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( Mode G, o. MOORE.

GONGRESS'SHOE.

No. 496,526. Patented May 2, 1893.

THE NORRIS mans 00., PNOTO-LTTHl7-. WASHINGTON. D. c.

NrrEo TATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE C. MOORE, OF EASTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- I-IALF TO JOSEPH W. GREEN, JR, OF SAME PLACE.

CONGRESS SHOE.

SPECIFIGATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 496,526, dated May 2, 1893.

Application filed December 6, 1892. Serial No. 454,283. (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE O. MOORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Easthampton, in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Congress Shoes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Considerable trouble has arisen in what are known as Congress or elastic-side shoes, in which pieces of elastic woven fabric are inserted in the tops of the shoes, owing to the fact that the rubber warps entering into the construction of this elastic fabric, (which is known as goring) give way at the point of attachment of the goring to the leather portions of the shoe top, thus leaving the claslic fabric or goring in a loose or slack condition long before the leather portions of the shoes are worn out. This trouble is largely occasioned by reason of the fact that the goring is usually attached directly to the leather, which latter contains more or less oil, which, by coming in contact with the rubber strands of the goring, causes the saidrubber strands to rot so that they easily break and give way in use. Various efforts have been made to obviate this difficulty, but owing to the fact that the constructions heretofore proposed were not satisfactory for this purpose they have not been largely adopted.

My invention has for its object to remove the difliculty referred to by the use of a twoply tape one portion of which is woven into a single fabric and the other portion of which is double. In the use of this tape, for the purpose stated, the double portion thereof is l to be attached to each edge of a piece of goring by one or more lines of stitches, and the leather portions of the shoe top are attached to the single parts of the divided tape, thus rendering it unnecessary to attach the leather directly to the gorin g, and consequently avoid- 4'5 ing contact of the leather with the goring so that the rubber threads of the latter are not injured by the oil in the leather.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a Congress boot or gaiter embodying my invention. Fig. 2isahorizontal section through a portion thereof to show the relation Of the goring, the divided tape and leather portions of the shoe to each other. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view of the divided tape which is employed in connection with my invention.

Referring to the drawings, (1 denotes the front leather portion of the upper part of a shoe, and b the back leather portion thereof. Between these front and back leather portions of the shoe, on each side thereof, is placed a piece of elastic fabric or goring c, to each edge of which is stitched a piece of tape onepart of which is woven into two separated plies d, while the other part of the said tape consists of a single body cl, in whichthe two plies are joined together by binders in weaving. The divided part 01 of the tape is caused to embrace the edge of the goring c, and is joined thereto by one or more lines of stitches. The leather portions aand b of the shoe top are stitched to the single parts d of the pieces of tapes which are joined to the edges of the goring. By thus stitching the leather portion of the shoe to the divided tape and joining the latter to the goring, in the manner stated, the leather is held out of contact with the goring, being indirectly connected therewith through the divided tape which embraces and protects the goring, keeping the Oil of the leather away from the rubber strands thereof so that no injury to the goring can result from the oil in the leather. It will therefore be seen that by the use of this divided tape, which is joined to the edges of the goring, the latter will be properly protected from the oil of the leather, as theleather parts of the upper of the shoe are not attached directly to the goring but to the tape which serves as an indirect connection of the leather and goring, thus preventing the oil of the leather from injuring the rubber warps of the goring.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent A Congress shoe or gaiter in which the goring is provided at its opposite edges with sec- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in tions of tape stitched thereto and which tape presence of two witnesses. consists of two separated plies atone side and a single body at the other side, the leather GEO. O. MOORE. 5 constitutin the upper part of the shoe bein secured to the single body portions of the said Wltnesses J OHN L. STRONG tape, substantially 1n the manner and for the p purpose set forth. HUMPHRISS-

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