Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 17th July, 1893-Accepted, 26th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
I, GEORGE JOHN CHENEY of 113 Victoria Street, Fleetwood in the County of
Lancashire Shoemaker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of boots and shoes,
and is as follows :-
The outer soles or wearing part are made from rubber, gutta percha or other soft
flexible compounds, advantageously from the material known as "Blandyte" and
made under Letters Patent granted to A. A. Blandy No. 3591 of 1889 and 13864
of 1890.
These outer soles have a false welt (also known in the trade as half wide welt,
Buuk wheel stitch, or imitation stitch) or other suitable finish on the outside and
top edge the under surface is made to represent the foresole protected by a clump
of suitable design, giving the actual wearing surface and extending wide enough to
protect the stitching by which the sole is secured to the upper part of the shoe in
the usual way of sewing in boot and shoe manufacturing.
The sole behind the middle or waist portion (which is made all in one part) is
made to carry the heel, the latter being made in any suitable manner such as from
an inflexible compound or of an ebonite character and the whole (ie. the sole clump
welt waist and heel) being moulded together and thus made compact and continuous
in one piece and vulcanized and finished by one heat-the front portion of sole
being flexible and the heel portion more or less rigid.
The outer or wearing surface of the heels may be made to carry cast iron
protectors or suitably formed to receive a separately attached top-lift this latter
carrying the protectors or otherwise as desired.
"
or
The novelty of my present invention consists in the moulding of "Blandyte
the like material into soles or wearing pieces for boots and shoes having a clump
and a false welt or imitation stitch pattern or other suitable finish applied thereto
with the middle or "waist" part and a suitable heel all moulded together at the
same time and forming the entire sole and heel, imitation stitch in welt joint to joint and
the whole vulcanized and finished in one operation thus producing all these several
parts in one piece ready to be fixed and secured on a shoe in any suitable manner.
The heel can be made separate from sole and applied to any or all common
leather shoes and can be made hollow or the interior filled with cork or other
material and can be sewn or nailed on from within or on the outer surface and so
made as to carry the final lift as a movable and changeable portion, these lifts being
screwed on or nailed as in leather.
Dated this 17th day of October 1892.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
1, GEORGE JOHN CHENEY of 113 Victoria Street, Fleetwood, in the County of
Lancashire, Shoemaker, 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 improvements in the manufacture of boots and shoes,
and is as follows:-
The outer soles or wearing part are made from rubber gutta percha imitation
leather or other suitable compounds such as the material known as Blandyte "-
capable of being moulded into the desired shapes and vulcanisable.
These outer soles have a false welt (known in the trade as half wide welt, Bunk
wheel stitch or imitation stitch) or other suitable finish on the outside and top edge
and the under surface made to represent the foresole protected by an imitation
clump of suitable design (or a separate clump may be affixed) giving the actual
wearing surface and a groove or channel all round provides depth enough to protect
the stitching by which the sole is secured to the upper part of the shoe in the usual
way of sewing in boot and shoe manufacture.
The sole behind the middle or waist portion is made with or without the heel.
When carrying the heel all shapes can be secured according to desire and the
substance thereof may be more or less hard flexible or of an ebonite character as
desired or necessary but with or without the heel the whole is moulded together in
one compact continuous piece and vulcanised giving the front portion flexibility and
the heel portion rigidity as desired and the whole attached to the uppers by rivets
or by sewing-finishing being thereby done away with.
The outer or wearing surface of the heels may be made to carry cast iron
protectors or may be suitably formed to receive a separately attached top-lift this
latter carrying the protectors or otherwise as desired. Also if desired the wearing
surface of the outer sole according to my present invention may have cast iron or
other suitable wear-resisting material embedded and moulded therein.
The novelty of my present invention consists in the moulding of a suitable
material into the outer soles for boots and shoes having a false welt or imitation
stitch pattern or other suitable finish of any suitable kind and either with or without
a "clump" or roughened or ornamental wearing surface applied thereto with the
middle or 66 waist part and a suitable heel all moulded together at the same time
and forming the entire sole and heel (or without the heel) and the whole vulcanised
and finished in one operation thus producing all these several parts in one piece
ready to be fixed and secured on a boot or shoe in any suitable manner.
And in order that my present invention may be easily understood and readily
carried into practice I will proceed to further describe same with reference to the
drawings hereunto annexed :-
Fig. 1 is a plan of the non-wearing side of an outer sole showing the "imitation
stitch" thereon and having the waist and heel attached and moulded all in one
piece.
Fig. 2 is an edge view of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the non-wearing side of an outer sole showing the "imitation
stitch" thereon, and
may
Fig. 4 is an edge view of Fig. 3-in this case the heel is not moulded on but:
be attached or mounted in any suitable form or manner, such as in the manner of
attaching heels now well-known in the boot trade.
Fig. 5 is a plan of the non-wearing side of an outer sole showing the "imitation
stitch"thereon-such outer sole having neither the heel nor the waist attached
thereto and this outer sole can be mounted and secured on the boot or shoe in any
well-known or suitable manner.

page_text: In all cases illustrated in the drawings the moulds in which such outer soles are
to be moulded are formed so as to impart the exact required shape thickness contour
finish ornamentation or otherwise to be imparted to the made article and also imparts
the imitation stitch half wide welt or Bunk wheel stitch a which stitch a is thus
imparted in the formation or moulding of these soles so that such finished soles thus
constructed either with or without the heel (or waist and heel) can be applied to
boots and shoes in any suitable or desired manner and thereby avoids the "finishing"
operation now usual in the manufacture of boots and shoes.
Having thus 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 :-
1. The manufacture of finished outer soles for boots and shoes by moulding same
with the half wide welt, Bunk wheel stitch imitation stitch or the like from any
material capable of and suitable for being thus moulded for such purposes substantially
as hereinbefore described.
2. In the manufacture of boots and shoes-I claim an outer sole constructed from
any suitable material capable of being moulded into the desired shape with the half
wide welt, Bunk wheel stitch, imitation stitch or the like moulded thereon sub-
stantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before described.
1000
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.