Improvements in or connected with Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 6th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 1st Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Boots and Shoes.
We Jous GEORGE AULSEBROOK KITCHEN of Rose Grove Ardwick,
Manchester in the County of Lancaster Manufacturer and JAMES ALBERT
FALLOWS of Half Edge Lane Eccles in the County of Lancaster Manager, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
Our invention relates to boots and shoes in which clastic or other auxiliary soles
are attached to give a firmer grip upon the ground and a softer tread for the feet.
Boots and shoes made of leather in the usual way or of canvas and leather and
much used in athletic pursuits have been hitherto fitted with indiarubber or other
elastic or flexible soles which have been secured to the welt or upper sole by
sewing or by cement. Boots and shoes having clastic soles would stand frequent
renewal of the same if frequent stitching did not impair the welt or upper sole.
Now the object of our invention is to obviate these defects and to make the
renewal and attachment of these soles a ready and secure operation besides making
the soles themselves more durable.
To this end we make a sole comprising a sole proper and heel of indiarubber
moulded or cut from sheet. We form a backing or insertion of some suitable
textile fabric such as canvas thereto.
We leave a margin of the canvas round the edge of the sole and attach in a
suitable manner a metal wire or other unstretchable edging. The margin of the
sule we form to turn over the edge of the welt or upper sole so that the stiffened
edge shall lie upon the upper part in the groove. between the welt and upper.
We pass the ends of the wire through the welt or upper sole and secure them in
any suitable way.
In some cases we make the attachable sole and heel in two separate parts and
attach each part in like manner.
We propose to fasten the wire ends by passing them through the welt or upper
sole and twisting them. We may use in some cases a screw or lever straining
device for drawing tight the wire or wires, or we may use a clamp plate under the
instep of the boot or shoe or two clamp plates screwed to the underside of the boot
or shoe.
Leather soles attached to a canvas backing may be secured to boots and shoes in
the same manner.
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page_text: Improvements in or connected with Boots and Shoes.
We, JOHN GEORGE AULSEBROOK KITCHEN of. 28 Rose Grove, Ardwick,
Manchester Manufacturer and JAMES ALBERT FALLOWs of 14 Half Edge
Lane, Eccles, Manager both in the County of Lancaster, 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:-
Our invention relates to boots and shoes in which clastic or other auxiliary soles
are used to give a firm grip upon the ground and a soft tread for the feet. Boots
and shoes made of leather or of canvas and leather, and much used in athletic
pursuits have hitherto been fitted with indiarubber or other elastic or flexible soles
by means of sewing or cementing said soles to the welt or upper sole of the boots
and shoes. This method of attachment does not permit a frequent renewal of the
elastic sole when worn, as the frequent stitching impairs the strength of the welt
or upper sole and causes it to break in the row of stitches, while the removal and
renewal of cemented soles is troublesome and like the stitching can only be carried
out by skilled workmen and by means of special appliances. Now the object of
our invention is to remedy these inconveniences and make the removal of worn
soles and attachment of new ones a simple and secure operation readily performed
by the wearer of the boot or shoe.
For this purpose we make a sole of indiarubber with vertical edges or rims
contracted or turned over at the top and enclosing a wire which when pushed over
the edge of the welt or upper sole and secured in position holds the elastic sole on
to the welt or upper sole.
On the drawing appended hereunto,
Fig. 1 represents a cross section through the front part of the boot and elastic
sole.
Fig. 2 a section of the welt and sole under the instep showing mode of securing
the wire.
Fig. 3 a top view of the elastic sole detached, on a reduced scale.
In carrying out our invention we make a sole a comprising preferably a sole
proper and heel of indiarubber moulded or cut out from sheet and similar to those
at present sewn or cemented to the soles of tennis and other sporting shoes.
We form this sole with an edge or rim standing up vertically round the same,
the inside of this edge conforming in shape to the welt or upper sole c of the
boot or shoe to which the elastic sole is to be attached. This vertical edge is
preferably formed of canvas coated with indiarubber outside or on both sides and
may be formed by attaching a backing or insertion of some suitable textile fabric
to the indiarubber, sole projecting or leaving a margin round the edge of the
same, which is then turned up all round. The top of the vertical edge we turn
over to form a loop and insert a wire d or the equivalent thereof thereinto or fold
the edge over such wire and cement it, leaving the wire however exposed at the
narrow parte of the sole under the instep or if desired at two or more places.
The wired top of the edge bis contracted so as to lap over the top of the welt
as shown and lie in the groove between the welt and upper. For securing the
wired edge in this position we preferably use a clamp plate fixed to the welt in
any convenient way at the narrowest part of the sole under the instep and push the
wire, which is joined together at its ends so as to form an endless band over the
hooks of the clamp plate. Two or more such clamp plates may be used.
Instead of using à clamp plate the wire ends, may be passed through the welt or
upper sole and twisted together or be secured in any other suitable way.
In some cases we may make the attachable sole and heel in two separate parts
and attach each in a like manner, the wire ends being in that case preferably drawn

page_text: through-the-welt-at-each-side and -twisted-together under the sole. Either the
attachable sole or heel may be used separately without the other.
Leather soles attached to a canvas backing may be secured to boots and shoes
in the same manner.
The auxiliary elastic sole may be formed without canvas in the centre part so as
to permit of its being stretched for the purpose of enabling it to be readily
stretched over the welt or upper sole in cases where the welts or upper soles vary
with the auxiliary sole in width or length. In some cases the canvas may simply
be slit in one place or more than one.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is —
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1. The manufacture and use of elastic or other auxiliary soles made and attached
to the welts or upper soles of boots and shoes substantially as herein before
described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. The mode of attaching an elastic or other auxiliary sole to a boot and shoe by
means of a wire or its equivalent inserted into the top of a vertical edge of said sole
overlapping the welt or upper sole of the boot or shoe and contracted and attached
thereto at one or more parts thereof substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated.
Dated this 5th of Cantomhan 1001
R. J. URQUHART,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester, and 5, Clayton Square, Liverpool,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent.