Improvements in or relating to Heeling Machinery,
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Heeling Machinery,
We, HENRY PERCIVAL GAMBLE, 285, Ashton Old Road, Manchester, Photo-
grapher, and ARTHUR BLACK, of Bradgate Road, Ansty, in the County of Leicester,
Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to heeling machinery and has for its object to provide
heel attaching or like machines with mechanism for automatically feeding the horn
with the pins by which the heels are attached to a boot or shoe.
The heel pins for feeding are contained en masse in a box or holder fixed in a
suitable position at the back of the machine.
The said box has an inclined side so that the pins gravitate to the bottom and
are raised therefrom by a vertical pin elevating slide actuated by rack and pinion
gear operated from a foot pedal by which the receiver (hereinafter referred to)
is caused to travel towards the horn to supply it with the said pins.
The pin elevating slide caries the pins on its upper edge and on reaching a
point near the top of the box the pins roll off and lodge on the top of another
slide which is also actuated by an arrangement of levers so that the pins are
caused to fall over the side of the box or a passage formed thereagainst and into
a space or spaces formed between horizontal bars, where they become suspended
by their heads and point downwards between the said bars.
These selected pins hanging between each pair of bars are now, by means of a
slide located and moving between the said bars, moved forwards towards and
are engaged by a transverse slide or equivalent which may be locked in position
for that purpose by the action of the slide which moves the pins forwards.
The latter slide in receding unlocks the transverse slide which is then actuated
so as to allow the pins to fall point downwards into a chamber in the upper end
of a shoot leading to the receiver which latter upon being actuated by the foot
pedal herein before referred to, conveys the pins to the horn.
The said chamber may be provided with a shutter whose action is controlled by
the transverse slide and which when withdrawn or opened allows the pins within
the said chamber to fall of their own weight into a shoot down which they slide
and enter, head downwards, holes in the receiver.
The receiver has underneath it a sliding shutter which forms the floor at the
bottom of the holes therein and the said shutter has perforations equal in number
and positions to those in the chamber.
This shutter is spring controlled and upon the receiver being moved towards
the horn a lip on the shutter abuts against the edge of the horn so that its motion
is arrested and the receiver moves independently of the shutter until the holes
in the two latter become in register or coincident whereupon the heel pins fall
through into the usual horn of the heeling machine.
A multiple of the pin containing boxes and the slides for selecting them and
conveying them to the horizontal bars and shoots hereinbefore described may be
combined in the same apparatus.

page_text: According to a modification the chamber, instead of having a withdrawable
shutter may be turned over by a slide so that the pins are ejected therefrom and
slide down a shoot into a box timed to be under them at the time of dropping.
The box subsequently passing out to the attaching horn (which must be a
fixture) and dropping the pins in the required holes.
According to another arrangement instead of the transverse slides there may
be provided at the ends of the bars a spring clipper or holder which on the
pressure of a slide at the back will hold two pins and slightly separate them,
afterwards allowing them to drop on to two balanced swings which turn the pins
over into a box at the bottom.
Or the pins when suspended between the bars may be forced by means of a slide
in front of two spring pushers, which at suitable times push the pins sideways into
the shoots and transmit them to the box.
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BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in or relating to Heeling Machinery.
We, HENRY PERCIVAL GAMBLE, 285, Ashton Old Road, Manchester, Photo-
grapher, and ARTHUR BLACK, of Bradgate Road, Ansty, in the County of Leicester,
Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, 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 heeling machinery employed in the manufacture of
boots and shoes and has for its object to provide heel building or attaching
machines with mechanism for automatically feeding the horn of such machines
with the pins by which the heels are attached to a boot or shoe.
The invention will be understood from the following further description in
reference to the accompanying drawings in which,
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section on the line A A of Figure 3.
Figure 2 is a transverse section on the line B B of the same figure, and Figure 3
is a plan of the automatic feeding apparatus for heeling machines constructed in
accordance with this invention.
Figure 4 is a longitudinal section on the line X X of Fig. 1.
Figure 5 is an elevation of the rack and pinion mechanism for actuating the
transverse slides and shutters of the nail shoots.
