US524620A - Boot or shoe - Google Patents

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l BOOT 0R SHOE. No. 524,620. Patented Aug. 14, 1894.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 524,620, dated August 14, 1894.

* Application ieaseptemterlalsee. semina. 485.666. (Nomads.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, ERNEST A. THURSTON, of Placerville, in the county of Boise and State of Idaho, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boots or Shoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of boots and shoes, and lhas for its objects to provide novel and durable means for the attachment of the soles to the uppers of boots and shoes, that will be waterproof and adapted to protect the upper leather from abrasion, and also reinforce the edge of the upper and sole.

To these ends my invention consists in the peculiar construction ,and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, 1n which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the tigures.

Figure l is a side view of a shoe having the improvement. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse sectional view of a shoe or boot sole secured to the upper leather, shown in part, by the improved means. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectlonal View of a shoe or boot upper leather,

in part, attached t0 the sole by a modified form of the improvement. Fig. 4 is an enlarged transverse section more clearly illustratin g the preferred form of constructing the lm proved boot or shoe sole attachment. Fig. 5 1s an enlarged view in cross section, of a shoe or boot sole and upper leather, in part, more plainly indicating the details of construction of the modified form represented. in Fig. 3 and Fig. 6 is a plan view of the modiiied form of construction, on the line 6--6 in Fig. 3.

The improvement is equally well adapted for the manufacture of boots or shoes 5 for the purpose of illustration, it is represented in connection with a shoe of the laced style.

Theupper leatherA should be heavy enough to insure durability at the point of juncture with the sole B, and may be lined or left without a lining; in the sectional views the latter is omitted.

The heavy sole B is shown as a single thickness of leather, but if desired more than one piece may be used and be secured together by any`preferred means that will properly connect the parts of the sole.

ln Figs. 2 and 4, the reinforce and means for connecting the leather sole B to the upper leather A consists of a thin plate of tinned iron or other metal that is coated to render it serted between the sole B, and the outwardly turned edges a o'tthe upper leather, the plate C having its edge shaped to conform with the contour of the sole, but of greater width.

The application of the plate C should be so made that an even marginal projection will be provided for said plate,which border ange is then inwardly folded and forcibly compressed upon the edge portions a of Vthe upperleather A, as represented at h, in Figs. 2 and 4.

To prevent the inturned edge of the sheet metal cap iiange b from cutting the upper leather, said edge is return-bent outwardly,

thereby producing a double thickness h on the edge, having its rounded margin in contact with the upper leather. The sheet metal cap flange b is now firmly secured to the sole B, so as to clamp the upper leather A watertight thereto, by the insertion of screws or nails c, which may be of a length to go part way through the sole as shown, or if nails are used these may pass through and `be clinched.

The construction of parts shown in Figs. 3 and 5, is substantially the same as has been described, the change consisting in the use of a series of strips of sheet metal, in place of a plate that extends across the inner surface of the sole, said strips C being inserted in a marginal slit produced around the sole B, at or near its center of thickness as shown, or it may be introduced between the adjacent surfaces of the layers of sole material, that are then cemented or otherwise attached together, in a waterproof manner.

The strips C may be continuous and be bent to conform with the contour of the sole B, or may be formed of a plurality of pieces, and inserted at intervals around the sole and heel; in either case the strip or strips are return-bent to fold them upon the top surface of the sole B, along the edge of the latter, as is indicated in Fig. 5 at b2 and also in Fig. 6.

The out-turned edge portion a of the upper proof against oxidation, which plate C is inj ICO leather A is .now` placed inrposition .overiathe return-limit,itange192 on thevstigipgor strpstOf', and a cap plate D is imposed on the part al The cap plate D is thickened on its inner.4

edge, and rounded where it comes into :con-* tact with the upper leather A, so thatit will, not be liable to cut the: latter.V e

Perforations are formed at proper intervals in the cap plate D, for the receptionnothe,

screws c, that engage threaded perforationsl in the return-bent ange b2 of the stripri.; strips C', .and ,also Y maydgo through aligned.-

perforations in the lower part o ff'fsaid'stripj as shown in Figs. 3 andre.

It will be seen that when thecap plate D,

is irmiygsecured` in piace,z1the `jointinet-WeenS the upper leather Arandesoie.Bewillibe ,renegdered dnrableeandwater vtight,1and.-.tht finaboth forms 'of'at-tachingthersoles andfmppersj togethentheimetal,sheidaiordediatrtheedge of `theg.soleTwiliprotect.the `latierfrornginjury;l

p while ther.outward:..exteusionofthe .sole'bel yond the-zupper..fleatherffwill. greatlyfprotect the upper-l. leather.k from contact;-:veithA Sheep;- rocks or fragments;,olminerahfthatmight cut holesfzin, theisameit Apermitted .to-'1:abraderzits.y

aS represented inFigsiQ Lto 5. inciusiveewhich piece is made of` iaisufcientjthicknesstoihave itsftop surfaceabout infthe .same A.plane.zwitlij1 the border ange b, or cap plate D, Sio-:that

these metaL- fpartsfwill, .not ,befliableftof-have pressure against thesides of-I 'the feet fof. :the wearer .tohurtthernf Havingk thus iully described my inxrerition, IblimiasmewiandidesieftofsecureibyrLetters Patent'- p 1. Aboot o r shoe having the edge of lts upper'turned outward'and a metal reinforce applied` upensaid edge and between it and the .solerandfabindewarideicrewspassin g through the reinforce and edge of the upper into the Solanas/shown and described.

`2;l lira-boot or shoe, the combination with therupper and the outer sole, of a sheet metal inso1ereturn bent atene A edge and, imposed y-o`n'fthencut-turned#edge-"oftheflipper, and means.forpsecuringftheaedges of the soies and upper together, substantially as described.

3. In a boot',o1'..shoe,i,thefcembinationrwith.

. the-.uppenand theiouterlseletotaheet.metal insoleretunnsbentzat.onezedgetandethlckened and ',outturnedgat@saidzedgeian'dljlyingziipon .securing said parts together-,'vjas,fshown.and-

described.

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