Boot Shoe Manufacturer
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 9th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 9th Sept., 1887.
[Communicated from abroad by MICHAEL COLWELL MULLARKY, of the City of
Montreal, in the District of Montreal, and Province of Quebec, Dominion of
Canada, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer.]
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, Fel. Inst. P.A. of the Agency for Foreign Patent
Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, and 323 High Holborn,
in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the uppers of boots and shoes and its object is to
produce an upper for a boot or shoe, which, for laced boots and others with a cut down
the front, is formed of a single piece of leather. To form the uppers of buckle or
button boots, only the addition of a single supplementary piece is required, and
in all cases there is no back seam and no crimping is needed to make the upper fit
the last.
The form and arrangement of the blank may be thus briefly described:
One side of the vamp proper is partially divided from the main blank by a cut and
folded over on the centre line of the vamp; the edge of the main blank of this cut
being one edge of the opening in the front of the boot.
The upper part of the main blank in rear of this opening is the top of the boot, and
the rear part (which is folded over on the usual line of the back seam) has its edge
partly corresponding to the edge of the front cut and forming one side of the front
opening.
The edge of the folded in front part overlaps the edge of the rear folded in part,
and is sewn upon it, this being, in boots with front openings, the only seam in the
upper.
In a button or buckle boot a supplementary folding over piece is secured to the edge
of the opening and attached, in the one case by buttons, and the other by buckles and
tongues to the quarter.
The only difference in blanks for shoe uppers is the shortening of the height of the
upper, and length of the front opening.

page_text: A communication from abroad by MICHAEL COLWELL MULLARKY, 01 the City of
Montreal, in the District of Montreal, and Province of Quebec, Dominion of
Canada, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S. M.I.M.E. of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in
the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, 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 has reference to the uppers of boots and shoes, and provides uppers
which in every case when the boot or shoe is made with a cut down the front (as in
laced boots) is made of a single piece of leather, and for button or buckle boots only
needs the addition of a single supplementary piece, the back seams in every case being
absent and no crimping being required.
The form and arrangement of the blank may be thus briefly described.
One side of the vamp proper is partially divided from the main blank by a cut, and
folded over on the centre line of the vamp, the edge of the main blank of this cut
being one edge of the opening in the front of the boot.
The upper part of the main blank in rear of this opening is the top of the boot, and
the rear part (which is folded over on the usual line of the back seams) has its
edge partly corresponding to the edge of the front cut and forming one side of the
front opening.
The edge of the folded-in front part overlaps the edge of the rear folded in part,
and is sewn upon it, this being in boots with front openings, the only seam in the
upper.
In a button or buckle boot a supplementary folding over piece is secured to the edge
of the opening, and attached in the one case by buttons, and the other by buckles and
tongues to the quarters.
For full comprehension of the invention, reference must be had to the annexed
drawings forming part of this specification, in which :—
Figure 1, shows the blank spread out,
Figure 2, the blank folded,
Figure 3, a view of a laced boot.
Figure 4, a view of blank folded over for a buckled boot,
Figure 5, a view of a button boot, and
Figure 6, a view of part of a side shewing arrangement of blanks thereon.
Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.
A is the vamp proper, and B a cut partially dividing off a part C which is to form
a portion of the quarter the edge being in the finished front cut boot, one of the
edges of the front opening, D is the centre line of the back upon which the blank is

page_text: folded, the edges E, E, giving the outline of the top of the boot and the edge ƒ, when
the piece F is folded over corresponding to the edge at the front.
When the piece C is turned over on the line a, the edge overlaps the edge f¹ and
forms thereby the junction of the blank, the stitching following the line 6 and being,
if desired, re-inforced in any suitable way.
It is proposed to attach to the edge of the cut B, by sewing or other suitable means
a piece G which is folded over to cover the opening, and has its edge either simply
curved as at y in Figure 5, or scolloped out as at g', Figure 4, and provided with means
for attaching it to the quarter F.
In Figure 4 this is effected by buckles H secured in loops attached to F, and
tongues h¹ attached to G, and in Figure 5 button holes G¹ are formed in G and fit
over corresponding buttons on F.
It must be understood that, although boots are particularly spoken of in this appli-
cation, the invention herein described is equally applicable to shoes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A boot upper, composed of a single piece of leather of the configuration herein
shown and described, with cut B, folded on lines D and a, and stitched along
line b¹.
2. The combination with the blank upper, made from a single piece composed of
vamp A, with cut B, piece folded over on line a and quarter F, folded on line D, of
piece G, secured to edge b, and provided with means of attachment to quarter F, all
as herein set forth.