Improvements in or relating to Boots, Shoes, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 6th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Boots, Shoes, and the like.
We, THOMAS LILLEY, Boot Manufacturer, of Paddington Green, W.,
WILLIAM GERARD DELL, Surgical Appliance Maker, of 2 Bloomsbury
Street, W.C., and PERCY JOHN MOORE GUNTHORP, Inventor, also of
2 Bloomsbury Street, W.C., do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention relates to boots shoes and the like,, the object being to more
efficiently support or accommodate the foot of the wearer, especially in the case of
cripples.
in carrying out the invention the foot is impressed in a suitable plastic material
which will afterwards set into the shape of the impression, preferably using for
this purpose a special preparation of felt known in the trade as "poro-plastic."
The material when set and bearing the impress of the foot is placed in the boot or
shoe or it may be otherwise secured to the foot so that the wearer walks upon a
sole bearing the actual impress of his foot instead of as at present upon material
which, at best, he can only partially hold to the shape of his foot by walking upon
it, a tedious process and in the case of a cripple a serious drawback.
Dated this 20th day of November 1895.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicants.
improvements in or relating to Boots, shoes, and the like.
We THOMAS LILLEY, Boot Manufacturer, of Paddington Green, W.,
WILLIAM GERARD DELL, Surgical Appliance Maker of 2 Bloomsbury
Street, W.C., and PERCY JOHN MOORE GUNTHORP, Inventor, also of
2 Bloomsbury Street, W.C., 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 to boots shoes and the like, the object being to more
efficiently support or accommodate the foot of the wearer, especially in the case of
cripples.
In carrying out the invention the foot is impressed in a suitable plastic material
which will afterwards set into the shape of the impression, preferably using for this
purpose a special preparation of felt known in the trade as "poro-plastic." The
material when set and bearing the impress of the foot is placed in the boot or shoe
or it may be otherwise secured to the foot so that the wearer walks upon a sole or
foot-support bearing the actual impress of his foot instead of as at present upon
material which, at best, he can only partially mould to the shape of his foot by
walking upon it, a tedious process and in the case of a cripple a serious drawback.
Predl

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. A boot-sole or foot-support whereon the impress of the foot has been produced
in the manner described.
2. A boot-sole or foot-support of "poro-plastic" whereon the impress of the
foot has been produced in the manner described.
Dated this 1st day of August 1896.
THOS. LILLEY.
W. G. DELL.
P. J. M. GUNTHORP.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicants.