Year: 1899

page_text: A communication by ALBERT H. EMER, of 225, Cedar Street, Milwaukee in the
State of Wisconsin, United States of America.
I, GEORGE CECIL DYMOND, M.Inst.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign Patent
Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in the
County of Lancaster; 118, New Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
and 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention relates to improvements in that class of shoes or other foot wear,
which is provided with wooden soles, and pertains more especially to the device
by which the upper of the shoe is secured to the sole.
The construction of the shoe is explained by reference to the accompanying
drawings, in which
Figure 1 represents a side view.
Figure 2 is a vertical section drawn on line -x of Figure 1, and
Figure 3 is a central vertical section view.
Like parts are referred to by the same reference letters.
A represents the sole of the shoe which is provided with a V shaped groove B
made for the reception of the lower edge of the upper of the shoe C, which is
secured therein by the fastening wire D and wire-retaining staples E. As
indicated in Figures 2 and 3, the lower edge of the upper is drawn firmly down-
ward within the groove B by the retaining wire 1), having its edge protruding
outwardly, flush with the outer edge of the sole, as indicated at E. When the
wire has been drawn, as indicated, firmly around the lower edge of the
upper, the
same is secured in place by the series of staples E which engage around the wire
and are firmly driven over the same into the sole, whereby the upper is secured
firmly in place.
The heel or rear part of the shoe is provided with a stiffening counter G which
is stitched to the upper in the ordinary manner, as indicated at H, and its lower
edge is drawn down firmly into the V shaped groove B where it is secured in
place between the upper of the shoe and the interior bearing surface of the sole,
as indicated in Figure 3.
It is obvious that by the device described, the leather is held in the groove
of the sole by the binding wire, while the binding wire is in turn held against
the leather and made to conform to the concave or inward curves of the upper-
retaining groove around the edge of the sole by the staples, which staples straddle
said binding wire and are driven through the edge of the upper into the sole,
thereby drawing said binding wire down firmly against the exterior surface of the
leather. When the upper has been thus secured to the sole, the outward pro-

page_text: jecting edge may be nicely trimmed off flush with the edge of the sole, which
gives the shoe a neat and finished appearance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
In a shoe or other foot wear, the device for securing a leather upper to a wooden
sole, consisting in the combination of a sole A, provided with a V shaped groove B,
upper C, upper-retaining binding wire D, and wire-retaining staples E, said
upper being drawn down and firmly held within said groove by said binding
wire D, while said binding wire is in turn drawn down against said upper by
said retaining staples, which staples straddle or engage around said binding wire
and are driven through the upper into the wooden sole, substantially as and for
the purpose specified.
Dotad this 28th dox of Fah 1900
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.