US1368771A - Boot-top - Google Patents

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C. TWEEDIE.

BOOT TOP. 4 APPLICATION FILED JAN-1 01 I920.

1,3683% Patented Feb 15,1921

CHARLES TWEEDIE, or JEFFERSON'VCITY, MISSOURI.

BOOT-T031 eeann.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 15 1921.

Application filed January 10, 1920. Serial No. 350,530.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES Twnnnre, a

citizen cf'the Jnitcd States, and a resident of Jefferson City, in the county of Cole and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boot-Tops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates principally to boot tops of the kind shown and described in my Patents No. 1,153,977, dated September 21, 1915, and No. 1,265,280, dated May 7, 1918, which are made separate from the shoe and are intended tobe worn over shoes in the manner of an over-gaiter.

With the above described boot tops, an excellent fit is obtained between the lower portion of the boot top and the shoe but difficulty is sometimes experienced in properly positioning thefront'seam which joins the button fly to the large quarter of the boot top. In fitting the boot top to the shoe, it is often necessary, by reason of a hi h or low instep, to move the buttons to one S1de or the other to secure a perfect fit over the instep. This moving of the buttons in either direction draws that portion of the seam adjacent to the moved buttons to one side or the other, thus causing the seam to become crooked and assume an untidy appearance.

The principal object of the present invention is to produce a boot top which can be adjusted to fit high or lowinsteps without the disadvantages above mentioned. An other object is to improve the general ap pearance of the lower portion of the boot top which is the portion most exposed to view. Another object is to save material.

The invention consists principally in a boot top having a fly whose lower portion is integral and continuous with the body of the quarter and whose upper portion is united by Seams to the body of the quarter and to the lower portion of the fly.

In the accompanying drawing which forms part of this Specification and wherein like symbols refer to like parts wherever they occur,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a boot top of the button-shoe type embodying my invention, the boot top being shown fitted over a shoe which is shown in dotted lines;

Fig. 2 is a face view of the large quarter whose lower portion is provided with an integral fly portion, the dotted lines indicating the portions which form the closed seams getween the small quarter and the fly memer;

Fig. 3 is a face view of the small quarter, the dotted lines indicating the portions which are doubled back and sewn to the large quarter to form the bottom and rear seams;

Fig. is a face view of the top fly member, the dotted lines indicating the lines on which the fly is sewn to the upper front por tion of the large quarter; and

Fig. '5 is a section showing the type of seam used for joining the parts together.

The boot top shown in the accompanying drawing is cut from a suitable material, preferably cloth or like material, and comprises a large quarter 6, a small quarter 7 and a top fly portion 8. The quarters are cut full length, that is, extending from the top ofthe leg portion to the top line of the sole and heel. The lower edges of the quarters midway between their front and rear portions, are provided with projecting tabs 9. The free outer marginal portions of the tabs of each quarter are sewed together to form a loop under the shank in front of the heel and thu connect the lower edges of the quarters together.

The rear marginal portions are sewed together in the form of a closed seam 10. This back seam 10 is sprung in at the heel in the manner described in my Patent No. 1,153,977 to make it .hug the shoe 11 to which it is applied as shown in Fig. l.

The boot tops are made in rights and lofts and are cut slightly different along their front and bottom edges. The large quarter 6, which comes on the inner side of the foot, is provided at its lower front part with a projecting flap or fly portion 12 formed integral therewith. This flap or fly portion laps over the outside quarter and its upper edge terminates at a point above the instep and is disposed substantially at right angles to the upper outer edge of the fly portion. At the angle between the inner corner of the upper edge of the fly portion 12 of the large quarter and the front leg portion thereof, the quarter is provided with a slit 13 which permit the edges of the quarter to be doubled back to form a closed seam as shown in Fig. 5. The large quarter is cut slightly longer from top to bottom at its forward end than the small quarter and the difference gradually decreases from the heel where both quarters are alike, thus enabling the tabs 9 of the two quarters when joined together to conform to the shape of the sole of the shoe. 7

The back edge of the separate fly member 8 and the upper front edge of the leg pork tion of the large quarter are sewed together and the seam 15 thus formed is sprung in 7 shown in Fig. 5. Y That is, the adjacent marbetween the upper and lower edges ofthe' fly member to obtain a snug fit around the leg. The lower edge of the fly 8 and the upper edge of the fly portion 12 of the large quarter are secured together to form a seam 16 which extends across the foot just above the instep.

The front seams 15 and 16 which connect the fly member to the large quarter, the back seam 10whichconnects the rear-edges of the two quarters and the seam which connects the tab portions 9 of the quarters are preferably all made in the form of the closed seam ginal portions of the parts to be connected,

which are indicated by the dotted lines in Figs. 2-, 3 and 1, are turned up as at 17 and sewed together and a stiffening strip 18'is placed'over the inside of the seam and'se- 7 cured to the adjacent doubled back-portions by meansof a double row of stitching.

TA facing 19 is sewed along the edges of the quartersto improve the appearance of the boot top. The front edges of the sep ara'te fly 8 and the integral fly portion 12 of the largequarter, together with the front edge of the small quarterto which the buttons are secured, are suitably'stiifened with strips of buckram or other material (not shown) V The stopping of the front seam 15 above 4h theinstep greatly improves the appearance i of that part of the boot top-most exposed to view and enables the buttons to be shifted to one side or the other to accommodate large or small insteps without the hereinbefore -mentioned disadvantages associated with boot tops having front seams-extend ing from top to bottom, The, shortening of the overall length of thelciurvedbntton fly results in a considerable, saving of material by reason of the shorteningof the are, which permits the fly to be cut from a narrower tions extendingiunder the shank of'the shoe.

and connected together,'oneof saidquarters having a fly which laps the other of said quarters, said fly portion being an integral thereof to'a point above :to the, instep and thence upwardly being in, the form of a separate piece connected to said quarter.

2. A.- boot top adapted to be 1worn; over a shoe, said boot top comprising quarters and ing portions extending under the shankof the shoe and securedjtogether,-?- onei of said quarters having'an integral fly-portion en- 7 o tending upwardly from its frontedge to a f:

point abovefthe instep and said separate fl'y said quarter above the integralfiy-portion of the same and extending to the top thereof; ,3. An overgalter of'the' button-shoe type part 'of the quarter from the I lowerfedges a separate. fly member, saicl quarters;,;being secured togethergat their backedges and'hav- V member being secured to the front edge of comprising two quarters united by a seam at f the back, the'lower portion of the fly of the 1 V button hole member being integral and continuous with the body portion of said mem bet and the upper' portion of said-fly extendindown nearl to the inste andbein separate and sewed to said body member, and

to said lower portion of said fl Signedat New York city,

day of January, 1920.1 7 r v oHAR ns TWEEDIE;

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,368,771, granted February 15, 1921, upon the application of Charles Tweedic, of Jefferson City, Missouri, for an improvement in Boot-Tops, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2, line 67, claim 1, strike out the Word to,

second occurrence; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 22d day of March, A. D., 1921.

A M. H. COULSTON,

Commissioner of Patents.

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