US281709A - Manufacture of boots and shoes - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

B. MAYNZ.

MANUFACTURE OF'BOOTS AND SHUES.

No 281,709. Patented July 24, 1883'.

D'JITNESSES f I 7' l mgiwma UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD MAYNZ, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MANUFACTURE OF BooTs AND SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,709, dated July 24, 1883.

Application filed April 20, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD MAYNZ, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States,

5 have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a buttonboot, so called, containing my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of a lace-boot employing. my invention, and Figs. 3 and4 are sectional views which further illustrate the use thereof.

In the process of lasting the uppers of boots and shoes which have a lace or button opening in the top extending to the vamp, and especially when such opening occurs over or about the instep and extends to the portion or section of the vamp that envelops or forms the section of the shoe between the instep portion and the toe, thestrain exerted in properly fitting the uppers to the last very often ruptures or splits the vamp or top at or near the lower end of the opening; and I have discovered that a small metal staple placed to cross in the lower end of such opening before the upper is lasted protects the upper from being damaged in the act of lasting. I prefer to use a staple small enough not to affect the appearance of the boot or shoe, because by so doing not only will it be unnecessary to remove it after the lasting process, but it will be a positive advantage in the finished boot or shoe, as it will then act to prevent injury to the upper from sudden strain, while it forms a strong connection at the lower end of the lace or button opening, which prevents the top from being torn apart to its own injury or that of the vamp.

Referring to the drawings, a is a buttonboot, so called, and b a lace-boot. a is the section of the upper that is generallyknown as the vamp. In the button-shoe it is usually of the shape shown in Fig. 1, and in a laceshoe as represented in Fig. 2. The portion a above this, is usually termed the top, 7 and it is in this portion that the button or lace opening is made. The opening is closed in the button-boot by means of a flap, c having button-holes a attached to one edge of the top and buttons a upon the opposite edge thereto, and in the lace-shoe it is closed by a lacing-cord, which passes through eyelets 011 the opposing edges of the top or about lacing ing-hooks. At the lower end of this opening I insert, before the upper is lasted, the metal staple c in such a manner that one prong enters that part of the top upon one side of the opening, and the other prong enters the part of the top upon the other side thereof, the bar of thestaple extending across the opening upon the outside of the upper, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and fastening the two parts of the top together. The prongs of the staple are bent over or clinched upon the under side of the upper, substantially as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The two parts of the top are thus firmly united together by a metal uniting-bar,

which prevents the strain of lasting coming upon the edge of the Vamp or top at the point B, just below the intersection of the lace or button opening with the vamp.

The advantages of the invention have been given in connection with the description.

I am aware of the Patents No. 64,015, No. 65,829, and N0. 196,754; but as the said pat ents do not show or describe a shoe having the two portions of the top immediately above the vamp united by a metal staple at the lower end of the front opening of the top, I consider that they do not embrace the features of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. The improvement in the manufacture of boots and shoes, consisting in uniting by means of a metal staple the two portions of the top or upper part of a boot or shoe at the lower end of the lace or button opening therein above the vamp and before the upper is lasted, whereby the strain of lasting is prevented from injuring the upper, all substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. A boot or shoe having the portions of the top, on each side of the lace or button opening therein, secured together near the lower end of said opening and above the vamp by a metal staple, all substantially as and for the purposes described. I

' EDWD. MAYN Z. Witnesses:

F. F. RAYMOND, 2d, FRED. HARRIS.

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