IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Pearson, of the City of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Machinist, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING BOOTS AND SHOES."
Sealed the 21st February 1860, and dated the 24th August 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Pearson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 24th
August 1859.
I, GEORGE PEARSON, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED
MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING BOOTS AND SHOES," to be as follows:-
My improvements consist in a new arrangement of machinery for riveting
the soles of boots and shoes, and comprises a novel arrangement for feeding
the pegs, an arrangement for piercing the holes & clenching the pegs by
separate instruments, and an arrangement of parts for cutting and depositing
the pegs in the feeding apparatus. The first arrangement consists in the use
and application of an horizontal slide in connection with another vertical slide
which first receives the pegs, and which are so arranged that at the proper
time the vertical slide deposits a peg in the horizontal slide, which latter
conveys it to its position in the shoe, into which it is driven down and clenched,
and by which arrangement I am enabled to deposit the pegs uniformly, either
diagonally or in a parallel line.
The second part of my Invention consists in an arrangement of seperate
instruments for piercing the holes in the shoe in which the pegs are deposited,

page_text: and for striking and clenching the same, and which I accomplish by with-
drawing the awl or piercing instrument, and following the peg which is
then deposited by the slide by a punch & hammer, which completes the
process.
The third part consists in certain arrangements for cutting and depositing
the pegs in the feeding apparatus, & is accomplished by arrangements
feeding the wire into the vertical slide, and by means of a diamond cutter
attached to the machine near to the point of connection of the vertical with the
horizontal slide, and operated by a lever from the driving shaft cutting off the
wire into the length of peg desired, which is then conveyed by the slide and
deposited in its place in the shoe.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Pearson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th February 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
PEARSON, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machinist,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said George Pearson, Her special licence that I, the said
George Pearson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said George Pearson, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING BOOTS AND SHOES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Pearson, executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Pearson, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement, that is to say:-
My improvements consist in a new arrangement of machinery for rivetting
the soles of boots and shoes, and comprise a novel arrangement for piercing
the holes and clenching the pegs by separate instruments, and an arrange-
ment of parts for cutting and depositing the pegs in the feeding apparatus.
The first arrangement consists in the use and application of an horizontal
slide in connection with another vertical slide which first receives the pegs,
and which are so arranged that at the proper time the vertical slide deposits a
peg in the horizontal slide, which latter conveys it to its position in the shoe
into which it is driven down and clenched, and by which arrangement I am
enabled to deposit the pegs uniformly either diagonally or in a parallel line.
The second part of my Invention consists in an arrangement of separate
instruments for piercing the whole in the shoe in which the pegs are deposited,
and for striking and clenching the same, and which I accomplish by with-
drawing the awl or piercing instrument and following the peg, which is then
deposited by the slide by a punch and hammer, which completes the process.
The third part consists in certain arrangements for cutting and depositing
the pegs in the feeding apparatus, and is accomplished by arrangements
feeding the wire into the vertical slide, and by means of a diamond cutter
attached to the machine near to the point of connection of the vertical with
the horizontal slide, and operated by a lever from the driving shaft cutting off
the wire into the length of peg desired, which is then conveyed by the slide
and deposited in its place in the shoe.
In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of
illustrative Drawings, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference
marked thereon respectively as follows :-
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of our said machine; Fig. 2, a side elevation;
Fig. 3, back view; Fig. 4, another side elevation; Fig. 5, top plan view;
Fig. 6, plan of under side; and Fig. 7, section through feeding apparatus.
Similar letters of reference denoting corresponding parts at each of the Figures
respectively.
Our said improvements relate to a machine used for plain or fancy pegging.
We use a horizontal slide in our feeding apparatus with a slot in it slightly
larger and of the same shape as the top of a peg, at one end of the stroke of

page_text: the slide; this slot is immediately under a tube of the same size and shape com
taining pegs, one of which the slot admits and carries it to the other end of the
stroke, where it stops vertically over the hole made by the pricker in the shoe,
into which the peg drops and is driven down by the punch and hammer. By
adjusting the slot in the horizontal slide and also that of the tube, the pegs may
be put in uniformly in the same position with relation to the line of either
parallel thus, or diagonally thus ◇◇◇
pegs,
After the peg has been driven down, the boot is moved till the place of the
next peg comes immediately under the centre of the slot in the rest, when the
pricker makes another hole, another peg is let drop into it from the slot in the
horizontal slide, the punch falls and drives it down again, and by a repetition
of this process the continued work of pegging is carried on.
(a) represents the framing of the machine; (6), the table; (c), the main or
driving shaft with fly wheel and power pulling on it; (d) is the slide and
punch; (e) is the pricker; (f), the hammer; (9), the horizontal slide through
which there is a slot just of sufficient size to admit one peg at once; (h) is the
slide box or case for the slide, at one end of which will be observed a projecting
piece which rests on the shoc, and which we term the rest; (i) is a slide for
lighting and depressing the slide box and rest into which it is firmly screwed;
the slide (i) has also fitted into it the adjustable tube for the pegs to pass
down into the slot in the slide; (k) is the rack supporting and moving the last
on which the boot or shoe is fixed, this rack is driven by the pinion (1) which
is fast on the same shaft as the rachet wheel (m) underneath the table;
(n, n,) (o, o,) (p, p,) (Q, Q,) (r, r,) (4, 5,) are cams and their respective levers,
calculated and arranged to perform their respective duties in the order of time;
(n, n,) are the cam and lever which lift the slide (d) with its punch and
pricker (o, o,) the cam and lever which lift the hammer; (p, p.) the cam
and lever which drive the horizontal slide (9); (Q, Q.) are the cam and lever
which draw the pricker from underneath the punch on every alternate rise of
the slide (d); (r, r,) are the cam and lever which lift the slide box and rest
attached to the bottom of the slide (i); within the same interval the cam and
lever (s, s), move the racket wheel (m), and through the pinion and rack the
shoe is moved till the place where the next peg has to be inserted is perpen-
dicularly under the centre of the rest; (2) is a lever, on the upper side of
which there is a small friction roller (u) that presses against the inside of the
rack to keep or in close contact with the pinion. By applying the hand to
the handle of the lever (t) this pressure can be removed, and the boot rack
taken out when necessary.

page_text: Having now fully described the nature and object of my side Invention of
"Improved Machinery for Manufacturing Boots and Shoes," together with
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I would remark in con-
clusion that I do not confine or restrict myself to the precise details herein
described and shewn by the accompanying Sheet of Drawing, as many slight
modifications may be made therein without in any way departing from the
principle of my Invention; but what I claim as my Invention, intended to be
secured to me by the herein in part recited Letters Patent, is, the manu-
facturing boots and shoes by machinery in the manner and for the purpose
herein fully described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Pearson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
15 Witness,
GEORGE PEARSON. (L.S.)
S. J. WETHERELL,
Clerk to Messrs. Prince & Co.,
Patent Agents, 4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.