IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES AND OTHER COVERINGS FOR THE HUMAN FOOT.
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Kanzow Bowley, of Charing Cross, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND
SHOES AND OTHER COVERINGS FOR THE HUMAN FOOT.
Sealed the 28th August 1855, and dated the 9th May 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Kanzow Bowley at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th May 1855.
I, ROBERT KANZOW BOWLEY, of Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex,
Bootmaker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IPROVE-
MENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES AND OTHER COVERINGS FOR THE HUMAN FOOT" to be
as follows:
My improvement consists in the employment of a substance or material
known by the name of felt, or other similar fabric, in lieu of the ordinary
leather inner sole, to which the upper leather or welt is attached.
I by no means confine myself to the employment of the above material to
boots or shoes that are made or sewn with welts or stitches, but also to such as
are made or manufactured with pegs or other similar contrivances. The above
soles to be made or cut out of the ordinary felt sheeting, or pressed into tho
required forms or shapes by the means of moulds or dies.

page_text: 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 November 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
KANZOW BOWLEY, of Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES AND OTHER COVERINGS FOR
THE HUMAN FOOT," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Robert Kanzow Bowley, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 Robert Kanzow Bowley, 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) :-
My improvements consists in the employment of a substance or material
known by the name of felt, or other similar fabric, in lieu of the ordinary
leather inner sole to which the "upper leather" or "the welt" is attached. I
by no means confine myself to the employment of the above material to boots
and shoes that are made or sewn with welts or with stitches, but employ such
material in the manufacture of such boots and shoes as aro made with pegs,
screws, or in which other contrivances may be hereafter used for connecting the
upper leather and inner and outer soles together. And I would here remark,
that although in this my Specification I shall only describe and set forth the
application of my said Invention as adapted for and constituted improvements in
boots and shoes, it will appear evident that my Invention may also be employed

page_text: and size, by intermatting or by interweaving, or by means of pressure from
rollers, dies, or in moulds, would answer the purpose.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention of "Improvements in Boots and Shoes and other Coverings for the
Human Foot," together with the best means I am acquainted with for carrying
the same into practical effect, I would remark that I claim as my Invention,
the use and employment of an inner sole of felt or other similar fabric, in lieu
of the ordinary leather "inner sole" commonly employed in the manufacture of
boots and shoes, when the same is so connected with the whole or only a part
of the upper leather and outer sole, as to form a component part of the boot
or shoe or other covering for the human foot, as above stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Kanzow Bowley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
ROBERT KANZOW BOWLEY. (L.S.)
Witness,
BENJ BROWNE,
2, Studley Road, Stockwell.