IMPROVEMENTS. IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER LIKE COVERINGS FOR THE FEET
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS.
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER LIKE COVERINGS FOR THE
FEET." A communication from abroad by Alexandre Leverd, of Paris,
France.
Sealed the 15th August 1865, and dated the 16th February 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 16th February 1865.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER LIKE COVERINGS
FOR THE FEET," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in manufacturing boots, shoes, and other like
coverings for the feet in manner hereafter described, whereby stitching, except
in the uppers, screws, rivets, and nails are dispensed with. I commence with
an inner sole which I cut out in gutta percha and press on under beat a
covering on that which is to be the inner side, of linen, cotton, or other fila-

page_text: mentous or ligneous material. I next apply on this covering a piece of stuff
or cloth and turn the edges over under the gutta percha surface, and fix them
by heat, or by pasto or other cement. I place this inner sole upon a last with
the cloth side against the last, apply the upper, and turn down the edges
thereof over the inner sole, using nails or brads to keep the parts temporarily
in position. I then tack the edges and remove the nails. So far the upper
and the inner sole are connected. Now to apply the outer sole I stamp or
cut it out in leather to the shape required, and in one piece from toe to heel
and roughen the inner surface. I next place the upper with its inner sole,
upon which the leather sole is applied in a moulding apparatus, and I also
place therein a core to form the body of the heel, and then add gutta percha
in a plastic state. This material is interposed between the inner sole and the
leather sole, and unites the whole, while the core of the heel, except at bottom
where the leather sole extends, is completely surrounded by the gutta percha.
Or the heel may be entirely formed of leather, cork, or other suitable material.
On leaving the mould the boot, shoe, or other covering for the fect is
finished.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman, in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 16th August 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her reign
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER LIKE COVERINGS
FOR THE FEET," (Communicated to me from abroad by Alexandre Leverd, of Paris,

page_text: France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, 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 Richard Archibald Brooman, 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, reference being had to tho Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in manufacturing boots, shoes, and other like
coverings for the feet in manner hereafter described, whereby stitching, except
in the uppers, screws, rivets, and nails are dispensed with. I commence with
an inner sole which I cut out in gutta percha and press on under heat a
covering on that which is to be the inner side, of linen, cotton, or other fila-
mentous or ligneous material. Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawings
represent this inner sole composed of gutta percha a, and covering b, of linen
or other material. I next apply on the covering b a piece of stuff or cloth c,
Figure 3, and turn the edges over under the gutta percha surface (as seen in
Figure 4, which is a view of the under side of the inner sole) and fix them by
heat, or by paste, or other cement. Figure 5 is a section of the inner sole
with the stuff c applied thereto. I place this inner sole upon a last with the
cloth side against the last, apply the upper and turn down the edges thereof
over the inner sole, using nails or brads to keep the parts temporarily in
position; I then tack the edges and remove the nails. So far the upper and
the inner sole are connected. Now to apply the outer sole I stamp or cut it out
in leather to the shape required and in one piece from toe heel, as repre-
sented in Figures 6 and 7, and roughen the inner surface, and sometimes tack
it as seen in Figure 6, to increase the adherence of the gutta percha; I next
place the upper with its inner sole, upon which the leather sole d is applied
in a moulding apparatus, and I also place therein a core e, Figures 8 and 9,
to form the body of the heel, and then add gutta percha in a plastic state. This
material is interposed between the inner sole and the leather sole, and unites
the whole, while the core e of the heel, except at bottom where the leather
sole extends, is completely surrounded by the gutta percha. Or the heel may
be entirely formed of leather, cork, or other suitable material. On leaving

page_text: the mould the boot, shoe, or other covering for the feet is finished, as shown
in section in Figure 18, and in plan in Figure 19.
When it is desired to cover the whole of the heel with leather I proceed as
follows: The leather sole is cut in the form represented in Figures 10, 11,
and 12, it is thinned on the edges of one of its sides to increase the adherence
with the inner sole by means of the gutta percha. The sole d thus thinned at
its edges is cut with a tail piece d', intended to unite it to the leather
heel m, Figures 13 and 14. The uniting is effected by a seam f, as seen
in Figures 15 and 16, which are respectively an exterior and a top view of
the sole d, with its heal piece m. In the interior of the heel piece m, which
is cut of the contour represented in Figure 13, and which is formed into
the shape seen in Figure 17, the heel proper of wood, cork, or other
suitable material is placed. Sometimes in order to prevent the connection
of the sole to the upper becoming imperfect from heat or other cause, I run a
seam round the periphery of the sole; this seam also gives the boot the
appearance of an ordinary sewn boot.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim manufacturing
boots, shoes, and other like coverings for the feet substantially in manner
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of August, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.