US2044362A - Shoe ornamentation - Google Patents

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June 1936- c. MILLER ET AL SHOE ORNAMENTATION Filed Feb. 12, 1934 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented June 16, 1936 SHOE ORNAIWENTATION Charles Miller and Isador Speilman, Long Island City, N. Y.

Application February 12, 1934, Serial No. 710,810

Claims.

This invention relates to a process of applying coatings to shoe parts and deals more specifically with a process of applying certain designs and patterns to the quarter linings and to the sock 5 lining.

In the manufacture of high grade shoes, particularly ladies shoes the quarter linings are of dark colored upper leather. In order to mark the size, last number, and other necessary data upon the lining it has been necessary either to use white or similarly colored ink; or to cut out a piece of the lining, and sew in its place a white patch upon which may be marked readily the necessary data. The first of these alterations is unsatisfactory in that the light colored inks which must be used on the dark leather backgrounds rub off very easily. The second alternative involves a slow and expensive process.

It is therefore an object of this invention to provide a cheap and permanent method of marking linings, which also has the advantage of being neat and artistic and which enhances the appearance of the shoe.

Also, we have found it desirable in certain styles and grades of ladies shoes to provide the quarter lining with a predetermined design or pattern. It is not possible, in this art, to use for this purpose leather which has been previously printed or embossed with designs; for the reason that in cutting linings, the pattern around which the lining is cut, is placed upon the skin in different directions according to the dictates of economy and also according to the stretch of the leather. Obviously the pattern would not work out as desired in this hit or miss method.

It is therefore a further object of this invention to provide a method of ornamenting quarter linings, so that the pattern will assume a definite predetermined relationship to the parts of the shoe, when assembled.

And it is a further object of this invention to ornament the sock lining to harmonize with the ornamented linings as outlined above.

These and other objects of the invention will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of a shoe, showing the inside thereof.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a shoe lining used in a shoe embodying our invention.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view of a modification.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a sock lining prepared under the present method.

The leather quarter lining is cut from the skin in the usual way. Now a modification of the present invention will be described in which a pattern consisting of alternate White and gold lines crossing each other, as shown in the drawing, is applied to the quarter and sock lining. 5 There is available on the market a white leaf which when applied to leather, with heat and pressure, deposits thereon a White surface which cannot be removed without destroying the surface of the leather. This is commercially known as a 10 #350 leaf, and may be purchased from Griffin Campbell Hayes and Walsh Inc. of New York, N. Y. Similarly gold leaf, which may be applied in the same way, is available on the market. A press having a bed plate and a movable member is 15 used. The movable member carries a die which is heated in any suitable way such as by gas or electricity.

Now a die having formed therein lines corresponding to one color of the pattern, for example 20 the white, is mounted on the movable member of the press. The prepared quarter lining is placed upon the bed plate in a predetermined position and a sheet of the #350 white leaf is placed thereover. When the die is warmed up it is brought 25 down and made to press the leaf onto the leather. Thus, there is applied one color of the pattern. In a similar manner the next color is applied etc. Obviously, silver leaf or any other suitable leaf may be used in this method, the white and gold 0 being merely mentioned by way of illustration. In this way, we provide an ornamentation to a lining after it is cut and the ornamentation therefore takes its predetermined relationship to the other parts of the shoe. 35

As already mentioned above, a white background is desired upon which may be marked the size etc. of the shoe. The die which applies the White part of the design, as described, has formed in it any suitable arrangement of squares, rectangles, heart shape or in fact any suitable figure. This causes the deposition of the white background according to this shape. Upon this background are then printed the numbers and letters by the use of the gold or any other suitably colored 45 leaf, as already mentioned.

The sock lining is given similar treatment, there being printed thereon a pattern as well as desired numbers and letters.

Referring in detail to the drawing the shoe I0, 50 which is shown in section in Fig. 1, has applied to the interior thereof a quarter lining I I and vamp lining l2. The lining H has applied thereto one set of alternate lines l3 running in one direction and another set of alternate lines l4 running in another direction, both of these sets of lines being of one color, such as white, for example.

A third set of alternate lines E5 of a contrasting color running in the same direction as I3, and a fourth set l6 running in the direction of the lines M, are applied.

In the same way the sock lining 3B is ornamented with lines I3, l4, l5, and I6, which may extend to the ball line 3| or which may cover the entire sock lining.

The blocks or panels 20 of solid white serve as a background for the size numbers, suitable other data which it is necessary to mark on the shoe, and even certain trade-mark material, as shown.

In Fig. 3 the blocks or panels 20 are of different outline, showing one of the many possibilities which come within the scope of this invention.

Having thus described our invention, we claim 1. The method of ornamenting a leather lining of a shoe, which comprises cutting the lining from the skin, subsequently placing a leaf of coloring material over the major portion of said lining, impressing a heated die upon said leaf, said die having a pattern in predetermined position with respect to the contour of said lining, whereby parts of the leaf are deposited on the major portion of the lining in the pattern of the die.

2. The method of ornamenting a leather lining of a shoe which comprises cutting the lining from the skin, subsequently placing a leaf of coloring material over said lining, impressing a heated die upon said leaf, said die having a pattern in predetermined position with respect to the contour of said lining, whereby parts of the leaf are deposited on the lining in the pattern of the die, and repeating said process with a different die and a different colored leaf with a pattern in predetermined relation to the pattern of the first die.

3. The method of marking the sizes of a shoe on its lining which comprises the steps of cutting a lining from the skin, subsequently placing a 5 leaf of coloring material thereover, impressing a part of said leaf on the lining with a heated die, whereby to provide a white background, placing a leaf of coloring matter of a contrasting color over said background, and impressing a heated'IO die having the desired letters and numbers thereon on said last mentioned leaf, whereby to deposit said letters and numbers on said background in the contrasting color of said last mentioned leaf.

4. The method of marking the sizes of a shoe on 15 its lining which comprises the steps of cutting a lining from the skin, then placing a leaf of coloring material thereover, impressing a part of said leaf on the lining, whereby to provide a white background, placing a leaf of coloring matter of 20 a contrasting color over said background, and impressing a die having the desired letters and numbers thereon on said last mentioned leaf, whereby to deposit said letters and numbers on said background in the contrasting color of said 25 last mentionedleaf.

5. The method of applying to a shoe having an interior dark-colored surface a marking to indicate the size of the shoe, which method comprises securing a leaf of light-colored material on 30 said dark-colored surface to form a light-colored panel thereon, placing a leaf of dark-colored material over said panel, and impressing a die having the desired size marking thereon on said last mentioned leaf whereby to secure to said panel the size marking in the color of said last mentioned leaf.

CHARLES MILLER. ISADOR SPEILMAN.

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