Improvements in and connected with Machines for the Manufacture of Metal Tips or Wearing Surfaces for Boots and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 19th May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 19th Feb., 1898-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Machines for the Manufacture
of Metal Tips or Wearing Surfaces for Boots and the like.
We, THOMAS GARE, of 25, Booth Street, Edgeley, Stockport, in the County of
Chester, Engineer, and BERRY LIMITED, of Angel Lane, Northampton, in the
County of Northampton, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved construction of machine whereby any
shape of metal tip or wearing surface for boots and the like can be formed from any
desired section of metal bar in a cold state, expeditiously and accurately.
To this end I arrange upon a bed or table a slide suitably reciprocated, say by
The front
means of a lever connected thereto by a rod and actuated by a cam.
end of this slide carries at its underside a plate or former, the contour of which
corresponds with the inner edge of the tip or wearing surface to be formed. This
former fits against the face of the said bed or table and is rendered readily remov-
able so as to permit of being interchanged according to the form of tip or wearing
surface to be produced and on each side of the slide is fixed a projection. In front
of the said former are arranged upon the said bed or table two plates, each of which
is adapted to swivel and under the control of a spring, which latter after each
formation of a tip or wearing surface pulls the said plate back against a stop to
its normal position. The edges of the said plates facing each other are curved
conform with a portion of the contour of the outer edge of the tip or wearing
surface to be formed and the front of the said curved edge is furnished with a
projection.
The action of the machine is as follows;-
The metal bar to be bent to tip or wearing surface form, cut to the required
length, is placed during the back movement of the said slide, upon the said bed
or table against the back ends of the said curved plates. On the forward movement
of the said slide the former thereon contacts with the middle of the said bar and
bends it against the said curved plates which being adapted to swivel, partly close
and thus bend in the sides and ends of the tip or wearing surface to the required
shape. The moment the required shape has been thus attained the continued
forward movement of the said slide causes the projections on its sides to contact
with the projections on the said plates, which causes the latter to swivel and open
the said plates and thereby allow the tip or wearing surface formed to be pushed
out of the same by the said former, after which the tip or wearing surface drops
off the former and the slide recedes again.
The studs by which the said curved plates are adapted to swivel are rendered
adjustable upon the said bed or table either individually or jointly so as to allow,
of interchanging and set the said plates nearer to or further away from each other
as may be required for different sizes or shapes of tips or wearing surfaces.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in and connected with Machines for the Manufacture
of Metal Tips or Wearing Surfaces for Boots and the like.
We, THOMAS GARE, of 25, Booth Street, Edgeley, Stockport, in the County of
Chester, Engineer, and BERRY LIMITED, of Angel Lane, Northampton, in the
County of Northampton, Manufacturers, 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:-
This invention relates to an improved construction of machine whereby any
shape of metal tip or wearing surface for boots and the like can be formed from any
desired section of metal bar in a cold state, expeditiously and accurately.
And in order that our invention may be more fully understood we have caused
to be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures, Fig. 1 being a sectional side view,
Figs. 2 and 2* an end view and cross section respectively, and Figs. 3 and 4 plans
of our improved machine for the manufacture of metal tips or wearing surfaces for
boots and the like.
In carrying out our invention and referring to the figures generally, we arrange
upon a bed or table a, a slide b suitably reciprocated, say by means of a lever con-
nected thereto by a rod c and actuated by a cam or preferably by a crank pin
rendered adjustable on a rotary disc to which the rod c is jointed as will be readily
understood. The front end or head of this slide carries at its underside a plate or
former d the contour of which corresponds with the inner edge of the tip or wearing 2
surface to be formed. This former slides along the face of the bed or table a
and is rendered readily removable from the slide head so as to permit of being
interchanged according to the form of tip or wearing surface to be produced and
In front of the former d are
on each side of the said head is fixed a projection e.
arranged upon the bed or table a two plates f, f which together form a die and each
off which is adapted to swivel on a stud fi and is placed under the control of a
spring 9, which after each formation of a tip or wearing surface, move the plates f,f
back against a stop h to their original position. The studs f', f¹ on which the said
curved plates f, fare adapted to swivel are rendered adjustable upon the bed or
table a by set screws m either individually, as shown in the annexed drawing, or 3
jointly so as to allow of interchanging and set the said plates nearer to or further
away from each other as may be required for the formation of different sizes or
shapes of tips or wearing surfaces and in order to compensate for irregularities in
the section of the bars used springs n are inserted between the studs f, f¹ and the
set screws m. The edges of the plates f, f facing the former d, are curved conform 3
with a portion of the contour of the outer edge of the tip or wearing surface to be
formed and the front of each of the said curved edges is furnished with a
projection i.
To the front of the slide 6 is pivoted a lever k the lower end of which forms a
gripper and is adapted to move in a groove a¹ formed in the bed or table a and 4
its higher end by means of a lever is jointed to the slide rod c.
The action of the machine is as follows;
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On
The metal bar to be bent to tip or wearing surface form previously cut to the
required length in the machine itself or separately as may be deemed most
convenient, is placed during the back movement of the said slide, b, upon the bed 4
or table a against the back ends of the curved plates f, f, as shown in Fig. 3.
the forward movement of the slide b the former d contacts with the middle of the
bar 1, in the meantime the back end of the lever k is brought forward by the rod c
and causes the gripper ¹ to press the bar against the former d and then bend it

page_text: against the said curved die plates f, f, which being adapted to swivel, partly close
and thus bend in the sides and ends of the tip or wearing surface to the required
shape, see full lines Fig. 4. The moment the required shape has thus been
attained, the continued forward movement of the slide 6 causes the projections e, a
on its sides to contact with the projections i, i on the plates f, f, the latter to swivel
and thereby open and allow the tip or wearing surface formed, to be pushed out
of the same by the former, see dotted lines Fig. 4, after which the tip or wearing
surface drops off the former and the slide b recedes again.
The pivot 6 of the slide 6 has some little play in the rod c so that the gripper k¹
presses the bar against the former d before the slide moves forward whilst on
the return of the rod c the tip or wearing surface formed is released by the gripper k
before the slide b starts to return.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
1st. In machines for the manufacture of metal tips or wearing surfaces for boots
and the like, a reciprocating slide & carrying a former din combination with two
die plates f, f adapted to swivel, the bar 7 to be bent being placed against the said
plates and pressed into the same, by the former d, all substantially as set forth.
2nd. In a machine constructed as specified in the preceding claim, the slide
and plates f, f furnished with projections e, e, i, i respectively, the projections e,
being adapted to engage the projections i, i after the bar has been bent to shape
and thereby open the plates f,f so as to permit the tip or wearing surface formed of
leaving the former d, all substantially as set forth.
1000
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester,
Agents to Applicants.