IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lyman Daggett, of the State of Massachusetts, of
the United States of America, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BOOTS AND SHOES."
Sealed the 15th February 1867, and dated the 80th October 1866.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said 'Lyman Daggett at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declaration,
on the 30th October 1866, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent
Law Amendment Act, 1852.
5 TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, BE
IT KNOWN that. I, LYMAN DAGGETT, of the State of Massachusetts, of the
-United States of America, have made a new and useful Invention for "In-
PROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES," and I do hereby declare the nature of the
same, and the manner in which it is to be performed, to be fully described in
o the following Specification, and represented in the accompanying Drawings :-
The first part of my Invention is an improved inner, sole to be used in a
boot or shoe.
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Figure 1 is a top view, Figure, 2 a bottom view, and Figure 3 a transverse
section of it; it is composed of a sheet of india-rubber A, or other suitable
5 equivalent, and a lining or covering B of leather or cloth; it is punctured
with numerous holes a, a, a, going through it at regular distances apart; I
prefer to arrange them as represented in Figure 1. The lower surface of the
sheet of rubber is to be made with projections, as shown at b, b, and with

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cavities or passages c extending between or between and around the projec-
tions, and communicating with the holes: a which go down through the sole
and between the said projections; these projections while the sole is in use serve
to support it in the inner sole of a boot or shoe; these passages or cavities allow
air to freely circulate underneath the false sole and up through the various
holes in it. The false sole is very elastic and flexible; it insulates the foot of
the wearer from the sole of the shoe, so as to keep the foot dry in case of the
sole becoming wet. By allowing air to circulate under and through the sole
perspiration of the foot can go on freely without injury to the foot or dampening
the stocking; besides this, the sole constitutes an elastic body which is soft or
yielding to the foot, and serves to relieve it or its joints from the effect of
concussion of the shoe, while the wearer may be either running or walking
on pavements or a hard ground or surface. If desirable the sole may be fixed
on so as to form part of a boot or shoe.
Figure 4 is a vertical section of a boot sole provided with the second part
of my Invention. In such Figure A denotes the sole made in the ordinary
way of leather or other suitable material. B is an insulator composed of a
sheet of vulcanized india-rubber b, and a series of conic or tapering frusta
a, a, a, projecting upward from the plate b, arranged at equal or about equal
distances apart lengthwise as well as across it.. C is the insole of leather or
other suitable material made foraminous, and provided with numerous holes
C, C, C, C. This perforated insole rests in the india-rubber projections a, a, a,
and is supported by them; the holes or passages c, c, c, allow air to circulate
i through the sole C, and into and through the spaces about the projections
a, a, a; thus while the india-rubber insulator B serves as an elastic cushion
for the foot of the wearer of the boot, and to prevent water or moisture which
may pass up through the sole A from coming in contact with the foot, it enable
-a leather insolê to be used as a supporter of the foot, and as a means of
preventing not only the foot from coming in contact with the rubber
insulator, but the injurious or inconvenient consequences which would result
therefrom.
Although this latter part of my Invention is somewhat analogous to the
first part, as represented in Figures 1, 2, and 3, and as herein-before described,
'yet there are important differences between the two.
In the first the india-rubber sheet is perforated with holes, and when the
sole is within a shoe the ends of the projections rest in the inner surface of
the sole of the shoe, but the india-rubber sole, as shown at Figure 4, is not
perforated, its parts 6 being entirely waterproof, and constituting a perfect
*waterproof covering to the sole A; the insole C-is perforated.

page_text: Thus, with the second part of my Invention, I not only attain circulation of
air beneath and through the insole, but am enabled to use a common insole
of leather, or other material usually employed for the making of insoles ;
besides I have a waterproof covering 6 to the sole A.
The lining B (see Figures 1 and 3) or the insole C. (see Figure 4) may be
composed of a porous or woven material instead of being perforated with
holes.
I claim as my Invention the following, that is to say,-
I claim the flexile inside waterproof elastic sole, as made not only with
the supporting projections extending from it, and with the passages around
and between such projections, but with holes leading from such passages up
through the sole, the whole being substantially as represented in Figures 1, 2,
and 8, and as above described.
I also claim the combination as well as the arrangement of the waterproof
plate b, the series of elastic projections a, a, a, and the foraminous or perforated
insole C, the whole being substantially as represented in Figure 4, and as
herein-before explained.
I also claim the combination as well as the arrangement of the waterproof
plate b, the series of elastic projections a, a, a, and the insole C with the
boot or shoe sole A, the whole being substantially as exhibited in Figure 4,
and as herein-before specified.
I also claim the combination of a porous or woven insole with the india
rubber plate provided with projections and passages around them for use in a
boot or shoe as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lyman Daggett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this 12th October 1866.
TYMAN DACOLT