US122519A - Improvement in boots and shoes - Google Patents

Description

Nrrnn S'riin JAMES B, FIELD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,519, dated January 9, 1872.

Nature and Objects of the Intention.

cable to shoes made of soft leather,like laceleather or rawhide, and designed for use in dry snow or on land free from stones. The improvement consists in the form of the parts of the shoe which protect the ankle, the same differing from the corresponding parts of the shoe described in said Ooykendales patent.

Description of the Accompany/ng Drawing.

Figure l is a view in perspective of the shoe completed and ready for wear. Fig. 2 is the lower or foot part of the shoe before the parts designed to protect the instep and ankle are applied. Fig. 3 is the shoe with rear piece for protecting the ankle sewed on. Fig. 4 is the front iiap. Fig. 5 is a view of the rear ofthe shoe with the upper part sewed on.

General Description.

The shoe is constructed as follows: The material best adapted to this shoe is lace-leather or any kind of deer-skin; but this is not essential. The lower or foot part, as in Fig. 2, is best formed of one piece, and should be shaped to foot, and rising far enough to cover the heel, and just overreach the toes, so that the seam where the flap, Fig. 4, is joined should not bear upon the side of the foot. The ap, Fig. 4, makes the front of the upper part of the shoe, and should be crimped so as to ac- Y commodate the curve of the instep and ankle, and joined to the front part of the foot, Fig. 2, as farback as is consistent with convenience in putting on, at the points a a.. The upper part of said ilap is joined on one side (vide Fig. l) the rear piece of the upper part of the shoe at the seam b b, in a curved line accommodated to the curve ofthe foot and ankle, about two 'inches from the edge at the top, and coming nearly to the edge at the bottom. At cis a slot in the seam b, through which the fastening-strap d is passed. The other side of the flap, Fig. 4, is loose from the foot upward, and folds over the back piece on the front, where it is held by the strap e fastened upon it, which buckles with d. This iiap is new in form and in this connection, so far as I know. The back piece, Figs. 1 and 3, g, is attached to the foot around the back between the points oi and c. On the front edge, and on the side opposite to the side that is sewed on the front flap, Fig. 4, is a small iiap, f, which folds 'over the other edge and under the front iiap, Fig. 4, thus inclosing the front opening with two iiaps foldingin opposite directions. This flap f may be either an extension of the back piece g, Fig. 3, or a separate piece sewed on. The strap d is fastened upon the iiap f.

I claim- A shoe constructed with the front iiap, Fig.

4, the back piece, Figs. l and 3, g, with the flap v f upon it, substantially as herein described. JAMES B. FIELD. In presence of WILLIAM S'rANDisH,

Jos. H. WHITMAN. (16)

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