An Improvement in Rubber Soled Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 30th Dec., 1893
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Rubber Soled Boots and Shoes.
I, WILLIAM SHILLCOCK, of 73, New Town Row, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Football Outfitter and Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to those boots and shoes which are made with soles
of indiarubber or indiarubber compound and particularly to such as are used in
playing football cricket lawn tenuis and other games.
The hard usage to which the said rubber soled boots and shoes are subjected often
causes the sole to part from the upper at the toe and this is particularly the case
with football boots and shoes.
This defect I overcome by moulding the indiarubber sole in a piece with an
india rubber toe-cap that is to say the indiarubber sole and toe-cap are moulded
together in one piece. The toe of the leather or canvas or other upper with its
inner sole is inserted in the toe-cap part of the combined rubber sole and toe-cap
and there secured by sewing or other means.
In order to strengthen the combined rubber sole and toe-cap I may use canvas
or other strengthening substance inserted and moulded therein round the toe-cap
and sole.
Dated this 15th day of September 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Rubber Soled Boots and Shoes.
1, WILLIAM SHILLCOCK, of 73, New Town Row, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Football Outfitter and Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner -the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This invention has reference to those boots and shoes which are made with soles
of indiarubber compound and particularly to such as are used in playing football
cricket lawn tennis and other games.
The bard usage to which the said rubber soled boots and shoes are subjected
often causes the sole to part from the upper at the toe and this is particularly the
case with football boots and shoes. This defect I entirely overcome by my said
invention which I will describe by referring to the accompanying drawing on
which
Fig. 1 represents in side elevation a football boot having its indiarubber sole and
toecap made in one piece in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 represents the
said combined indiarubber sole and toecap separately; Fig. 3 is a cross section of
the toe part of the combined indiarubber sole and toecap on line X X of Fig. 1 and
Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the same on line Y Y of Fig. 3.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures of the
drawing.
According to this invention in order to prevent the indiarubber sole parting from
the indiarubber toecap I mould the indiarubber sole A and toecap B together in
one piece as shewn thus making it impossible for the toecap B to part from the

page_text: sole A. The toe of the leather or canvas or other upper C with its inner leather or
other sole D is inserted in the toecap part B of the combined indiarubber sole and
toecap as shewn in Fig. 1 and there secured by sewing or other means as usually
employed for fixing indiarubber soles to leather soled boots and shoes. For
instance the sewing may extend all round the indiarubber sole A at a' see Fig. 2
and round the leather or other sole D fixing the leather or other sole and the
indiarubber sole together and the toecap part B may also be sewn at to the
upper C.
In order to strengthen the combined indiarubber sole A and toecap B I may as
shewn in Figs. 2 and 3 use one or more thicknesses of canvas e or other like
flexible strengthening material or substance inserted and moulded therein round the
toecap and sole; or this canvas or other like strengthening material may be
dispensed with.
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. The hereindescribed improvement in indiarubber soled boots and shoes to
prevent the indiarubber toccap parting from the indiarubber sole the said improve-
ment consisting in moulding the indiarubber sole and indiarubber toecap together in
one piece substantially as hereinbefore set forth and illustrated by the accompanying
drawing.
2. In combined indiarubber soles and toecaps moulded and formed together as
denoted by claim one, strengthening the said toecap and sole by means of canvas
inserted in the india rubber and worked round the toecap and sole substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by Figs. 3 and 4 of the accompanying
drawing.
3. Football boots and shoes or other. like boots and shoes having their india-
rubber toecaps moulded and formed in a piece with their indiarubber soles
substantially as hereinbefore set forth and illustrated by the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 25th day of November 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.