IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 15th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 19th Oct., 1888
I EDMUND QUICK of Portland Square, Bristol Boot Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of my said .invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES" to be
as follows:
This invention relates to Improvements in Boot and Shoes for Mens, Womens, and
children's wear, particularly to button or lace Boots or shoes. In button or lace
boots and shoes it has heretofore been customary to cut the leg and the vamp or
golosh in separate pieces, and the entire upper generally consisted of four or
five pieces.
According to my present invention however the whole of the upper is cut in one
single piece, so that there is neither front seam nor back seam, but the only seam or
join in the upper of such boot or shoe extends from the front, where the button piece
or the lace holes end, down over one joint of the Boot or Shoe to the sole. This
seam or joint being very short, the upper is not disfigured and the boot or shoe is
rendered more shapely and durable than could be heretofore done.
The upper is, as already stated, cut in one single piece, and this is blocked to shape
by the process ordinarily adopted in blocking boot uppers.
BERNHARD DUKES,
226, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I, EDMUND QUICK, of Portland Square, Bristol, Boot Manufacturer, 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:
This invention relates to Improvements in Boots and Shoes for Men's, Women's,
and Children's wear, particularly to Button or Lace Boots and Shoes. In button or
lace Boots and Shoes it has heretofore been customary to cut the leg and the vamp or
golosh in separate pieces, and the entire "upper" generally consisted of four or more
pieces.
According to my present invention, however, the whole of the upper is cut in one
single piece, so that there is neither front scam nor back seam, but the only seam
or join in the upper of such boot or shoe extends from the front, where the button
piece or the lace holes end, down over one joint of the boot or shoe to the sole. This
seam or join being very short, the upper is not disfigured, and the boot or shoe is
rendered more shapely and durable than could be heretofore done.
Fig. 1 on the accompanying drawings shows the piece of leather from which the
upper of a button boot is made as it appears before blocking; Fig. 2, which is on
an enlarged scale, shows the upper blocked and finished, ready to be attached
to the sole.
The dotted line A in fig. 1 indicates where the leather is put on the front part of a
block to form the instep, and in process of blocking, the leather is stretched or
compressed until it acquires and retains the required shape as shown at A (fig. 2);
and the dotted line B (fig. 1) shows where the leather is drawn over the back part of
the block forming the heel, and likewise blocked to its proper shape as shown at B
(fig. 2). After the leather has been blocked as described, it is cut or trimmed to its
proper size and shape as shown in fig. 2; is the part wherein the button-holes are
placed, the curves adjoining the button-holes are continued in a suitable manner, as
shown, forming on one side a small portion of "vamp" D, and this part overlaps the
button quarter E, and the seam which unites D to E (extending from below the
bution-holes to the edge of the upper) is the only seam or join in the upper, the usual
seams in button boots which would appear at A and B are dispensed with: the
blocking may be performed in the ordinary way by lasting on wooden blocks, or in
any other convenient manner.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
A boot or shoe having the upper cut in a single piece, and blocked or otherwise
brought to shape in such a manner that the upper of the finished boot or shoe will
present only a very short lap or seam, viz., that part which extends from the bottom
of the button piece or lace holes over one side of the boot or shoe to where it is
attached to the sole.