Figure 6 is a detail view showing the pin elevating and delivery slides, after
the former has raised its pins out of the hopper and transferred them to the
latter.
Figures 7, 8, and 9 are plans of parts of the transverse slides in different
positions. Figure 9 is a detail of the transverse slides on a larger scale.
Figures 10 and 11 are details of the nail shoots and shutters therefor.
Figure 12 is a detail view of the pin receiver and a horn of a heeling machine
in the act of receiving pins from the former.
Figure 13 is a detail of the parallel bars and the nail shoots.
The parts of a heeling machine necessary to a clear understanding of the inven-
tion are shown in dotted lines.
A¹ represents a rectangular box or casing which is fixed transversely over
another box or casing. B₁ which latter is carried by upright arms C bolted at C¹
to the bed plate C2 of a heeling machine..

page_text: The box A¹ contains the main supply of pins and may be divided into compart-
ments or hoppers three A2 A3 A4 being shown as most clearly indicated in Fig. 2.
Each hopper has an inclined platform A so that the heel pins when placed
therein descend of their own weight to the bottom and in the path of a vertical
pin elevating slide D.
An inclined plate A6 near the open upper end of the hopper causes any pins
which fall thereon, when the latter is being filled to slide on to the platform A5
Another inclined plate A is located under the platform A5 so that when it is
desired to change the size or gauge of the pins already in the hopper, the latter
may be quickly emptied by withdrawing the said plate A5 whereupon the pins
will fall en masse on to the plate A and roll down it and through the open
end A8 of the box into a receptacle which the operator may place or hold to receive
them.
Each of the three plates A5 A6 A7 stretches across the full width of the hopper
and fits movably in grooves formed on the inner surface of the sides of the said
box.
The box A is attached to the box B₁ by screws A2 and angle plates A¹º.
The floor of each hopper is formed by the upper edge of the pin elevating slide
or selector D which as shown consists of a thin metal plate each side of which
is located in a groove in the side of the box.
The lower end of this selector is attached by means of an angle plate A and
Screws A to a cross bar A3 and the latter is attached at each end by a screw A
Figs. 2 and 4, to the upper end of a vertical rack E located in grooved guide
plates fastened by screws E Figs. 4 and 6 to the inner face of the box B.
A plate E³ screwed over the open side of the guides keeps the rack from dis-
placement by any vibration or shock during the working of the machine.
The two vertical racks E may be connected by a cross-head and the latter
attached centrally to the connecting rod C3 from a foot treadle C or the said
connecting rod may be attached to the end of one of the said racks as shown in.
Fig. 1.
A spring C5 is connected one end to the foot treadle and the other end to the
bed plate C and while the operator keeps his foot pressing on the treadle the
racks and the pin elevator are maintained in their lowest positions, but imme-
diately the operator removes his foot from the treadle the spring raises the latter,
the connecting rod C³, racks E, cross-bar A¹³ and the pin elevating slide D, and
the latter in moving upwards in the hopper in which the heel pins are contained
lifts some of the latter with it on its upper edge.
The pin elevator slide is located parallel to and close against a delivery slide F
and as it rises carrying on its upper edge the selected pins, the latter are prevented
falling off by bearing against the side of this slide.
When the upper edge of the elevator slide becomes coincident or in register
with the upper edge of the slide F the pins which are lying lengthwise, roll off
the inclined edge of the elevator on to the inclined upper edge of the adjacent
slide.
This latter slide moves in grooves in the sides of the box and when in its
normal position, that is when the elevator is at its lowest point indicated in Fig. 2,
its upper edge is situate just above the upper edge of a parallel partition Gover
which, as hereinafter described it delivers the pins.
When however the elevator slide commences to ascend, the slide F falls down
below the upper edge of the partition into the position indicated in Fig. 6
preparatory to receiving on its upper edge the pins as they roll off the elevator
slide.
It will be observed that when the said slide is in this lowered position a space
or narrow chamber is formed between the partition G and the elevator slide D
and as the pins drop on to the edge of the said slide F they are prevented falling
off by the partition on the one side and the elevator slide on the other side.
The delivery slide F is supported on the top of a vertical lever F¹ the upper

page_text: end of which passes through a guide slot in the bar H to be described while the
lower end is pivotted to a short lever I fulcrummed to a short arm F3 projecting
from the inner side of the box B¹.
