IMPROVEMENTS IN INSTRU- MENTS FOR REMOVING PROJECTING POINTS OF NAILS OR PEGS FROM THE INTERIORS OF BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Julian Light, of Great George Street, Westminster,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN INSTRU-
MENTS FOR REMOVING PROJECTING POINTS OF NAILS OR PEGS FROM THE
INTERIORS OF BOOTS AND SHOES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Julian Light at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st May 1878.
CHARLES JULIAN LIGHT, of Great George Street, Westminster, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN INSTRUMENTS FOR REMOVING PROJECTING POINTS
OF NAILS OR PEGS FROM THE INTERIORS OF BOOTS AND SHOES:"
My Invention has for its object an instrument whereby the projecting points of
nails or pegs may be readily removed from the interiors of boots and shoes without
injury to the leather or lining through which such points project.
For this purpose I arrange files or cutting faces surrounded by plain rims or
borders in a handle or body, the one file or cutting face being at one end of such
handle or body, and the other at a part of one side situate at a suitable angle
relatively to the remainder, so that the latter may be grasped by the hand, and the
file or cutting face of the inclined part of the side applied to and caused to operate
upon a point projecting inwardly from the sole part of a boot or shoe; or by
grasping another part of the instrument the file or cutting face at its end may be
used to remove a point projecting inwardly from the heel part of a boot or shoe.
As is obvious, the form of the handle or body may be more or less varied so long
as the files are surrounded by plain rims or borders, and are arranged the one at a
suitable angle to the other to enable them to be used as and for the purposes herein-
above set forth.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Julian Light in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th
November 1878.
CHARLES JULIAN LIGHT, of Great George Street, Westminster, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN INSTRUMENTS FOR REMOVING PROJECTING POINTS
OF NAILS OR PEGS FROM THE INTERIORS OF BOOTS AND SHOES."
My Invention has for its object an instrument whereby the projecting points of
nails or pegs may be readily removed from the interiors of boots and shoes without
injury to the leather or lining through which such points project.
Fig. 1 of the Drawings illustrates my Invention in side elevation.
Fig. 2 is a view at right angles to Fig. 1.
And Fig. 3 is a cross section in the line X, X.
For the purpose above mentioned I arrange in a handle or body a files or cutting
faces b, b¹, surrounded or bounded by plain rims or borders c, c¹, the one file or
cutting face b. being at one end of such handle or body, and the other b¹ at a part
of one side of the handle or body situate at a suitable angle relatively to the
remainder of the handle or body, so that the latter may be grasped by the hand
and the file or cutting face b' of the side of the handle or body be applied to and
ca used to operate upon a point or peg projecting inwardly from the sole part of a
boot or shoe; or by grasping another part of the instrument the file or cutting
face b at its end may be used to remove a point or peg projecting inwardly from
the heel part of a boot or shoe.
In the Drawings I have shewn the files as of dovetail cross section slid into
grooves of corresponding section in the handle or body, stop pieces c¹ forming end
borders being placed at each end of each file, and there fastened to keep the file in
place. These stop pieces in the grooves at the respective ends of the files may be
of wood or metal made to conform to the shape of the handle or body a
As is obvious, the form of the handle or body may be more or less varied so long
as the instrument is constructed with plain rims or borders to prevent the files
injuring the leather or linings of the boots or shoes; and the files and plain rims or
borders are arranged the one at a suitable angle to the other, substantially as
herein-before described with reference to the Drawings, to enable the said files to
be used as and for the purposes herein-above set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Julian Light, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
TTTT TANTICHIT
"
CHARLES JULIAN LIGHT.
(L.B.)