Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 13th Jan. 1890-Accented 15th Feb 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
JOHN UNDERWOOD Boot Manufacturers Foreman 4 Auckland Terrace Aylestone
Road Leicester do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
:-
Instead of forming an outside clump from one piece of leather I form a frame of
malleable iron or other suitable material divided into compartments, preferably eight.
Round the bottom of each compartment is a narrow flange. I cut eight pieces of
leather exactly the shape of the different compartments & fasten them to the sole by
means of rivetting or otherwise. The flange of each compartment when filled with
the pieces of leather & fastened as above described is sufficient to hold the malleable
iron frame in position on the sole.
In order that the iron frame shall not shew at the edge of the boot, I make the
frame about three-eighths of an inch narrower than the sole, and round the outer side
of the frame I fasten by rivetting or otherwise a narrow strip of leather which when
finished forms an ordinary leather edge to the boot.
Dated this 26th day of April 1889.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
JOHN UNDERWOOD of 4 Auckland Terrace, Aylestone Road, Leicester, Boot
Manufacturers' Foreman, 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 has reference to improvements in the manufacture of boots, shoes
and the like and is designed principally to increase the durability and wearing
qualities of such goods, while the means employed for that purpose are preferably
embedded in the sole and not noticeable in ordinary wear.
The means employed for the purpose named and constituting the improvements
before mentioned consists of a frame of iron or other metal fitted in and preferably
flush with the wearing surface of the outsole or clump and slightly narrower than the
sole so as to admit of a margin of leather being placed round the peripheral edge of
the frame and thus prevent the iron being seen on the edge of the boot when flat on
the ground.
The invention will be more readily understood from the following description in
reference to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1. shews the underside or
wearing surface of a boot sole with my improved frame incorporated therein.
Figure 2 is a plan of a modification of the metal frame detached.
Figure 3 is a transverse section on the line Y. Z. of Figure 1.
A is the iron or other metal frame which as shown in Figure 1 is of smaller size
than the sole to admit of a marginal strip B of leather being placed round the edge of
the frame and secured to the projecting flanges A¹ to prevent the edge of the plate
being seen when the boot is in wear.
The frame is divided into compartments by central and transverse bars C₁and C
respectively. Each compartment is filled with one or more pieces of leather which
being in contact with the flange A' shown in dotted line in Figure 1. and secured to
the sole by rivetting or otherwise keeps the frame A in position. The frame may also
be further secured by nails passing through the holes D. Instead of the central and
D
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page_text: transverse bars C1 and C2 having a smooth and continuous face they may be filed or
cut away to resemble square headed nails as in Figure 2 or otherwise intersected or
serrated for the purpose of minimizing the tendency of slipping when in wear.
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
The combination in a boot or shoe of an iron or other metal frame of such a size in
relation to the sole as will permit of a marginal strip of leather being fixed round the
outer edge of said frame and provided with flanged compartments in which one or
more pieces of leather may be rivetted or otherwise fixed in position substantially as
and for the purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
JOHN
UNDERWOOD.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.