Improved Shoe.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 28th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 30th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by TOWARISCHESTWO SANCT PETERBURGSKAWO
MECHANITSCHESKAWO PROISWODSTWA OBUWI (St. Petersburg Boot and
Shoe Manufacturing Co.), of 134 Obvodry Karal, St. Petersburg, Russia.]
Improved Shoe.
1, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agerts, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to shoes having uppers made of one single piece of leather,
or other suitable material, all frout and lateral seams being avoided.
For manufacturing such shoes a blank cut to the shape desired, comprising the
bottom and uppers in one piece, after the quarters have been closed by a seam, is
lasted over a block in such a manner that the edges of the uppers touch one another
on the sole of the last or block, forming an upper in which neither front nor lateral
seams are visible.
The chief advantages of shoes manufactured in this manner in comparison
with the shoes hitherto commonly used having front and lateral seams are as
follows:
1. The front and lateral seams being obviated, the shoe is allowed to accommodate
itself to all individual irregularities of the feet as concerns their shape and size,
as the tensibility of the separate portions of the leather forming the shoe though
varying in different places according to the nature of the foot, will not be affected
by seams.
2. The better appearance and greater durability of these shoes, as having uppers
not seamed except at the heel portion, so that they will not become widened or
worn in so short a time as the commonly used shoes.
The shoes are provided either with an inner sole and a heel, an elastic piece of
leather or any similar material, or even a metal piece being applied between the
heel and the said sole, or with an inner and outer sole.
Dated this 30th day of October 1894.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
Improved Shoe.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 shoes having the uppers made of one single piece of
leather, or other suitable material, all front and lateral seams being dispensed

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For manufacturing such shoes a blank cut to the shape desired, comprising the
bottom and upper in one piece, after the quarter has been closed by a seam, is
lasted over a block in such a manner that the edges of the uppers touch one another
on the sole of the last or block, forming an upper in which neither front nor lateral
seams are visible.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a shoe constructed according to the present
invention.
Figure 2 is a plan of the under side.
Figure 3 is a plan showing the seam of the blank.
Figure 4 a plan of the blank and
Fig. 5 is a side elevation of an ordinary shoe.
The chief advantages of shoes manufactured in the manner above referred to in
comparison with the shoes hitherto commonly used having front and lateral seams
are as follows:
1. The front and lateral seams a and b as represented in Figure 5 which
shows an ordinary shoe, being dispensed with the shoe is allowed to accommodate
itself to all individual irregularities of the feet as regards their shape and size,
as the tensibility of the separate portions of the leather forming the shoe though
varying in different places according to the nature of the foot, will not be affected
by seams.
2. The better appearance and greater durability of these shoes, as having uppers
not seamed except at the heel portion, so that they will not become widened or
worn in so short a time as the commonly used shoes.
The shoes are provided with a half sole (fore sole) m and a heel n, as shewn in
Figure 2, an elastic piece of leather or any similar material, or a metal piece c being
applied between the heel and the said sole, or with an inner and outer sole covering
the seam & at the underside of the shoe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is
A shoe comprising a single piece of leather, or other suitable material, and having
neither front nor lateral seams, the single seam being arranged at the under side
of the shoe and covered by the half sole, the heel and the special elastic piece, or
by the inner and outer soles.
Dated this 28th day of August 1895.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.