Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 11th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 25th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
I HERBERT TRIGGS of 36 Parkstone Road Rye Lane Peckham in the County
of Surrey Cordwainer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to reduce the cost of making boots and shoes
by dispensing with the operation known as "lasting" and by saving material.
According to this invention, the upper or lining and the inner sole are made in
one piece but for convenience in machining the insole may be divided in the centre.
By this means there is no overlap of lining required, thereby saving material. To
make a boot, the insole and lining are cut from one piece of material, and of the
shape shown in Fig. 2, the upper is then sewn to the lining in the ordinary way and
the waist toe and heel sewn together where hatched in the drawing.
The portion 1 of the last shown in Fig. 1 is then inserted and pushed well up into
the toe, then the piece 2 is inserted at the heel and the toe drawn up by means of a
string threaded through perforations in the material, the section 3 of the last is then
inserted between the portions 1 and 2 and the heel is then drawn in by means of a
similar string, the section 4 of the last is then driven in tight and the side of the
vamp stuck down and the sole cemented to the insole by the usual solution, and if
necessary sewn on in the usual way.
Lawn tennis bicycle and other shoes that have no linings have their uppers and
insoles cut of the shape shown in Fig. 3.
One way of cutting the pattern is by covering a suitable last with paper pasted
thereon, cutting away all the superfluous portions of the said paper the paper is
then wetted and removed and allowed to dry. When dry the upper or lining and
insole is then cut from the paper pattern.
Dated the Twenty-ninth day of September 1891.
ERNEST SALAMAN,
Per T. E. H.,
Patent Agent to the British and Foreign Patents and Trade Marks Society,
61 & 62, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
HERBERT TRIGGS 36 Parkstone Road Rye Lane Peckham in the County of
Surrey Cordwainer 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 :-
•
The object of this invention is to reduce the cost of making boots and shoes
by dispensing with the operation known as "lasting" and by saving material.
According to this invention the upper or lining and the inner sole is made in one
piece but for convenience in machining the insole may be divided in the centre by
this means there is no overlap of lining required thereby saving material. To make
a boot the insole aud lining are cut from one piece of material and of the shape
shown in Fig. 2 an ordinary upper is then sewn to the lining in the ordinary way
and the waist, toe, and heel sewn together where hatched in the drawing. The
portion 1 of the last shown in Fig. 1 is then inserted and pushed well up into the
toe then the piece 2 is inserted at the heel and the toe drawn up by means of a
string threaded through perforations in the material the section 3 of the last is then

page_text: inserted between the portions 1 and 2 and the heel is then drawn up by means of a
similar string the section 4 of the last is then driven in tight and the side of the
vamp stuck down and the sole cemented to the insole by the usual solution and if
necessary sewn on in the usual way.
Lawn tennis bicycle and other shoes that have no linings have their uppers and
insoles cut of the shape shown in Fig. 3.
One way of cutting the pattern is by covering a suitable last with paper pasted
thereon cutting away all the superfluous portions of the said paper the paper is then
wetted and removed and allowed to dry when dry the upper or lining and insole is
then cut from the paper pattern.
Having now particularly described & 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. Making the upper and inner sole of a boot or shoe in one piece as specified.
2. Making the lining and inner sole of a boot or shoe in one piece as specified.
3. Having the last in four sections as specified.
H. TRIGGS.