US1795276A - Shoe - Google Patents

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March 3, 1931. R. DAVIS 1,795,276

SHOE

Filed Aug. 21, 1930 INVENTOR www Repairs are easy, because` if necessary, the4 outsole may be stripped oif and an entire new outer sole be cemented on in place of an i11- jured or worn outsole. The uppers may be attached to the insoles vat one place by labor `familiar with such work and theoutersoles be alixed at an entirely diiferentlplace. Thus labor and factory costs may be kept at a minimum.

' The full thickness atthe edge of ythe outsole protects theupp1e1, where., it ,turns in under the edge of `the insole, nieetingthis inturned portion ofthe upper, substantially as indicated in Fig. 2.1 Thestructure is particularly light, the more fso,`be`,cla`use no nails or y other metallic fasteningsfarenecessary, eX- cept possiblyfor a screw or the like, such as may be employed for fastening `the heel in place.

What is claimed 1s:

1. A shoe comprisingan inner sole having a continuous, smooth, upper face and having a channeled lower face, an upper extending down about the edge of said inner sole, channel stitching securingthe edges o-saidupper to said channeled lower portion 'of the inner sole, and a separate outer solecemented in flat face-to-face engagement with said inner sole and having a gutter inthe upper face of the same .set inward from the edge of said outer sole and receiving the extra thickness formed by the channel stitching on the underface of the inner sole.'

2. In a shoe structure, the combination of an outer sole having a gutter in the upper Iface of the samel formed by an outwardly an upper having its edges extending down about the edge of the inner sole, and channel stitching securing the edge of the upper to the underside of the inner sole, the outer sole having a gutter in the upper face of the same receiving said channel stitched portion of the inner sole and upper and `whereby the eXibility of thininner and outer soles is attained without exposed stitching either inside or outside the shoe.

4. The `method of manufacturing shoes, which comprises splitting a layer of leather to provide a thin layer having a grain side for the outer sole and a thin layer having a fiesh'side4 for the inner sole, channelling the underside of the flesh layer, providing a gutter in the cut face ofthe grain layer, channel stitching the edge of anupper to the channeled face portion of the inner sole layer, and cementing the outer sole in face-toface engagement over the lower face of the innersole and with theguttered portion of the outer solel receiving the channel stitched portlons .on the' underface of the inner sole.

V*.In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature.

ROBERT DAVIS.

beveled cut and a cut normal to the general I plane of the outsole, aninner sole having a continuous, smooth, upper face and channeled in the underface of the same, an upper extendinfir down aboutthe edge of the inner sole to the channeled under portion of the same, channel stitching securing the edge of the upper to the channeled ortion of the inner sole, and said inner so e and outer sole` being secured byvcement in fiat face-to-face engagement with the channel stitched portion of the inner sole and upper received within the gutter and definitely positioned by the outwardly beveled and normal cut Walls of said gutter.

3. In a shoe structure, the combination of thin, continuous, inner and outer soles cemented together in coextensive incesto-face engagementwithout any intervening filler,

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