Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1896 — A Ventilated Shoe. [ARTICLE]

A Ventilated Shoe.

The ventilated shoe is a recently patented invention, according to a Chicago paper. The shoe does not appear at all different from ordinary footwear. It is only on close examination that a set of tiny pipes is discovered inserted between the inner and outer sole or the shoe. Between the inner and outer sole la what might be called a false sole. It Is a thin piece of felt, and over it the inner sole Is perforated by a number of small holes. Directly under the instep, where what Is known as tlie shank of the shoe begins, are two ffny pipes, which find an outlet nt the point where the heel joins the leather. v The air, passing in through the pipes, circulates through the soft felt between tlie soles of the shoe, and through the perforations in the inner sole. This keeps the shoe cool and allows the natural heat of the foot to escape. It is claimed by the inventor that these ventilated shoes are cooler in summer and wanner in winter than any ordinary sbo* made.