IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Tozer, of Gracechurch Street, in the City
of London, and Archibald Read, of Walworth, in the County of Surrey,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES."
Sealed the 22nd April 1862, and dated the 21st January 1862.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Tozer and Archibald
Read at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition
and Declaration, on the 21st January 1862, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act,. 1852. "
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
TOZER, of Gracechurch Street, in the City of London; and ARCHIBALD READ,
of Walworth, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS we, the said William Tozer and Archibald Read, have petitioned
Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, to grant unto us, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES:"
NOW KNOW YE that we, the said William Tozer and Archibald Read,
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 and the Drawings therein referred to (that is
to say):-
Our Invention has réference to improvements in boots and shoes of
the description known as cork clump boots and shoes, the object of the

page_text: said improvements being to render the same lighter and of greater strength
and durability than hitherto, and at the same time preserve a uniform
neatness of shape by dispensing with the mode of enclosing the cork sole,
through the medium of the rand as at present, and consists in forming a cavity
for the reception of the cork sole by sewing or otherwise attaching to the welt
a box or raised edging of leather, of sufficient thickness and strength to
admit of the outer sole being firmly held or secured thereto by any of the
ordinary means, such as sewing, pegging, or screwing; the heel in like manner
being formed of cork enclosed within a raised edge or cavity, to which the top
pieces are fixed or secured.
And in order that our said Invention may be more fully understood and
readily carried into effect, we now proceed to describe it by the aid of the
accompanying Drawings, reference being had to the letters and figures thereon
marked (that is to say) :-
Fig. 1 represents a side view of a boot formed or manufactured according
to our Invention; Fig. 2, an underneath view; Fig. 3, a longitudinal vertical
section taken through the dotted line in Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a side view thereof,
showing the raised edging or box forming the cavity for the reception of the
cork, outer sole, and top piece; Fig. 5, an underneath view of the same;
Fig. 6, a longitudinal vertical section through the dotted line in Fig. 5;
Fig. 7, a transverse vertical section through the dotted line 1, 1, in Fig. 4;
and Fig. 8, a corresponding view through the line 2, 2. In each Figure the
same letters of reference denote similar corresponding parts.
A, A, the upper; B, B, the golosh; C, C, elastic gusset; D, D, loops;
E, E, welt; F, F, inner sole; G, G, lining; H, H, raised edging or box
forming the recess or cavity I, I, for the reception of the cork; J, J, cork
sole; K, K, outer sole; L, L, the heel; M, M, cavity formed therein, in
which the cork N, N, is placed or fitted; 0, 0, top piece.
In conclusion to the foregoing description it may be here necessary to note
that our said improvements are applicable to boots and shoes of all descrip-
tions, and that in lieu of cork, as above mentioned, other light waterproof or.
wet-repellant substances or materials may be employed in like manner with
similar advantages.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of this our said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed and carried into effect,
we would have it clearly understood that we do not confine ourselves to the
precise details herein-before described, as the same may be varied without
departing from the general principle of these our said improvements, nor do
we claim the exclusive use of the several parts herein-before mentioned and

page_text: referred to, except when the same are employed in and for the purposes of our
said Invention, which we hereby declare to consist in applying cork or other-
wise as above to the soles and heels of clump boots and shoes, through the
medium of the raised edging or box in the manner and for the purposes
herein-before set forth and described.
.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Tozer and Archibald Read,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighteenth day of
January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two
Witness,
F. R. DARKIN CAMPBELL,
WILLIAM TOZER. (L.S.)
ARCHIBALD READ. (L.S.)
Clerk to Messrs. Weatherdon & Co.,
77, Chancery Lane.