CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND OTHER SIMILAR COVERINGS FOR THE FEET
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Kanzow Bowley, of Charing Cross, in the
County of Middlesex, Boot Maker, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IM-
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th April 1857.
I, ROBERT KANZOW BOWLEY, of Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex;
Boot Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND OTHER SIMILAR COVERINGS FOR THE FEET," to be
as follows:-
These improvements relate to the manufacture of boots and other coverings
for the feet, and more particularly to such as are made of patent or enamelled
leather.
The peculiar feature of novelty of this Invention consists in employing pale
brown or other 'light colored enamelled leather in the manufacture of men's
long riding boots, or boots and shoes of any other description, in lieu of
the black enamelled leather heretofore used by boot makers in the manu-
facture of boots and other coverings for the feet.
By these improvements the boots and other similar coverings are better
adapted for use in warm weather or in tropical climates than boots or other

page_text: similar coverings for the feet made of black leather, as being non-absorbent of
the sun's rays, therefore maintaining the feet and the legs of the wearer com-
paratively cool, and consequently rendering such improved coverings very much
more comfortable than when such articles are made of black enamelled leather,
as heretofore practised.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Kanzow Bowley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 8th October 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
KANZOW BOWLEY, of Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex, Boot Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Robert Kanzow Bowley, Her special licence that I, the said Robert
Kanzow Bowley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Robert Kanzow Bowley, my 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, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND OTHER SIMILAR COVERINGS FOR THE FEET,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Kanzow Bowley,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Sea! Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Kanzow Bowley, do hereby
declare my 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 in writing, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in the use and employment of brown or other light
colored leather, enamelled in the ordinary way, in and for the manufacture of

page_text: the uppers of boots and shoes, and other similar coverings for the feet, and
more especially boots and shoes intended for the army and navy, in which such
said articles are much exposed to the rays of the sun, the intention of this
Invention being to keep the feet cooler than is now the case by the use
of boots and shoes in which the uppers are made of black leather, either plain
or enamelled, as commonly practised.
I claim as my Invention manufacturing the uppers of boots and shoes and
other similar coverings for the feet of brown or other light colored enamelled
leather, as constituting certain improvements in boots and shoes and other
similar coverings for the feet, as above stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Kanzow Bowley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
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Witness,
ROBERT KANZOW BOWLEY. (L.S.)
BENJ BROWNE,
2, Studley Rd., Stockwell.