AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Cyrus Clark and James Clark, both of Street, near
Glastonbury, in the County of Somerset, Rug Manufacturers, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES."
Sealed the 26th November 1855, and dated the 4th September 1855..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Cyrus Clark and James
Clark at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 4th September 1855.
We, CYRUS CLARK and JAMES CLARK, both of Street, near Glastonbury, in
the County of Somerset, Rug Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of
the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES
to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
boots and shoes, and consists of combining a golosh or overshoe, of india-
rubber, gutta percha, or other material, with a boot or shoe manufactured in
the ordinary manner, or manufactured in such manner as to form a fixed lining
to the golosh or overshoe of india-rubber, in place of making the golosh or
overshoe separate from the boot or shoe, as heretofore.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Cyrus Clark and James Clark in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 1st March 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CYRUS
CLARK and JAMES CLARK, both of Street, near Glastonbury, in the County of
Somerset, Rug Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Cyrus Clark and James Clark, Her special licence that we, the
said Cyrus Clark and James Clark, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Cyrus Clark and James Clark, our 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND
SHOES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Cyrus Clark
and James Clark, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us
or them, 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 we, the said Cyrus Clark and James Clark, 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:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
boots and shoes, and consists of combining a golosh or overshoe, of india-
rubber, gutta percha, or other material, with a boot or shoe, either manu-
factured in the ordinary manner or without a sole, or manufactured in such
manner as to form a fixed lining to the golosh or overshoe of india-rubber
in place of making the golosh or overshoe separate from the boot or shoe, as
heretofore.
Having thus stated the nature of our said Invention, we will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.

page_text: We take a golosh or overshoe of india-rubber, gutta percha, or of other
waterproof material, manufactured as heretofore, and then apply thereto boots
or shoes, either made in the ordinary manner, or uppers of boots and shoes,
made as may be most convenient, with or without a sole, and we sew the
golosh to the boot or, shoe in each case, or we cement them to each other
inside the golosh. If we use the soles attached to the boots and shoes they
may be of light material, as they are only to act as linings to the soles of
the goloshes; or, in place of making the goloshes and the boots and shoes
separate from each other, as above described, the boots and shoes may be first
made in the ordinary manner, or without soles attached, as before described,
and the goloshes formed thereon by repeated coatings of india-rubber or gutta
percha solution.
In witness whereof, we, the said Cyrus Clark and James Clark, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-ninth day of February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
JAMES HOLMES,
Street, near Glastonbury.
CIKUS CLARK. (L.S.)
JAMES CLARK. (L.S.)