US131200A - Improvement in overshoes - Google Patents

Description

I. F. WILLIAMS.

improvement in Overshoes.

No. 131,200. Patented Sep.10,1872.

UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

ISAAC F. WILLIAMS, OF BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN OVERSHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l lfififi), dated September 10, 187:2.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IsAAO F. WILLIAMS, of Bristol, in the county of Bristol and State of Rhode Island, have invented a certain new and Improved 010th and Rubber Gaiter-Overshoe.

- This invention relates to that class of gaiter-overshoes which are usually composed of water-proofed non-elastic textile fabric and rubber, and provided with'fiap and buckle.

The present invention consists in a novel method of forming a double flap by reverse cuts in the exterior and interior fabric composing the vamp, by means of which the seams adjacent to the flap are strengthened and the shoe is rendered as impervious to the entrance of water or snow at all points adjacent to the flap as at any other portion of the shoe; and I do hereby declare that. the following specification, taken in connection with the drawing furnished and forming a part of the same, is a true and clear description thereof.

Referring to the drawing, Figure 1 represents one of my shoes in perspective. Fig. 2 represents the same with the flap extended. Fig. 3 represents the three pieces of which the upper and the flap is composed.

The vam and side uarters B are re re ly in outline with the lines I) c and a d in the vamp, with the exception that the upper rear edge is a little rounded to correspond with the outline ofthe flap extension cut from the vamp. The flap-tongueD is also shown in Fig. 3. It is so cut of one piece that when the two edges are turned inward and meet on the under side the full strength of a doubled fabric is attained with perfect edges. The flap-tongues are cut for rights and lofts with the joined edges always on the under side. The tongues are united to the flap by inserting them between the joined edges in the usual manner, as shown in the drawing. The flap-section O is united to the vamp by joining at the lines 0 b c and j a d in such a manner that when the flap is extended, as shown in Fig. 2, the anklet and instepare greatly enlarged, and'will readily admit the boot of the wearer. When the flap is turned down and buckled it will be bound to the foot with as much firmness as if the single flap was employed, and at the same time will effectually guard against the entrance of water or snow at all adjacent points. shoe so constructed the security of the gored gaiter is attained without the peculiar universal ankle-pressure common thereto, or the inconvenience sometimes experienced in drawing them on. My improved shoe, while fully as weather-proof as the gored ga-iter, is much better ventilated by reason, incidentally, of the spaces which exist between the linings of the double flap adjacent to the instep at the top of the shoe.

For the purpose of adding to the strength of the gaiter the lining is made with the cut exactly opposite in each shoe from the cut in the exterior fabric, as indicated in dotted lines in B, Fig. 3, and therefore on each side of the shoe the seam is backed up or supported by a continuous fabric either inside or outside;

Having thus described my invention, I desire distinctly to disclaim any of the distinctive features herein described which may be applicable to leather goods, and simply claim as new, to be secured byLetters Patent As a new and improved article of manufacture, the cloth and rubber gaiter-overshoe, substantially as described, in which the flap is composed of extensions of the vamp on each side at theinstep, is doubled across the instep, secured at the side, and strengthened by the reverse-cut seams in the exterior and interior fabric, as and for the purposes specified.

ISAAC F. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses W. F. WILLIAMs,

FRANK Gr. Bowen.

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