Improvements in or relating to Apparatus Employed in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 10th July, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 4th Apr., 1898-Accepted, 28th May, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus Employed in the
Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
We, WILLIAM HENRY STEVENS, of Fernshaw, Springfield Road, Leicester, Boot and
Shoe Manufacturer, and ALFRED BAKER, of 88, Noble Street, Leicester, Boot
Manufacturer's Foreman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Boots and shoes for football, cycling and other athletic pursuits are provided with
leather discs, bars or other shaped projections on the tread or wearing surfaces of the
sole and the heel to prevent the wearer slipping during the course of the game and to
improve his foothold generally.
Heretofore these projections after having been cut out to the required shape and
size have been attached to the bottom of a boot or shoe singly by hand, the operator
by means of a hammer forcing several long steel pins one at a time through these
projections and into the sole or heel.
Now the object of the present invention is to facilitate and expedite the attach-
ment of these projections to the sole and the heel of a boot or shoe and it also
embodies means whereby the said projections may be automatically attached, that is the
whole number of pins driven through them into the sole or heel at one operation so
as to attach the projections in position.
An apparatus for the purpose named and constructed in accordance with one form
of this invention may comprise a block provided with preferably two
chambers in which the leather discs or bars are placed.
or more
The depth of these chambers is regulated according to the thickness of the leather
projections or of two or more of the latter when built up or superposed therein prior
to attachment.
The said block is fitted movably and snugly within a hollow stand in which are two
or more groups of fixed and rigid pins or drivers arranged to enter holes in the bottom
of the chamber before mentioned.
In the said hollow stand is also a strong spiral spring which also enters a cavity in the
chambered block so as to keep the latter normally raised.
A collar may be fitted over the chambered block and screwed into the hollow stand
to permit the chambered block to move up or down in the said stand under the
influence of the spring.
The herein before mentioned device is used as follows:-
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The steel pins for connecting the projections to the sole or heel are first dropped
through the openings in the bottom of the chambers and will rest on the drivers
in the hollow stand.
One or more leather projections are then placed in the chambers. The apparatus is
then placed under a heeling machine or a press of any suitable type with the tread

page_text: surface of the boot or shoe applied thereto and when the pressure is applied the
elastically supported block is depressed within the hollow stand so that the drivers
force the attaching pins through the projections into the wearing surface of the boot
or shoe whereupon the said projections become attached.
The invention is not limited to the precise details of construction herein described 5
as these may be varied considerably within the main lines of the invention.
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BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus Employed
Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
in the
We, WILLIAM HENRY STEVENS, of Fernshaw, Springfield Road, Leicester, Boot and
Shoe Manufacturer, and ALFRED BAKER, of 88, Noble Street, Leicester, Boot
Manufacturer's Foreman, 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 :-
Boots and shoes for football, cycling and other athletic pursuits are provided with
leather discs, bars or other shaped projections on the tread or wearing surfaces of
the sole and the heel to prevent the wearer slipping during the course of the
game and to improve his foothold generally.
Heretofore these projections after having been cut out to the required shape and
size have been attached to the bottom of a boot or shoe singly by hand, the operator
by means of a hammer forcing several long steel pins one at a time through these
projections and into the sole or heel.
Now the object of the present invention is to facilitate and expedite the attach-
ment of these projections to the sole and the heel of a boot or shoe and it embodies
means whereby the said projections may be automatically attached, that is the whole
number of pins driven through one or more of the said projections into the sole or
heel at one operation so as to attach the projections in position.
The invention will be understood from the following further description in reference
to the accompanying drawing in which, Figure 1 is a central vertical section taken on
the line X X of Figure 2 of an apparatus constructed in accordance with this inven-
tion.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same with the leather discs removed to expose the
passages in the bottoms of the chambers and with part of the collar or locking
plate broken away.
Figure 3 is a plan of the collar or locking plate per se. Figure 4 is a transverse
section, on a smaller scale than the preceding figures, of the apparatus inverted on
the sole of a boot and in the act of driving the steel pins through the projections to
attach the latter to the said sole.
A represents a block which may be furnished with one, two or more chambers A¹
of the same shape and depth as the projections to be fixed on to the sole or heel of a
boot or shoe.
In the present case the block is rectangular shaped and provided with a circular
base A2 fitting easily within a hollow stand B so as to be capable of moving up and
down in the latter.

page_text: The chambers A¹ are circular shaped as shown most clearly in Figure 2 and open
at their upper ends to permit of the insertion therein of the leather or like projec-
tions C, Figures 1 and 4, and the floors of the said chambers have passages A³
through them into which protrude the upper ends of vertical steel rods or drivers D,
the opposite ends or bases of which are fitted and clinched on the underside of a
plate D¹ secured to the bottom of the hollow stand by screws D2; or as an alternative
the said drivers may be screwed or otherwise fixed in the floor B¹ of the hollow stand
and thereby dispense with the plate D¹.
A collar or locking plate E, Figure 3, having a rectangular opening E' therein to
fit over the block A is fixed to the upper edge of the hollow stand by screws E²
passing through holes E³ therein so as to prevent the said block being raised by the
spring F above the tops of the drivers D whereby the latter would become withdrawn
from the passages As into which they are normally protruded.
The spring F is located in a tubular cavity A' within the block A and rests on the
plate D¹, being normally in such a state of compression as to keep the circular base A2
of the block A pressed up against the collar E and the drivers D projected into the
passages A³.
The mode of using the herein before described apparatus is as follows:-
The steel pins G, by which the said projections C are to be attached to the sole or
heel of a boot or shoe, are dropped head downwards, one in each of the passages A³
in the floor of each chamber A¹ so as to rest on one of the drivers D.
One or more discs C or other shaped pieces of leather or like materials are then
placed within the chamber A¹ with the back or flesh side upwards, the apparatus
being thus filled ready for use.
A boot or shoe H is then placed on the jack or last K of a heeling machine or press
with a vertically reciprocating head such as is well known and largely employed in
the boot trade.
The apparatus is then inverted as shown in Figure 4 and placed on the sole H¹ or
heel H of a boot or shoe with the open ends of the filled chambers over the parts
of the latter to which the projections are to be attached.
The whole is then moved bodily under the descending head of the machine, when
the hollow stand B is depressed over the chambered block A compressing the spring F
and causing the drivers D to force the pins G through the leather dises C into the
sole or heel and clinch the pins G against the last K as illustrated in Figure 4.
Upon the ascending of the machine head the spring F raises the hollow stand to
its normal position when the apparatus can be removed and again filled ready for the
next operation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
1. The construction of an apparatus to contain disc or other shaped pieces of
leather or other material and which when pressure is applied thereto substantially as
described, will drive pins through the whole of the said pieces and attach them
simultaneously to the sole or heel of a boot or shoe for the purpose specified.
2. In an apparatus of the character described the combination of a block provided
with one or more chambers to receive disc or other shaped pieces of leather or other
material and having passages in the bottom thereof, a series of rods or drivers
normally protruding into the said passages and adapted, upon pressure being applied
thereto substantially as specified, to drive pins through the said pieces and attach
the latter to the sole or heel of a boot or shoe substantially as and for the purpose
described.
3. In an apparatus of the character described the combination of a chambered
block as A A vertical rods or drivers as D, spring governed hollow stand as B
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing,

page_text: 4. The complete apparatus consisting of the parts constructed arranged and
operating substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.
Dated this 1st day of April 1890.
Witness:-
E. N. LEWIS,
Berridge Street Chambers, Leicester.
ALFRED BAKER.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicants.