US Patent: 5,654X
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| Manufacturing of Boots and Shoes, called the Manufacturing of Perpetual Polished Water-Proof Boots and Shoes
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Patentees:
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| John Rynex (exact or similar names) - Boston, Suffolk County, MA |
| John Haskins (exact or similar names) - Boston, Suffolk County, MA |
| Samuel Knower (exact or similar names) - Boston, Suffolk County, MA |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Sep. 23, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Listed in A List of Patents Issued by the United States, from 1790 to 1847, 1847, pgs. 295 & 548.
Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
“For Manufacturing Perpetual Polished Water-proof Boots and Shoes; John Ryan and John Haskins, of Boston, and Samuel Known, of Roxbury, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, September 23.
The whole specification is as follows:
This improvement in the manufacture of boots and shoes consists in the application of japanned water-proof leather (such as has heretofore been used for caps) to the manufacture of boots and shoes, so far as regards the upper leather of boots and shoes, and the insertion of a layer of said japanned leather between the outer and inner sole; by which means the whole boot or shoe will be perfectly tight, and will exclude the water entirely. And boots and shoes made according to this invention will be superior to all others for durability, beauty, usefulness, and cheapness, by being waterproof, continuing always clean, and polished, and handsome, without expense of blacking or other process usually adopted for this purpose.
We think this patent in the same category with cast iron hammers, cast iron chimney tops, or cast iron horseshoes. We apprehend that the making of shoes of a kind of leather well known, and long used, cannot be taken as an invention or discovery. Is it not also a little remarkable that the stocking loom should be the production scholar's brain, whilst it required the talents of three gentlemen to invent, or discover, that shoes might be manufactured of japanned leather.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 9, Dec. 1829 pg. 411
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