Improvement in Socks for Boots and Shoes and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 24th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 8th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1896
Improvement in Socks for Boots and Shoes and the like.
1, WILLIAM CHARLES LISTER of 11 Cranmore Road Wolverhampton in the
County of Stafford, Accountant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
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The object is to afford greater ease to the heel of the wearer, to prevent jar in
walking, to prevent blisters on the heel-to make the instep of the boot or shoe
easier fitting and to keep the sock in place with the heel end close against the
stiffening or back part of the boot or shoe.
The sock is formed of three parts and a spike or pin to enter the heel of the
boot or shoe to keep the sock in position, to fit close to the stiffening. The first
portion composed of leather, felt or other suitable material, extends from heel to
toe, or the whole length of the boot or shoe. The second portion composed of
leather, felt, or other suitable material, extends from the heel to the end of the
instep, or about half the length of the first portion. The third portion is about the
same dimensions as the second portion, and is composed of india rubber, composition
or suitable material either solid, hollow, corrugated, perforated or otherwise shaped,
of varying thickness and shape or size. The third portion fits between the first and
second portions, under the first portion and over the second portion, or vice versa.
The spike is fitted in the third portion near the heel end-to enter the heel of the
boot or shoe to keep the sock in position. The portions may be glued cemented
sewn or otherwise attached together.
Dated this 23rd day of Mo 180x
Improvement in Socks for Boots and Shoes and the like.
I, WILLIAM CHARLES LISTER of 11, Cranmore Road Wolverhampton in the
County of Stafford, Accountant, 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 objects of this invention are to construct a sock which shall afford greater
case to the heel of the wearer, and prevent jar in walking and to keep the sock in
place in a boot or shoe with the heel end close against the stiffening or back part
of the boot or shoe and thus prevent the sock from slipping forward and doubling
up as is frequently the case with socks of the ordinary kind.
In order to give greater ease to the heel and prevent jar, a thickness of india
rubber, plain or corrugated, is placed between the two thicknesses of the sock at
the heel end thereof and cemented or glued in place, and such thickness of india-
rubber may be cemented or glued to either face of the sock, and is preferably about
half the length of the sock itself.
To ensure the sock being kept in place in a boot or shoc with the heel end close
against the stiffening or back part thereof, I form a fastening of a flat piece of sheet
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page_text: metal, preferably of thin sheet steel, having three or more points projecting therefrom.
The ends of two or more of these points are bent upwards and the end of the
remaining point is bent downwards. The bent up ends of the fastening are passed
through the thickness of the sock and clenched down on the opposite side, and
the end of the remaining point is in position projecting downwards from the heel
end of the sock. This downwardly projecting point is forced into the sole of
the boot or shoe, or pressed between the sole and the stiffening.
A fastening constructed as above described is illustrated by the accompanying
drawings―
Figure 1, is a piece of sheet metal from which a fastening is to be formed the
parts "A," "B," "B," being bent along the dotted lines in the position shewn by
Figure 2 which is a side elevation of a fastening ready for fixing to a sock.
Figure 3 is a view shewing the parts "B," "B," passed through the thickness of
a sock and ready for clenching down, leaving the point "A" projecting downwards
from the sock.
Figure 4 is a view of the upper part of a sock with the parts "B" "B" clenched
down on to the sock "C"; and
Figure 5 is a view shewing the interior of the heel end of a boot or shoe
with a sock placed therein and having the fastening applied thereto, and shews
the bent down point of the part "A" as having been forced between the stiffening
and the end of the sole of the boot or shoe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is ;
1. A sock for a boot or shoe baving a thickness of indiarubber (plain corrugated
or perforated) applied thereto at the heel end thereof, for the purpose of affording
greater ease to the heel of the wearer, and preventing jar, substantially as herein
described.
2. A sock for a boot or shoe having a pointed projection or spike projecting from
the underside thereof, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.
3. A fastening for keeping a sock in place in a boot or shoe with the heel end of
the sock close against the stiffening or back part of the boot or shoe, such fastening
having two, or more parts projecting therefrom, which pass through the thickness
of the sock and are clenched down thereon, and a third or remaining part which
when such fastening is fixed projects outwards from the sock to enable such sock to
be fixed in place in a boot or shoe, substantially as herein described and shewn by
the drawings herewith.
Dated this Sixth day of February 1896.