A METHOD OR PROCESS OF MAKING, BY A CERTAIN MACHINE OR MACHINES, WOODEN CLOGS FOR PATTENS, WOODEN CLOGS OR SOLES FOR SHOES, AND A DESCRIPTION OF WOODEN CLOGS COMMONLY CALLED OR KNOWN BY THE NAME OF THE DEVONSHIRE CLOGS, OR BY WHAT- SOEVER OTHER NAME OR NAMES, DESCRIPTION OR DESCRIPTIONS, THE SAME SEVERAL CLOGS OR. SOLES ARE COMMONLY CALLED, KNOWN, DESCRIBED, OR DISTINGUISHED
Year: 1818

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BOOTH, of Eckington, in the County of Derby, Turner in Wood, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eighth day of April, in the fifty-eighth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said.
William Booth, His especial licence that I, the said William Booth, my exors,
almors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Booth, my exors,
adiñors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD OR
PROCESS OF MAKING, BY A CERTAIN MACHINE OR MACHINES, WOODEN CLOGS FOR
PATTENS, WOODEN CLOGS OR SOLES FOR SHOES, AND A DESCRIPTION OF WOODEN CLOGS
COMMONLY CALLED OR KNOWN BY THE NAME OF THE DEVONSHIRE CLOGS, OR BY WHAT-
SOEVER OTHER NAME OR NAMES, DESCRIPTION OR DESCRIPTIONS, THE SAME SEVERAL
CLOGS OR. SOLES ARE COMMONLY CALLED, KNOWN, DESCRIBED, OR DISTINGUISHED;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
William Booth, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, par-
ticularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and

page_text: by the same, relation being thereunto bad, may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Booth, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascer-
tained in the several Plans or Sketches drawn in the margin of these Presents,
and the following description thereof (that is to say):-
The wood intended for the clogs or soles, being cut to the dimensions
required, is placed and pressed with the flat side (intended to be operated
upon) to the surface of a machine, as at (a, a), in Figures 1 and 2, and held
in that situation until the hollow shape required for the upper side of the
clogs or soles is produced, and which is done by the circular motion of the
machine herein-after mentioned. The clogs or soles being thus hollowed on
the upper side, are removed, and the under side placed and pressed to a
machine, as at b, b, in Figures 3 and 4, and by that the shape required for the
under side of the clogs or soles is produced. To obtain the proper outline or
shape of the edge of the clogs or soles, they are then placed as at c, c, in
Figures 5 and 6. One or more of the clogs or soles may be operated upon
in this manner at the same time at the discretion of the workman.
Figure 1 is intended to represent an end view, and Figure 2 a front view, of
a machine with a hollow drum or cylinder of wood or other materials (baving
one, two, three, or more plane irons or cutters inserted as at d, d, d), used to
form the upper side of the clogs or soles, the surface of the drum or cylinder,
and the edges of the cutters being so curved as to scope or cut out the upper
side of the clogs or soles to the shape required.
Figure 3 is intended to represent an edge view, and Figure 4 a front view,
of a machine employed to form the under side of the clogs or soles, having a
circular plate or table of wood or other materials, with one, two, three, or
more plane irons or cutters inserted as at e, e, e, and being of such a form and
size, together with the surface of the plate or table of the machine, as may be
requisite or applicable for or to the several different sizes and descriptions of
the clogs or soles required to be made.
Figure 5 is intended to represent a side view, and Figure 6 an end view, of
a machine for forming the outline or shape of the edge of the clogs or soles,
being a double lathe or turning engine, of which d is the spindle, supported by
the standards ff, and plate g, the whole of which is made to turn round its
centre at a, and to fasten by the clamps and screws b, b, to the frame 1, 1.
1, h, is a chuck or plate screwed to each end of the spindle. These plates
contain each three points of steel. By means of these and similar plates and

page_text: points made to turn on the ends of the screws e, e, one or more clogs or
soles c, c, are readily attached to the spindle, and on its centre at k is fixed a
clog or sole as a pattern for the form and size required, made of iron or other
materials, and which is also shewn by the dotted line L in Figure 6.
The machinery for cutting the edges consists of two spindles m, m, on each
of which is fixed a circular wheel of iron or other materials, containing one,
two, or more plane irons or cutters n, n. These cutters are mounted on a
frame o, o, p, p, Figures 5 and 6, which slides up and down between the
feet r, r, of the machine, and are so balanced by a lever and weights, s, as
to have as much power to rise as the pressure with which the cutter wheel
ought to bear against the clog when at work. In this frame there is a third
spindle t, with three pullies and endless band, which communicate to the
cutter spindle m, m, a very rapid motion. The form and size to which the
clogs or soles are intended to be cut is determined by a small wheel or
roller v, which is attached to the frame o, o, p, p, and permits the frame to
rise until the roller touches the edge of the pattern clog k.
The mode of working this machine is as follows:-The clogs or soles to be
operated upon being screwed to the end of the spindle as described above
(while the frame o, o, p, p, is depressed by the foot of the workman upon the
tradle y, which may be done without stopping the motion of the cutter wheels),
the frame is permitted to rise until the roller, v comes in contact with the
pattern clog k. The workman then takes hold of the wheel w, and turns the
spindle slowly round until the cutters have traced the clogs or soles to the
form and size required. But as wood of a soft nature will generally be used
for making clogs or soles, it will be necessary to turn the plate g half round
upon its centre at a, by which the clogs or soles will be reversed, and the
workman enabled to present that part of the edge to the cut which ought to
be so according to the grain of the wood.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Booth, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Second day of June, in the year of our Lord Christ
One thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being
first duly stamped), in the presence of
us.
W BOOTH. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being
first duly stamped), in the presence of
us.
THO BINNEY,
W BOOTH. (L.S.)
of Sheffield, Merchant.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1818, the aforesaid *
came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
TAL L
Ona thousand