IMPROVEMENTS IN SOCKS, SOLES. On FRET PROTECTORS TO THERETO." USED LOOSE IN BOOTS AND SHOES, OR AFFIXED
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Poole, of Riley Street, Chelsea, in the County
of Middlesex, and Thomas Brown, of Shrublard Road, Dalston,
Engineers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SOCKS, SOLES. On
FRET PROTECTORS TO
THERETO."
USED LOOSE IN BOOTS AND SHOES, OR AFFIXED,
Sealed the 29th September 1865, and dated the 31st March 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Poole and Thomas
Brown at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents with their Petition
on the 31st March 1865.
We, JOHN POOLE, of Riley Street, Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex
and THOMAS BROWN, of Shrublard Road, Dalston, Engineers, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SOCKS, SOLES
OR FEET PROTECTORS TO BE USED LOOSE IN BOOTS AND SHOES, OR AFFIXED THERETO,"
to be as follows:-
The use or application of wood, preferably pine, which we propose to render
into thin leaves or boards similar to that known as scale board by sawing,
cutting, or otherwise, and from which said leaves or boards we saw, stamp,
press, or cutout by means of dies, cutters, or other known devices, the necessary
shapes or forms for socks or soles, and which said shapes or forms can after-
wards be covered or not on one or both sides with a lining of paper, leather,
[Price 8d.]

page_text: caoutchouc, or any woven or felted fabric by means of glue, gum, caoutchouc,
or other adhesive substance, and such shapes, forms, socks, or soles, either
covored or not, can be worn loose inside boots or shoes, or affixed to the same.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Poole and Thomas Brown in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 29th September 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
POOLE, of Riley Street, Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, and THOMAS
BROWN, of Shrubland Road, Dalston, Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of March, 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 us, the said John Poole and Thomas Brown, Her special licence that
we,the said John Poole and Thomas Brown,my executors, administrators,and
assigns, or such others as we, the said John Poole and Thomas Brown, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN SOCKS, SOLES, OR FEET
PROTECTORS TO BE USED LOOSE IN BOOTS AND SHOES, OR AFFIXED THERETO," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said John Poole and Thomas
Brown, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, 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 Thomas Brown, on behalf of myself and
the said John Poole,do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The use or application of wood, preferably pine, which we propose to render
into thin leaves or boards similar to that known as scaleboards, by sawing,
cutting, or otherwise, and from which said leaves or boards, we saw, stamp,

page_text: press, or cut out by means of dies, cutters, or other known devices, the neces-
sary shapes or forms for socks or soles, and which said shapes or forms can
afterwards be covered or not on one or both sides with a lining of paper,
leather, caoutchouc, or any woven or felted fabric by means of glue, gum,
caoutchouc, or other adhesive substance, and such shapes, forms, socks, or soles,
either covered or not, can be worn loose inside boots or shoes, or affixed to the
same (for instance, marine glue, or glue rendered wet and damp proof by
an admixture therewith of milk, gum sandarah,gum mastic, and turpentine,
or other substances suitable for the purpose). The felt or other lining or
covering material and wood may be cutout to the required shapes separately,
and fixed together by the adhesive mixture afterwards, or the felt or other
lining or covering material may be first joined in such lengths and widths as
may be convenient, and the socks or soles then cut entire therefrom. The
wood, or wood and linings, or socks, are steamed, and when cut out the edges
are sewn or stitched round by a sewing machine, or otherwise. In either case
we propose to subject the wood and lining material to a pressure by passing it
between rollers or presses.
We claim the use and application of wood for the purposes herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Brown, on behalf of myself and
John Poole, have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-ninth
day of September, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
THOMAS BROWN. (L.S.)