An Improvement in Boots and Shoes and in the Manufacture thereof.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Sept., 1889-Accepted, 7th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SERUIFICATION.
An Improvement in Boots and Shoes and in the Manufacture
thereof.
DAVID SALOMON 20 St. Andrews Street Northampton Boot & Shoe Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to do away with all the nails & tacks after the boot
& shoe is completed.
Although the nails or tacks are now left in machine sewn & pegged boots & shoes
they do not serve any purpose but on the contrary cause great inconvenience to the
wearer.
1 take an ordinary innersole of a boot or shoe, & a strip, piece or pieces of cloth.
string, cord, leather, metal or any other material & pass, by hand or machine, any
quantity of nails tacks or other fastenings (that may be required for the purpose of
lasting boots), through the above mentioned strip, piece or pieces, into & through the
innersole either near the edge, or any other part thereof, so that room is left for the
sewing or pegging, hereafter mentioned, not interfering with the before-mentioned
strip, piece or pieces.
The innersole, with the strip piece or pieces, & tacks, nails or other fastenings
attached is then placed. on the last (the strip being against the last) & the points of
the nails or tacks projecting, the upper (which has been prepared in the usual way) is
then drawn over, & the sole & other parts of the boot are put on, all being temporarily
held by the nails or tacks, already there, as before specified.
The boot being removed from the last is then sewn by machine, or pegged, in the
usual way.
The strip, piece or pieces now being on the innersole, in the boot, is then drawn
out, bringing with it all the nails or tacks, & leaving the boot clear & smooth inside.
Dated this 7th day of January 1889.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Boots and Shoes and in the Manufacture
thereof.
DAVID SALOMON 20 St. Andrews Street Northampton Boot & 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:—
The object of my invention is to do away with all the nails & tacks after the boot
or shoe is complete..
Although the nails or tacks are now left in machine sewn and pegged boots and
shoes they do not serve any purpose, but on the contrary cause great inconvenience
to the wearer.
I take an ordinary innersole of a boot or shoe, and a strip, piece or pieces of cloth,
string, cord, braid, leather, metal or any other material & pass by hand or machine
any quantity of nails, tacks or other fastenings (that may be required for the purpose
of lasting boots) through the above mentioned strip, piece, or pieces, into and throngh
the innersole, either near the edge or any other part thereof, so that room is left for
the sewing or pegging, hereafter mentioned, not interfering with the before-mentioned
strip piece or pieces.
The innersole with the strip, piece or pieces and tacks, nails or fastenings attached,
is then placed on the last (the strip being against the last) and the points of the nails

page_text: or tacks projecting; the upper (which has been prepared in the usual way) is then
drawn over, and the sole and other parts of the boot are put on, all being temporarily
held by the nails or tacks, already there, as before specified. The boot being removed
from the last is then sewn by machine, or pegged, in the usual way.
The strip piece or pieces now being on the innersole, in the boot, is then drawn out
bringing with it all the nails or tacks & leaving the boot clear & smooth inside.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
"The manufacture of machine sewn and pegged boots and shoes without nails, that
is to say, the withdrawal of those nails during the manufacture by a novel method as
herein described."
DAVID SALOMON.