CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
WRIGHT, of No 23, Southampton Row, Russell Square, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Boot Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Royal
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, beauing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-second day of May, in the ninth year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Wright,
Her especial licence that I, the said Charles Wright, my exors, admois, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Wright, my exois, adññiors, 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, in Iler Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark,
and Man, and also in all Her said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad,
my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND
SHOES," in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me,
the said Charles Wright, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be
enrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two 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 appeal.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said

page_text: Charles Wight, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to
consist,―
First, in fastening the upper leathers to the soles and the heels to the
soles, and the inner and outer soles together, of boots and shoes, goloshes and
clogs, by means of plugs instead of sewing, or of the pins or spiigs heretofore
used for that
purpose.
Secondly, in making the leather or other materials used in the said
manufacture of boots and shoes water proof, by the application of an
improved water proof material for that purpose, and,
Lastly, in ventilating boots and shoes by the introduction of an air passage
through the heel, similar in some respects to what is called a spur box.
And in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Charles Wright,
do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention is to be per-
formed by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing
annexed, and to the figures and lotters marked thereon, that is to say.—
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING, having reference to my First and Third
Heads of Invention.
'
Figures 1, 2, and 3, 1epresent sections and side views of three kinds of plugs
which I use instead of the spigs, pins, or sewing now in use to fasten the
soles to the upper leathers and to each other, and to the heels They are to be s
made of zinc or copper, or copper tinned or galvanized, or any other malleable
metal tinned or galvanized, and when diven in the thin ends come in contact
with an iron or metal-bound last, and turn up on livet or clench, thus
holding together the whole of the parts through which they pass; or the liccls
may be sewed on as usual, or the seats sewed round, and then the sole pieces
sewed down to the seat, and then the lifts and top picces put on and fastened
with the said plugs.
Figures 4, 5, and 6, represent a plan of the under side, a longitudinal
section and a plan of the upper side of a metal spur box, with a prolonged
tongue of elastic metal pierced with holes forming the upper side of the box
This box is to be worked into and through the heel like an ordinary spur
box, and along the sole between the outer and inner soles, and when this is
accomplished holes corresponding with the holes in the clastic metal tongue
and in the top of the spui box are to be piciced through the inner solc, so as
to admit the air which enters the spur box to ventilate the boot or shoe, and s
keep the foot cool Figures 7, 8, and 9, represent a similar ventilating appa-
ratus, with the spring catch C to hold the spur, made below instead of above the.
spur box Figures 10 and 11 are sections through the spur boxes, one showing
the
sping on the
uppe side of the box, and the other on the under side.

page_text: And now with reference to my second head of Invention, I will describe
the manner of water proofing, and the substances with which I waterproof the
materials of which my boots and shoes are to be manufactured; that is to say,
I melt the following ingredients together, namely, one pound of indian rubber
dissolved in half a gallon of spirits of coal tau; I then add one gallon of
boiled linseed oil, one quart of gold size, two pounds of litharge ground in oil,'
à quarter of a pound of ground ammonia, and one pound of vegetable or other
black, and simmer the whole together over a slow file, and stir until all
are well mixed together, or I take one pound of indian rubber dissolved in one
gallon or half a gallon, or a quait, of boiled linseed oil, put over a slow fie
until all is dissolved, and then add one
half a pound of vegetable or other black.
the leather or other substance or fabric of
manufactured. Two or three coats are to be put on, either with the hand or
the brush, and when diy the surface is to be rubbed down quite smooth with
pummice stone, or glass-paper or sand-paper, and when the material is so
coated or waterproofed it will be ready to be manufactured into boots and
shoes.
pound of lithaige ground in oil, and
Either of these mixtures I rub into
which my boots and shoes are to be
And now having described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I hereby claim as my Invention,-
First, the plugs herein-before described, and the use thereof in the manu-
facture of boots and shoes, as aforesaid.
Secondly, the waterproofing materials or compounds herein-before described.
And, lastly the ventilating apparatus and mode of applying the same in the
manufacture of boots and shoes, as herein-before described.
And such my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
entuely new, and never before used within that part of Her said Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, He said
Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, nor in Her Islands of
Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark or Man, nor in any of Her said Majesty's
Colonies or Plantations abroad, I do hereby declare this to be my Specification
of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said Specification doth
comply in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise, with the proviso
in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore I
hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Wright, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundied and forty-six.
CHARLES WRIGHT. (LS.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1846, the aforesaid Charles Wright came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord One