Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application 26th Feb. 1896
2016
Mov 4906 Accented
24th Dec 1896
Complete Specification Left, 26th Nov., 1906 Accepted, 24th Dec.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
We, HUGH STEVENSON and ARTHUR WILLIAM STEVENSON, both of Bridge
Street, Ardwick, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Fancy Box Manu-
facturers, and JOHN GERRARD, of 17 Wellington Street, Bradford, Manchester
aforesaid, Foreman Box Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of boots and shoes
worn when playing football, hockey, and other games.
Prior to our invention it has been customary to nail or otherwise attach bars or
strips of leather to the soles of football and other similar boots. These bars or
strips being separate pieces are soon liable to wear loose and when partially
detached are a frequent source of danger and accident.
Our improvements consist essentially in forming the bars or strips in one piece
with the leather sole and we effect this by a squeezing, pinching or pressing process
carried out by preference in any suitable machine, as for example, in a machine
well known to paper manufacturers as a "bending machine."
Dated this 25th day of February 1896.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
We, HUGH STEVENSON and ARTHUR WILLIAM STEVENSON, both of Bridge
Street, Ardwick, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Fancy Box Manu-
facturers, and JOHN GERRARD, of 17 Wellington Street, Bradford, Manchester
aforesaid, Foreman Box Maker, 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:-
Our invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of boots and shoes
worn when playing football, hockey and other games.
Prior to our invention it has been customary to nail or otherwise attach bars
or strips of leather to the soles of football and other similar boots. These bars or
strips being separate pieces are soon liable to wear loose and when partially
detached are a frequent source of danger and accident.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings-
Figure 1 is a plan of the under side of a leather sole with bars formed thereon
according to our invention, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.
Our improvements consist essentially in forming the bars or strips b in one piece
with the leather sole a and we effect this by a squeezing, pinching or pressing process
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page_text: carried out by preference in any suitable machine, as for example, in a machino
well known to paper manufacturers as a bending machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
A leather sole having bars or strips formed thereon in one piece with the sole
substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 25th day of November 1896.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicants.