US317477A - Boot or shoe - Google Patents

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' A. VAN WAGENEN.

A BOOT 0R SHOE. No. 317,477 Y 'Patented May 5, 1885.

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UNITED VSTATES PATENT OEEIeEo ALBERT VAN WAGENEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.`

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. A317,477, dated May 5, 1.885.

Application iled March 2, 1835. .KNO model.)

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that l, ALBERT VAN WAGEN- EN, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Boots and Shoes, of which the following description in connection with the accompau yin g drawings, is a specication, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

rlhis invention has for its object to increase the flexibility of the soles of boots and shoes as made on the McKay and other similar machines. In the class of shoe made on the machines referred to, and vknown as machinesewed shoes, the inner sole is laid upon the last,the upperis drawn over theinner sole, and the outer sole is then applied, and the outer sole, upper, and inner sole are penetrated by the needle, and the thread is drawn through them to form stitches. To render this class of shoe flexible, it has been proposed to cut away the edge of the inner sole for a greater or less distance about the sides of the fore part, so as `to enable the needle in its work to pass by the edge of, and not enter, the inner sole a-longthe sides of the fore partor ball of the sole. In my experiments to provide for yet greater exibility of the sole, and at the same time cheapen the cost of the boot or shoe, I have found that the stiff leather or leather-board inner sole need be extended only from the heel to the front of the shank', and that only a textile or thin soft lining-sole nerd be extended to the toe of the boot or shoe.

Figure 1, in section, represents a last with an upper, an outer sole, and a shortened inner sole, and lining-sole embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a section of Fig. 1 in the dotted line .fr x, the last being omitted, and Fig. 3 is a top side view of my combined inner and lining sole detached.

In the manufacture of a vboot or shoe in accordance with my invention the lining-sole a, preferably of textile material, is laid upon the bottom of the last b, and upon the liningsole is laid the shortened inner sole, c, the latter preferably of leather, (but it may be of leather-board or other substitute for leather,) being extended from theheel of the shoe to the front of the shank, as shown in the drawings. The edges of the upper d will next be drawn over upon the inner sole and the lining-sole, and willbe temporarily secured, and the outersole, e, will then be applied, the latter being channeled in any usual way for the reception of the stitches j', to be made by any suitable or usual sole-sewin g machine. It is desirable to make the shank of a .boot or shoe quite stiff, and the fore part, under the ball of the foot, quite flexible. The point Vwhere the strain is the greatest is in and near the shank.

In accordance with my invention, the sti or substantial shortened inner sole extends throughout that part of the boot or shoe where the greatest stiffness and strength are needed. The stitches f pass through the upper, outer sole, and shortened inner sole, and also through the lining-sole, as shown in Fig. 3, but from the toe to the front end of the shortened inner sole the stitches run through only the liningsole, upper, and outer sole. The duty of the lining-sole is to cover the inner side of the outer sole and the edges of the upper and hold the stitches.

To conceal the stitches or fasteningsfatthe heel portion ofthe sole, thelining-solea may be slit in the dotted line 3, and be turned back, as designated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, while the stitches j' are being made and the. heel-attachin g nails are being driven, and thereafter turned down, and pasted or cemented in place to cover the said stitches. The upper d may be of any usual shape, cut, or material.

The fastenings herein described are stitches, but, instead, I might use a metal fastening, which may be clinched; but I prefer stitches.

Fig. 3 shows the lining-sole pasted down over, and to conceal, the stitches or fastenin gs about the heel of the shortened inner sole.

I claim- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a boot or shoe composed of an upper, a shortened inner sole, an outer sole, and a lining-sole, the shortened inner sole terminating at the forward part ofthe shank, the said parts being united by stitches or fastenings, substantially as described.

2. In a boot or shoe having a shortened inner sole in which the fastenings for uniting outer sole and upper at the heel and for fastening the heel itself pass only through the shortened inner sole, the soft or textile liningsole, the latter being slit at its edge, as shown and described, whereby a portion of the said lining-sole near its outer edge may be turned IOO back while uniting the outer soie upon the inner sole ait the heel-seat and attaching the heel, after which the soft .inner sole muy be again returned, covering the stitches or fastenings, and leaving the lining-sole free from fastenings at that part, substantially as devscribed.

In testimony whereof I have signedmy name to this specication in the presence of' two subscribing Witnesses.

ALBERT VAN WAGENEN.

Witnessesz Gr. W. GREGORY, W. H. SIGSTON.

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