Improvements in Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 7th June, 1893-Accepted, 8th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boots and Shoes.
I, GEORGE DONALDSON, of 42 Shiprow, in the Town and County of
Aberdeen, Bootmaker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has reference to and comprises a new or improved mode and
means of lasting and fixing the welts and soles to the "uppers" of boots and shoes
without the aid of an insole; and whereby the appliances and labour heretofore
employed for lasting the uppers to the insoles will be dispensed with, and the nail
points reversed so as to remove all danger of pricking or injuring the soles of
the feet.
By my improvements I secure the "
uppers " of boots and shoes direct to the
welts by rivets, nails, or like fasteners, from the inside, and which may also extend
through and secure the outer soles, or these would be secured to the welts by sewing
or otherwise.
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I then remove
In carrying my improvements into practice I take the "upper" and reverse it
and place it over a welt on the top of a last fitted with a soft cushion or false
bottom. I then secure the outer edges of the upper direct to the welt all round
from the front of the toes right back to the heel by rivets or nails.
same from the last and reverse or turn over the "
upper to have its wearing
surface outwards, and place it over an ordinary last. The sole can then be
secured to the welt either by using long nails or rivets extending through the
welt from the upper and inserted as previously described, and hammering or
pressing the sole over same. Or the sole can be attached to the welt by sewing,
or by nails or screw wire in an ordinary manner. An insole may be placed
inside the boots cither set loosely or attached by solution or other equivalent
means.
"
By these improvements as the rivets or nails securing the welts to the "uppers
are inserted with their points downwards instead of upwards, as heretofore, there
will be no danger of the soles of the feet getting injured from projecting points
within the boots.
Dated the 7th Sentember 1802
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boots and Shoes.
I, GEORGE DONALDSON of 42 Shiprow, in the Town and County of Aberdeen,
Bootmaker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement in writing that is to say :-
This invention has reference to and comprises a new or improved mode and
means, of lasting and fixing the welts and soles to the "uppers" of boots, and shoes
without the aid of an insole; and whereby the appliances and labour heretofore
employed for lasting the "uppers to the insoles will be dispensed with, and the
nail points reversed so as to remove all danger of pricking or injuring the soles of
the feet.
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By ny improvements I secure the " uppers " of boots and shoes direct to the
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page_text: welts by rivets nails, or like fasteners, from the inside and which may also extend
through and secure the outer soles, or these would be secured to the welts by
ordinary sewing or otherwise.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings in which
Figure 1 represents an elevation of a shoe, partly in section showing the upper
and welt with the rivets inserted from the inside ready for being secured together
in accordance with my improvements but before being operated on with the metal last.
Figure 2 is an inverted plan view corresponding to Figure 1 showing the welt as
rivetted to the upper. And Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 1, but showing
the upper and welt after being rivetted on the metal last and showing in dotted
lines an outer sole secured thereon, the lasts being removed in all the figures.
Referring to these drawings:-In carrying my improvements into practice, I
take the upper" and under one arrangement (as for light shoes or pumps) reverse
it and place it over a welt B on the top of a wooden last, or a last fitted with a soft
cushion or false bottom. I then secure the lower edges A' of the "upper" A
direct to the welt B all round from the front of the toes right back to the
heel by rivets a or it might be nails. I then remove same from the last and
reverse or turn over the "upper" A to have its wearing surface outwards, as
shown in Figure and place it over an ordinary metal last. Or the welt B,
can be secured to the upper A direct as shown in Figure 1 without requiring
the upper to be reversed, by lasting the upper over a wooden last in the
usual way and then fitting the welt all round it, and securing both by paste
and temporary nails a' then forming the holes through the welt B and upper A
by an ordinary awl and inserting the rivets a through these holes, after the
removal from the wooden last, as shown in Figure 1. The rivets a shown in
Figure 1 project sufficiently beyond the welt B to be rivetted over an ordinary
inetal last as shown in Figure 2, after which the centre packing is filled up to
the level of the welt B and secured with paste in a usual manner. The outer
sole can then be secured to the welt B temporarily by a few removable nails,
and the shoe can then be removed from the metal last after which the sole
would be secured to the welt B as shown in dotted lines at C in Figure 2 by
sewing outside the upper in the ordinary manner round to near the heels either
by hand or by a sole sewing machine. Or, instead of by sewing, this outer
sole C may be secured to the welting by pegs, nails, or screw wire in an
ordinary manner round outside the line of rivets, as at the dotted line b in
Figure 2. The heel C₁ would then be built and secured over the welt B and
packing by nails from the outside in a usual manner. The welt B being by
these improvements so thoroughly rivetted and secured to the upper A, the
soles C when worn can be easily removed and a new sole secured to the welt B,
or if a part of the welt gets worn this also can be easily renewed and rivetted
before securing the outer sole thereto. An insole may be placed inside the
boots either set loosely or attached by solution or other equivalent means as
dotted in at c in Figure 3.
By these improvements as the rivets or nails a securing the welts B to the
<< uppers A are inserted with their points downwards or outwards instead of
upwards or inwards as heretofore, there will be no danger of the soles of the feet
getting injured from projecting or clinched points within the boots.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, aud in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
First. The herein described method of lasting and fixing the welts and soles to
the uppers of boots and shoes without the use of a fixed insole substantially as
set forth.

page_text: Second. In boots and shoes the securing of the uppers to the welts by rivets or
nails, inserted from the inside and without the use of a fixed insole, substantially as
set forth.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.