An Improved Stretcher or Tree for Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Stretcher or Tree for Boots and Shoes.
We, RICHARD TEWELES and GUSTAV SCHLESINGER, both of 76, Mariahilfer-
strasse, Vienna, Shopkeepers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
:-
This invention consists of a simple, cheap, and easily applied stretcher or tree
for boots and shoes, such stretcher or tree presenting the advantage of being
self-adapting to boots and shoes of whatever size or shape.
The stretcher or tree of this invention comprises a combined toe- and instep-
stretching piece whereof the front or toe portion is made somewhat flat whilst
the instep portion is arched on top, so as to fit snugly within the corresponding
portions of the boot or shoe; an abutment consisting of a block adapted to bear
against the inside of the heel portion of the boot or shoe; and a straight spring
(flat, helical, or otherwise formed) so attached to the toe piece and abutment as
to require to be bent into an arched form when the appliance is inserted within
the boot or shoe. The consequent tendency of the spring to straighten itself
causes the combined toe- and instep-piece and the abutment to be forced apart
whereby the entire boot or shoe is stretched in the manner required.
Doted this 20th day of Tan1800
A M. & WM. CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London.
An Improved Stretcher or Tree for Boots and Shoes.
We, RICHARD TEWELES and GUSTAV SCHLESINGER, both of 76, Mariahilfer-
strasse, Vienna, in the Empire of Austria, Shopkeepers, 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:―
This invention consists of a simple, cheap, and easily applied tree for main-
taining boots and shoes in shape, such tree presenting the advantage of being
self-adapting to boots and shoes of whatever size or shape and whether for the
right or left foot.
The tree of this invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing forming
part of this specification and will be described with reference thereto. It comprises
a combined foe- and instep-stretching piece a whereof the front or toe portion is
made somewhat flat whilst the instep portion is arched on the upper side, so as
to fit snugly within the corresponding portions of the boot or shoe; an abutment or
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heel portion c adapted to bear against the inside of the heel portion of the boot or
shoe; and a straight helical spring rigidly attached to the toe piece a and
abutment c and of such length as to require to be bent into an arched form as shown
when the appliance is inserted within the boot or shoe. The consequent tendency
of the spring to straighten itself causes the combined toe- and instep-piece a and
the abutment e to be forced apart whereby the entire front portion of the boot or
shoe is kept distended, and preserved in shape in the manner required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we
claim is:-
A tree for boots and shoes consisting of a front portion such as a and a heel
portion such as a united by a helical spring adapted to be brought to an arched
form so as when placed within the boot or shoe as shown, to preserve the shape of
the boot or shoe, as described.
Dated this 3rd day of May 1900
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London.