IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SHOES AND BOOTS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Adolphe Louis Cauville, of the Hotel des Bains,
Passage du Saumon, Paris, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF SHOES AND BOOTS."
Sealed the 11th September 1857, and dated the 2nd May 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Adolphe Louis Cauville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd May 1857.
I, ADOLPHE LOUIS CAUVILLE, of the Hotel des Bains, Passage du Saumon,
Paris, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF SHOES AND Boors," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of shoes
and boots, and consists in forming the soles of pieces of ungrooved wood
jointed together with leather or other flexible material, the wooden sole being
afterwards covered with a leather or gutta percha sole. For this purpose it
is preferred that the upper leathers should be turned under and fixed 'to the
wood by screws, pegs, or otherwise, and that the wooden sole should then be
covered with the leather or gutta percha sole.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Adolphe Louis Cauville in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 2nd November 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ADOLPHE
LOUIS CAUVILLE, of the Hotel des Bains, Passage du Saumon, Paris, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Hor
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Adolphe Louis Cauville, Her special licenco that I, the said Adolphe
Louis Cauville, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Adolphe Louis Cauville, 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, excrcise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SHOES AND BOOTS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Adolphe Louis Cauville, 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 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 Adolphe Louis Cauville, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of shoes
and boots, and consists in forming the soles of pieces of ungrooved wood
jointed together with leather or other flexible material, the wooden sole being
afterwards covered with a leather or gutta percha sole. For this purpose it
is preferred that the upper leathers should be turned under and fixed to the
wood by screws, pegs, or otherwise, and that the wooden sole should then be
covered with the leather or gutta percha.sole.
.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and

page_text: Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a wooden sole for a shoe or boot; it
is made in two parts, a and b, connected together by a piece of leather c,
which is fixed to the two parts of the wooden sole by screws or otherwise, and
this piece of leather c may, if it is desired, be increased in size, so as to form
an inner leather sole. The wooden sole prepared in this way is fixed on a
last, which is either made of or faced with iron, and the edges of the upper
leather are caused to lap over the edges of the sole (which are, as is shown by
the Drawing, made thinner than the other parts), and the two edges are fixed
together by wooden pegs or otherwise, as is shown by the under side view of
the sole, Figure 2. This being done, the under sole is placed on the last,
and it is fixed all round to the edges of the upper leather and to the wooden
sole by brass rivets, which are clenched against the metal last; on each side
of the joint in the wooden sole I attach the under sole to the wooden sole
aud to the connecting piece of leather c by sewing through these several
pieces at the lines d, d, of Figure 2; lastly, the heel of the shoe or boot is
attached in the ordinary way. Or, sometimes I make the heel of wood and in
one piece with the hinder part of the sole, and then I make a groove round
the heel, as is shewn at e, Figure 8, to receive the edge of the upper leather,
which is fixed therein by nails or otherwise, and there is another groove f at
the front part of the heel to receive the edge of the under sole of leather, and
which is also secured in the groove by nails or otherwise.
Figure 4 is an under side view of a wooden sole, the two parts of which are
formed in a different way, and so as to leave a considerable space between the
two parts, and Figure 5 is a longitudinal section of this sole with the parts
connected with it when it is made up into the sole of a shoe or boot. The
two parts of the wooden sole are connected together by an inner sole g, to
which they are fixed by nails or otherwise all round their edges. And in
order to give greater strength to this connection, two pieces of leather h and i
are connected to the two parts of the wooden sole, as is shewn in dotted lines
at Figure 4, a leather sole j is then fixed to the under side of the wooden
sole, as already described, the edges of the upper leather being secured
between the two.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself

page_text: to the exact details described; but what I claim is, the method of constructing
shoes and boots herein described, that is to say, with jointed soles of wood
covered with exterior soles of leather or gutta percha, and also having the
edges of the upper leathers confined between the wooden soles and the
exterior covering soles.
In witness whercof, I, the said Adolphe Louis Cauville, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
B. GOBEY,
24, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane.
AD. L. CAUVILLE. (L.S.)