This subclass includes the arrangement of parts to form an upper seam or to stay it and the pipings to stiffen and protect the edge of the upper.
(1) Note. For inclusion in this subclass a patent should recite the seam as connecting two dissimilar parts of a shoe (e.g., vamp to upper) or the location of the seam in a particular zone of a shoe (e.g., front, back, side, heel-seam) as worn on the foot. Such terms as "inner" or "outer" will not be construed as locations on the shoe but as surfaces of the material.
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112, Sewing, appropriate subclasses for related subject matter and particularly
418+, for a seam, welt or piping in general or claimed in combination with a merely named part(s) of a shoe.
