Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Oct., 1995
Complete Specification Left, 9th July, 1896-Accepted, 15th Aug.. 1996
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
I, HENRY HANGER Junior, of Montagu Works, Kettering, in the County of
Northampton, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to the manufacture of boots and shoes.
According to my invention a boot or shoe is made with only two seams, viz., a
back seam and an outside side seam. I am enabled to do this by making the vamp,
front, and one side quarter out of a single piece of leather which is suitably blocked,
and then closing the upper by inserting the other side quarter which is secured
with back aud side seams as before mentioned.
The upper edge of this outside quarter is provided with an inside water tight
tongue.
It will be understood that my improved boot closes at the side and that the
edges may be adapted to be connected by Inces, buttons or other suitable
means.
Dated the 10th day of October 1895.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
I, HENRY HANGER, Junior, of Montagu Works, Kettering, in the County of
Northampton, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention relates to the manufacture of boots and shoes.
According to my invention a boot or shoe is made with only two seams, viz., a
back seam and an outside side seam. I am enabled to do this by making the vamp,
front, and one side quarter out of a single piece of leather which is suitably blocked,
and then closing the upper by inserting the other side quarter which is secured
with back and side seams as before mentioned.
The upper edge of this outside quarter is provided with an inside water-tight
tongue.
It will be understood that my improved boot closes at the side and that the edges
may be adapted to be connected by Inces, buttons or other suitable means.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
:-
Figure 1 is a side view of a boot made in accordance with my invention :
Figure 2 is a plan of the upper of the same.
a is the single piece of leather forming the vamp, frout, and one side quarter of
the boot and b is the piece forming the other side quarter. The two pieces a
and b are stitched together by the side seam c and at their rear edges d, d by a back
seam.

page_text: e is the water-tight tongue which is stitched to the two pieces a and b, as shewn
clearly in Figure 2. The adjacent edges of the two pieces a and bare provided
with eyelet holes g.g or the like by means of which they can be closed in the ordinary
manner by lacing: or the said edges may be provided with buttons and button-holes
or with other suitable fastening devices.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my snid
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The described improvements in the manufacture of boots and shoes, such
improvements consisting in making the upper of two pieces which pieces form the
vamp, front, and one side quarter and the other side quarter respectively, and in
securing these two pieces hy side and back seains, substantially as described.
2. The improved boot hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
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1933
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4 South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.