Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 5th Nov., 1896-Accepted. 24th Dec. 1895
I, EDWARD ERNEST HOLLAND WADE of 13 Thames Street, Kingston-on-
Thames in the County of Surrey, Bootmaker do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The improved trees or stretchers comprise two parts, viz.: 1, corresponding in
shape to the interior of a fore part of the boot or shoe and 2, corresponding to the
interior shape of the rear part, that is to say of the beel, and back of the leg piece,
in the case of a boot tree. These two parts are connected together above and
below by two parallel bars the ends of which are pivoted respectively, to the front
and back parts of the stretcher or tree which parts are provided with slots or
recesses to receive the said bars when the two parts of the tree or stretcher are
brought close together by swinging them towards each other about the pivotal
centres of the said bars which are arranged to swing upwards in the vertical plane
of the centre of the tree or stretcher.
The tree or stretcher is inserted into the boot or the like and the front part
brought into position in the fore part of the boot. The rear part of the stretcher
is then pushed downwards and the bars aforesaid being thus brought into a
horizontal position will force the back part, rearwardly from the front part as the
back part is depressed.
To provide for adjustment, if desired, either or both of the connecting bars may
be made adjustable in length, for instance, by forming the bar of two parts having
screw threaded sockets in their ends into which respectively engage right and left
handed screw threads upon the ends of a central spindle connecting said two parts.
The centre of the spindle may be enlarged to form a wheel by which the spindle
may be revolved, thus causing the two exterior portions of the connecting bar to be
drawn towards or forced apart from each other.
Dated the 5th der of Februar 1904
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents to Applicant.
Improvements in Boot and Shoe Trees or Stretchers.
I, EDWARD ERNEST HOLLAND WADE, of 13 Thames Street, Kingston-on-
Thames, in the County of Surrey, Bootmaker, 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 improved trees or stretchers comprise two parts, viz., one corresponding in
shape to the interior of a fore part of the boot or shoe, and the other corresponding
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page_text: to the interior shape of the rear part, that is to say of the heel, and back of the
leg piece, in the case of a boot tree.
In the annexed drawing
Fig. 1 is an elevation partly in section of the improved boot tree or stretcher.
Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1 and
Fig. 3 shows the position the parts will assume when ready for insertion into a
boot or shoe.
These two parts A and B are connected together above and below by the
parallel bars C C¹ the ends of which are pivoted respectively to the front and back
parts of the stretcher or tree on pins C C which parts are provided with slots or
recesses D to receive the said bars when the two parts of the tree or stretcher are
brought close together by swinging them towards each other about the pivotal
centres CC of the said bars which are arranged to swing upwards in the vertical
plane of the centre of the tree or stretcher.
The tree or stretcher is inserted into the boot or the like and the front part
brought into position in the fore part of the boot. The rear part of the stretcher
is then pushed downwards and the bars C C aforesaid being thus brought into a
horizontal position will force the back part rearwardly from the front part as the
back part is depressed.
To provide for adjustment, if desired, either or both of the connecting bars may
be made adjustable in length, (in the drawing the upper one C is thus shown), for
instance, by forming the bar of two parts E F having screw threaded sockets in
their ends into which respectively engage right and left handed screw threads G H
upon the ends of a central spindle connected to said two parts. The centre of the
spindle may be enlarged to form a wheel I by which the spindle may be revolved, thus
causing the two exterior portions of the connecting bar to be drawn towards or
forced apart from each other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The combination with the foot and heel parts of a boot or shoe tree or stretcher
of two connecting bars or links, one or both of which may be made adjustable in
length by means of a right and left banded screw attachment for the purpose of
causing the said parts to approach or recede and be held from each other sub-
stantially as illustrated and described and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 5th day of November 1896.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents to Applicant.