A NEW OR IMPROVED SLIPPER OR FOOT COVERING
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Mark Bailey, of Huddersfield, in the County
of York, India-rubber Manufacturer, for the Invention of " A NEW
OR IMPROVED SLIPPER OR FOOT COVERING."
Sealed the 30th November 1875, and dated the 3rd June 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Mark Bailey at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd June 1875.
I, MARK BAILEY, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, India-
rubber Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "A NEW OR IMPROVED SLIPPER OR FOOT COVERING," to be as follows:-
:-
This Invention consists in manufacturing or producing slippers or
coverings for the feet of wool or other felting materials manufactured in
or by usual means or processes of felting, or means similar to those used
in the manufacture of felt hats, whereby a warm, easy, and seamless
article is produced.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Mark Bailey in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 3rd December 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARK
BAILEY, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, India-rubber Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-seventh
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Mark Bailey, Her special licence that I, the said
Mark Bailey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Mark Bailey, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for " A NEW OR IMPROVED SLIPPER OR FOOT COVERING,”
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Mark Bailey, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Mark Bailey, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in manufacturing or producing slippers or
coverings for the feet of wool or other felted materials. The method
of manufacturing the same is similar to that usually practiced in the
manufacture of felted articles, the process being as follows:-The wool
is first carded and formed into a sheet by means of ordinary well known
machinery, the carded wool is then taken and " lapped or wound
around a tongue or foundation plate composed by preference of india-
"

page_text: rubber or other pliable substance, and of about the size of the article
required. The tongue is entirely covered with wool, and is then
hardened by a small hardening machine of ordinary construction, and
when hardened a nick or hole is cut in the felt and the tongue with-
drawn; this nick or hole afterwards forms the opening for the admission
of the foot into the slipper. When the tongue is taken out the slipper
is ready for milling or felting either in "stocks or any other milling
or felting machine until it reaches the required consistency, the slipper
is then put upon a "last" of the proper size and shape and allowed to
dry; it is then taken off and forms a perfectly seamless slipper or cover
for the foot.
"