IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jasper Wetter of New Wandsworth, Surrey, for an
Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF
Communicated to him from abroad by Magloire Ronchin, of Lille,
BOOTS
France
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jasper Wetter at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th November 1882.
JASPER WETTER, of New Wandsworth, Surrey, "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS" a communication to me from abroad by
Magloire Ronchin, of Lille, France,
This invention relates to apparatus for fulling bootleather. The improved
machine consists chiefly of two iron or wooden stands to the sides of which is
attached a cross-beam curved on its upper side, according to the shape of the boot
and upon which the piece to be fulled is laid; a wheel mounted between the two
stands and having on is face various forms or moulds arranged radially.
The said wheel bas a toothed circumference and can be turned by means of a
train of toothed wheels, a fly-wheel and a crank.
A small hand-wheel is applied to each side of the machine, to cause the central
or flywheel with the forms and the curved cross beam to come more or less
together

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Jasper Wetter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th May
1883.
JASPER WETTER, of New Wandsworth, Surrey, "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS," a communication to .me from abroad by
Magloire Ronchin, of Lille, France
This invention relates to apparatus for fulling the uppers of boots.
In describing this invention reference will be had to the accompanying
drawings, of which. Fig. 1. is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a side elevation, Fig. 3 a
section along lino O P,
Fig 4 a plan of the apparatus (after the removal of the cross bar at the top)
and Fig. [sic] represents a front view of the great wheel E. Fig. 6 shows the upper
of a boot, before it is put into the machine.
The principal parts of the machine are the toothed wheel E shown in detail by
Fig. 5 and a pair of beams G placed right and left of this wheel.
The wheel E is set in motion by a toothed pinion D, mounted on the shaft of
the wheel B, gearing into the pinion C, which is driven by the fly-wheel A provided
with a handle H.
The cross beams G are secured to a pair of stands which are further connected
by cross bars.
The machine operates as follows:
The boot-upper (Fig. 6) is placed on the curved part M. N, of the beams G,
which are covered with thin sheet-copper (about 1 millimetre thick), care being
taken that the grooves X X, Fig. 6, come over the guides V V. If the handle H is
now turned, the slit Y, Fig. 6. is seized by the edge Z of the wheel-E, so as to
retain the leather (boot-upper), while the part T U retains the top part of the leather.
During one operation the wheel E, which has (five) different openings corresponding
to different shapes of boots, makes only a partial revolution which depends on the
width of one of these openings.
The handwheels f serve to increase or diminish the space between the beams G
and the wheel E.
Having now described the invention as communicated to me by my foreign
correspondent, I wish it to be understood that I claim.
The combination of wheel E with beams G and driving gear, substantially as
and for the purpose described.
In Witness whereof I the said Jasper Wetter have hereunto set my hand and
seal this eighteenth day of May A.D. 1883.