IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTON HOLES FOR BOOTS, SHOES, GAITERS, AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Glew, of the City Road, in tho
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTON
HOLES FOR BOOTS, SHOES, GAITERS, AND OTHER ARTICLES."
Scaled the 19th March 1869, and dated the 23rd September 1868..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Henry Glew
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 23rd September 1868.
I, JOHN HENRY GLEW, of the City Road, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BUTTON HOLES FOR BOOTS, SHOES, GAITERS, AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements on an Invention for which
Letters Patent were granted to me, dated January 10th, 1868, No. 93,
O intituled " Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots, Shoes, and
Gaiters."
I insert between the leathers or other substances of which the said
boots, shoes, gaiters, or other articles are constructed pieces of vulcanized

page_text: india-rubber or other suitable material having slits or holes therein,
the said slits or holes being (when in position) placed over corresponding
holes in the leathers, so that the studs or buttons may pass through the
slit or hole in the india-rubber, and by the contraction thereof remain
securely fastened therein. Both surfaces of the leather or other material
and also the india-rubber itself may be coated with any suitable adhesive
composition, so that the surfaces may adhere firmly one to another,
and the two leathers may be also stitched together to effect the same
purpose.
In order that my Invention may be clearly understood I have annexed
the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 shews a gaiter
with my improved button hole applied thereto, and Fig. 2 a section,
illustrating the position and construction of the various parts composing
the said improvement.
a are the studs or buttons fastened between the leathers b and c, and
passing through the pieces of vulcanized india-rubber d, which are
cemented between the leathers e and f, the leather e being also cemented
and sewn to the leather f, as before described. In Fig. 1 the elastic
button holes g and h are shewn with the buttons secured therein, those
marked and j have a slit, and that marked k a hole cut or punched
therein.
Although I have shewn my Invention as applied to gaiters only only,
yet it will be evident that it can be applied to carriage aprons, army
accoutrements, and many other articles where button holes are required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said John Henry Glew in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd March 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HENRY GLEW, of the City Road, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
3

page_text: cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Henry Glew, Her
special licence that I, the said John Henry Glew, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Henry Glew, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTON HOLES FOR BOOTS, SHOES, GAITERS, AND
OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
John Henry Glew, my executors 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 John Henry Glew, 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 (that is to say):-
This Invention relates to improvements on an Invention for which
Letters Patent were granted to me, dated January 10th, 1868, No. 93,
intituled "6 'Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots, Shoes, and
Gaiters," and consists in inserting between the leathers or other sub-
stances of which the said boots, shoes, gaiters, or other articles are
constructed pieces of vulcanized india-rubber or other suitable material
having slits or holes therein, the said slits or holes being (when in
position) placed over corresponding holes in the leathers, so that the
studs or buttons may pass through the slits or holes in the india-rubber,
and by the contraction thereof remain securely fastened therein. Both
surfaces of the leather or other material and also the india-rubber itself
may be coated with any suitable adhesive composition, so that the
surfaces may adhere firmly one to another, and the two leathers may
be also stitched together to effect the same purpose.
In order that my Invention may be clearly understood I have annexed
the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 shews a gaiter
with my improved button hole applied thereto, and Fig. 2 a section,

page_text: illustrating the position and construction of the various parts composing
the said improvements.
a are the studs or buttons fastened between the leathers b and c, and
passing through the pieces of vulcanized india-rubber d, which are
cemented between the leathers e and f, the leather e being also cemented
and sewn to the leather f, as before described. In Fig. 1 the elastic
button holes g and h are shewn with the buttons secured therein; those
marked i and j have a slit, and that marked k a hole cut or punched
therein.
Although I have shewn my Invention as applied to gaiters only,
yet it will be evident that it can be applied to carriage aprons, army
accoutrements, and other articles where button holes are required.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of my said
Invention, I claim, the improvements in button holes for boots, shoes,
gaiters, and other articles, as herein described and illustrated in the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Henry Glew, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.