IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF BOOTS, SHOES, AND LEGGINGS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Godfrey Hall, of Regent Street, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF BOOTS, SHOES, AND LEGGINGS."
Sealed the 22nd July 1862, and dated the 24th January 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Godfrey Hall
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th January 1862.
1, CHARLES GODFREY HALL, of Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS, SHOES, AND LEGGINGS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the application to the manufacture of boots,
shoes, and leggings of horsehair or crinoline, woven, plaited, or otherwise,
alone or in combination with silk, wool, cotton, flax, or other suitable animal,
or vegetable, textile, or fibrous materials, or of horsehair or crinoline in com-
bination with goats' hair, or with hair of other suitable description.
Any combinations of the foregoing materials are to be manufactured by
weaving or other process into a suitable fabric of the desired strength and
thickness, and I propose to use the same for the formation of various parts of
boots, shoes, aud leggings, as, for instance, the legs of long boots or the upper
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page_text: parts or tops of short boots and shoes, or for the entire upper parts of boots
and shoes.
In some cases I propose to manufacture, by weaving, plaiting, or other
method, any of the combinations of the before-mentioned materials directly
into any required form or shape adapted for the various parts of boots, shoes,
and leggings, so as make the requisite curves and angles, or some of them,
while the fabric is being completed, with the view of obviating the necessity
of cutting out the same. By this process, also, I propose to form the stocking-
like shape for boots or for coverings for the foot and leg.
The object and advantages of the foregoing improvements are, that the
boots, shoes, and leggings, will permit the free escape of perspiration from the
wearer, and will retain their proper shape and position while in use.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Godfrey Hall in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th July 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
GODFREY HALL, of Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of January in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Charles Godfrey Hall, Her special licence that I, the said
Charles Godfrey Hall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as 1, the said Charles Godfrey Hall, 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 BOOTS, SHOES, AND
LEGGINGS, "upon the condition(amongst others) that I, the said Charles Godfrey
Hall, my executors oradministrators, by aninstrument 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 saine was

page_text: 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 Charles Godfrey Hall, do hereby
declare the nature of my said 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 consists in the application to the manufacture of boots,
shoes, and leggings of hair, either human or animal, horsehair, or crinoline,
woven, plaited, or otherwise.
In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same
into practical effect, as follows:-I propose using human, hair, horsehair,
or crinoline, woven, plaited, or otherwise, alone or in combination with silk,
wool, cotton, flax, or other suitable animal or vegetable textile or fibrous
materials, or of horsehair or crinoline in combination with goats' hair, or with
hair of other suitable description.
Any combinations of the foregoing materials are to be manufactured, by
weaving or other process, into a suitable fabric of the desired strength and
thickness; and I propose to use the same for the formation of various parts
of boots, shoes, and leggings, as, for instance, the legs of long boots, or the
upper rarts or tops of short boots and shoes, or for the entire upper parts of
boots and shoes.
.
In some cases I propose to manufacture by weaving, plaiting, or other
method, any of the combinations of the before-mentioned materials directly
into
o any required form or shape adapted for the various parts of boots, shoes,
and leggings, so as to make the requisite curves and angles, or some
of them while the fabric is being completed, with the view of obviating the
necessity of cutting out the same. By this process, also, 1 propose to form
the stocking-like shapes for boots or for coverings for the foot and leg.
The object and advantages of the foregoing improvements are, that the
boots, shoes, and leggings will permit the free escape of perspiration from
the wearer, and will retain their proper shape and position while in use.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would remark in conclusion, that I do
other materials
not confine myself to the precise details herein described, as
and methods of working them may be used to answer the same purpose; but
what I claim as my Invention, and therefore desire to have secured to me by

page_text: the herein in part recited Letters Patent is, the manufacture of boots, shoes,
or leggings, or parts thereof of horsehair, goats' hair, human or other suitable
hair, with which may be mixed silk, wool, cotton, flax, or other suitable
animal,or vegetable, textile, or fibrous material, or any fibre which will act as a
substitute for hair, substantially in the manner herein specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Godfrey Hall, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE,
Agent for Patents,
CHARLES GODFREY HALL. (L.S.)
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.