Improvements in Boots, Shoes, or the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 24th June, 1889-Accepted, 27th July, 1889
Improvements in Boots, Shoes, or the like.
A communication from MORITZ KNIEZAUREK, of 42, Albertus Strasse, Cologne, in
the Empire of Germany, Engineer.
T
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT. of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
M.I.M:E., do hereby declare the nature of this invention 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 consists in the manufacture of boots, shoes and the like of
metal.
The invention permits of manufacturing boots, shoes or the like wholesale with the
aid of suitable machinery and wholly or partly of metal, metal fabric. or the like, and
permits further of a person repairing his own boots or shoes by supplying the parts
which are mostly subjected to wear and tear ready made.
The articles inade according to the present invention are very light and comfortable
in wearing, they are only subjected in few parts to wear and tear and are considerably
cheaper than those manufactured up to the present.
Heel tips and toe plates and the like are being used to protect boots and shoes
against wear and tear, but their employment does not attain the desired object of
greater durability and comfort in wearing, an object which is thoroughly attained by
the present invention consisting of manufacturing the articles wholly or partly of
metal; the inner sole or welt and the heel will preferably consist of one piece of metal
or of several pieces soldered jointed or otherwise secured together, and preferably of
steel, copper or brass.
The inner sole or welt is made of a suitable thickness to ensure elasticity in walking
and the heel part is pressed in the desired form and the desired thickness."
For the purpose of more comfortable walking a plate or piece of leather or
indiarubber may be fixed under the heel.
In slippers the inner sole or welt may be covered with leather, india-rubber,
papier-maché or the like and can be used with or without the heel part.
An outer leather, india-rubber or other sole may be screwed or otherwise fastened
to the metal inner sole, and these as also the heel plates of leather, india-rubber or
the like can be easily taken off and replaced by new ones by any one in a few
minutes without the aid of a boot-maker, as these parts are supplied exactly
fitting.
A piece of cloth or other suitable material may be placed inside the boot or shoe
on the inner sole for greater comfort and the protection of the sole of the foot.
The upper of the boot or shoe consists of a finely meshed wire fabric. preferably
of silvered or gilt copper or brass which is soldered sewn with wire or otherwise
secured to the inner sole and the heel.
This wire fabric may be lined with any suitable material and with india-rubber if
it is desired to render the boot or shoe water-tight, it may further be provided with
side springs in the usual manner if desired.
A further modification is that employing the metal inner sole and heel, the upper
may be made of leather or other suitable material instead of the wire fabric.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is
;-
1. In a boot or shoe an inner sole or welt and heel made of one piece or several
pieces of metal secured together which may be used with soles of other material

page_text: fastened thereto and with so-called socks of other material substantially as
described.
2. In a boot or shoe an upper of wire fabric which is soldered or otherwise fastened
to the inner sole and heel and may be provided with a lining of any suitable material
substantially as described.
3. The combination of the metal inner sole and heel with an upper of other
material.