IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert Dickson, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester,
Shoehand, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
BOOTS AND SHOES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert Dickson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th November 1881.
HERBERT DICKSON, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Shoehand.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES."
This Invention relates more particularly to improvements in the manufacture of
elastic side boots and shoes, and the object of the Invention is to provide a boot
having no perpendicular seam up the back. The Invention also relates to an
improved method of rendering boots and shoes damp proof, that is to say, to
prevent the damp from rising to the under surface of the foot.
In carrying out the first part of my Invention I take a skin of any suitable
material and cut from it a piece similar to that usually cut for the ordinary block
front, but to which is attached, at that part to which the back is usually seamed, a
triangular piece with pieces abutting at the base, and with semicircular, pointed,
square, or other shaped top. This piece forming the entire upper is then blocked
at the back and front to the required shape, and finished in the usual way.
Where the upper is made from two pieces I cut a piece of triangular shape with
pieces abutting at the base, and with semicircular, pointed, square, or other shape
top. I also cut the shape usually adopted for the ordinary block front, and having
blocked the front and the triangular shaped piece to the shape of a back they are
seamed together and finished in the usual way.
Or I take the triangular piece hereinbefore described and other shapes adapted
to form boots without any perpendicular seam down the back, such backs being
cut in one or more pieces and blocked in any suitable manner.
It will be understood that other shapes than those described can be used with
like results.
To render boots and shoes damp-proof I take a solution of india rubber, cement,
or other suitable adhesive waterproof solution, and a sock of cork, leather, paste-
board, linen, or other suitable material, waterproof or otherwise. I take the sock
and spread a quantity of waterproof solution upon its undersurface and put it into
the boot and firmly press it to the insole by machinery or by hand.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Herbert Dickson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th May
1882.
HERBERT DICKSON, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Shoehand.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES."
This Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of side spring and
other boots and shoes, and the object of the Invention is to provide a boot or shoe
having no perpendicular seam up the back, and thus avoid the rapid wear or decay
of the boot at this part which has taken place in those hitherto manufactured.
The Invention also relates to rendering boots and shoes damp proof, that is to say,
preventing the damp from rising to the sole or underpart of the foot, and the dis-
comfort arising from the sock becoming creased in wear. The sock is also prevented
from coming out of the boot, and rapid wear or decay of the stitches of a sewn
boot from the perspiration of the foot is avoided.
In carrying out the first part of my Invention I take a skin of kid, calf, levant,
memel, patent leather, or other suitable material, and cut from it a piece similar to
that usually cut for the ordinary block front, but to which is attached, at that
part to which the back is usually seamed, a triangular shaped piece with pieces
abutting at the base, and with semi-circular, pointed, square, or other shaped top.
This piece forming the entire upper is then blocked at the back and front to the
required shape and finished in the usual way.
Where the upper is made of two pieces I cut a piece of triangular shape with
pieces abutting at the base and with semi-circular, pointed, square, or other shaped
top. I also cut the shape usually adopted for the ordinary block front, and having
blocked the front and the triangular shaped piece to the shape of a back they are
seamed together and finished in the usual way.
In another form of boot I cut a piece similar to the ordinary golosh, but to
which is attached a piece intended to form the button piece, extending from the
front parallel with the wings of the golosh to the end, or further if required. I
also cut an irregular shaped piece intended to form the back. These two pieces
are then blocked to form the front and back portions of the boot. The back piece
may be provided with two pieces which form the button stays of the boot or may
be cut whole as required. This boot may be fastened by buttons, hooks and eyes,
studs, or other suitable fastenings.
Or I take the triangular shaped piece hereinbefore described and other shapes
adapted to form boots without any perpendicular seam down the back, such backs
being cut in one or more pieces, and such pieces or portions of such pieces aro
blocked in any suitable manner.
It will be understood that other shapes than those described can be used with
like results.
To render boots and shoes dampproof I take a solution of indiarubber, cement,
or other suitable adhesive waterproof solution and a sock of cork, leather, paste-
board, linen, or other suitable material, waterproof or otherwise. I take the sock
and spread a quantity of waterproof solution upon its under surface and put it into
the boot and firmly press it to the insole by machinery or by hand.
In order to enable my Invention to be better understood I will now proceed to
describe the same and the method of carrying it into effect by reference to the
accompanying Drawing.
In making one forin of boot, such as that shewn in Figure 1, I cut from suitable
material a piece of the shape shewn in Figure 2, that is to say, a triangular shaped
piece combined with an ordinary block front. When this piece has been blocked

page_text: at the back and front it will form a boot of the shape represented in enlarged
elevation at Figure with a seam A on the inside of the boot only.
Another form of boot is made by employing a triangular shaped back such as
that represented in Figure 3, and an ordinary blocked front, and the two parts
when seamed together will also form a boot of the shape represented in Figure 1,
but having a seam such as at A on both sides of the boot.
For the manufacture of other spring boots having vamped, goloshed, seamed,
capped, or other kinds of fronts, I also use the triangular shaped piece represented
in Figure 3. Figure 4 represents a piece cut similarly to the ordinary golosh but
having a piece B running from the golosh parallel with the wings C, to the heel of
the golosh or further if required. This piece is intended to form the button piece
and the golosh of the boot. Figure 5 is an irregular shaped piece intended to form
the back portion of the boot. The two pieces, videlicet, those shewn in Figures 4
and 5, are blocked to the required shape and seamed in the usual way; the piece
shewn in Figure 5 may be cut whole or it may be provided with button stays
which are seained to the front portions B of Figure 5. Figure 6 is an enlarged
elevation of this forin of boot when made.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of performing
the same, I wish it to be understood that what I claim as my Invention and desire
to be protected by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,
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Firstly. The manufacture of side spring boots and shoes having no perpendicular
seam down the back, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described
and represented in Figures 1, 2, and 3 of the acompanying Drawing.
الديمو
Secondly. The manufacture of button bog or shoes in which the vamp and
button piece, or the golosh and button piece, the case may be, are cut in one
piece only, and are provided with a blocked back piece, substantially as herein-
before described and represented in Figures 4, 5, and 6 of the accompanying
Drawing.
Thirdly. The employment of a sock attached to the inside of a boot or shoe by
means of a suitable waterproof solution, in the manner and for the purposes herein
set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Herbert Dickson, have hereto set my hand
and seal, this Third day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty two.
HERBERT DICKSON. (L.S.)