IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS, SHOES, AND SLIPPERS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Throne Crick, of Leicester, Boot Manufacturer,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS, SHOES,
AND SLIPPERS."
Sealed the 22nd November 1864, and dated the 8th June 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Throne Crick at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th June 1864.
I, JOHN THRONE CRICK, of Leicester, Boot Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS,
SHOES, AND SLIPPERS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of boots,
shoes, and slippers.
For this purpose, the upper is placed on the last with the right side of the
upper outward, and turned over the edges of the insole, and then fastened to
the insole by small nails or brads, such nails or brads being suitably clenched.
The outsole is then applied to the turned over edges of the upper, and to the
insole, and cemented to the edges and the insole, or to the edges and bottom
filling of the insole, if bottom filling be used, by india-rubber or other suitable
cement. The lining or covering of the upper surface of the insole is fixed as
heretofore by paste or other suitable cement.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Throne Crick in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 6th December 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
THRONE CRICK, of Leicester, Boot Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Throne Crick, Her special licence that I, the said John Throne
Crick, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said John Throne Crick, 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 Invention for "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS, SHOES, AND SLIPPERS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Throne Crick, 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 Throne Crick, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of boots,
shoes, and slippers.
For this purpose, the upper is placed on the last with the right side of the
upper outward, and turned over the edges of the insole, and then fastened to
the insole by small nails or brads, such nails or brads being suitably clenched.
The outsole is then applied to the turned over edges of the upper and to the
insole, and cemented to the edges and the insole, or to the edges and bottom
filling of the insole, if bottom filling be used, by india-rubber or other suitable
cement. The lining or covering of the upper surface of the insole is fixed as
heretofore by paste or other suitable cement.

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to describe
more fully the manner of performing the same.
The insole is first put upon the last, which is either of iron or covered with
hard metal, and the uppers are nailed or rivetted on to this insole by small
nails or tacks which go through the upper and and insole and clench upon the
metal last; the outsole is then cemented to the insole, and to the turned over
edges of the upper by suitable cement, a solution of india-rubber being by
preference employed, pressure is then applied to the outsole in order to con-
solidate it, the bottom of the soles are afterwards finished by being buffed or
polished in the ordinary manner.
The advantages arising from constructing boots, shoes, and slippers, in the
manner above described in place of making them entirely by rivetting as is
usual, or by cementing the uppers between the insole and outsole as has before
been proposed, are, that boots, shoes, and slippers made entirely by cementing
would not stand wear, as the uppers being held between the insole and out-
sole by cement alone were forced out of their place by the pressure of the
foot, whereas by the arrangement above described the pressure of the foot is
taken by the rivets, and thus this evil is remedied; the advantage over goods
made entirely by rivetting is, that there will be no sprigs or nail heads
appearing on the surface of the outsole, and therefore the goods will have a
much neater appearance; boots, shoes, and slippers, made as above described
may also be made lighter than by the process of rivetting entirely, and more
durable then by cementing only.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Throne Crick, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
JOHN THRONE CRICK. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said
John Throne Crick, in the presence
of
SAMUEL STONE.
Solicitor,
Leicester.