IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OP BOOTS,SHOES, AND CLOGS
Year: 1842

page_text: BARBER, of Leicester, Reel Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eighth day of December, in the sixth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Barber, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and autho-
rity, that I, the said Richard Barber, my exors, admors, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Richard Barber, my exors, admors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OP BOOTS, SHOES, AND CLOGS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso, that I, the said Richard Barber, shall cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Barber, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention relates to making soles of the hoofs or horns of animals to be
affixed to boots, shoes, or clogs. And in order that my Invention may be fully
understood, I will proceed to explain the means pursued by me.
It is well known in the manufacture of various articles that the horns or hoofs
of animals may, by heat in suitable dies, be pressed into any desired shape or
form; and I have been informed that the heels for boots and shoes have been
before made by the pressing horn or hoof between dies, and I mention these
matters at the outset in order to state that I do not claim the pressing of hoof
or horn in dies generally, but only when suitably formed in dies for the soles of
boots, shoes, and clogs, and in making the sole for a boot, shoe, or clog I prefer
to make it in two or more parts, so that the tread or fore part of the shoe
may bend in the act of walking, and the soles should be so impressed on the
under surface, which comes to the ground, with prominences and concavities
as to allow of grit getting in and filling up the concavities, so as to prevent
slipping.
The soles, thus made, I prefer to have fastened to the soles of boots, shoes,
or clogs by brads, the boots, shoes, or clogs, being made as heretofore, but the
same may be affixed by sewing; and I cause the pressing dies for forming such
soles to be made in such manner as to produce indents or holes for the brads
or nails, or for the sewing; by these means very light and cheap soles may be
made, which will be found particularly useful in winter and in bad weather,
and at all times in cases where persons have thick soles to their boots, shoes,
or clogs.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the means pursued
by me in performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim
is, the mode of manufacturing boots, shoes, or clogs by constructing and
applying soles of horn or hoof, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Barber, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
RICHARD (L.S.) BARBER..

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of June, in
the year of our Lord 1843, the aforesaid Richard Barber, came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
5 written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-three.