Improvements in or relating to Boots, Shoes, or the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 20th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 1st Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Boots, Shoes, or the like.
I, ERNEST WALDEGRAVE ALLENBY of The Grange, Chester in the County of
Chester, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In the majority of boots or shoes now manufactured and sold, no efficient means
are provided for ventilating the feet and keeping them cool and dry, and free
from moisture. Owing to this, the linings and even the leather itself is often
found to rot or decay, but if more efficient ventilation were provided, I believe
that this would no longer be the case.
With this object in view, and also to keep the feet cool and increase the comfort in
walking and the duration of a boot or shoe, I propose to line the inside with horse
hair, horse hair cloth, or other like hairy material, or fabric which does not absorb the
moisture, and is a bad conductor of heat, but permits a certain amount of air circula-
tion, and which will probably be found to be soft or elastic and easy for the feet.
Suitable ventilators may, if desired, be provided in the boot or shoe so as to increase
the supply and circulation of air.
Dated this 17th day of Anril 1839
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Boots, Shoes, or the like.
I, ERNEST WALDEGRAVE ALLENBY of The Grange, Chester, in the County of Chester,
Clerk, 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:-
In the majority of boots or shoes now manufactured and sold, no efficient means are
provided for ventilating the boot and keeping the feet cool and dry, and free from
moisture. Owing to this, the linen and even the leather itself is often found to rot or
decay, but if more efficient ventilation were provided, I believe that this would no
longer be the case.
With this object in view, and also to keep the feet cool and increase the comfort
in walking and the duration of a boot or shoe, I propose to line the whole inside or
portions thereof with horse hair, horse hair cloth, mohair or other like hair fibre
material or fabric or any suitable vegetable imitation of the same with an open surface
which is a resistant to absorbing the moisture, and is a bad conductor of heat, but
which permits of evaporation, a certain amount of air circulation, and is soft or elastic
and cool for the feet with greater strength than linen.
The accompanying drawing is an elevation, partly in section, of a shoe constructed
according to this invention.
The woven horse hair or other lining A, in the example shown, covers only the sole
of the shoe, but I do not limit myself to this arrangement; I prefer in fact to line the
whole of the interior of the shoe with the material, thus insuring a large evaporating
surface.
The sock or lining may be permanently attached to the interior of the shoe or boot
or may be a complete and separate article.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
A boot or shoe wholly or partially lined with fabric composed of horse hair, mohair
or similar permeable vegetable material which is resistant to absorbing moisture and
porous.