US38766A - Improvement in boots and shoes - Google Patents

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PHILANDER SHAW, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,766, dated June 2, 1863; antedated October 18, 1862.

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Be it known that I, PHILANDER SHAW, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefnllmprovements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes 5 and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings that accompany and form part of this specication, is a description of my invention so full and exact as to enable those skilled in the art to practice it.

My invention consists, iirst, in a new article of manufacture-viz., a boot or shoe in which a flexible upper is united with a sole made wholly or in part of compressed wood; and, second, in a detail of the manufacture, by which the upper and the whole or a fractional. part of the sole of compressed wood are united.

Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a side view and plan of a shoe embodying my invention. Fig. 3 shows a section taken vertically and longitudinally through the shoe, and Fig. 4 shows a cross-section taken through the shank part of the shoe.

In construction in accordance with my invention the inner sole, a, is rst temporarily fixed upon the last, and the upper b drawn over the last and secured to the inner sole. A metallic plate, c, of the proper curvature and outline is then placed upon the upper, where it is drawn over the inner sole, and the plate is then faitened to the inner sole and upper by small nails which are driven through the parts and clinched in the inner sole. Holes are made through the metallic plate for the reception of the nails or screws employed to secure the outer sole of compressed wood, or any part thereof, to the body ofthe shoe.

Where the Wooden sole extends only under the heel and shank to the ball of the foot, leaving the remainder ot' the sole to be formed of some flexible material to prevent that degree of rigidity which is possessed by a shoe having its sole entirely of compressed Wood, the construction illustrated in Fig. 3 is that Which I prefer to any other. It will be seen in the said figure that the metallic plate eX- tends beyond the wooden part of the sole toward the toe ofthe shoe.-

The first lift of the flexible part of the sole is beveled, and nailed across the shoe through the plate c into the inner sole; or, if the'iiexible part of the sole be made of a single thickness, then the end thereofis notched, as illustrated, and the inside bevel of the sole nailed, as before described.

The wooden portionof the sole is beveled, as shown, to correspond to the beveling of the iiexible part of the sole, and the outer part of the latter is united to the rigid part of the sole by nails or by screws, as shown.

While wood for the sole may be compressed in any suitable way, I prefer to prepare the Wooden portion ot' the sole under and in accordance with the process patented to me on the 15th day of May, A. D. 1860, as wood thus prepared will not change its form materially, and will answer the requirements of hardness and impermeability desirable in a sole, while wood in an uncompressed state is utterly unfit to be used in the soles of boots and shoes.

I claim- 1. As anew article of manufacture, a boot or a shoe which is made of atlexible upper united with a sole composed whollyr or in part of compressed wood.

2. The combined arrangement, operating substantially as shown and described, of the metallic plate c with the Whole or a portion of the sole, when made of compressed wood.

PHILANDER SHAW.

Witnesses:

J. B. CEosBY, H. D. Oseoon.

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