therefore remain flexible
at the waist.
In the accompanying drawing we have shown a laced shoe with a flexible waist,
Fig. 1. being an elevation, and
Fig. 2 a longitudinal section thereof, whilst
Fig. 3 represents a plan of the upper part.
The plan Fig. 3 shows in the part c, the upper-leather of the shoe and at the
same time one-half of the part enclosing the heel, whilst a, shows the second half
of this rear part of the shoe and b, the waist of the shoe that is to say the part
situated between the sole and heel. Our improved shoe is made by putting the
piece of leather cut according to Fig. 3, upon the last, whereupon a connection is
effected with the half-sole for the front of the shoe and that piece of leather is
attached.
Then the inner sole or welt may be put in and the heel built on the shoe with
the use of an ordinary foundation-pieces or runners.
Such boots and shoes with flexible joints can be made for gentlemen, ladies and
children in the same manner and used by them, and, as compared with the boots and
shoes made in the ordinary way at the waist, they possess the following principal
advantages.
The new shoe adheres at all times firmly to the foot, therefore neither the feet
nor the stockings are injured. The foot can make its natural movements, and the
circulation of the blood is not hindered in any way, which is of extremely great
importance from the hygienic point of view.
In the new boots and shoes the rear part of the foot is quite independent of the
front part as regards its movements, thus differing from the boots and shoes
heretofore made, in which the continuous rigid sole compels the several parts of the
foot to make the same movements so that on the one hand the wear of the heel is
unequal and on the other hand the wear of the sole is very rapid.
We may finally mention the economical advantages possessed by the new boots
and shoes over those customarily used, which chiefly consist in the cheaper
manufacture of the former, because the leather can be completely utilized in the
cutting, and because no continuous sole, but only a half-sole is required, while a
considerable saving of labour is realized.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
Boots and shoes characterized by the fact that the outer sole consists only of a
half-sole reaching to the waist, whilst the remainder of the outer parts up to the
heel form a continuous whole which can be made of a single piece of leather, by

page_text: means of an appropriate cutting pattern, for the purpose of obtaining the free
flexibility of the joint part independently of the front part, and a reduction in the
cost of manufacture, as herein described and set forth.
Dated this 7th day of November 1895.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97 Newgate Street, E.C., Patent Agent.