NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SLIPPING OR PULLING BOOTS OR SHOES FROM LASTS."
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Jenkins, of Kingswood, in the County of
Gloucester, for an Invention of "NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SLIPPING
OR PULLING BOOTS OR SHOES FROM LASTS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Georgo Jenkins at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd February 1882.
GEORGE JENKINS, of Kingswood, in the County of Gloucester.
"NEW OR
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SLIPPING OR PULLING BOOTS OR SHOES FROM
LASTS."
It is usually a matter of great difficulty to pull boots and shoes off the lasts
used in making them, or to pull a last out of a boot or shoe, occupying considerable
time, and unduly straining and tiring the person performing such operation, and
not unfrequently requiring two peoplo to effect it, should the boot or shoe fit the
last very tightly.
Now, my Invention is designed to obviate theso evils, and consists in a new or
improved apparatus for the purpose, which performs its work easily and quickly.
The apparatus is advantageously constructed as follows:-I provide a suitable
lever for moving on a suitable fulcrum, and capable of being slipped into an eye
or crook on the end of a hook which can be slipped into the boot or shoe or the
last, as the case may be.
For pulling a boot off a last fitted for "standing-up" or bench work, I engage
the hook with the back part of the reversed boot on the last. The hook is now in
an approximately vertical position, and 1 then slip the lever through the crook or
eye. The lever at about its middle part rests on the toe of the boot, which forms a
fulcrum, and on simply depressing the lever, the boot is pulled off.
For pulling a last out of a boot, I provide two uprights fixed to a suitable base
and furnished with a number of opposite holes or sockets in each for an adjustable
bar forming the fulcrum for the before-mentioned lever. In this case the boot is
held down, and the lever being depressed, pulls out the last.
My Invention may be modified in detail (such as the shape of lever, hook and
stand &c.) without departing from the principle thereof.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said George Jenkins in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st August
1882.
•
" NEW OR
GEORGE JENKINS of Kingswood, in the County of Gloucester.
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SLIPPING OR PULLING BOOTS OR SHOES FROM
LASTS."
It is usually a matter of great difficulty to pull boots and shoes off the lasts
used in making them or to pull lasts out of a boot or shoe occupying considerable
time and unduly straining and tiring the person performing such operation and
not unfrequently requiring two people to effect it should the boot or shoe fit the
last very tightly.
Now my Invention is designed to obviate these evils and consists in a new or
improved apparatus for the purpose which performs its work easily and quickly.
The apparatus is advantageously constructed as follows:-I provide a lever for
moving on a suitable fulcrum and capable of being slipped into an eye or crook on
the end of a hook which can be slipped into the boot or shoe or the last as the
case may be.
"
For pulling the boot off a last fitted for "standing up or bench work I engage
the hook with the back part of the reversed boot or the last. The hook is now in
an approximately vertical position and I then slip the lever through the crook or
eye. The lever-at-about its middle part rests on a wooden or other block which
block rests on the bottom of the boot which forms a fulcrumn and on simply
depressing the lever the boot is pulled off.
For pulling a block out of a boot or shoo I provide two uprights fixed to a
suitable base (by screwing down the frame at the back) and furnished with a
number of opposite holes or sockets in each, for an adjustable bar forming the
fulcrum for the before-mentioned lever. The boot is held down at the toe by a
strap capable of being adjusted on bars to any sized boot or shoe. The book is
then placed in the hole of the block and the heel bears at the same tiine against
the wood block in the frame. The end of the lever is now passed into the eye of
the block or last-hook and rests on the bar forming the fulcrum and by depressing
the lever the block is withdrawn.
To extract the wood-last after the block is withdrawn the point of the boot-hook
is slipped between the heel of the boot or shoo and the last. The handle part of
hook is then dropped into the socket at the back of the iron frame and the pin
passed through the plate frame and eye of hook and the strap passed over the too
of the boot. The end of the lever is then placed in the eye of the last-hook tho
lever resting on the bar which forms the fulcrum and the lever being depressed
withdraws the last.
"
And in order that my Invention may be more clearly understood and carried
into practical effect I have annexed the accompanying Sheet of Drawings. To the
figures and letters of reference marked thereon I now refer
Fig. 1. is a perspective view of my apparatus shown pulling or slipping a last
from a boot.
Fig. 2. a side view of same
Fig. 3. a view of the apparatus pulling a boot off a last used in "standing up
or bench work.
A is the lever or bar. B.B¹ the combined eye
bar capable of being placed in any two holes in
the size of the work or the leverage required.
and hook. C shews the fulcrum
the standards D D according to
E is an abutment or stop to hold
1

page_text: the heel of the boot by a hook or otherwise as shown. F a screw_regulating its
position. G the last in the boot with which the hook engages. H the toe-strap.
II' bars for same.
In Fig. 3 the standard J carries the last on which the boot is formed and which
boot is pulled off by engaging the hook therewith and depressing the lever as
before described.
I may considerably vary the details of the stand D D and the arrangement of
moving the fulerum or may form eyes or sockets on the lever to receive the
fulcrum C if desired but I find the method I have shown simple and efficient.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I would have it
understood that what I claim as my Invention of "New or Improved Apparatus
for Slipping or Pulling Boots or Shoes from Lasts" and desire to secure under the
herein before in part recited Letters Patent is.
Firstly The rod furnished with eye and hook B B' in combination with a lever
such as A and capable of being used with a stand or fulcrum for pulling or slipping
boots or shoes from lasts as described.
Secondly The standards or frames D D furnished with holes sockets or their
equivalents for adjusting the fulcrum bar or rod and with a base or clamp to hold
the boot or shoe while the last is being pulled therefrom by the lever and hook.
In witness whereof I tho said George Jenkins have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Twenty eighth day of July in the year of our Lord Ono
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.