US340135A

US340135A - Boot or shoe

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Publication number: US340135A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-04-20
Anticipated expiration: 1903-04-20

Description

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H. T. MARSHALL.v

` BOOT OR SHOE. No. 340,135. Patented AplnZO, 1886'.

Aram Finca.

HOWARD' T. MARSHALL, or BRooKToN', MASSACHUSETTS'.

BooT ou SHOE.

SPECEECATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,135, dated April 20, 1886.

' Application inea March ro, 1884.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be itknown that I, HOWARD T. M ARsHALL, of Brockton, in the county of Plymouth and State ot' Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boots and Shoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to boots and shoes, more particularly designed for use in playing lawn-tennis, although capable of use for other games and purposes.

The invention consists of a boot or shoe the outer sole of which is made either in one thickness or in separate thicknesses, one or more of india-rubber or of any of its compounds, united in any suitable manner to a thickness or layer or layers of cloth, and has its outer or treading surface made of indiarubber or of any ot' its compounds, and provided with separate and distinct protuberances or projections which join and are integral with said surface and preferably in planes parallel therewith, are circular,or substantially so, and otherwise vare generally p conoidical in form, and between and around them and at all parts of the sole at which they are located have the outeror treading surface ot' the sole exposed, all substantially as here` inafter described.

ln the accompanying plate of drawings this invention is illustrated.

Figure l is a side View of a shoe of this invention. Fig. 2 is a face view of the outer or treading surface of the shoe Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical crosssection online 3 3, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail section on line 4 4, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a section of one ot' the protuberances, and Fig. 6 is a section illustratinga modification in the form of the protuberances or proaro jections.

In the drawings, A represents a shoe, and B is its outer sole, all, except as to this invention, made and attached together in any of the usual and well-known ways, and therefore needing no particulardescription herein.

The outer sole, B, as particularly shown, is made in onev thickness, of india-rubber or of any of its compounds, and in one piece from and including the heel C to and including the toe D, and near its other-edge and at and around the toe D, ball K, and shank G it is attached by stitches to a welt, E, which is secured to Serial No. 123,669. (No model.)

the inner sole/,132, and upper F in any wellknown way, and at the heel and infront thereof itis attached by cement and by staples b, which pass through it and the inner sole and are clinched on the inner side of the inner sole.

H H are protuberances or projections of the outer or treading surface of the outer sole and integral with the india-rubber or any of its compounds making said sole. These projections in planes parallel with the treadingsurface of the sole are circular, or substantially so, in form, and otherwise generally of a couoidieal form, with the outer and smaller ends, d, more or less rounded, their larger ends f being at the outer surface of the sole. Again, t-be project-ions are arranged upon the toe, ball, and heel of the sole, and, it' so desired, the shank can also be provided with them, but it is not necessary, and, preferably the projections are arranged in regular lines, and lines preferably corresponding to the general outline of the edge ot' the outer sole, and they are separated from each other and have the outer or treading surface of the sole and with which they are integral exposed around and between them.

The outer sole with its projections as above described is in one piece, and preferably it is molded in any suitable manner and as well known in the molding of various articles from india-rubber or its compounds.

The projections H, by being made ot' circular or cf substantially circular form. as stated and shown, conform more particularly to the general outline or curvature of the edge a of the outer sole, and thus they present not only a much neater appearance than they would if they were of a square, triangular, or lozenge` shape in similar planes, but also an increased serviceability and durability.

The outer sole, although particularlyshown and described as of rubber in one thickness, can be made of rubber in two or more thicknesses, combined with a layer or layers of cloth or other similar' sheet material placed between and united to them and the several layers united together by being molded and pressed all in any of the usual ways of uniting and securing rubber to cloth or other sheet material.

If the outer sole is made of separate thickmesses of india-rubber and cloth, as just above IOO stated, in all cases the .thickness making the outer or treading surface of the sole is of india-v rubber, and the projections H are separate but integral therewith, and otherwise preferably of the form described.

The combination of cloth with rubber allows a thinlayer of rubber to be used, for the reason that the cloth serves to protect and strengthen, as it were, the rubber, and more especially so at the line of the stitches by which, preferably, the outer sole is attached to the boot or shoe, as described, and for that purpose alone the cloth need onlyinclude a small portion of the sole, and that at or near the outer edge thereof, where thestitchesare to pass through it.

The projections H of the outer sole can be more or less square-sided, Fig. 6, or elliptical in lieu of circular, as described; but it is preferable to have them as near circular as possible, for thereasons stated, and also to have their outer ends rounded; but they may be more or less pointed.

The outer sole, in lieu of securing it to the welt, as described, can be secured by stitches or otherwise directly to the upper and inner sole in the usual manner of making boots and shoes.

A boot or shoe having a rubber outer sole provided with projections, as described and shown, is very desirable, especiallyin playing lawn-tennis and like gaines, for the reason that the projections in the playing of such games act to secure a most irm and close footing of the boot or shoe upon the ground or floor,

and thus they tend to obviate the liability or danger of the wearer slipping.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. A boot or shoe having an outer sole permanently secured to the upper and inner sole, and its outer or treading surface made of indiarubber or any of its compounds, and provided with independent projections integral with said rubber and severally separated from each other, andwith the surface of the sole exposed between and around them', substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

2. A boot or shoe having an outer sole permanently secured to the upper and inner sole, and its outer ortreadingsurface made of india rubber or any of its compounds, and provided with independent projections integral with said rubber of conoidical and in planes panallel with said outer surface of circular or substantially circular form, and severally separated from each other, and with the surface of the sole exposed between and around them, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified. A

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HOVARD T. MARSHALL.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLoWs, EDWIN W. BROWN.