IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SHOES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Ralph Broadbent, of No. 99, Court Street,
in the City of Boston, State of Massachusetts, in the United States
of America, now of No. 8, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine, for the Invention
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Sealed the 28th April 1868, and dated 22nd January 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Ralph Broadbent
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 22nd January 1868.
I, CHARLES RALPH BROADBENT, of No. 99, Court Street, in the City
of Boston, State of Massachusetts, in the United States of America,
now of No. 8, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SHOES,'
to be as follows:-
The said improvements consist in making shoes of paper, the uppers
or top parts and the soles being cut from that material as they are cut
from leather or cloth, or in any similar manner. The different parts of
the upper may be fastened together with a cement, and if a lining is

page_text: used it may be fastened to the upper by the same means. The upper
may then be put upon a last, its inside and lower edges being first
moistened, in order that it may be fitted more closely and completely to
the said last. The sole may then be applied so that its edges cover or
overlap the edges of the upper, cement being put between the two
parts pressure is applied to fasten them firmly together. When an inner
sole is used it should be applied to the last before the outer sole, and the
edges of the upper should be cemented upon its edges, the outer sole
being applied and cemented afterwards, as above described. When the
work is dry the last may be drawn out, and the shoe bound and otherwise
finished in any suitable or ordinary manner. If preferred the parts of
the shoe may be fastened together by sewing, pegging, or otherwise,
either with or without the use of cement.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Ralph Broadbent in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
RALPH BROADBENT, of No. 99, Court Street, in the City of Boston, State
of Massachusetts, in the United States of America, now of No. 8, South-
ampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Doctor
of Medicine, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Charles Ralph Broadbent, Her special
licence that I, the said Charles Ralph Broadbent, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Ralph
Broadbent, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SHOES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Charles Ralph Broadbent, my executors

page_text: or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Ralph Broadbent, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings forming a part of this Specification:-
The object of my said Invention and improvements is to make cheaper
shoes and slippers, that is to say, shoes that will wear longer and do
more service in proportion to their cost than any now in use, and this I
accomplish by using paper wholly as the material out of which I manu-
facture them. For this purpose I use a kind of paper suitably prepared,
that for the soles being thicker and heavier than that for the uppers, the
latter being covered with an enamel or varnish, or with such other

page_text: will overlap those of the insole; I fasten them together by cement put
between them. I now put on the outer or proper sole, so that its edges
may in turn overlap those of the upper, and cement it firmly both to the
upper and to the insole. If no insole is to be used I first apply the
upper to the last, the sole next, the edges of the latter being made
to overlap those of the upper, and being fastened to them, as above
described. When the parts have thus been united I apply pressure to
the joined edges by wrapping a strong cloth around the shoe and last,
or by some other suitable method, until the cement has dried o
hardened, when the pressure may be removed and the last drawn out of
the shoe. The shoe may then be trimmed and finished in such manner
and style as may be desired.
. I have described my improved shoes and slippers as having their parts
fastened together with cement, but they may also be joined together in
the same manner as leather or cloth shoes are fastened, or in any similar
manner, as by sewing, nailing, or pegging, either with or without the
use of cement.
Having now described my said Invention, and shown how the same
may be conveniently and advantageously carried into practice, I claim,
manufacturing shoes or slippers entirely of paper by the methods
substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Ralph Broadbent, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
CHARLES RALPH BROADBENT. (L.S.)