US1874461A - Boot - Google Patents

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Aug. 30, 1932. J. T. CROWLEY BOOT Filed March 21, 1931 for overcoming these disadvantages.

Patented Aug. 30, 1932 uirunsrars JOHN T. CROWLEY, OF LAMBERTVILLE, NEW JERSEY Booze Application .filed. March 21, 1931. Serial No. 524,385.

In many occupations the persons engaged are compelled to stand or walk in water or wet grass for many hours at a time and, except in warm climates, some means for protection against wetand cold is necessary.

My invention is especially designed for duck hunters. As is well known, the season for duck hunting is in cold weather and men engaged in this sport havealways been troubled with cold feet. It has been most unsatisfactory to use boots two or three sizes larger than their feet in order to make room for extra pairs of heavy socks.

Numerous expedients have been devised One of these expedients consists in lining rubber boots withfieece or other soft and warm material. This is fairly satisfactory until the fleece becomes wet or soiled by perspiration or by mud and dirt from the outside. The fieecelining cannot be removed and dried, and the boot becomes not only uncomfortable, but even dangerous.

Felt boots or sockets are warm as long as they are dry, but when wet they have all the objections of fleece-lined boots. If rubber boots are pulled over the felt boots, they have the advantages of being warm, dry and removable,but the discomfort almost outweighs these advantages. Neither the boots nor the felt socks being made for each other, they differ widely in styles and shapes, and the user, in order to have a pair of rubber boots that he can draw over the inner socks or boots, must select a pair much larger than ly wear out.

My inventior includes inner boots or socks of soft and warm material and outer boots that closely lit the inner ones so that they may be pulled on or off the feet as onepiece, but which may, if desired, be separated from each other.

Footwear to be worn next to the feet, or with only a light pair of socks, is now made in such a variety of shapes and sizes that the ordinary person can find a pair that fits him comfortably, and having found such a pair, he can identify it and get another pair by giving size and description.

My invention contemplates the manufacture of inner boots or socks in standard sizes, properly numbered or otherwise identified, together with outer boots made in sizes and shapes to fit the external surfaces of the inner ones and numbered or identified the same as the corresponding boots or socks which they are made to fit.

To this end I build a tree or form for each standard size of boot, of the same size and shape as the outer surface of the sock. This form is therefore the same as it would be if made for the sock, with allowance for the thickness of the latter. After the boot is vulcanized, the lining is inserted and secured by suitable fastening means.

My invention also contemplates the provision of means for securing the tops of the socks to the inner sides of the boots. The securing means is so constructed that it not only holds the boot and its removable lining together, but it guides the toe of the wearer so that when he steps into the composite boot, his foot will slip into the lining without any possibility of being thrust between the lining and the rubber boot.

I do not limit myself to any particular material, method of manufacture, or height of the inner boot. The term boot or sock, where it refers to the lining, is used to cover any comparatively soft and warm foot covering, ven where, by reason of its shape or construction, the name moccasin, shoe or other term, might .be preferred by some. My preferred sock or lining is of sheeps hide, with the wool side in, and with the sole of the same material without a built heel, and

Fimade like a moccasin.

In the accompanying drawing,

Fig. 1 is a view partly in section of an inner and an outer boot constructed according to my invention; r

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the upper end of the inner boot;

Fig; 3 shows fra ments of the inner and outer boots, with a astener for securing the upper end of the inner boot or inner lining to the outer boot,the fastener being shown in open or unfastened position; and i Fig. 4 is a View of the same parts, the fastener being closed.

Similar characters desi nate the same parts in the specification an drawing.

The inner boot or sock'in my preferred form is made of the hide of a sheep or lamb, the skin being designated by the numeral 10 and the fleece or wool by the character 10'. The outer'or rubber boot is composed of the boot portion proper 1-1, and upper leg p0"- tion 11 Secured between the upper end of the boot portion and the lower end of the leg portion, and vulcanized thereto in the process of manufacture of the boot are several straps 12, to the free ends'of which are attached the socket portions 13, of snaps or glove fasteners, and near the upper ends of the removable linings are secured the button portions 14 of the same fasteners.

After'the linings have been inserted in the outer boots, the straps are bent down over the upper ends thereof and the buttons are snapped into the sockets, thus holding the inner and outer portions of the boots in close contact, and preventing collapsing of the linings and also holding them from being pushed down into the boots when the wearer inserts his feet. 1

It will be noted that one of the strap fasten-- ers is at the front of the boot and its lining. When the wearer steps into the boot, instead qof catching his toe between therubber boot and the top of the lining, the toe is guided by this strap into the lining and the foot slips easily into the lower. portion of the lining without catching on the top of the lining at an point. As the foot descends, the straps hold the lining against the pressure of the foot, which tends to draw the lining down into the bottom ofthe boot.

What I claim is:

1'. A combination rubber boot and lining consisting of an inner boot of warm material, an outer boot of waterproof material in which the inner boot is separ'ably disposed,

and means on the outer boot overlapping the *top of the inner boot to prevent the collapse and downward displacement of the inner inner boot upon reception of a foot of the wearer.

3. In combination, an outer boot member, an inner boot member of warmth-aflording material separably disposed therein and terminating short of the top thereof, strap means carried by the outer boot member overlapping the upper end of the inner boot member and separately secured to the inner boot member, said strap means functioning to prevent collapse and downward displacement of the inner boot member upon reception of a foot of the wearer.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto setmy hand.

JOHN T. CROWLEY.

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