When the pin elevator is in its lowest position at the bottom of the hopper
as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the corner of the foot D₁ of the former rests on the
lever F3 to the right of its centre and acting as a counterweight presses down
that end of the lever and raises its other end which thereby elevates the vertical
lever F and the latter raises the pin delivery slide F which rests thereon into
the position shown in Fig. 2 where it parts with the pins on its upper edge the
said pins rolling over the partition G as hereinbefore described.
Immediately however the pin elevating slide commences to ascend and thereby
removes its foot off the lever F the delivery slide drops of its own weight into its
lower position Fig. 6 hereinbefore described, in readiness to receive the pins from
the ascending elevator slide, and in doing so depresses the vertical lever FI and
raises the end of the other lever F2 into a position where the latter will again
be actuated by the foot of the elevator slide when the latter descends.
When the delivery slide has parted with its pins over the side of the partition,
the pins fall into a passage formed between it and a similar partition or plate G¹
also fitted in a groove in each side of the box A¹.
The plate G has an upper horizontal extension G2 forming a cover to the
passage between them so as to prevent any pins shooting over the top when
being delivered by the slide F, and a shutter or flap G³ closes the opening above
the delivery slide and passage and prevents any pins which, when being delivered,
strike the plate G2 rebounding into the hopper.
The shutter G3 is loosely hung on pins or trunnions resting loosely in the
upper edge of the sides of the box A¹ and on its lower end it is provided with a
curved wire G4 or equivalent which when the pin elevator slide ascends will
be moved on one side thereby as in Fig. 6 to let the latter pass and will swing
back of its own accord into the position shown in Fig. 2 when the elevator slide
descends.
The width of the passage between G and G¹ is approximately that of the thick-
ness of the pins and when the latter drop down the same, they fall point downwards
into a space or nail race formed between two parallel bars H H¹ and become
suspended by their heads and point downwards as indicated in Fig. 6.
These bars are let into the end of the box B and are secured thereto by
screws B2 Fig. 3. Between each pair of bars is a slide J the function of which
is to move forward the pins hanging between the said bars until they are
engaged by two transverse slides M M' as hereinafter described.
This slide J is connected by means of a spring J to an extension K' of a vertical
arm K which rises upwardly from a plate K² attached transversely to a slide or
carriage L.
This carriage has attached to it two transverse plates K2 K³, each of which has
tubular ends fitting easily over two fixed shafts or guide rods K+ the ends of which
are fitted in the ends of the box B₁
The pin traversing slide J is provided with a tail piece J2 bearing against the
vertical arm K and when the carriage I makes its return movement the said
vertical arm returns the slide to its original position.
The carriage on its forward end has fixed thereto a receiver L' consisting of a
block having therein a number of holes L2 for the reception of heel pins, the said
holes corresponding in number and position to those in the usual horn of a heeling
machine and when the said receiver has returned to its original position, the
foremost two pins which were pushed to the end of the nail race and between
the slides M M drop thereinto as follows:-
The spaces or, nail races between the bars H H are continued into and have
their termini between two slides M. M¹ which have a transverse movement which
allows the pins to drop into shoots underneath them.
The said slides consist of two plates placed one above the other and slotted to

page_text: pass over a block N (shown only in dotted lines in Figs. 7, 8, and 9) - shorter
than the slot and covered by a plate N¹ which also overlaps the uppermost slide M
and is fixed in position by screws N2 passing into the end of the box B¹.
The fact of the block N being shorter than the slot and slightly thicker than
the combined depths of the two transverse slides permits the movement of the
latter as will be described.
The termini of the nail races between the bars H H₁ are formed between the
two slides M M which are sunk into and rest on the latter so that their upper
surfaces are on the same level. When the two heel pins are moved by the slide J
into the said terminal passage as shown in Fig. 7, the first or foremost pin-is
supported between the two slides M M and the other pin is supported between
the lower slide M' on the one side and the end of the bar H or H' on the other side.
