IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, GEORGE VALIANT of the City of Toronto in the County of York in the
Province of Ontario, Canada, Manufacturer of Boots and Shoes do hereby declare,
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS" to be as
| follows :-
The object of the Invention is to make a button-boot in which it will not be
necessary to stitch around the button-holes, and in which the button-holes when
worn may readily be replaced with out injuring or in any way disfiguring the
upper of the boot; and it consists essentially in stamping the button holes out of a
piece of raw hide or other suitable material and stitching the piece thus prepared
onto the fly of the upper.

page_text: I GEORGE VALIANT, of the City of Toronto, in the County of York, in the
Province of Ontario, Canada, Manufacturer of Boots and Shoes, do hereby declare
the nature of this Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS" and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :—
The object of the Invention is to make a button boot in which it will not be
necessary to stitch around the button holes and in which the button-holes when
worn may readily be replaced without injuring or in any way disfiguring the
upper of the boot and it consists essentially in stamping the button holes out of a
piece of raw-hide or other suitable material, and stitching the piece thus prepared
on to the fly of the upper as hereinafter explained.
Figure 1 shows a boot having button-holes made in accordance with my
Invention.
Figure 2, is a plan of the piece in which the button holes are made..
Figure 3, shows a plan of that portion of the flap of the upper to which the
button-hole piece is tacked..
Figure 4, shows the flap of an upper provided with the ordinary stitched button
hole.
In button boots as now made the button-holes are stamped out near the edge of
one of the flaps of the upper. The holes thus stamped out are stitched so as to
prevent them wearing, and at the same time present a finished appearance.
Button-holes it is well known soon wear out and when destroyed cannot be
neatly repaired. It is moreover an expensive matter to stitch each button-hole.
By the adoption of this Invention I am not only able to make a boot with
stronger button-holes, but the plan adopted by me for making the button-holes
will be found much cheaper and in the event of the button-holes wearing out, the
said button holes may be replaced and the upper of the boot look, so far as the
button-holes are concerned as good as new.
In the Drawings A is a button-hole piece, preferably made of raw-hide or other
strong material, and having a series of button-holes a made in it as shown. This
piece A is sewn to the flap of the upper B, and in order to make the connection
between the two as neat as possible, I scollop or serate the edge of the flap of the
upper B as shewn in Figure 3. The stitches employed for connecting the piece A
to the flap of the upper B, follow the form of the serated or scolloped edge,
forming a neat finish as indicated in Figure 1.
While this Invention is specially designed for button-boots it may also be applied
to lace-boots instead of button holes, eyelets being substituted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is,
1. In combination with the fly of a boot's upper a piece of suitable material
attached to the upper and having eyelets or button-holes stamped out of it,
substantially as and for the purpose specified.

page_text: 2. A boot having the edge of the fly of its upper serrated or scolloped, in
combination with a piece of material sewn to the said edge and having eyelets or
' button-holes stamped out of it substantially as and for the purpose specified.