Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 24th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 21st Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1887.
I, JOHN MCGUIGAN, of 75 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria,
Anatomical Bootmaker and Chiropodist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
:-
This invention of an improvement in the construction of boots and shoes is designed
for the purpose of providing a soft and easy tread for boots and shoes so as to enable
them to be worn with ease and comfort by those persons who suffer from corns and
the like on the soles or under part of their feet. I intend my invention to be known
as "The Podos Cura." My improvement consists in providing each boot or shoo
with a cushion or pad for the tread (preferably of horse hair) which is covered over
with an insole of soft leather thus forming a soft and elastic tread for the feet and
producing a feeling to the wearer similar to that of walking over springy grass, by
reason of the cushion, being so elastic to the tread, relieving the perpetual pressure
from the tender parts in walking. In making my cushions I take the requisito
quantity of horse hair, arrange it evenly and then press it with a hot iron after which
I stitch it together so as to retain its shape and to prevent its spreading. I then place
it under its soft leather covering and stitch it and the welt to the boot sole. It is
obvious that although I have named horse hair as the material from which the cushion
is made, that other materials of the same nature may be substituted for it without
departing from the purpose of my invention, which is to provide a soft and easy tread
for boots and shoes.
Dated this Ninth day of. April One thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Construction of Boots and Shoes.
I, JOHN MOGUIGAN, of 75 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria,
Anatomical Bootmaker and Chiropodist, 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 :-
as
This invention of an improvement in the construction of boots and shoes is designed
for the purpose of providing a soft and easy tread for boots and shoes so as to enable
them to be worn with ease and comfort by those persons who suffer from corns and
the like on the soles or under part of their feet. I intend my invention to be known
"The Podos Cura." My improvement consists in providing cach boot or shoe
with a cushion or pad for the tread (preferably of horse hair) which is covered over
with an insole of soft leather thus forming a. soft and elastic tread for the feet and
producing a feeling to the wearer similar to that of walking over springy grass by
reason of the cushion being so clastic to the tread, relieving the perpetual pressure
from the tender parts in walking. In making my cushions I take the requisite
quantity of horse-hair, arrange it evenly and then press it with a hot iron after which
I stitch it together so as to retain its shape and to prevent its spreading. I then
place it under a soft leather covering and stitch it and the welt to the boot sole. It is
obvious, that although I have named horse-hair as the material from which the cushion
is made, that other materials of the same nature may be substituted for it, without
departing from the purpose of my invention, which is to provide a soft and easy tread
for boots and shoes.
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:
Providing boots and shoes with a cushion or pad for the tread, such cushion or pad
boing formed preferably of horse-hair covered by an insole of soft leather substantially
as and for the purposes herein described and explained.
Dated this Tanth day of Wah 1007