Improvements in or relating to the Marking of Designs or Patterns upon the Uppers of Boots, Shoes, and the like, and to Means or Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 14th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 18th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Marking of Designs or Patterns
upon the Uppers of Boots, Shoes, and the like, and to Means or
Apparatus therefor.
We, JAMES LEAVESLEY and JONATHAN NORTH, trading under the style of
Leavesley and North, Erskine Street, Leicester, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the marking of designs or patterns upon the
uppers of boots shoes and the like and to means or appliances therefor.
Heretofore as far as we are aware the designs, patterns or ornamentation upon
the uppers of boots and shoes have been worked thereon by means of flowering or
embroidering machines.
This mode of procedure however has added considerably to the cost of the boot
or shoe while the embroidered patterns are apt to fray or wear ragged.
The object of this invention is to provide an efficient substitutionary method for
marking the uppers of boots or shoes with designs or patterns and one that is
inexpensive easily and readily applied and for which unskilled labour may be
employed.
According to this invention the design or pattern which it is desired to fix on
the boot or shoe upper is first cut, stamped or cast into or on a suitable plate
or die:
The plate or die is then placed on the leather to be marked and the two sub-
jected to pressure by a screw or other press which will have the effect of producing
a fac-simile pattern or design on the leather.
The pattern or design may either be cut into or formed proud of the face of the
plate or die so as to obtain either raised or depressed patterns or designs on the
leather.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1890.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Marking of Designs or Patterns
upon the Uppers of Boots, Shoes, and the like, and to Means or
Apparatus therefor.
We, JAMES LEAVESLEY and JONATHAN NORTH, trading under the style of
Leavesley and North, Erskine Street, Leicester, Boot and Shoe 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 the marking of designs or patterns upon the
uppers of boots, shoes and the like, and to means or appliances therefor.
Heretofore, as far as we are aware, the designs, patterns or ornamentation upon
the uppers of boots and shoes have been worked thereon by means of flowering or
embroidering machines.
This mode of procedure, however, has added considerably to the cost of the boot
or shoe while the embroidered patterns are apt to fray or wear ragged.
The object of this invention is to provide an efficient substitutionary method for
marking the uppers of boots and shoes with designs or patterns and one that is
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page_text: inexpensive, easily and readily applied, and for which unskilled labour may be
employed.
According to this invention the designs or patterns are produced upon the uppers
of boots and shoes by stamping or embossing, and for this purpose the designs or
patterns are cut, stamped, engraved or cast into or on a suitable plate or die.
The operation is as follows:-The grain side of the upper leather upon which
the design or pattern is to be impressed is first slightly wetted or oiled, the die or
plate is then placed thereon.
The leather and die are then placed upon some soft preferably woollen material
and submitted to pressure, under a screw press, between rollers or by other suitable
means, which will have the effect of producing a fac-simile pattern or design on the
leather.
The pattern or design may either be cut into or formed proud of the face of the
plate or die so as to produce either raised or depressed patterns or designs upon
the leather.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 represents a leather vamp with a pattern embossed after having been
submitted to pressure with the die or plate shewn in Figure 2 but other parts of a
boot or shoe upper may also be embossed.
A convenient form of die may consist of a preferably steel plate with the pattern
cut thereon as shewn in Figure 2, although it should be understood that the dies
may also be constructed as hereinbefore described.
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 :-
The production of designs or patterns upon the uppers of boots and shoes by
embossing or stamping substantially in the manner described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.
JAMES LEAVESLEY.
JONATHAN NORTH.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicants.