Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1886
Complete Left, 21st Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 21st Dec., 1887
JOHN ELLIS CUTLAN, 46 Market Square, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire,
Architect & Surveyor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
An attachment to a machine Patented 19th day of May 1884-No. 7893-This
attachment is intended to take the place of the Boot Rest described in the aforesaid
Patent No. 7893 to enable the operator to drive Nails or Rivets through a single piece
of material such as a single sole of a Boot or Shoo, the Nails or Rivets being driven
home to the Heads & the material being thinner than the length of the Nail or
Rivet, the Points of the Nails or Rivets will project through the material into which
they are driven. In order to accomplish this-I propose to prepare a Bed under the
Nail driver & feed wheel which shall rise or lower to accomodate itself to the various
thicknesses of material-there will be a Groove across the Table-perpendicular with
the Nail driver to receive the points of the Nails or Rivets. In operation it would be
as follows-The material being placed upon the Grooved Table under the Driver, the
machine would be set in motion, the Nails or Rivets driven through the material at
regular distances, the materials being drawn on by the Feed wheel & the points of
the Nails or Rivets being allowed to pass along the Groove in the Table.
Dated this 20th day of December 1886.

page_text: Improvements in Nailing Machines for Boots or Shoes.
I JOHN ELLIS CUTLAN, Architect and Surveyor of 46 Market Square, Welling-
borough do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This Attachment is intended to take the place of the Boot Rest described in the
Specification of Letters Patent dated 19th May 1884, No. 7893, to enable the Operator
to drive nails or rivets through a single piece of material such as a single sole of a
boot or shoe the nails being driven home to the heads and the material being thinner
than the length of the nail the points of the nails will project through the material
into which they are driven.
In order to accomplish this I propose to prepare a bed under the nail driver and
feed wheel which shall raise or lower to accommodate itself to the various thickness of
material. There will be a groove across the table perpendicular with the nail driver.
to receive the points of the nails. In operation it would be as follows:-
The material being placed upon the grooved table under the driver the machine
would be set in motion the nails driven through the material at regular distances the
material being drawn on by the feed wheel and the points of the nails being allowed
to pass along the groove in the table.
And in order that my invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into
practice I will proceed to describe the drawings hereto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 of the drawings annexed shews a side elevation of a machine constructed
according to my invention a is the main shaft carried by the frame b. c is a toothed :
wheel carried by the shaft a and gearing with the pinion d on the axis of the fly-
wheel this wheel carries the crank pin e¹ to which a rod & from a treadle is con-
nected and by this mode the machine is driven.
e,
On the shaft a is a crank f which gives an up and down-motion to the bar f1 carry-
ing the nail punch or driver f³. The nails are supplied by the mechanism fully
described in a former Patent No. 7,893 and forms no part of this invention.
The work is supported by the grooved table or block g, a plan of which is shewn a
at Figure 2 and the points of the nails after passing through the work pass into the
groove g¹ and are able to pass clear away, the work still being supported by the upper
surfaces of the sides 92 98 of the groove in the table or block g. his a serrated.
wheel against which the edge of the work is held it also forms a gauge for the distance
the nails shall be driven from the edge of the work, it is carried by a shaft and by
a hand wheel * it can be adjusted, the ond of the shaft h being formed for this
purpose with a screw thread and screwing into the frame at h³. i is the feed-wheel

page_text: carried by the shaft i*, it receives a forward step by step motion from an eccentric
on the shaft a.
In order to vary the distance at which the nails are driven from each other I make
use of the following mechanism to which latter however I make no claim whatever
herein. Upon the axis of the feed wheel i is a fine ratchet wheel into the teeth of
this wheel a pawl i works, this pawl is carried by a lever mounted on the shaft ix,
in this lever is a long slot in which a pin carried by the end of the eccentric rod
is capable of moving, pin jointed to the lever i is a second lever having a series
of notches in its underside. By placing the pin into one or other of the notches
in the lever the throw of the lever can be varied causing the pawl to engage
more or less teeth and so giving a greater or lesser amount of travel to the feed
wheel i. An elevation of this mechanism is shown at Figure 3.
The work is held firmly between the feed wheel and the upper surface of the
grooved table or block by a spring carried by the end of the lever k which turns
on a fulcrum at on the other end of which lever the grooved table or block rests.
To release the work the lever k is turned on its fulcrum by depressing the hand lever
the grooved table or block g then falls by its own weight and releases the work, the
grooved table or block 7 still resting on the end of the lever k. On replacing the
work in position and releasing the hand lever the work is again firmly held between
the grooved table or block g and the feed wheel i.
The main object of driving nails or rivets so as to project through the soles of
boots and shoes as previously described is for the purpose of applying the outer sole
to a boot or shoe by pressing it on to the points of the nails or rivets projecting from
the inner sole as described in the Specification of Letters Patent grantod to Michel
Lion Lion and Frederick Cutlan dated 23rd August 1886. No. 10754.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved arrangement and construction of machines for driving or
inserting nails or rivets into a single sole for a boot or shoe the heads of the nails
being driven home with the pointed ends projecting through the material of the sole
which may vary in thickness substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described and represented in the drawings hereto annexed.
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2. The improved arrangement and construction of the adjustable table or block
formed with a groove to receive and conduct the projecting points of the nails as
they are driven in succession by the nail driver into the material of the sole sub-
stantially in the manner hereinbefore described and represented in the drawings
annexed.
3. The improved general arrangement and construction of machines for driving
nails into soles or imaterials for the manufacture of boots and shoes substantially as
hereinbefore described and represented in the drawings hereto annexed.
Dated this 21st day of September 1887.