IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF FASTENING THE SOLES AND HEELS OF BOOTS AND SOLES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Barchou, of No. 49, Saint Augustin's
Road, Camden Town, in the County of Middlesex, Working Jeweller,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF FASTENING THE
SOLES AND HEELS OF BOOTS AND SOLES."-A communication.
Sealed the 4th February 1859, and dated the 10th August 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Barchou at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th August 1858.
I, ALFRED BARCHOU, of No. 49, Saint Augustin's Road, Camden Town,
in the County of Middlesex, Working Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF FASTENING THE SOLES
AND HEELS OF BOOTS AND SHOES," to be as follows:-
The said Invention consists in the use of a threaded nail, point, or pin for
the purpose of fastening or fixing the soles and heels to the upper leather and
inner sole or other portions of the boot or shoe, such threaded nail, point, or
pin being driven or forced through the sole or heel, as the case may be, to
such portions of the boot or shoe as the sole or heel is intended to be attached
or fastened to, and then clinched or rivetted so as to prevent the same from
receding, and to keep the several parts of the boot or shoe firmly together.
Any spindle with rings, or a ring mandril, may be used in lieu of a threaded
nail, and the article may be made in any metal.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Barchou in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th February 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
BARCHOU, of Number 49, Saint Augustin's Road, Camden Town, in the
County of Middlesex, Working Jeweller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Alfred Barchou, Her special licence that I, the said Alfred
Barchou, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Alfred Barchou, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MODE OF FASTENING THE SOLES AND HEELS OF BOOTS AND SHOES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Barchou, 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 Alfred Barchou, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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 :-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
boots and shoes, and consists in employing-a-more-perfect mode of fastening
or joining the upper leather of boots and shoes to the exterior and interior
soles, which is effected by means of a threaded nail or spindle with rings. By
this method I am able to fasten at once all the principal parts of the boot or
shoe, and that more firmly and securely than by any other method at present
known or practised. Pins, nails, and ordinary spiral screws, in metals and
wood have been heretofore commonly used in lieu of sewing or other fastening,
but they are all more or less objectionable on account of their being liable

page_text: to recede from or go through the one or other portion of the boot or shoe
to which they or any of them are applied, and whereupon the different
portions are severed from each other or become loose. By my system (which
consists principally in the employment of what may be termed a grooved rivet)
the several parts fastened together by it cannot from any ordinary cause or
wear separate or become loose.
The boots and shoes to which my system is applied may be of any shape or
material, and except as to the fastening or joining the upper piece to the soles
and heel are manufactured in the ordinary way, but for the purpose of such
fastening or joining together I use a threaded nail, which is sharply driven
through the portions to be held or joined together by means of a hammer or
other pressure, and then clinched on the inner side or on both sides, according
as I may use a nail with or without a head, or according to the nature and
thickness of the sole to be joined. A sharp blow from a moderate sized
hammer will generally suffice to drive the threaded nail through the soles and
upper piece.
The threaded nail which I employ as above mentioned is a spindle (made
usually of iron or brass, and) of a conical or pyramidical shape, on which I
have caused to be cut lines or rings parellel with cach other, so as to present
a series of indentations and teeth or rings, in relief alternately, and this
spindle can be made so as to present various shapes, such as triangular,
narrow, or circular curves, and can be made and used either with or without
heads, and may also be cylindrical or in sections of a circle, or square, or
polygon, or oblique, or inclined; but for general purposes in connection with
boots and shoes I prefer the spindle to be of a conical or pyramidical shape.
I claim as my Invention the use of grooved rivets for the purpose of
fastening or joining together the several parts of boots and shoes, as herein-
before mentioned or described; and whether such grooved rivets consist of
threaded nails, spindles with rings, ringed mandrils, or any similar articles,
though coming under a different denomination, and made in any metal, and of
any size or shape, and with or without heads.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Barchou, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
מח מרידו
ALFRED BARCHOU. (L.S.)