Improvements in the Uppers of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Uppers of Boots and Shoes.
I, LOUIS PERRON, of Rheinstrasse, Frankenthal, Palatinate, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of boots and shoes,
by which they are made practically waterproof, whilst affording free ventilation,
and they
are at the same time flexible, light, strong, and of good appearance and
shape, and healthy to the wearer.
In order to put my invention in operation I make the upper part of the boot or
shoe of soft, pliant leather, a part of which (of any desired extent) I divide, by
cutting, into a large number of more or less vertical narrow strips the upper and
lower ends of which remain attached to the body of the boot or shoe. In and out
between these strips I plait separate corresponding strips, horizontal or more or
less at right angles to those first described, so that the whole surface consists of
a plaited or woven fabric formed of small squares or parallelograms, the size and
proportions of which may be varied more or less as desired.
The sides of the boot or shoe formed of a plaited or woven surface as described,
are lined with a flexible lining of cotton or other suitable porous fabric sewn inside
them, which prevents the widening or distortion of the plaited material, and the
breaking of the leather strips, and absorbs the perspiration of the foot, which is
very injurious to leather. The edges of the lining, and the ends of the separate
cross strips, ane sewn to the body of the boot or shoe.
The improved boots and shoes are excellent both as regards their hygienic
qualities, and their shape, and capacity for retaining such shape.
I do not confine myself to the precise details of manufacture, or materials
employed, which may be varied more or less to suit varying circumstances, and
as different tastes may suggest.
The plaited strips, together with the porous lining, afford thorough ventilation
through them, whilst at the same time it is almost impossible for rain or water to
penetrate.
Dated 1 of atauhan 1000
Improvements in the Uppers of Boots and Shoes.
I, LOUIS PERRON, of Rheinstrasse, Frankenthal, Palatinate, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
Price 8d.1

page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer
tained in and by the following statement, and the accompanying drawing, that is
to say:-
My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of boots and shoes,
by which they are made practically waterproof whilst affording free ventilation,
and they are at the same time flexible, light, strong, and of good appearance and
shape, and healthy to the wearer.
The accompanying drawing represents in side view, a boot made according to
my invention.
I make the upper part of the boot or shoe of soft, pliant leather a part of which
(of any desired extent) I divide by cutting into a large number of more or less
vertical narrow strips a, a, a, the upper and lower ends of which remain attached
to the body of the boot or shoe. In and out between these strips I plait separate
corresponding strips, b, b, b, horizontal or more or less at right angles to those first
described, so that the whole surface consists of a plaited or woven fabric formed
(as seen in the illustration) of small squares or parallelograms, the size and
proportions of which may be varied more or less as desired.
The sides of the boot or shoe formed of a plaited or woven surface as described,
are lined with a flexible lining of cotton or other suitable porous fabric (not shewn in
the drawing) sewn inside them, which prevents the widening or distortion of the
plaited material, and the breaking of the leather strips, and absorbs the perspira-
tion of the foot, which is very injurious to leather. The edges of the lining, and
the ends of the separate cross strips b, b, b, are sewn to the body of the boot or shoe.
The improved boots and shoes are excellent both as regards their hygienic
qualities, and their shape, and capacity for retaining such shape.
I do not confine myself to the precise details of manufacture, or materials
employed, which may be varied more or less to suit varying circumstances, and
as different tastes may suggest.
The plaited strips, together with the porous lining, afford thorough ventilation
through them at the points where they cross each other, whilst at the same time
it is almost impossible for rain or water to penetrate.
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:-
1. The improvements in the uppers of boots and shoes consisting in dividing any
desired parts of such uppers into narrow strips a the upper and lower ends of which
remain attached to the body of the upper, and plaiting separate strips b between
the strips a, the ends of the strips b being sewn to the body of the upper,
substantially as described and illustrated.
2. In combination with the improved upper made as described and claimed in
Claim 1, the lining of cotton or other porous fabric sewn inside the upper,
substantially as described.
Dated this 23rd day of June 1897
EDWARDS & Co.,
65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.