Immediately the two slides move together to the right the passage between
the lower slide and the adjacent bar is widened and the pin suspended between
immediately drops into the chamber underneath, but the other pin is carried
between the two slides as shown in Fig. 8 until the uppermost plate M comes
into contact with a stop pin B3 passing through the side of the box B when the
lower of the two slides moves along a short distance thereby increasing the width
of the terminal passage as in Fig. 9 so that the pin carried by and held between
the said slides drops into the other chamber below.
This movement of the slides is obtained as follows:-
On the underside of the lower slide are two downwardly depending pins M² M³
which embrace an arm 01 projecting outwardly from a horizontal slide rack O
moving in a recess or guideway formed in the front end of the box B.
This slide rack obtains its motion in one direction from an arm P¹ bearing
thereagainst and connected to a vertical spindle P mounted rotatably in lugs B+ B³
connected to the side of the box B¹.
The lower end of the said spindle is also furnished with an arm P2 located in
the track of a projection L³ secured to the side of the carriage L. When the
latter moves into the box, the projection L³ moves the arm P2 out of its way
thereby causing the upper arm P₁ to press against the end of the slide rack O
and move it towards the opposite side.
The said slide rack
obtains its motion in the return direction from an
arm Q pressing against its other end and attached to a vertical spindle Q also
mounted rotatably in lugs 136 137 attached to the other side of the box B' and
also furnished on its lower end with an arm Q2 which on the carriage moving
into the box comes into contact with a projection I thereon which moves the
said arm Q2 out of its track, rotates the spindle Q and causes the upper arm Q¹
to press with sufficient force against the end of the slide rack to move it
towards the other side of the box.
The return movement of the upper slide rack takes the arm P¹ back to its
former position rotating the spindle P and again shifting the lower arm P² into
the track of the projection L³
The arm has also attached to it by screws R¹ a shutter R for each of the
nail shoots S leading to the receiver L' from that side of the box B. The shoots S
on the opposite side are also furnished with shutters R connected by screws R² to
an arm T¹ projecting from another slide rack T which obtains its motion from
a pinion T in gear therewith and also gearing with the upper slide rack from
which it is actuated.
Reverting now to the transverse slides M M it will be observed that these
receive their motion in the one direction to allow the pins to drop into the shoots
thereunder, as herein before described, from the arm pressing against the
lownwardly depending pin M³ and in the return direction to the position ready
to receive a further supply of pins from the same arm' pressing against the other
in M2 when travelling in that direction.
When the transverse slides are moved away from the bars H H₁ the pins' drop
hrough a passage between them into a chamber formed in the upper part of each

page_text: nail shoot S and rest incliningly against the side of the shutter therein as shown
in Fig. 10 and when the shutter is withdrawn the pins fall head downwards as
shown in Fig. 11 into one of the shoots S, the lower end of which is open and
located immediately over an opening in the receiver L' so that the pins can pass
into the latter which becomes charged or loaded therewith.
The lower slide M' has on its upper surface an arm M which presses vertically
upwards through a slot Ms in the upper slide M and then over the latter and
through a hole in a lug M thereon.
The said arm is provided with a circular integral collar M thereon and is
encircled by a spring M compressible between the latter and the lug M. When
the upper slide M comes into contact with the stop pin 133 as hereinbefore described
and the lower slide M¹ moves per se the movement of the latter compresses the
spring Me, between the collar M5 and the lug M.
Immediately the motion of the transverse slides is reversed as herein before
described the spring Me in expanding moves the bottom slide into its normal
position relatively to the upper slide and closes the termini of the nail races so
that the latter are again ready to receive the pins suspended between the parallel
bars.
The chambers are open fronted and formed between a series of plates S¹ which
are formed integrally with a back plate S2, secured by screws S3 to the bars H
and the shoots S are fixed by screws S to the underside of the back plates S2.
The floor of the receiver consists of a shutter U provided with a number of
through perforations corresponding in number and position to the holes L2 in
the receiver and having its two side edges turned upwardly to fit in a groove
on each side of the receiver so that it is free to slide to and fro therein.
The shutter is furnished with a downwardly depending lip U¹ and with a
spring Us which maintains the shutter in such a position on the receiver that
the holes in the two are not in register.
