A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF Annini 3D DRA AND APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING THE SIDE SPRINGS OR ELASTICS OF BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Hodgson Southall and William Hallam,
both of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Boot and Shoe
Manufacturers, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF
Annini
3D DRA
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard. Hodgson,
Southall and William Hallam at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 12th August 1868.
We, RICHARD HODGSON SOUTHALL and WILLIAM HALLAM, both of
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR
IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING THE SIDE SPRINGS OR
ELASTICS OF BOOTS AND SHOES," to be as follows:-
The
Our Invention consists in applying to the side or sides of the side
springs or elastics of boots and shoes of a guard or guards made as
hereafter described for protecting the same and preventing their being
worn out as quickly as when constructed in the ordinary manner.
guards are formed by preference of soft leather, but other material may
be used, such as silk, woollen, linen, cotton, or any other textile fabric
or fibrous material; cach guard is made in two parts or in one piece

page_text: folded and tightly stitched to the side of the leather forming the upper
of the boot. There are by preference two guards to each side spring,
the two being held close together and at the same time parallel or
nearly so with the ordinary side spring or elastic by means of a series
of bands or cords of elastic rubber or other webbing inserted in and held
between the guards. By this means the side springs or elastics proper
are wholly or as nearly so as may be prevented from receiving that
strain and friction to which they are subjected in boots of ordinary
construction, while at the same time by the use of the guards the
appearance and set of the boots are materially improved.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Hodgson Southall and William Hallam
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th February 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, RICHARD
HODGSON SOUTHALL and WILLIAM HALLAм, both of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Richard Hodgson Southall
and William Hallam, Her special licence that we, the said Richard
Hodgson Southall and William Hallam, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Richard Hodgson Southall
and William Hallam, our 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING
THE SIDE SPRINGS OR ELASTICS OF BOOTS AND SHOES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Richard Hodgson Southall and
William Hallam, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
in

page_text: Invention, 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 we, the said Richard Hodgson Southall and
William Hallam, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters of reference
marked thereon, that is to say:-
Our Invention consists in applying to the side or sides of the side
springs or elastics of boots and shoes of a guard or guards made as
hereafter described for protecting the same and preventing their being
worn out as quickly as when constructed in the ordinary manner. The
guards are formed by preference of soft leather, but other material
may be used, such as silk, woollen, linen, cotton, or any other textile
fabric or fibrous material; each guard is made in two parts or in one
piece folded and tightly stitched to the side of the leather forming
the upper of the boot. There are by preference two guards to each
side spring, the two being held close together and at the same time
parallel or nearly so with the ordinary side spring or elastic by means
of a series of bands or cords of clastic rubber or other webbing inserted
in and held between the guards. By this means the side springs or
clastics proper are wholly or as nearly so as may be prevented from
receiving that strain and friction to which they are subjected in boots of
ordinary construction, while at the same time by the use of the guards
the appearance and set of the boots are materially improved.
The accompanying Drawings will serve to illustrate the manner in
which we prefer to carry our Invention into effect; Figure 1 being
a side view, and Figure 2 a plan of a boot fitted according to our
Invention; Figures 3 and 4 are views in section and side elevation of
the guards detached from the boot; and Figure 5 is a view in plan
drawn on a somewhat larger scale than the other Figures of the "upper'
of the boot with the guards applied thereto. Similar letters of reference
refer to like parts in all the Figures.
"
a, a, are the guards, made double as before described and as best
scen at Figure 5. These guards meet or nearly meet midway between
that part of the upper usually occupied by the side spring or clastic

page_text: and as shown at b. c, c, c, are strips of elastic material tightly stitched
to the sides of the uppers at d and placed in and between the guards a, a ;
these strips of elastic material tend to keep the guards together, and
at the same time allow the guards to open when the boot is about
to be placed on the foot of the wearer, but when the boot is on the
foot they draw the guards again together and the boot presents the
appearance shown at Figure 1. We have shown in the Drawing three
strips of elastic material as we have found this number to answer well,
but we do not limit ourselves to this number as a less or greater number
may be used as found desirable. e is the ordinary elastic or spring side
of the boot. From the foregoing description it will be thus seen that
the elastic proper, or as it is commonly termed the side spring, is
completely protected from that friction and wear to which it is usually
subjected. Sometimes the ordinary elastic or side springs may be
dispensed with altogether and the guards and strips of elastic material
used alone. Although we have herein-before particularly referred to
boots, yet the Invention is equally applicable to shoes.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim,
the new or improved method of and apparatus for protecting the side
springs or elastics of boots and shoes consisting of a guard or guards
made of leather, silk, woollen, linen, cotton, or any other textile fabric
or fibrous material held together and kept in position by strips of
elastic material, the said guard being placed outside each ordinary
elastic or side spring of boots and shoes when such elastic is employed
in combination with the guards, all substantially in manner herein-before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Richard Hodgson Southall and
William Hallam, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Second day of February One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
RICHARD HODGSON SOUTHALL. (L.S.)
WILLIAM
HALLAM.
(L.S.)