Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 12th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 2nd Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
I, ARTHUR STANTON Saint Andrews Street Northampton Shoe Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
:―
My invention relates particularly to the manufacture of standard screwed,
pegged or machine made boots and shoes.
In carrying out my invention 1 prepare leather in the ordinary way for the
manufacture of a standard screwed or pegged boot or shoe. I then corrugate the
inner sole leather to which is attached the upper leather. I remove the grain from
the through middle sole and punch out a piece from the centre of the waist
sufficient to insert a piece of flat indiarubber. This is then attached to the inner
sole. I then gouge or shave a piece from the inner side of the waist of the outer
sole to enable the waist to be fitted on to the piece of indiarubber. The whole of
the parts of the boot or shoe is then either standard screwed throughout or partly
screwed and partly stitched by machine, or the boot can be pegged in the
ordinary way.
The boot or shoe when so made or manufactured by my process removes the
stiffness and rigidity which exist in standard screwed or pegged boots or shoes
made in the ordinary way. And by this method the waist is pliable, bends and
gives comfort in walking equal to a hand sewn boot or shoe.
Dated this 16th day of April 1891.
S. C. BEEL,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
I, ARTHUR STANTON, of Saint Andrews Street, Northampton in the County of
Northampton, 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 particularly to the manufacture of standard screwed, pegged
or machine made boots and shoes.
Referring to the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a plan view of the through middle sole of a boot or shoe, showing the
central portion cut or punched out so as to allow of a similarly shaped piece of flat
indiarubber to be inserted.
Figure 2 is a plan view of the piece of indiarubber.
Figure 3 is a plan view of the underside of the insole showing the
corrugations.
Figure is a cross section of the boot.
In manufacturing boots and shoes according to my invention I first prepare
leather in the ordinary way for the manufacture of a standard screwed or pegged
boot or shoe and then corrugate the inner sole leather to which the upper is
attached as shown by Figure 3. remove the grain from the through middle
.

page_text: sole and also cut or punch a piece out from the centre as shown in Figure and
in the space so formed I insert a piece of indiarubber of like shape such as
Figure 2. The through middle sole is then attached to the inner sole and the
outer sole being placed in position the whole of the parts of the boot or shoe are
then standard screwed throughout or partly screwed and partly stitched by
machine or the boot can be pegged in the ordinary way.
The boot. or shoe when so made or manufactured by my process removes the
stiffness and rigidity which exist in standard screwed or pegged boots or shoes
made in the ordinary manner and by this method the waist is pliable, bends, and
gives comfort in walking equal to a hand sewn boot or shoe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my sail
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I am
aware of Laycock's Specification No. 6212 of 1882 and I make no claim to
the cutting out of the centre of the middle sole apart from its use in com-
bination with a corrugated sole as described and claimed by me but what
I claim is
The manufacture of standard screwed or pegged boots and shoes substantially as
herein before described and with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 7th day of August 1891
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
17 & 18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.