IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS. SHOES, CLOGS, AND SLIPPERS
Year: 1853

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LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Crick, of Leicester, in the County of
Leicester, Boot Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS. SHOES, CLOGS, AND SLIPPERS."
Sealed the 27th April 1853, and dated the 3d March 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Crick at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 3d March 1853.
I, THOMAS CRICK, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Boot
3 Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS, SHOES, CLOGS, AND SLIP-
PERS," to be as follows:-
The improvements consist in using tacks, rivets, or sprigs, instead
of stitches, for fastening the tops or uppers to the bottom or sole of
boots, shoes, clogs, over-shoes, or slippers. The method pursued is to
last the boot, shoe, clog, over-shoe, or slipper, in the usual manner,
and to fasten the top or upper part to the sole or lower part with tacks,
rivets, or sprigs, instead of stitches, the heads being on the interior.
The advantage of the Invention consists in the increased economy and
facility of production.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Crick, in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 3d September 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
THOMAS CRICK, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Boot Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Third day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Thomas Crick, Her special licence that I, the said
Thomas Crick, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Thomas Crick, my executors, administrators, or
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, CLOGS, AND SLIPPERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Thomas Crick, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is 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 Thomas Crick, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof (that is to say):
The improvements consist in using tacks, rivits, or sprigs, instead of
stitches, for fastening the tops or uppers" to the bottom or soles of boots,
shoes, clogs, over-shoes, or slippers. The method pursued is to "last"
the boot, shoc, clog, over-shoe, or slipper, in the usual manner, and to
fasten the top or upper part to the sole or lower part with tacks, rivits,

page_text: or sprigs, instead of stitches, the heads being on the interior. The
advantage of the Invention consists in the increased economy and
facility of production.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner in which the same is performed; and I would first
remark, that boots and shoes have before been made by fixing the
"uppers" to the soles by means of rivits, sprigs, or pegs, by driving them
from the outside of the sole into the interior of the boot or shoe, and
so that the points of the rivits or pegs or tacks have been inwards; but
by the present improvements the heads or enlarged parts of the rivits,
tacks, or sprigs are inwards, and the points outward, which will be
found a much more useful mode of fastening the "uppers" of boots and
shoes to the sole.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows an under-side view of a shoe or slipper on a last,
the upper being fixed according to my Invention. Figure 2, shows a
side view of the same. Figure 3, shows a plan or inside view of the
shoe or slipper, after it has been taken from the last and turned right
side outwards. In making a boot, shoc, clog, or slipper according to
my Invention a metal or wood last is to be used: if a wood last be
employed, it is to have metal fixed at its under edges to such an extent
that the rivits, tacks, or sprigs may, in being driven through the
"upper" and through the sole, come against the metal of the last, and be
turned over rivited or clenched. a, is the last; b, is the "upper," which,
when on the last, is turned inside out, as is shown in Figures 1, and 2.
c, is the sole. In making up a boot, shoe, clog, or slipper, according
to my Invention, the last is placed in the "upper," which is inside out.
The sole is then put on to the bottom of the last, and fixed thereto by
one or two nails being driven through it into the bottom of the last,
which, whether of wood or metal, is to have wood at the middle of the
under part to receive such nails. The edges of the "upper" are then
to be fixed by driving rivits, tacks, or sprigs of metal through the
upper" and through the sole; and the points or ends when they come
against the metal of the last will be rivited, turned over, or clenched.
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page_text: The last is then to be removed, and the boot, shoe, clog, or slipper, or
over-shoe is to be turned right side out, as is well understood, and is
extensively practised in making some boots, shoes, clogs, and slippers.
If there is to be a heel aflixed, or an additional thickness of solc, as is
shown at d, d, in respect of the boot at Figures 4. and 5, which is
made in the manner above described, and the heel and an additional
thickness of sole applied, either by sewing or by pegs, or by sprigs to
the sole, fixed to the upper," as above described, and as has before
been done in fixing additional thickness of solo and heels when the
sole has been fixed to the uppers" by other means. I have not
thought it necessary to show a clog or over-shoe in the drawing, as the
making of the same will be understood from the above description;
and the form of the uppers of boots, shoes, clogs, and slippers will be
varied as heretofore. A boot, shoc, clog, or slipper made as above
explained is to have the interior of the sole added to make it level
with the interior edges of the upper." and a lining is to be pasted
thereon, as heretofore.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim
is the mode herein described of fixing the "uppers" of boots, shoes,
clogs, and slippers to the soles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Crick, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
THOMAS CRICK. (L.S.)
Witness. SAMUEL STONE, Solicitor, Leicester.