An Improved Insole for Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Insole for Boots and Shoes.
I, HENRY JOHN MILLARD, of 11, Lady's Lane, Northampton, Shoe Machinery
Operator, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to produce an insole for boots and shoes in
which the full substance or thickness of the insole is maintained everywhere and
in which the sewing for the attachment of the upper and welt passes completely
through the entire thickness of the edge of the insole the same being prepared
without any channelling whatever. I am thus enabled to use a thinner insole
than is possible where any system of channelling the insole is made use of.
I produce my improved insole as follows:-The insole is first cut out in the
ordinary way to the shape of the bottom of the last and of the required size.
I then cut through the insole on each edge, at a point about where the breast
of the heel will be in the finished shoe, making the two nicks or cuts to extend
in about "or so from the edge of the insole.
I then lay a narrow strip of leather from one nick to the other around the edge
of the insole-preferably with both grain sides together and sew the two together
with a line of stitching with any convenient sewing machine.
. I next turn the part of the insole and of the strip outside the line of stitching
inwards and the part of the strip inside the stitching outwards and entirely over
until the side that was originally laying upon and facing the insole now lies
level with it and becomes an extension of the insole.
By this means I obtain a rib or flange standing up from the insole to which the
welt is sewn and an extension beyond to form the feather, all without weakening
the insole by channelling it.
The sewing for the attachment of the welt and upper passes through the
strip and the insole and as neither of these is weakened by channelling the
attachment is the strongest possible.
I, HENRY JOHN MILLARD, of 11, Lady's Lane, Northampton, Shoe Machinery
Operator, 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:-
The obiect of this invention is to produce an insole for boots and shoes in

page_text: which the full substance or thickness of the insole is maintained everywhere and
in which the sewing for the attachment of the upper and welt passes completely
through the entire thickness of the edge of the insole the same being prepared
without any channelling whatever. I am thus enabled to use a thinner insole
than is possible where any system of channelling the insole is made use of.
I produce my improved insole as follows:-The insole is first cut out in the
ordinary way to the shape of the bottom of the last and of the required size.
I then cut through the insole on each edge, at a point about where the breast
of the heel will be in the finished shoe, making the two nicks or cuts to extend
in about or so from the edge of the insole.
I then lay a narrow strip of leather from one nick to the other around the edge
of the insole preferably with both grain sides together and sew the two together
with a line of stitching with any convenient sewing machine.
I next turn the part of the insole and of the strip outside the line of stitching
inwards and the part of the strip inside the stitching outwards and entirely over
until the side that was originally laying upon and facing the insole now lies
level with it and becomes an extension of the insole.
By this means I obtain a rib or flange standing up from the insole to which the
welt is sewn and an extension beyond to form the feather, all without weakening
the insole by channelling it.
The sewing for the attachment of the welt and upper passes through the
strip and the insole and as neither of these is weakened by channelling the
attachment is the strongest possible.
My invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings in which:-
Fig. 1 shows the insole with the strip attached.
Fig. 2 shews a cross section of the same.
Fig. 3. shews the insole finished.
Fig. 4, shews a cross section of the same.
The insole is first cut out to the shape and size desired and it is then cut
through near the heel with the nicks b, c, d, e. A strip is then sewn to the
The edee of this strip is then
turned outwards from the position shewn in Figs. 1 and 2 to that shewn at h¹ in
Figs. 3 and 4 and the edge of the insole and edge of the strin are thrown up to
the position and to form a ridge as shewn in Figs. 3 and 4 to which ridge
the welt is afterwards sewn.
insole by a line of stitching see Figs. 1 and 2.
The extension f¹ of the strip forms the feather.
The insole is thus fully prepared without channelling.
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:-
An insole prepared in the manner herein described and illustrated.
Dated this 3rd day of March 1900.