US1011668A - Manufacture of shoes. - Google Patents

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" www" i. T. TEBBUTT.

MANUPAGTURE OP SHOES. .PPLIGATION FILED JUNE 3, 1909.

Patented Dec. 1.2, i911 Inventor.

UNi'rED sriiijnsmiiiqrnur onirica.

JOHN THOMAS TEBBUTT, or .THREE RIVERS, QUEBEC, camine.

MANUrAc'rURE or sHoEs.

1,011,668. 4 Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 12, 1911.

' Application tiled .Tune 3, 1909. Serial No. 500,000.

To all whom it may concern: lower lip 3 and rearwardly extending under Be lt'lrnown that I, Jol-1N THOMAS Ilnthe heel portion of the insole being :net at BUTT, resident of the town ,of Three Rivers, the sides and end by the upper 5. The Woven in the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion asbestos sole 8 is attached to the insole l by 60 of Canada, a subject of the King of Great a wheat flour paste 9, said flour paste being ritain, have invented certain new and useextremely essential in this construction as an ful Improvements in the Manufacture of adhesive for securing said soles together i hoes; and I do hereby declare that the foleliminatingl all the deteriorating effects of lowing is a full, clear, and exact description other substances which might be used and 65 10 of the same. which :ire so close to the foot of the wearer. The invention relates to the manufacture The asbestos sole 8, the insole 1 and the of shoes, as described in the present specitilining l0 are all impregnated with an. antication yand illustrated in the accompanying septic compound referablys `compound of drawings that form part of the same. which eucalyptus is the principal ingredient. 7o The inventionconsists essentially in ar- The sole 11 is then suitably shaped and ranging and attaching the various'soles andv molded and secured to the welt, 4 b the generally constructing the shoe in a manner stitching 12. It will be thus seen t at ii hereinafter described and particularly pointcomplete outer soie is now provided stitched:

ed out in the claim V y to the welt as customary in shoe making, but 75 The objects of the invention are to devise in order to add to the stability of the shoe a shoe in which the construction thereof will and insure the serviceability of the same., s insure a perfectly dry foot should theshoe solo 13 is shaped similarly to the sole 11 and be' fairly well worn down, to keep the foot a sole 14 sha ed similarly to the soles 'll and in n perfectly sanitary condition, to keep t-he 13. The so es 13 and 1,4 are cemented tol 80 foot warm and comfortable within the shoe getlier and molded to fit to the sole 1l. The

and generally to provide a substantial 4form three soles and the welt, i being firmly seof footwear without materially increasing cured together by the stitching 15, the

the cost. of production. l f lifts of the heel 16 are then secured in Tn vthe drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective place and the shoe is complete. The intro- 85 view of the bottom portion of the shoe, showduction of the double soie in the manner dein f parts of the outsoles in longitudinal scribed is a featu'r which tendsto make and cross section and an additional s ole this shoe perfectly dry, even when the lower therebeneath turned over. Fig. 2 is a cross outer sole or even the middle outer sole. is

sectional view of the various soles and upper worn, the single stitching still holding the 90 attached thereto, on the lineA-B in Fig. 1. upper outer sole, the said upper outer sole Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view of the arwith the rest of the shoe forming in themrangement of the heel portion on the line selves a complete shoe, the sameas far as the D in Fig. 1. l outer soleis concerned es are at present. man- Like numerals of reference indicate cor ufact-ured. 'It is possible, of course, to add 95 49 responding parts in each ligure. to the lifts of the -sole as is also constantly In the manufacture of this shoe, the in done, but when these lifts are independently solo 1 is split inwardly from the edge faces .attached to the upper lift and the welt and .forming` the upper lip 2 and the lower lip 3. to one another, t e said lower lifts lbecome the welt 4; th A'upper 5 and the lower li 3 a separate wearing portion of the shoe iii 100 t5 are then attac ed togethenby the stitching stead of what is commonly known es en in- 6. The water proofing 7 composed of suittegral outer sole formed of a plurality of able ingredients is now applied on the botlifts. l vtorn of the insole in the corner formed by An important feature of this invention le the lower lip 3 so that the stitching 6 is com-4 the impregnating of the inner sole and the 195 k0 pletely covered by said water proofing comasbestos filling with an eucalyptus compound. The nextv step in this methodv of pound, which method provides, next to the manufacturing the shoe, is'` to form "a, Woven foot, a. thoroughl antiseptic support.A Anasbestos sole 8 and it is important that this other important estare is the method o f ap, soleshould be of said material and of` a. size plying the waterproof compound, naine! by 11o 5 to lit overthe waterprooing,'the said sole plastering the same into t e corners o the 8 terminating adjacent to the end of the insole formed by the downtuined Dort-ion through which theqft by offectivel stop ing)7 the inner ends of the, stitch holes gy pneventing tic entrance of Water through g (i extends, vthere'- f a so id mass of cmnpound and sind stitch holes. A

What T claim as my invention is:

The improvement in the niethod of manufacturing shoes havin an asbestos filler,

consistng in impregnatmg the asbestos filler and also the inner sole with an eucalyptus e formed bg the downturned portion through which t e welt stitchingfexteuds a oomiound, packing into the corners of the 'in-io inner ends of the stit-ch holes with a solid 15 ing them toget ier and to the welt, and 20 finally finishing the heel portion of. the shoe.

Signed at the town of Three Rivers, in the Provlnce of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada., this 1st da. of June 1909.

JOHN T IOMAS TEBBUTT. Witnesses: F. A.FERNEYH0UGH,

M. A. DoUGHm'rY.

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