IMPROVEMENTS IN SOLES FOR BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1884

page_text: We, HUGH WILKIE, Blacksmith, of 181 Duke Street, and WILLIAM KAYE,
Warehouseman, of 179 Duke Street both in Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SOLES
FOR BOOTS AND SHOES;" to be as follows:—
This Invention consists in forming soles or socks for boots and shoes, from such
metals as copper and zinc to serve for curative purposes.
The soles or socks which are placed within the boots or shoes to be in contact
with the stockings of the wearer, are formed by rivetting together or otherwise
uniting a sheet of copper to a sheet of zinc in a form adapted to fit the boot or shoe,
or by weaving together or intertwining copper and zinc wires or strips, or by
otherwise combining copper and zinc or similar metals which when acted on by the
perspiration of the feet set up galvanic action.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.
We, HUGH WILKIE, Blacksmith, of 181 Duke Street, and WILLIAM KAYE,
Warehouseman, of 179 Duke Street, both in Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
0 do hereby declare the nature of our Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SOLES
FOR 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 in writing,
reference being had to the accompanying sheet of Drawings, and to the letters and
figures marked thereon; that is to say :—
Б
Our Invention consists in forming soles or socks for boots and shoes from such
metals as copper and zinc to serve for curative purposes.

page_text: In the accompanying sheet of Drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a face
and edge view of a sole or sock A for being placed in the inside of boots and shoes,
constructed in accordance with one modification of our Invention or improvements,
from a thin sheet of copper a, and a corresponding sheet of zinc b metallically
united, preferably by one or more copper or other metal rivets at c, but the sheets
or metals a and b might be otherwise connected or united to have perfect mechanical
contact and give the galvanic or electric and curative action and effects to the feet
of the wearer, forming the object of our Invention. And Figures 3 and 4 are a face
and edge view respectively of another modification of our Invention or improve-
ments, in which the sock or sole A is formed of a single sheet of composite metal,
or alloy of copper and zinc or it might be other metals in a proportion which when
acted on by the perspiration of the feet set up galvanic action, but we find equal
proportions of copper and zinc melted in a crucible and rolled out into a single
sheet, as shown in these Figures, to answer well.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2 of the Drawings, the soles or socks A which are
placed within the boots or shoes to be in contact with the stockings of the wearer
are formed by riveting together or otherwise uniting a sheet of copper a to a sheet
of zinc b in a form adapted to fit the boot or shoe; or it might be by weaving
together or intertwining copper and zinc wires or strips; or the copper and zinc,
or similar metals, which when acted on by the perspiration of the feet set up
galvanic action, may be otherwise combined as described in reference to Figures 3
and 4.
Instead of making the socks or soles A the whole length of the feet, as shown in
sharp lines in the Drawings, they may be made shorter, cutting off the fore-part as
indicated by the dotted lines at A¹.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
The making and use of in-soles or socks for boots and shoes, each formed by a
sheet or sheets of copper and zinc (or other such like dissimilar galvanic metals)
substantially as and for the purposes set forth.