Improvements in the Manufacture of Coverings for the Feet.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 29th May, 1895-Accepted, 29th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Coverings for the Feet.
1, THOMAS GARE, of The Gare Machine Company Limited, of Hopes Carr,
Stockport, in the County of Chester, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates more particularly to the manufacture of that class of
coverings for the feet in which the outer sole is secured to the middle or inner sole
and the upper by means of screw fastenings or rivets.
In the manufacture of this class of coverings for the feet it has been customary
to form a channel in the face of the outer sole and after having driven the said
screw fastenings or rivets into such channel to close it in imitation of soles sewn on
by hand or machine.
The object of my invention is to attain the same ends without the necessity of
channelling thereby not weakening the sole and saving a great deal of labour
besides giving the sole a neater finish.
To this end, in lieu of channelling the sole, I so set the hammer of the machine
or hand tool used for driving the screw fastenings or rivets as to drive the latter a
little below the surface of the sole.
The holes in the sole above the screw fastenings or rivets I then close up by
rubbing or they may be previously filled up with some suitable substance, say
paste or wax, after which the sole may be bunked or otherwise finished.
Dated this 3rd day of September 1894.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Coverings for the Feet.
I, THOMAS GARE, of The Gare Machine Company Limited, of Hopes Carr,
Stockport, in the County of Chester, Engineer, 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 more particularly to the manufacture of that class of
coverings for the feet in which the outer sole is secured to the middle, or to the
inner sole and the upper, by means of screw fastenings or rivets.
In the manufacture of this class of coverings for the feet it has been customary
to form a channel in the face of the outer sole and after having driven the said
screw fastenings or rivets into such channel to close it in imitation of soles sewn on
by hand or machine.
The object of my invention is to attain the same ends without the necessity of
channelling thereby not weakening the sole and saving a great deal of labour
besides giving the sole a neater finish.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings representing in perspective a portion
of a sole rivetted in accordance with my invention.

page_text: In carrying out my invention in lieu of channelling the sole a I so set the
hammer of the machine or hand tool used for driving the screw fastening or
rivets b as to drive the latter a little below the surface of the sole a (see left side
of sole).
The holes e in the sole a above the screw fastening or rivets b, I then close up by
rubbing or they may be previously filled up with some suitable substance, say paste
or wax, after which the sole may be bunked or otherwise finished so as to completely
hide the screw fastenings or rivets (see right side of sole).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is-
In the manufacture of coverings for the feet, the method of attaching or
rivetting the outer sole to the middle, or inner sole and the upper, consisting in
driving the screw fastenings or rivets below the face of the outer sole and
subsequently closing the holes over the fastenings or rivets, substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.
Dated this 28th day of May 1895.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4 Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.