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F. L.- HAYES.

SHOE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-20.1919.

Reissued Oct. 28, 1919.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED L. HAYES, OF ROCKLANID, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHOE.

14,744 Specification of Reissued Letters Patent. Reissu Original No. 1,268,318, dated April 16, 1918, Serial No. 173,126, filed June 6 1917.

filed August 20, 1919. Serial No. 318,814.

ed Oct. 28, 1919.

Toy all whom it may concern: sewedin place and forms a strong reinforc- Be it known that I, FRED L. HA

YEs, a citiing binder for the vamp and connects the 45 zen of the United States, residing at Rocktongue and the t oe-cap 10 in a substantial land, county of Plymouth, and State of manner.

Massachusetts, have invented an Improve- The advantages of such a construction are ment in Shoes, of which the following is a obvious, particularly in boys, misses and specification.

y invention relates to an improvement the vamp, which my invention precludes. in shoes, and appertains more particularly y my invention, a shoe-maker is enabled to a shoe which utilizes two pieces of mateto utilize scraps of leather, which might rial in the vamp in the place of the one conotherwise be waste material, in the formatinous strip hitherto in use. An object of tion of the vamp-sectlons, and that enables 55 m invention is to provide such a shoe in him to use an ornamented overlay for the w lich a reinforcing member extends across purpose, which improves the appearance of 1e shoe in a marked degree.

the ]0lI1t at the intersection of two pieces of tl material in the vamp from the toe-cap to I claim: the tongue. 1. A shoe upper containing quarters 60 A further object of my invention is to seamed at the back, a vamp consisting of provide a construction W ich utilizes portwo halves made of small pieces of leather tions of leather that might otherwise be joined together approximately at the center waste, and which utilization results in a and extending'approximately to the middle more attractive product than has heretofore o the instep where they meet the quarters, 65 been attained. an overlay extending over said seam and In the accompanying drawings, forming stitched over the two halves of the vamp, a Eprt of this specification and a toe-cap stitched over the forward igure 1 is a perspective View of my edges of the two halves of the vamp and the shoe l. overlay.

Fig. 2 1s a vertical section through the 2. A shoe comprising a sole,'two quarters, I vamp thereof; a toe, a vamp made of two sections joined Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through togetherby a seam at the front of the shoe, the vamp. a vamp lining, a tongue and an overlay for The usual sole 1 is provided with the cussaid seam extending from the tongue to the 75 tomary back-stay 2, and uppers 3, 3. -The end of the vamp section and beneath said vamp, however, differs from the usual form, toe cap, said overlay and tongue adapted to inasmuch as it consists of two halves 4, 4, receive therebetween at the upper end the fastened to the sole 1 at the bottom, and bemeeting edges of the vamp section, and the ing sewed together at 5. The vamp-lining several elements securely stitched together, 80 is similarly divided and sewed together the overlay being of such a width with relaalong the seam 7. The tongue 8 is anchored tion to the seam connecting the vamp see- 40 securely between the vamp-lining and,v the tion ast o relieve the vamp portions of any vamp, and an overlay 9 extends from the undue strain by pulling upon the tongue.

tongue joint to the end of the joint between In testimony whereof I aflix my signature. as the sections of the vamp. It is securely FRED L. HAYES.

y addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

copiel of thin patent may be obtained for five cents each, b

Washington, D. 0.

childrens shoes, which frequently tear at

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