Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 12th July, 1900-Accepted, 18th Aug., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
We, JOHN JAMES BRITTEN and FRANCIS JAMES BANNISTER, trading as Britten
and Bannister, of 385, Hackney Road, Manufacturers, and WILLIAM STANTON,
of 362, Old Ford Road, Foreman, all in the County of London, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of boots and shoes and comprises the
means hereinafter described whereby greater comfort is obtained than heretofore.
According to the suid invention the upper of a boot or shoe instead of being
lasted on to the insole as has heretofore been usual is cut to such a shape that
the two edges of the upper at the waist portion of the boot or shoe can be
pulled right over the insole and united together; the outer sole is also discon-
nected from the upper at the waist portion of the boot or shoe; with this cen-
struction it will be understood that great pliability is obtained.
A boot or shoe constructed according to our invention is also advantageously
provided with means for ventilating the same and for this purpose both the inner
and outer soles are perforated near the waist and also the adjacent portion of the
upper if desired and a horizontal hole is formed through the heel and communi-
cates with holes through the inner sole and upper for admitting air into the
space between the said inner soles and upper.
In some cases strips are arranged in connection with the perforation in the
inner sole in order to afford passages for allowing the air to pass freely through
the perforation into contact with the foot.
Although we have described this mode of ventilation as applied to boots or
shoes wherein the upper is not attached to the sole at the waist portion, we wish
it understood that it is also applicable to boots and shoes wherein the upper is
attached to the sole in the usual manner.
Dat the 1041 Janet Ontaha 1800
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
We, JOHN JAMES BRITTEN and FRANCIS JAMES BANNISTER, trading as Britten
and Bannister, of 385, Hackney Road, Manufacturers, and WILLIAM STANTON,
of 362, Old Ford Road, Foreman, all in the County of London, 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 relates to the manufacture of boots and shoes and comprises

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means hereinafter described whereby greater comfort is obtained than
heretofore.
According to the said invention the upper of a boot or shoe instead of being
lasted on to the insole as has heretofore been usual is cut to such a shape that
the two edges of the upper at the waist portion of the boot or shoe can be
pulled right over the insole and united together, the outer sole is also discon-
nected from the upper at the waist portion of the boot or shoe.
A boot or shoe constructed according to our invention is also advantageously
provided with means for ventilating the same and for this purpose both the inner
and outer soles are perforated near the waist and also the adjacent portion of the
upper if desired and a horizontal passage is formed through the heel and communi-
cates with holes through the inner sole and upper for admitting air into the
space between the said inner soles and upper.
Although we have described this mode of ventilation as applied to boots or
shoes wherein the upper is not attached to the sole at the waist portion, we wish
it understood that it is also applicable to boots and shoes wherein the upper is
attached to the sole in the usual manner.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will described the same by
reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:-
Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a shoe constructed according to our
invention.
Figure 2 is an underside view of the same; and
Figure 3 is a sectional side view the section being taken in a different plane
from that of Figure 1:
Figure 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Figure 3:
Figure 5 is an underside view similar to Figure 2 but with the waist and heel
portion of the sole removed:.
Figure 6 is a view similar to Figure 4 shewing the arrangement of strips form-
ing an air channel:
Figure 7 is a sectional side view shewing our improvements in ventilation
applied to a shoe of ordinary construction; and,
Figure 8 is an underside view of the same:
Figure 9 is a section on the line 9-9 of Figure 7.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.
a is the upper, 6 the inner sole, c the outer sole and d the heel; as shewn in
Figures 1 to 5 the upper is lasted over the insole but instead of being attached
to the insole around its entire edge, as has heretofore been usual, the said edges
are only attached to the insole around the front portion thereof whilst the edges
of the upper at the waist portion of the boot are independent of the insole and
are connected together by stitches as at e, Figure 5, also the outer sole c is only
attached to the upper and the inner sole round its front portion by stitches, such
asf Figure 1, the waist portion of the boot of the sole being quite separate from
the upper; with this construction it will be understood that great pliability is
obtained. When as hereinbefore indicated we provide for ventilating a shoe of
this class holes are formed through the outer sole, the insole, and the upper
for admitting air beneath the foot, as shewn, a central row of holes g, g is formed
in the outer sole and a corresponding row of holes h, h in the inner sole, whilst
in the portion of the upper adjacent to the seam, holes i, i are formed, as clearly
shewn in Figure 5. A horizontal passage ; is also formed through the heel d
and holes k, are formed through the heel portion of the outer sole and through
the upper respectively to facilitate the admission of air.
In some cases strips m, m, Figure 6, are arranged adjacent to the perfora-
tions h, h in the inner sole, as shewn in Figure 6, in order to afford a passage n
for allowing air to pass freely into contact with the foot.
In Figures 7 to 9 which illustrate the application of our means for ventilating
boots or shoes to a shoe of ordinary construction wherein the upper is attached
to the inner sole around its entire odge, the arrangement of the ventilating pas-

page_text: sages is substantially the same as that hereinbefore described the only difference
being that the holes g, g in the outer sole are dispensed with the whole of the
air which enters the passage n formed by the strips m, m entering through the
horizontal passages j, k in the heel and outer sole respectively.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
1. The improvement in the manufacture of boots and shoes consisting in unit-
ing the edges of the upper at the waist portion of the boot or shoe to each other,
the adjacent portion of the inner sole and outer sole being disconnected froni
the said upper, substantially as described.
2. A boot or shoe wherein the inner sole and the outer sole at the waist por-
tion thereof are not connected with the upper the edges of which are united and
wherein ventilating holes or passages are formed, substantially as described.
3. In a boot or shoe the combination of a passage formed between the inner
sole and the upper, holes or apertures connecting the said passage with the
interior of the boot and a hole or passage in the heel for admitting air into the
said passage, substantially as described.
4. The manufacture and use of boots and shoes, substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 12th day of July 1900.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.