Improvements in and relating to Lasts for the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Aug., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 5th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 20th May, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Lasts for the Manufacture of Boots
and Shoes.
I, MAY JOSEPHINE HARGRIEVE DUNNACHIE, of 5, Fairlie Park Drive, Crow Road,
Partick, in the County of Lanark, Lady, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention to be as follows:
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This invention has reference to and comprises improvements in and relating to
lasts for the manufacture of boots and shoes by which a correct fit will be
obtained.
According to my improvements a cast is first taken of each foot of the person for
whom the boots or shoes are to be made in plaster of Paris or equivalent material.
Froni these casts moulds are prepared and castings taken from same, in aluminium
or other metal or suitable material, cores being used to produce a hollow last, open
at the top or ankle part. Holes are drilled or formed in these metal lasts around
the sole or where suitable and these holes have plugs of hardwood or equivalent
material driven into them, so that the leather upper" of the boot or shoc can be
stretched and fastened to these wooden plugs in a similar manner to that employed
when ordinary wooden lasts are used. Instead of drilling holes in the last sole
and plugging them with hardwood, the sole of the metal last may be recessed or
checked all round and a wooden sole inserted to which the upper may be fastened
instead of the plugs, a supporting metal sole being formed behind the wood.
By these improvements the lasting is so improved that a perfect fitting boot
or shoe is obtained.
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W. R. M. THOMPSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
5 Improvements in and relating to Lasts for the Manufacture of Boots
and Shoes.
I, MAY JOSEPHINE HARGRIEVE DUNNACHIE, of 5, Fairlie Park Drive, Crow Road,
Partick, in the County of Lanark, Lady, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
O described and ascertained in and by the following statement in writing reference
being made to the accompanying sheet of drawings:-
This invention has reference to, and comprises improvements in and relating to
lasts for the manufacture of boots and shoes by which a correct fit will be

page_text: And in order that my invention may be properly understood I have hereunto
appended one sheet of explanatory drawings in which Figure 1 is a side view of a
last constructed according to my improvements, Figure 2 an inverted plan of same,
and Figure 3 a sectional side view of a different modification.
Referring to these drawings:
:-
According to my improvements a cast is first taken of each foot of the person for
whom the boots or shoes are to be made in plaster of Paris or equivalent material.
From these casts moulds are prepared and castings taken from same, in aluminium
or other metal or suitable material, cores being used to produce a hollow last, open
at the top or ankle part, and which may be all in one piece or, as shown in the
drawings, in two parts A and B secured together by the screw C. Holes D as
shown in Figures 1 and 2, are drilled or formed in these metal lasts around the
sole or where suitable and these holes have plugs of hard wood or equivalent
material driven into them, so that the leather upper" of the boot or shoe can be
stretched and fastened to these wooden plugs in a similar manner to that employed
when ordinary wooden lasts are used. Instead of drilling holes in the last sole
and plugging them with hard wood, the sole of the metal last may be recessed or
checked all round as shown in Figure 3 and a wooden sole E inserted to which the
upper may be fastened instead of the plugs, a supporting metal sole E¹ being formed
behind the wood.
By these improvements the lasting is so improved that a perfect fitting boot
or shoe is obtained.
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:-
First. Lasts for the manufacture of boots and shoes constructed substantially as
herein described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Second. Lasts for the manufacture of boots and shoes cast in aluminium or other
suitable metal or material having holes formed therein fitted with wood or light
plugs substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated in Figures I
and 2 of the accompanying drawings.
Third. Lasts for the manufacture of boots and shoes constructed substantially
as and for the purposes described and illustrated by Figure 3 of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated the 4th day of April 1899.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.