IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES to be as follows:-
Year: 1884

page_text: I JOSEPH BORRETT of N° 134 Kingsland Road, in the county of Middlesex,
Boot and Shoe Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the said invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES to be as follows:-
"
The present invention relates to further improvements on an invention for which
Letters Patent were granted to me No 2177, dated the thirtieth day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
In carrying out these improvements I employ a metal frame or skeleton plate of
a construction similar to that described in the specification of my said former
Letters Patent but smaller so as to leave a margin or border of the sole of leather
or other material into which the metal plate or skeleton frame is embedded, all
round the outer edge of the metal plate or skeleton frame.
By this arrangement I am enabled to attach the combined sole and metal plate
or skeleton frame to the middle sole, welt or upper, either by screwing, rivetting or
stitching (by any ordinary machine or by hand) through the margin of the sole
outside the metal frame or skeleton plate whereby a better seam is obtained, all
risk of the metal frame or skeleton plate coming away from the leather or other
sole is prevented, and less weight of metal is required for the same amount of
wear The improved construction also allows of the boots or shoes being fair
stitched.
It will be obvious that the improvements are applicable to parts of the sole
instead of to the whole sole.
For shooting and similar boots, I sometimes employ headed pins which I screw
into tapped holes in the embedded metal frame or skeleton plate.
G. F. REDFERN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I, JOSEPH BORRETT of N° 134° Kingsland Road in the County of Middlesex,
Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES" and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The present invention relates to further improvements on an invention for which
Letters Patent were granted to me No 2177 dated the thirtieth day of April One
thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
In carrying out these improvements 1 employ a metal frame or skeleton plate of
a construction similar to that described in the specification of my said former
Letters Patent but smaller so as to leave a margin or border of the sole of leather
or other material (into which sole the metal plate. or skeleton frame is embedded)
all round the outer edge of the metal plate or skeleton frame.
In order to enable these improvements to be fully understood I will describe the
same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1 represents an
elevation of a boot manufactured according to the said improvements; figure 2 is a
section on line AB of figure 1; figure 3 is a plan of the under side of the boot and
figure 4 is a plan showing the middle sole of a boot with the combined leather sole
and metal plate sewn thereto. Similar letters in all the figures represent similar
parts.
a is the metal frame or skeleton plate of similar construction to that described in
my original patent but smaller than the sole i of leather or other material into
which the metal plate or skeleton frame a is embedded as shewn in figure 2
thereby leaving a margin or border i¹ of the sole all round the outer edge of the
metal plate or skeleton frame a; g g are the projections on the under side of the
frame a; jj are the pieces of cork or other suitable waterproof material for filling
up the spaces between the middle sole n of the boot and the upper surface of the
leather or the like in the frame a.
By this arrangement I am enabled to attach the combined sole and metal plate
or skeleton frame i a, to the middle sole n, or to the welt or upper, either by
screwing or rivetting or by stitching (by any ordinary machine or by hand)
through the margin of the sole i, outside the metal frame or skeleton plate a
whereby a better seam is obtained, all risk of the metal frame or skeleton plate a
coming away from the leather or other sole is prevented and less weight of metal is
required for the same amount of wear. The improved construction also allows of
the boots or shoes being fair stitched as clearly shewn in figure 2; the lines
marked o in the drawing shew the stitches.
It will be obvious that the improvements are applicable to parts of the sole
instead of to the whole sole.
For shooting and similar boots I sometimes employ headed pins which I screw
into tapped holes in the embedded metal frame or skeleton plate.
Figure 5 is a section shewing this arrangement in which a is the metal plate or
skeleton frame and a¹ a¹ shew headed pins screwed into the metal plate or skeleton
frame a.
•
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
Firstly. The combination with a leather or other outer sole for boots and shoes,
of a metal plate or skeleton frame of smaller size than the sole in which it is

page_text: embedded a margin or border of the sole being left all round the said metal plate
or skeleton frame as and for the purposes herein before described and represented in
the accompanying drawing.
Secondly. A boot or shoe having a sole such as that hereinbefore described and
represented in the drawing.
Thirdly. The use with a sole such as that described for boots or shoes of headed
pins as herein before described and represented in figure 5 of the drawing.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.