IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Edgar Wetton, of 9, Upper Baker Street,.
Regent's Park, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
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Sealed the 27th July 1875, and dated the 30th January 1875..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left.by the said Charles Edgar Wetton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 30th January 1875.
·I, CHARLES EDGAR WETTON, of 9, Upper Baker Street, Regent's
Park, in the County. of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES," to be as
follows:-
My Invention has for its object the manufacture of boots and shoes,
in such a manner as both to prevent the withdrawal of heat, electricity,
or magnetism from the feet of the wearer, and to supply or impart heat,
electricity, or magnetism to the feet. For this purpose my Invention
consists in inserting between the ordinary welt and the outer leather
sole a layer of gutta percha, india-rubber, or other suitable non-con-
ducting substance or material with magnets of steel or other suitable
metal on the top of the same, or on the side nearest to the feet of the
wearer.

page_text: By forming the soles of boots and shoes in the manner stated, the
advantages of gutta percha soles in preventing the withdrawal of heat
from the foot, are secured without the inconvenience attending the use
of gutta percha as an outer sole, and at the same time the magnets
increase the natural warmth of the foot by imparting electricity or
magnetism thereto.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Edgar Wetton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 30th July 1875.
TO. ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
EDGAR WETTON, of 9, Upper Baker Street, Regent's Park, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight 'hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Edgar Wetton,
Her special licence that I, the said Charles Edgar Wetton, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Edgar Wetton, 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 BOOTS AND SHOES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Charles Edgar Wetton, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument 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 same was
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 Edgar Wetton, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement (that is to say) :-- .
My Invention of "Improvements in Boots and Shoes," has for its
object the manufacture of boots and shoes in such a manner as both to
prevent the withdrawal of heat, electricity, or magnetism from the feet
of the wearer, and to supply or impart heat, electricity, or magnetism to
the feet. For this purpose my. Invention consists in inserting between
the ordinary welt and the outer leather sole, or between the "insole"
and "outsole," or otherwise applying to the sole or heel a layer of
gutta percha, india-rubber, or other suitable non-conducting substance
or material, such as cork, with magnets of steel or other suitable metal
on the top of the same, or on the side nearest to the feet of the wearer.
By forming the soles of boots and shoes in the manner stated, the
advantages of gutta percha soles in preventing the withdrawal of heat
from the foot are secured without the inconvenience attending the use
of gutta percha as an outer sole, and at the same time the magnets
increase the natural warmth of the foot by imparting electricity or
magnetism thereto.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare that what I claim
as of my Invention is, the manufacture of boots and shoes with a layer
of gutta percha, india-rubber, or other suitable non-conducting substance
or material, and magnets (nearest to the feet of the wearer) inserted
between the ordinary welt and the outer leather sole, or otherwise applied
to the sole or heel for the purpose described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Edgar Wetton, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Thirtieth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
WILLIAM SPENCE,
8, Quality Court,
Chancery Lane.
C. E. WETTON. (L.S.)