IMPROVEMENTS IN SOCKS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES." SOCKS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles White, of Bracebridge, in the County of
Lincoln, and Thomas White, of the City of Lincoln, for the Invention
of IMPROVEMENTS IN SOCKS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES."
SOCKS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles White and Thomas
White at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 22nd September 1865.
We, CHARLES. WHITE, of Bracebridge, in, the County of Lincoln, and
THOMAS WHITE, of the City of Lincoln, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SOCKS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention.consists in manufacturing socks or soles for boots and shoes
of wood, cut or sawn to the required thickness and to the shape of the boot
or shoe. The wood generally employed should be some soft and cheap wood,"
such, as pine, but when cut sufficiently thin other wood may be used.
If it is found necessary to render them soft and comfortable they may be
covered with leather, flannel, felt, or other such suitable materials.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles White and Thomas White in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 28th February 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
WHITE, of Bracebridge, in the County of Lincoln, and THOMAS WHITE, of the
City of Lincoln, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Charles White and Thomas White, Her special licence that we, the said
Charles White and Thomas White, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Charles White and Thomas White, our exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigus, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SOCKS FOR BOOTS AND
SHOES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Charles
White and Thomas White, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Charles White and Thomas White, do
hereby declare the nature of our said 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 consists in manufacturing socks or soles for boots and shoes
of wood, cut or sawn to the required thickness and to the shape of the boot
or shoe. The wood generally employed should be some soft and cheap wood,
such as pine, but when cut sufficiently thin other woods may be used. If it is
found necessary to render them soft and comfortable they may be covered
with leather, flannel, felt, or other such suitable material.
Having thus far explained the nature and object of our said Invention, we
shall now proceed to explain the same more particularly. The wood to be
used for these improved sucks or soles, may be cut, sawn, or planed to the

page_text: required thickness, and stamped out or otherwise cut to the required shape
by such machinery as is used in the trade, and the covering of leather, linen,
flannel, felt, fur, or such other material as is to be used may be afterwards
attached to either or both sides thereof by glue, cement, or other adhesive
compound, or it may be sewn to the wood, which may in most cases be suffi-
ciently thin to admit of a needle passing through it. These improved socks or
soles when covered on one side only or when uncovered may also be used and
worn on the inside of rivetted or screwed boots or shoes; in this case they
may be glued, pasted, or otherwise attached on the inside of the sole, or they
may be worn loose if preferred. These socks or soles will afford warmth to
the wearers, and also prevent the stockings or feet from being torn or injured
by the ends of the rivets or screws penetrating through the soles. To explain
our Invention more completely the accompanying Drawing exhibits two views
of a sole or sock made according to our Invention. Fig. 1 is a top view of a
wooden sole covered with felt, and stitched round the edges as shown; Fig. 2
shows a section of the same on the line A, B, C, denoting the wood sole
covered on both sides with felt marked D, D, and sewn round the edge at
a, a, &c.
Having now described our Invention as completely as possible, we wish it
to be understood that what we claim as our Invention is the use and applica-
tion of wood cut as required, and according to this our Specification for the
purpose herein-before described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, we, the said Charles White and Thomas White
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Seventeenth day of February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Witnesses,
H. S. CLOSE,
11, Beaumont Place, Lincoln,
J. WALLER,
10, Butchery St. Lincoln.
CHARLES WHITE. (L.S.)
THOMAS WHITE. (L.S.)