An Improved Sock for use in Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Maṛ., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 4th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Sock for use in Boots and Shoes.
JOHN JAMES ECKERT of 56 High Street Strood in the County of Kent, Boot Maker
and EDGAR SIDDONS WILSON of Northcote Road Strood in the County of Kent
Chemist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to what are technically known as socks for use in boots and
shoes and consists in perforating them with holes in such a manner as to form air
spaces between the sole of the boot and the foot of the wearer when in use, and in
combining deoderizing and antiseptic materials with the socks to prevent objectionable
odours arising from the feet.
The object of this invention is to promote a healthy action of the skin of the feet
and to prevent any unpleasant odours arising from the same.
We make a sock of felt, cork, or other porous and preferably elastic material and.
perforate the same with holes either circular or otherwise, of preferably from one
sixteenth to one half an inch in diameter and from one sixteenth of an inch to three
quarters of an inch apart.
To check unpleasant odours arising from the feet we combine iodate of soda or
other chemical of an antiseptic and deoderizing character with the sock either by
saturating the sock with such chemical or by making the sock of two or more layers
and spreading the chemical between the layers.
Dated this Fourth day of March 1890.
JOHN JAMES ECKERT.
EDGAR SIDDONS WILSON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Sock for use in Boots and Shoes.
We JOHN JAMES ECKERT of 56 High Street, Strood in the County of Kent, Boot
and Shoe Maker, and EDGAR SIDDONS WILSON of 5 Brunswick Terrace, Northcote
Road, Strood, in the County of Kent, Chemist do hereby declare the nature of our
invention for AN IMPROVED SOCK FOR USE IN BOOTS AND SHOES 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 allow the feet to perspire freely by forming air
spaces between the sole of the foot and the sole of the boot or shoe, and to prevent
unpleasant odours rising from the feet by combining a certain chemical substance of
an antiseptic and deodorizing character with the sock.
In accordance with our invention we make a sock of felt, cork, or other porous and
preferably elastic material or any suitable combination of such materials. Through
the sock, whether of one or more layers of material,-
,-we form a series of perforations
of any suitable shape, but preferably circular; and, when of the latter configuration
say in diameter ranging from one sixteenth to half an inch; and, from a quarter of
an inch to three quarters of an inch apart. Said perforations may be made by means
of any suitable instrument or machine.
It forms an essential feature in our invention that, as hereinbefore mentioned, and
with the object of preventing the emission of unpleasant odours arising from perspiring
feet, we impart an antiseptic, deodorizing character to the improved socks according
to our invention either by saturating same with a solution of what are known as " Per-
iodate Crystals;" or, the sock may be made or built up in two or more layers and
the chemical substance above referred to be introduced between the two layers.
aforesaid.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we wish it to be understood that
we make no claim per se in respect of the mere perforating herein described but what
we claim is :-
First In a perforated sock for use in boots and shoes the use of the deodorant and
antiseptic agent herein referred to.
Second: In socks for use in boots and shoes, the combination with the material or
materials forming same, of the deodorant and antiseptic agent herein referred to.
Dated this Third day of December 1890.
JAMES
STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, W.C., Agent for Applicants.