IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF SOCKING MACHINE SEWN AND RIVETTED BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, THOMAS LILLEY of the firm of Lilley and Skinner, Boot & Shoe Manu-
facturers, Paddington Green, London W. do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF SOCKING MACHINE SEWN AND
RIVETTED BOOTS AND SHOES" to be as follows:-
"
The previous method of socking machine sewn and rivetted boots and Shoes has
been by putting a thin covering of paste on one side of the sock and inserting it
in the boot or shoe, sometimes after it is sewn or rivetted and before they are
finished and sometimes after they are otherwise completely finished-This method
is universally found very unsatisfactory.
Then again there is another method of fixing the socks, namely by using a second
innersole;
the sock being stitched to this and both being inserted in the boots or
shoes after they are sewn or rivetted.
This I contend is not only unnecessary but adds to the cost and increases the
weight of the boots or shoes.
I propose to have the sock attached to a piece of canvas or other fabric or thin
material, hereinafter called the undersock, by stitching running about an inch from
the edge, thus leaving the sides of the sock loose.
The undersock is then temporarily made secure to the innersole with paste,
cement, or any adhesive substance that may seem best-The sock is then turned in
away from the edge of the undersock.
After the boots or shoes are taken off the last to have the soles sewn on, the
stitches which sew on the sole secure at the same time the undersock to the
innersole.
The sock is then turned down into its place and will be found to be thoroughly
secure by its being attached by stitching to the undersock and by the undersock
being sewn down to the innersole.
In the case of rivetted boots the undersock is secured to the innersole by the
rivets in the same manner as it is secured by the sewing in the sewn boots.
The method described above may also be varied by dispensing with the under-
sock and by fastening the sock to the innersole itself by stitching running about
an inch from the edge, thus leaving the sides of the sock loose.
The sock is then turned in away from the edge of the innersole and is turned
back into its place after the boots or shoes are sewn or rivetted.
Dated this twenty first day of February 1884.

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I, THOMAS LILLEY of the firm of Lilley and Skinner, Boot and Shoe Manu-
facturers Paddington Green, London W. do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF SOCKING MACHINE SEWN AND
RIVETTED BOOTS AND SHOES" and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:--
The previous method of socking machine sewn and rivetted boots and shoes has
been by putting a thin covering of paste on one side of the sock, and inserting it
in the boot or shoe, sometimes after it is sewn or rivetted and before it is finished
and sometimes after it is otherwise completely finished-This method is universally
found very unsatisfactory.
Then again there is another method of fixing the socks, namely by using a second
innersole; the sock being stitched to this and both being inserted in the boots or
shoes after they are sewn or rivetted.
This I contend is not only unnecessary but adds to the cost and increases the
weight of the boots or shoes.
I propose to have the sock attached to a piece of canvas or other fabric or thin
material, hereinafter called the undersock by stitching running about an inch from
the edge, thus leaving the sides of the sock loose.
The undersock is then temporarily made secure to the innersole with paste,
cement, solution or any adhesive substance that may seem best. The sock is then
turned in away from the edge of the undersock.
After the boots or shoes are taken off the last to have the soles sewn on, the
stitches which sew on the sole secure at the same time the undersock to the
innersole.
The sock is then turned down into its place and will be found to be thoroughly
secure by its being attached by stitching to the undersock and by the undersock
being sewn down to the innersole.
In the case of rivetted boots or shoes the undersock is secured to the innersole
by the rivets in the same manner as it is secured by the sewing in the sewn boots
or shoes.
The method described above may also be varied by dispensing with the under-
sock and by fastening the sock to the innersole itself by stitching running about
an inch from the edge, thus leaving the sides of the sock loose.
The sock is then turned in away from the edge of the innersole and is turned
back into its place after the boots or shoes are sewn or rivetted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The new method of socking machine sewn and rivetted boots and shoes by
stitching or rivetting the sock to an undersock or to the innersole as above
described, thus rendering it perfectly unmoveable.
Dated this Nineteenth day of November, One thousand eight hundred and