Improv Heels of Boots or Shoes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 16th May, 1887.
Complete Left, 29th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 13th Sept., 1887.
Improv
Heels of Boots or Shoes.
JOSIAH MENTOR GIMSON, JOSIAH GIMSON, ARTHUR JAMES GIMSON, and SYDNEY
ANSELL GIMSON, all Engineers, of Vulcan Works, Leicester in the County of
Leicester, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The nature of our invention will be best understood by reference to the enclosed
drawings of which the following is a description
In Figs. 1 and 2, A is a holder at one end of which is a plate with holes or grooves,
as shown in Fig. 1, large enough for the points of the nails to be inserted and arranged
in a shape suitable for the sole or heel into which the nails require to be driven. On
this plate is placed a second plate, B, through which grooves or holes are cut large
enough to hold the heads of the nails and arranged in suitable shapes. Fig. 4 shows
what might be the chosen arrangement for the nails in a heel, but they can be varied
at will and the heels or grooves cut to suit them. Small springs may be placed at the
ends of the grooves to keep the nails firm in position. After the nails have been
placed in this holder with their points in plate A and heads in plate B, another plate (
is slid forward over the heads and prevents the nails from falling ont or getting
disarranged. The holder is then turned over and laid on a plate or stand as shown in
Fig. 3, the sliding plate C is drawn back and the plate B with the nails, lies on the
stand. The holder A is lifted away from them and the nails with the plate B are left
alone on the stand as shown in Fig. 4. The sole or heel is then placed above the
nails and by means of mechanical pressure, usually obtained by an ordinary beeling
machine, the nails are driven home. As the plate B is reversible the same holder can
be used for either right hand or left hand boots or shoes.
Dated this Fourteenth day of May 1887.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Driving Nails into the Soles or
Heels of Boots or Shoes.
We, JOSIAH MENTOR GIMSON, JOSIAH GIMSON, ARTHUR JAMES GIMSON, and
SYDNEY ANSELL GIMSON, Vulcan Works Leicester, in the County of Leicester,
Engineers 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 :-
The object of this our invention is to provide an ordinary stand, for presses, or
machinery with an holder or feeder, or an appliance to facilitate the work of driving
nails into, or nailing heavy goods with "hob" or other large headed nails to form the
wearing surface of the heel of a boot or shoe more accurately and more regularly
than by the different processes and appliances now in use. That our Invention may
be well understood we will refer to the drawings left and filed with our provisional
specification which we adopt in completeing our application. Figure 1 being a flat
top view of the holder or feeder A. the grooves or holes in the plate may be made
any desired shape or pattern as required for the purpose herein referred to, the second
plate B being represented by dotted lines, in which are grooves or holes sufficiently
large to receive the heads of the nails, at the ends of the grooves, small steel springs
may be placed to keep the nails firmly in position, when the nails have been placed in
their relative positions in the holder with their heads in the second plate B, and
the points projecting through the plate A, the sliding plate C, is slid forwards over
the heads of the nails, by the projection at its outer end, and working on the screws
in the plate A in the slots running parallel to each other on the sliding plate C. Or
the said plate may slide in any other desired manner to prevent the nails falling out,
or getting out of their proper positions. The holder is then turned over and laid upon
the stand or plate, as shewn in figure 3. of the drawings, the sliding plate is then
drawn back, while the plate B remains upon the stand, or plate after the holder A has
been removed. The heel mould containing the heel is then placed over and above the
points of the nails, and by any suitable pressure such as may be obtained in any
ordinary screw press or heeling machine, the heel or other pattern is pressed down
on to the points of the nails, and they, are driven home. That the holder may be
used either for right or left hand work, or right and left boots and shoes, the
plate B can be reversed to produce the required result. Figure 2 is a side view in
ontline of figure 1. shewing the holder A, with the second plate B and the sliding
plate C, moved up over it. Figure 3 is an ordinary stand with the holder A laid
upon it, the nails being shewn in dotted lines. Figure 4. is a flat view of the
plate B. shewing one of the desired arrangements for putting the nails to form a
pattern for the heel which can be altered in any desired manner, and as many rows
of nails are inserted as may be found necessary, it will be well understood that the
grooves or holes in the holder, or feeder can be made exactly to any pattern, by

page_text: these improvements in machinery to facilitate the driving of nails of the various
shapes such as "hob" nails and the like by the employment of an holder, or
feeder such as hereinbefore described the outer, or subsequent rows, or sections, of
nails are arranged perfectly true, and firm in their positions, all descriptions of heavy
boots or shoes can be thus nailed without the chances of their being irregularly
driven home.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim as our
invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is
The holder or feeder A. having the plate B. and the sliding plate C. in combination
constructed and actuated in the manner and for the purpose substantially as hereinbefore
described and set forth.