US374338A - Fabric boot and manufacture of same - Google Patents
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A43—FOOTWEAR
- A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
- A43B3/00—Footwear characterised by the shape or the use
- A43B3/10—Low shoes, e.g. comprising only a front strap; Slippers
- A43B3/101—Slippers, e.g. flip-flops or thong sandals
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y10T442/00—Fabric [woven, knitted, or nonwoven textile or cloth, etc.]
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- Y10T442/697—Containing at least two chemically different strand or fiber materials
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- This class of boots-t. 6. made from wool is first formed very much larger than the final size, and reduced by fulling and felting to the desired size, and thereby thickened, stiffened, and consolidated. These boots are used in vast numbers in the colder parts of the country, being much warmer than leather boots. I have discovered that such boots may be made practically wind and water proof by filling the minute interstices between the fibers of wool with wool-dust, known as flock. Flock is wool fiber divided so finely that it will not mat together and felt, yet it has power to work into and be imprisoned in the body of the felted or knit fabric, filling the interstices of the same.
- drawing A indicates the body or felt portion of the boot, and 13 the flock secured thereto.
- the boot is first formed very much larger than the final size and very loose in texture. It may be knit or made of bat. It is then submitted to a process of fulling to shrink and consolidate the fabric and reduce it to the deplaced in a vessel of water at the same time.
- the inner surface of the boot shall continue' to be somewhat porous and absorbent to take up the perspiration from the foot and stocking, while the external face should be as dense and impervious as possible.
- the boot being a tube open at one end only
- the flock does not enter at the open end, but
- I claim-- 1 The process of forming and increasing the solidity and imperviousness of fabric boots, which consists, essentially, in first forming the boot of a size considerably larger than that finally desired, applying wool flock to the formed boot, and then working the flock into the fabric of the boot and reducing the latter to the required size, substantially as described.
- a fabric boot whereof the natural interstices in the fibrous fabric are stuffed with flock, substantially as set forth.
- a fabric boot having its inner surface porous and absorbent and its outer surface stuffed with flock, and thereby rendered practicably impervious, as set forth.
Description
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M. V. BEIGER.
FABRIC BOOT AND MANUFACTURE 01? THE SAME.
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MARTIN V. BEIGER, OF MISHAVVAKA, INDIANA.
FABRIC BOOT AND MANUFACTURE OF SAME.
EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,338, dated December 6, 1887.
(No model.)
To all whom it may concern.-
Be it known that I, MARTIN V. BEIGER, of Mishawaka, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Indiana, have invented new and use ful Improvements in Fabric Boots; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and accurate description of the same.
This class of boots-t. 6., made from wool is first formed very much larger than the final size, and reduced by fulling and felting to the desired size, and thereby thickened, stiffened, and consolidated. These boots are used in vast numbers in the colder parts of the country, being much warmer than leather boots. I have discovered that such boots may be made practically wind and water proof by filling the minute interstices between the fibers of wool with wool-dust, known as flock. Flock is wool fiber divided so finely that it will not mat together and felt, yet it has power to work into and be imprisoned in the body of the felted or knit fabric, filling the interstices of the same.
I am aware that woven cloths have for a- V long time been treated with flock for the purpose ofimprovingthe woolliness ofthesurface; but no one, so far as I am aware, has ever applied flock to any knitted fabric, and especially to any fabric boot or shoe. Therefore I do not claim any discovery as to the process of flocking, but limit my discovery to the fact set forthto wit, that a fabric boot can be rendered practically wind and Water proofby impregnating its substance with flock.
That others may fully understand my im provement, I will particularly describe the course of procedure in that part of the manufacture of a fabric boot which includes the in-:
troduction of the flock.
In the accompanying drawing Ihave shown a portion of a fabric boot embodying my invention, in which drawing A indicates the body or felt portion of the boot, and 13 the flock secured thereto.
The boot is first formed very much larger than the final size and very loose in texture. It may be knit or made of bat. It is then submitted to a process of fulling to shrink and consolidate the fabric and reduce it to the deplaced in a vessel of water at the same time.
At the end of three hours the unfiocked boot was saturated and water was inside; but at the end of six hours the flocked boot was barely damp on its inner surface. This is practically water-proof.
It is not desirable to continue the flocking long enough to cause it to impregnate the whole thickness of the fabric, because it is desirable that the inner surface of the boot shall continue' to be somewhat porous and absorbent to take up the perspiration from the foot and stocking, while the external face should be as dense and impervious as possible. In practice, the bootbeing a tube open at one end only,
. the flock does not enter at the open end, but
only penetrates from the exterior surface.
Having described my invention, I claim-- 1. The process of forming and increasing the solidity and imperviousness of fabric boots, which consists, essentially, in first forming the boot of a size considerably larger than that finally desired, applying wool flock to the formed boot, and then working the flock into the fabric of the boot and reducing the latter to the required size, substantially as described.
2. A fabric boot whereof the natural interstices in the fibrous fabric are stuffed with flock, substantially as set forth.
3. A fabric boot having its inner surface porous and absorbent and its outer surface stuffed with flock, and thereby rendered practicably impervious, as set forth.
MARTIN V. BEIGER.
Witnesses:
F. G. PERKINS, D. H. SMITH.
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