Improvements in or relating to Soles for Slippers and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 28th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 13th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Soles for Slippers and the like.
We, JOSEPH LOUIS FAIRE, JOHN EDWARD FAIRE and SAMUEL FAIRE
trading as Faire Brothers and Co. of Southampton Street and Wimbledon Street,
Leicester, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has reference to an improved construction of sole specially
applicable for slippers and the like.
The invention is designed principally with a view of providing a sole to which
the upper of a needleworked or other slipper may be readily sewn by hand.
According to this invention we combine with the outersole a sock or innersole
having a marginal edge all round extending beyond the edge of the outersole.
The said sock or innersole may be of felt or other warm and flexible material &
secured to the outersole by stitching, or by cement or other adhesive material.
To form the complete slipper the edge of the needleworked or other upper may
be sewn to the extending marginal edge of the sock or innersole.
Dated this 15th day of December 1893.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Soles for Slippers and the like.
We JOSEPH LOUIS FAIRE, JOHN EDWARD FAIRE, and SAMUEL FAIRE,
trading as Faire Brothers & Co. of Southampton Street, and Wimbledon Street,
Leicester, Manufacturers, 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 :-
This invention has reference to an improved construction of sole specially
applicable for slippers and the like.
The invention is designed principally with the view of providing a sole to which
the upper of a needleworked or other slipper may be readily sewn by hand.
According to this invention we combine with the outersole, a sock or innersole
having a marginal edge all round extending beyond the edge of the outersole.
The said sock or innersole may be of felt or other warm or flexible material and
secured to the outersole by stitching or by cement or other adhesive material.
To form the complete slipper the edge of the upper may be sewn to the extending
marginal edge of the sock or innersole.
In the accompanying drawings we have shown one manner of carrying our
invention into practice.
Figure 1 is a plan of a combined sock and sole and Figure 2 is a transverse
section thereof.
A represents the sole which by preference is of leather and B a sock which is
composed of felt or other soft warm material.
The sock is larger than the sole and its marginal edge B' extends beyond the
edge of the sole so as to permit of the upper of a slipper or the like being sewn
thereto by hand. The sole and sock may be connected together by one or more
rows of stitches C or any other suitable means.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The combination with a sole of a sock or innersole having a marginal edge
extending beyond the edge of the said sole substantially as and for the purpose
described.
2. A sole and sock or innersole combined together substantially in the manner
and for the purpose described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 27th day of August 1894.
Witness:-
E. NORTH LEWIS,
JOSEPH L. FAIRE.
Berridge Street Chambers, Leicester.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicants.