Year: 1886

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I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of 67 Strand in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention, a communication to me
from abroad by William Bennett Arnold, of Massachusetts in the United States
of America, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, is a side view of a waxed end of my
invention, said waxed end having but one metallic inductor.
Figure 2 is a side view of a waxed end having two such inductors, one at each
terminus of it.
Figure 3 is a diagram representing how the waxed ends may be made in a
continuous strip or piece in order for them to be separated or cut from the strip as
occasion may require for their use.
Figure 4 is a bottom view of a shoe or boot having its outer sole sewed to the
insole and upper by a waxed end of my improved kind.
Figure 5 is a similar view of a shoe or boot having its welt for connecting its
outer sole to the inner sole and upper sewed thereto by the waxed thread or waxed
end of my invention.
Figure 6 is a side view of a piece of the thread as it appears without its inductor
or inductors and before being covered with shoemakers wax.
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Figure 7. is a side view of such a piece as covered with wax these last two
figures being on an enlarged scale.
In making my improved waxed end I.compose it of a string and two or other
suitable number of fine metallic wires arranged lengthwise of each other and
intertwisted or braided together and having at one or each terminus an inductor,
composed of two of the wires twisted together-the inductor serving for
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introducing the waxed end into an awl hole made in a piece of work.
the article except its inductor, or inductors is, to be covered or saturated with
shoemakers wax.
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page_text: In Figures 1. 2 and 3 of the drawings the string of flax, hemp or silk is shown
at a, the wires at b, b and the inductors composed of the wires twisted together
where beyond the string at c and the wax covering at d.
The wires by extending throughout and being twisted into the string, not only
greatly strengthen the article and the sewing that may be formed by it, but
answer for the manufacture of the inductor or inductors and by being twisted into
the string, they cause the inductor or inductors to be better secured thereto.
The waxing of the article is to be done after the string and wires have been
twisted together and the wires twisted to form the inductors.
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For the convenience of shoemakers and others the articles may be made of a
series of strings arranged, in line with each other and at distances apart equal to
double the length of each inductor and be twisted with fine wires extending
lengthwise of them and twisted together where between the strings, the portions
to constitute the inductors may be afterwards cut across their middles as the
articles may be needed for use.
Figure 3 represents the said arrangement of the strings and wires-the strings
being shown at 8 s etc and the wires twisted between them to form the inductors
at i, i, etc.
In Figures 4. 5. 6 and 7 a waxed-thread composed in part of metallic wire, is
exhibited as combined with certain parts of a shoe.
I have found that by combining with the waxed thread of flax or other vegetable
or animal material as silk for instance-a fine wire or wires braided or twisted
into the said thread and with it subsequently waxed I not only can reinforce and
greatly improve and strengthen the thread of animal or vegetable matter, but can
use it on a sewing machine with advantage, and without any or scarcely any of
the difficulties attending on the use of a single wire or a cord solely composed of
wires either twisted or braided together. The shoe or article in which my
improved thread is used becomes much stronger, more durable and not so liable to
rip in the parts connected by such compound thread.
In Figure 4 the sewing of the outer sole A to the insole and upper is shown' at 8
the compound or waxed thread used in effecting such being composed of a strand or
strands of very fine wire, and one or more strands of a fibrous vegetable or animal
material, as flax, hemp or silk for instance, twisted or braided together and covered
and, permeated with shoemakers wax or its equivalent. So in Figure 5, the
sewing of the welt B to the insole C and the upper D is represented at 8 it being
supposed to be accomplished with the compound thread or waxed end-composed
in part of metallic wire as described.
In sewing by hand with my improved thread no bristles need in most if not all
cases be used with the thread to get it into and through the awl holes, the inherent
rigidity of the thread sufficing to admit of the thread being inserted through the
said holes.
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The wax by covering the wire, not only enables it to be easily drawn into the
awl holes of the work, but covers it therein so as to prevent it in a great measure
from oxidising.
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 ;-
1. The above described thread or cord composed of a string of vegetable or
animal material with fine wires twisted therewith and having the wires extending
beyond one or each end of the string and there twisted together to form at each
end an inductor as set forth.
2. The above described thread consisting of a string of vegetable or animal
material and fine wires twisted together and having the wires extending beyond-
one or each end of the string and there twisted together to form there an inductor
as explained, such string' being covered or saturated with shoemakers wax, or its
equivalent, all being substantially and for use as set forth.

page_text: 3. The above described new article of manufacture consisting of a string and a
fine wire or wires twisted together and covered or saturated with shoemakers wax,
all substantially as set forth and provided with an inductor extending from one or
each end of it as specified.
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4. As an improved manufacture, a boot or shoe having its outer sole or the welt
thereof secured to the insole and upper, with thread composed of shoemakers wax,
a metallic wire or wires, and one or more strands of flax or a vegetable or animal
material, all being substantially as set forth.
5. The combination of two or more pieces of leather or other material with
shoemakers wax, one or more wires and one or more strands of flax or a vegetable
or animal material combined substantially as described and sewed as a thread
through such pieces.