Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1887
Complete Left, 30th Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 1st Nov., 1887
I, CHARLES WRIGHT, of Finedon, in the county of Northampton, Shoe
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of an improved lace boot for men's,
women's, and children's wear, and the invention consists in making the upper of the
5 boot in one piece which I block to the required shape thereby providing a boot having
practically a seamless upper.
The boot may be laced with hooks or eyelets and 1 insert a water-tight tongue at.
one side of the boot.. The heel counter or stiffener may be either on the outside or
inside and the boot will not require to be lined.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I, CHARLES WRIGHT, of Finedon, 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:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of improved lace boots for men's,
women's, and children's wear, and the invention consists in making the upper of the
boot in one piece which block to the required shape thereby providing a boot
having practically a seamless upper.
The boot may be laced with hooks or eyelets and I insert a water-tight tongue at
one side of the boot. The heel counter or stiffener may be either on the outside or
inside and the boot will not require to be lined.
In the accompanying drawing.
Figure 1 is a plan of the blank from which the upper is made, and
Figure 2 is a side elevatlon of a boot the upper of which is made from such a
blank.
In manufacturing a boot according to my invention I cut a piece of suitable leather
of the shape shown in Figure 1. The two ends aa of this piece are then brought
together at the side as indicated at 6, Figure 2. While in this position the upper is
blocked in any suitable mould in order to cause it to conform to the shape of the foot
thereby making it seamless front and back.
"
After blocking, the upper is lasted and the sole is applied in any order or suitable
manner.
Hooks or eyelets or other suitable fastenings are applied to the two ends a, so that
the boot can be secured on the foot in the ordinary manner. A watertight tongue is
also placed inside the boot to cover the opening between the ends.
A heel counter or stiffener ce can be applied to the boot either inside or out; as
shewn in figure 2, it is fixed inside the boot."
With a boot constructed in this manner a lining is unnecessary although
used if desired.
may be
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
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1. A side lace boot having an upper formed or blocked from a blank of sub-
stantially the shape shown in Figure 1 of the drawing and without a seam either front
or back.
2. The manufacture and use of the improved boot. constructed substantially as
herein before described and as illustrated in figure 2 of the accompanying drawing.