Improvements in or relating to the Ventilation of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 18th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 26th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Ventilation of Boots
and Shoes.
We BERNARD MARKS of 54 Deansgate Manchester, in the County fof
Lancaster, Oil and Mineral Produce Broker, and MEYER JOSEPH SILVER, of
42 South Castle Street, Liverpool, in the said county, Manufacturers' Agent, ido
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
This invention relates to the ventilation of boots and shoes either by means of
detachable inner soles or socks, or by means of a ventilating device permanently
attached to the boot or shoe itself, and especially to such boots or shoes, or
the detachable inner soles or socks thereof, as are provided with fixed ventilating
tubes.
Our present invention consists principally in the use and employment in place of
metal or other flexible tubes for such purposes, of a flexible metallic flattened coil
which not only serves to keep the ventilating ducts open for the passage of the
air, but also allows of the permeation of the air through itself throughout its whole
length and in all directions, so that the ventilation of the boot or shoe is much
more perfect and effective.
We make this flexible coil by preference of wire of a flat or semicircular
section coiled round a flat mandrel of (say) about five eighths of an inch in
width by about one eighth of an inch in thickness (more or less) and with either
flat or rounded edges. This forms a kind of flat open tube or ribbon which not
only will keep the ventilating channel always expanded but will also allow of the
air passing out through it transversely in all directions as well as longitudinally
through the inside.
We also propose to fix this flattened tubular wire in place of the ordinary filling
between the insole and the sole of the boot or shoe, in cases where our invention is
applied as a fixture in the same, and by dispensing with such filling the insole will
be kept much drier than usual.
We sometimes so bend the wire as to form the half of a tube only by bending it
in a curved serpentine form instead of bending it spirally.
Dated this 18th day of November 1895.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4. St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Ventilation of Boots
and Shoes.
We BERNARD MARKS, of 54 Deansgate, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Oil and Mineral Produce Broker, and MEYER JOSEPH SILVER, of
42 South Castle Street, Liverpool, in the said county, Manufacturers' Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
Improvements in or relating to the Ventilation of Boots
and Shoes.
We BERNARD MARKS, of 54 Deansgate, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Oil and Mineral Produce Broker, and MEYER JOSEPH SILVER, of
42 South Castle Street, Liverpool, in the said county, Manufacturers' Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This invention relates to the ventilation of boots and shoes either by means of
detachable inner soles or socks or by means of a ventilating device permanently
attached to the boot or shoe itself, and especially to such boots or shoes or the
detachable inner soles or socks thereof as are provided with fixed ventilating tubes,
as described in the Specification of our application for Letters Patent No. 15608
of 1895.
Our present invention consists principally in the use and employment in place of
metal or other flexible tubes for such purposes of a flexible metallic flattened coil
or arch which not only serves to keep the ventilating ducts open for the passage of
the air, but also allows of the permeation of the air through itself throughout its
whole length and in all directions, so that the ventilation of the boot or shoe is
much more perfect and effective.
Our invention will be readily understood on reference to the accompanying
drawings,
Fig. 1 being an underneath plan of the middle sole of a boot with our improved
ventilator attached.
Fig. 2 is a plan, Fig. 2ª a side view and 2B a section shewing part of the latter
detached, and
Figs. 3, 34, 3 are similar views of a modified form of the said ventilator.
We make this flexible coil by preference of wire of a flat or semicircular section
coiled (see Fig. 2B) round a flat mandrel of (say) about five eighths of an inch in
width by about one eighth of an inch in thickness (more or less) and with either
flat or rounded edges. This forms a kind of flat open tube or ribbon a see
Figs. 2, 24, 2, which not only will keep the ventilating channel always expanded
but will also allow of the air passing out through it transversely in all directions
as well as longitudinally through the inside.
We also propose to fix this flattened tubular wire in place of the ordinary filling
(see Fig. 1) between the insole and the sole of the boot or shoe in cases where
our invention is applied as a fixture in the same, and by dispensing with such
filling, or the greater part thereof, the insole will be kept much drier than usual.
We sometimes so bend the wire a as to form an arch or the half of a tube only
by bending it in a curved serpentine form as shewn by Figs. 3, 34, and 3B, instead
of bending it spirally.
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 :-
The improved ventilator for boots and shoes consisting mainly of a flattened
wire coil or a half tube or arch formed substantially as herein before described and
illustrated by the annexed drawings.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants..