US1750799A - Ornamented article of wearing apparel - Google Patents

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A CORPORATION OF MAS$ACHUSETTS ORNAMENTED ARTICLE 0]? ARING- APPAREL Application filed August 22, 1927. Serial 310.21%,621.

This invention relates to an improved ornamented article of wearing apparel and to the process of manufacturing such articles.

The process of this invention may be employed in manufacturing fabric uppers with I rubber compound soles, rubber compound uppers with rubber compound soles, leather uppers with rubber compound soles, fabric uppers with rubber compound molded soles, leather uppers with rubber compound molded soles, fabric uppers with rubber or composition soles, leather uppers withv leather or composition soles, bathing shoes, rubbers, bathing caps, gaiters, and the like.

Under the term fabric uppers would be included tennis shoes and all cloth top, commonly called arctic, and .gaiter shoes which have a fabric upper. J 4

lhe invention consists in the improved shoe hereinafter described and set forth in the claim, and to the process of manufacturingthe same.

Referring to the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevat'on of a tennis shoe embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the blank for the upper of the shoe illustrated in Fig. 1.

Like numerals refer to like parts in the views of the drawings.

In the drawings, 5 is a blank of fabric of the proper size and contour to be'formed into the fabric upper 6 of the shoe 7 illustrated in Fig. 1. t

The blank illustrated in Fig. 2' is made of fabric and has printed thereon adesign in ink, preferably colored. This design consists of lines 8 on a portion of the upper and also of'lines 9, 10 andll which sub-divide the blank into parts corresponding, when the blank is formed into the roper shape, to the conventional parts of a s cc, such as the toe cap 12, the vamp 13, and the top 14: and counter 17.

The blank 5 hasth'e ink forming the design thereon impressed into the. fabric, and this is accomplished by placing the blank in a 15 will be printed upon the fabric and impressed thereinto with a. heavy pressure such as may be obtained in a printing press, or any device which would give the proper impression.

After the fabric blank 5 has had the design. printed thereon and impressed thereinto, the

manner on to the insole; the filling sole is applied, and the shoe is cemented at the edge and the foxing and outsole applied.

After the different parts of the shoe have thus been attached, the shoe is placed in an oven and subjected to heat until the rubber sole, or any other rubber parts which may be in the shoe, are vulcanized. At the same time the heat of the oven causes the ink to become permanently set in the fabric forming the upper.

my hand.

- ALFRED A. GLIDDEN.

I have hereunto set printing press with an electrotype and engraved cut or other suitable form provided with the design desired, so that in this in-v stance, the lines 8, 9, 10 and 11 with the dots

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