IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS, AND SHOES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Macintosh, of North Bank, Regent's Park,
and William Boggett, of Lindsey Houses, Chelsea, both in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS,
AND SHOES."
Sealed the 14th July 1868, and dated the 28th. March 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Macintosh and
William Boggett at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 28th March 1868.
JOHN MACINTOSH, of North Bank, Regent's Park, and WILLIAM
BOGGETT, of Lindsey Houses, Chelsea, both in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BOOTS AND SHOES," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in inserting springs into the front of boots and
shoes so that the springs shall not be exposed and be protected from
abrasion.
In carrying out our Invention we insert strips or fillets of elastic
material between the upper leather and lining on one side of an opening
in the front of boots and shoes that are made with flaps, such as are
used with buttons. The fillets pass between the leather and lining of the
flaps, the edges of which are sewn together except where the fillets pass

page_text: through so as to keep the flap in position and the fillets are then secured
to the opposite side of the opening and by their elasticity answer the
purposes of side springs. Elastic substances of various kinds may be
used for the springs, such as india-rubber or its compounds, or spiral wire.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Macintosh and William Boggett in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th September 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
MACINTOSH, of North Bank, Regent's Park, and WILLIAM BOGGETT, of
Lindsey Houses, Chelsea, both, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said John Macintosh and William Boggett,
Her special licence that we, the said John Macintosh and William
Boggett, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said John Macintosh and William Boggett, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time, and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an, Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BOOTS AND SHOES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said John Macintosh and William Boggett, our executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing, under our, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Macintosh and William
do horohy declare the nature of our said Tnvention and in
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