IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COVERINGS FOR THEAL
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Marie Poisnel, residing at No. 1, Rue
Hauteville, Paris, in the Empire of France, Manufacturer, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COVERINGS FOR THE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Marie Poisnel
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 17th March 1868.
I, JEAN MARIE POISNEL, residing at No. 1, Rue Hauteville, Paris, in
the Empire of France, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COVERINGS
FOR THE FEET," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to produce a covering for the feet which
is both inexpensive and impermeable so as to replace advantageously
wooden shoes or sabots and analogous coverings for the feet.
The Invention consists in employing in this manufacture india-rubber
or india-rubber cuttings containing suitable fibrous material together

page_text: with well-known agents for producing vulcanization. The mixture is
masticated and heated, and is moulded or rolled to the form and thickness
required. The upper is first formed upon a suitable shape of wood or
other material, and the sole is then applied and fixed with india-rubber
cement. The article is then vulcanized as at present in the manufacture
of india-rubber overshoes. Afterwards the interior is lined with woven
cloth, flannel, thin leather, or similar substance. An interior wooden
sole may also in some cases be applied, or the lining may be altogether
omitted. A coating of varnish may be applied to the exterior of
the article to improve its appearance.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Jean
Maric Poisnel in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th September
1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN
MARIE POISNEL, residing at No. 1, Rue Hauteville, Paris, in the Empire
of France, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Jean Marie Poisnel, Her special licence
that I, the said Jean Marie Poisnel, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jean Marie Poisnel, 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
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COVERINGS FOR THE FEET," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Jean Marie Poisnel, 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

page_text: Seal Patent Office on or before the Eighteenth day of September, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jean Marie Poisnel, 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 following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of my Invention is to produce a covering for the feet which
is both inexpensive and impermeable so as to replace advantageously
wooden shoes or sabots and analogous coverings for the feet.
The Invention consists in employing in this manufacture india-rubber
or india-rubber cuttings containing suitable fibrous material together
with well-known agents for producing vulcanization. This mixture is
masticated and heated, and is moulded or rolled to the form and
thickness required. The upper is first formed upon a suitable shape
of wood or other material, and the sole is then applied and fixed with
india-rubber cement. The article is then vulcanized as at present in the
manufacture of india-rubber overshoes. Afterwards the interior is lined
An
with woven cloth, flannel, thin leather, or similar substance.
interior wooden sole may also in some cases be applied, or the lining may
be altogether omitted. A coating of varnish may be applied to the
exterior of the article to improve its appearance.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jean Marie Poisnel, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Nineth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
JEAN MARIE POISNEL. (L.S.)