Improvements in Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Sept., 1890-Accepted, 25th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boots and Shoes.
I, THOMAS ANDREW BROMELL, of Nelson, New Zealand, but at present of
35 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, Farmer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates more especially to the boots or shoes used by persons having
a low or flat instep, and it has for its object a novel method of making such boots and
shoes, so that they are greatly improved in appearance when being worn, and afford
great comfort and support to the wearer.
In order to put my invention in operation, I make a pad of suitable size and shape
to fill up the deficiency in the instep and I attach such pad to the inside of the instep
of the boot or shoe, in such manner that when the latter is laced up or fastened in the
usual way the pad is held with sufficient pressure upon the instep of the foot and
serves both to greatly improve the appearance and also to keep the boot or shoe
properly tight and so add to the comfort of the wearer.
.
The pad described may be of leather or other suitable material sewn together and
filled with padding (such as wool) and it is preferably attached by sewing or otherwise
to the inside of the instep of the boot or shoe, or it may be made moveable, and
attached by one or more buttons or hooks to the boot or shoe, so that it can be taken
out and replaced as desired.
Dated this 21st lot of December 1889
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boots and Shoes,
I, THOMAS ANDREW BROMELL, of Nelson, New Zealand, but at present of
35 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, Farmer, 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 and
accompanying drawing, that is to say :-
My invention relates more especially to boots or shoes used by persons having a
low or flat instep, and it has for its object a novel method of making such boots and
shoes, so that they are greatly improved in appearance when being worn, and they
afford great comfort and support to the wearer.
In order to put my invention in operation, I make a pad, of suitable size and shape
to fill up the deficiency in the instep, and 1 attach such pad to the inside of the instep
of the boot or shoe, in such manner that when the latter is laced up or fastened in
the usual way the pad is held with sufficient pressure upon the instep of the foot and
serves both to greatly improve the appearance, and also to keep the boot or shoe
properly tight and so add to the comfort of the wearer.
The pad described may be of leather or other suitable material sewn together and
filled with padding, such as wool or other sufficiently soft and elastic material, and it
is preferably attached by sewing or other means to the inside of the instep of the
boot or shoe; or it may be made moveable and attached by one or more buttons or
hooks to the boot or shoe, so that it can easily be removed and replaced as desired.
In the accompanying drawing, which is in illustration of my invention,
Figure 1 represents an ordinary boot of the shape which it ought to be.
Figure 2 represents a similar boot in which the instep is made flat, or deficient at a,

page_text: Figure 3 is a side view, and Figure 4 a front view, of the improved pad which I
use to bring the boot to its proper shape as shewn in Figure 2 in dotted lines.
The size, shape, material, and method of attaching the pad, may be varied as may
be found advisable, according to the circumstances in which it is to be used.
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,
.
In boots or shoes, the fixed or moveable pad for the purpose of giving the proper
shape to the instep, substantially as described and shewn in the drawing.
Dated this 20th day of September 1890,
EDWARDS &
EDWARDS Cie.,
35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.