Improvements in or Additions to Socks for Boots, Shoes, and other Coverings for the Feet.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 12th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Socks for Boots, Shoes, and other
Coverings for the Feet.
I, WILL PADDOCK, of Old Caynton Manor, Newport, in the County of Salop,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention appertains to loose socks, or socks worn and fitted within the insides
of boots, shoes, and other coverings for the feet, and consists primarily in the
employment of sheet aluminium in connection with the said articles, or in the
production or formation of the said articles.
By the employment of aluminium as the basis of the sock, or as the supplementary
lining, facing or covering, the same are made extremely light, flexible, non-absorbent
to perspiration, and impervious to wet or dampness.
The said socks may be ventilated, and the aluminium may be employed alone, or
in combination with felt, leather, cork, plaited rush or straw, paper, silk or animal
fabric.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a composite sock, I cut from thin
sheet aluminium, a blank of the figure of a sock, and apply to the underside or to
the topside of the same, a layer of cotton, cork, felt, or other suitable textile or like
material, and which said materials are attached by cementing or sewing their
boundary edges to the boundary edges of the metal.
In another form of my invention, I interpose the aluminium blank or thin plate
between top and bottom textile surfaces or other materials, such as cork, felt or the
like, hence a course or layer of aluminium between other materials.
The attachment of the aluminium to the other material may be performed by
turning the boundary edges of the metal over the boundary edges of the said
material.
As a still further form of my invention, I may employ aluminium alone as the
sock, and with the boundary edges of the metal turned over or thickened, so as to
give a thicker edge and prevent the tearing or ripping of the metal.
The said metal may, if necessary, be longitudinal or cross ribbed or corrugated.
When longitudinally corrugated, I prefer that the said corrugations should be
broken up at intervals by cross corrugations, so as to preserve the necessary
flexibility.
I propose that the corrugations should be so slight as not to be hurtful to the
tread of the foot, and if necessary, the valleys of such corrugations may be filled up
with any suitable facing material.
Instead of employing aluminium, I may employ phosphor-bronze nickel or other
suitable alloys of metal.
My invention is applicable to loose as well as to attached socks.

page_text: Improvements in or Additions to Socks for Boots, Shoes, and other
Coverings for the Feet.
I, WILL PADDOCK, of Old Caynton Manor, Newport, in the County of Salop,
Gentleman, 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 :-
My invention appertains to loose socks, or socks worn and fitted within the insides
of boots, shoes, and other coverings for the feet, and consists primarily in the
employment of sheet aluminium in connection with the said articles, or in the
production or formation of the said articles.
By the employment of aluminium as the basis of the sock, or as the supplementary
lining, facing or covering, the same are made extremely light, flexible, non-absorbent
to perspiration, and impervious to wet or dampuess.
The said socks may be ventilated, and the aluminium may be employed alone, or
in combination with felt, leather, cork or plaited rush or straw, paper, silk or animal
fabric.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a composite sock, I cut from thin
sheet aluminium, a blank of the figure of a sock, and apply to the underside or to
the topside of the same, a layer of cotton, cork, felt or other suitable textile or like
material, and which said materials are attached by cementing or sewing their
boundary edges to the boundary edges of the metal.
In another form of my invention, I interpose the aluminium blank or thin plate
between top and bottom textile surfaces or other materials, such as cork, felt or the
like, hence a course or layer of aluminium between other materials.
The attachment of the aluminium to the other material may be performed by
turning the boundary edges of the metal over the boundary edges of the said
material.
As a still further form of my invention, I may employ aluminium alone as the
sock, and with the boundary edges of the metal turned over or thickened, so as to
give a thicker edge and prevent the tearing or ripping of the metal.
The said metal may, if necessary, be longitudinal or cross ribbed or corrugated.
When longitudinally corrugated the said corrugations may be broken up at intervals
by cross corrugations, so as to preserve the necessary flexibility.
propose that the corrugations should be so slight as not to be hurtful to the
tread of the foot, and if necessary, the valleys of such corrugations may be filled up
with any suitable facing material.
Instead of employing aluminium, I may employ phosphor-bronze, nickel or other
suitable alloys of metal.
My invention is applicable to attached as well as to loose socks.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an underside plan of a loose
sock in sheet aluminium having a facing of cork, wool cotton or other soft material,
and made according to one form of my invention.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.
a is a sheet aluminium course or body with a facing b, of cotton, cork or other
soft material forming preferably the upper layer, which layer b, and aluminium
course, are connected together at the edges by stitchings c.
Figure 3 represents a section of a loose sock with the sheet aluminium course
interposed between upper and lower layers of wool, cotton, cork or other like soft
substance.
Figure 4 represents a topside plan of a sock made according to a further form of
my invention.
Figure 5 is a longitudinal section of the same, showing the turned over boundary

page_text: edges of the said sock, and how the soft facing is connected to the sheet aluminium
course or body part.
In this damp proof sock, a is a sheet aluminium course with turned over
boundary edges a², which take over and upon the boundary edges 62, of the wool,
cotton or other facing b, hence the connection of the said facing to the metal course
without stitching.
Figure 6 represents a sheet metal aluminium sock a, made wholly of sheet
aluminium, and with the boundary edges a², of the same turned to prevent the same
being torn and to form a thickened edge.
Figure 7 represents a still further form of my invention, in which the instep of an
aluminium sock is slightly corrugated for the purpose of flexibility, and Figure 8
is a cross section of the same.
Figure 9 represents an aluminium sock made in two parts and with the sole part
jointed to the heel part. a is the sole part, a' the heel part and a³ the joint.
Figure 10 is a section of Figure 9.
Figure 11 represents a sock made from woven or plaited aluminium wire and
provided with a facing of hair, wool, felt, cork or other soft material.
a is the woven wire sock and b is the facing of soft material. Wool, felt rubber
or other soft material, instead of forming a facing, may be forced into or woven with
the meshes of the sock either during the process of formation or subsequently. The
rough edges of the sock may be protected by thin metal edges, and further when
unfaced the woven sock is a ventilated one.
Figure 12 represents an aluminium sock provided with a thin sheet steel strip at
back constituting a spring for giving resiliency and flexibility to the sole of
the sock.
Figure 13 is a section of the sole of the sock.
In attached socks, I make the same in like manner as loose socks, and fixedly
secure the same within a boot, shoe or slipper.
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 :-
First. A loose or attached sock for boots, shoes and other coverings for the feet,
making the said socks of or from thin sheet aluminium, substantially as described
and set forth.
Secondly. A loose or attached sock for boots, shoes and other coverings for the
feet, making the said socks of or from thin sheet aluminium, phosphor-bronze,
nickel or other non-corrosive metal or alloy, substantially as described and set
forth.
Thirdly. A loose or attached sock for boots, shoes and the like, making the said
socks of woven or plaited aluminium or like wire substantially as described and set
forth.
Fourthly. In thin sheet-aluminium or thin sheet metal socks, the combination
with the metal body part or course, of a facing or facings of wool, felt, cotton,
hair, cork or other like soft material, substantially as described and set forth.
Fifthly. In thin sheet aluminium or metal socks, the combination with the sheet
metal body part or course, of a joint as in Figures 9 and 10 and of a flat strip of
tempered thin sheet metal as in Figures 12 and 13.
Sixthly. The improvements in loose or attached socks for boots and shoes
substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 11.
Dated this 11th day of January 1904.
WILL PADDOCK,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.