IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ATTACHMENTS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Rate and Thomas Chattaway, both of Junior
Street, Leicester, in the county of Leicester, for an Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ATTACHMENTS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Rate and Thomas
Chattaway at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th July
1882.
GEORGE RATE, and THOMAS CHATTAWAY, both of Junior Street, Leicester, in the
County of Leicester, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ATTACHMENTS
FOR BOOTS AND SHOES,"
This Invention consists in improvements in the manufacture of attachments for
boots and shoes, by the employment of which the sole of the boot or shoe is afforded
a considerable protection, whilst, at the same time, a certain amount of ease and
comfort is given to the wearer.
The improved attachments herein before referred to are substantially ridge shaped
and are stamped out of solid leather, the side edges of such leather attachments
are bevelled and when one edge is to form a continuation of the edge of the sole
or heel it is formed to correspond therewith and is made, by preference, at a less
angle than the internal edge of the attachment. The said attachments are fixed
on the boot or shoe in the following manner. The wide side thereof is placed
against the sole, so that the smaller side will constitute the tread, the bevelled
edges, as will be well understood, approaching each other towards the last
mentioned side, the attachments having been thus placed in position are firmly
secured by nails or rivets which are driven through the same into the sole. The
said attachments may be formed of any length and they may be straight or curved
to correspond with the edges of the sole and heel of the boot or shoe.
The sole of the boot may be ornamented by having designs stencilled thereon in
black or colors, such designs being protected from wear, to a certain extent, by
the projecting attachments.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said George Rate and Thomas
Chattaway in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th January 1883.
GEORGE RATE, and THOMAS CHATTAWAY, both of Junior Street, Leicester, in the
County of Leicester, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ATTACHMENTS
FOR BOOTS AND SHOES
ور
Our said Invention consists in improvements in the manufacture of attachments
for boots and shoes by the employment of which the sole and heel of the boot or
shoe are afforded a considerable protection, whilst, at the same time, a certain
amount of ease and comfort is given to the wearer..
The improved attachments herein before referred to are substantially ridge
shaped and are stamped out of solid leather, the side edges of such leather
attachments are bevelled and when one edge is to form a continuation in depth
of the edge of the sole or heel it is formed to correspond therewith. The said
-attachments are fixed on the boot or shoe in the following manner. The wide side
thereof is placed against the sole, so that the smaller side will constitute the tread,
the bevelled edges, as will be well understood, approaching each other towards the
last mentioned side the attachments having been thus placed in position are firmly
secured by nails or rivets which are driven through the same into the sole. The
said attachments may be formed of any length and they may be straight or curved
to correspond with the edges of the sole and heel of the boot or shoe.
The sole of the boot may be ornamented by having designs stencilled thereon in
. black or colors, such designs being protected from wear, to a certain extent, by the
projecting attachments.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our said invention we
would observe in conclusion that what we consider novel and original and
therefore claim as constituting the invention secured to us by the said hereinbefore
in part recited Letters Patent, is:-
The manufacture of attachments for the soles or heels of boots or shoes from
leather, substantially as herein before set forth and described.
In witness whereof we the said George Rate and Thomas Chattaway have
hereunto set our hands and seals this sixteenth day of January in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty three.