When the receiver is moved outwardly over the usual horn C of a heeling
machine as in Fig. 12 the lip of the shutter comes into contact with the edge of
the said horn and arrests the motion of the shutter just before the termination
of the movement of the receiver and immediately the holes in the receiver and
its shutter become coincident, the heel pins drop through into the existing holes
in the horn of the heeling machine which becomes thus automatically fed thereby.
The receiver and carriage L receive their reciprocatory motion from a rack L³
on the underside of the latter gearing with a spur wheel V₁ located centrally
on a shaft V carried in bearings in the sides of the box B¹ and rotated by a
pinion on each end thereof gearing with the racks E which are connected to and
actuated by the foot treadle C as hereinbefore described.
The action of the machine is as follows:-
Upon the operator lifting his foot off the treadle the spring C³ raises the latter
and the connecting rod C3 which elevates the racks E, the cross-bar A attached
thereto and also the pin elevator slide D.
The latter carries on its upper edge some of the pins in the hopper and
immediately upon commencing to rise moves its foot off the lever F2 which
thereby allows the adjacent slide F to drop so that its upper edge is below the
partition G as in Fig. 6.
Immediately upon the pin elevator slide, in ascending passing above the delivery
slide the pins roll off the former on to the latter.
Upon the operator again depressing the treadle, the racks and elevator slide
are lowered and the latter in descending drops its foot upon the lever F2 which
thereupon raises the vertical lever F¹ and slide F and the latter discharges its
pins over the top of the partition G when they drop between the bars H H¹ and
become suspended by their heads in the nail races as herein before described.
Simultaneously with the raising of the said racks, the latter rotate the
pinions V and the shaft V, and the central spur wheel V¹ thereon engages the

page_text: rack L° on, the underside of the carriage L thereby traversing the latter outwardly
of the box, taking with it the upright arm K connected to the slide J.
The latter is thereby caused to move along between the bars H H' and push the
pins suspended there between to the end of the nail race and into the termini
thereof formed in the transverse slides M M¹.
As the carriage L and the receiver return, the projection L3 of the former
collides with and moves the arm 12 out of its path, thereby rotating the vertical
spindle P and causing the arm P¹ on the upper end thereof to press against the
upper rack slide O and move it along.
The arm 0 on the latter thereupon moves the depending pin M³ and the latter
moves the two transverse slides M M¹ in the same direction. The bottom slide M¹
upon passing away from the bars H H allows the heel pin which was suspended
between it and the latter to drop into the chamber at the top of one of the shoots
immediately beneath and to rest against the shutter R as in Fig. 10 while
another pin is carried between the two slides until the top slide comes into
contact with the stop pin 133 which arrests its progress while the lower slide moves
a short distance per se thus enlarging the space between them so that the pin
they carried now drops into the chamber of another shoot immediately beneath.
At the same time that the arm 01 moves the slides M M¹ as described it moves
the shutters R into the chambers of the nail shoots S on one side and the pinion T
rotated by the upper rack O¹ traverses the bottom rack T and the latter moves
the shutters R into the chambers of the nail shoots on the other side so that the
pins which have dropped, as the result of the movement of the transverse slides,
now remain supported on the said shutters as described and shown in Fig. 10.
Just prior to the carriage L completing its inward movement the other pro-
jection L collides with the arm Q and in passing moves it so that it rotates the
vertical spindle Q, and arm Q¹ on the upper end thereof and the latter arm moves
the slide rack O and the latter through the medium of the pinion T2 moves the
lower slide rack T so that the two racks withdraw the shutters and let the heel
pins fall head foremost down the nail shoots S just as the receiver L' arrives in
position thereunder to receive them.
Upon the loaded receiver coming forward the next time the lip U₁ of the
shutter strikes the horn C% of the heeling machine and is arrested in its motion
while the receiver moves per se slightly in advance until the holes in the shutter
and the receiver are in register when the pins drop through the latter and into
the holes in the horn as shown in Fig. 12.
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. In a machine of the character described the combination of a hopper, a nail
elevating slide therein, an adjacent slide for intercepting the nails off the latter,
and discharging them, two or more bars arranged with spaces between for the
reception of the said nails a slide for moving the nails forwards between the bars,
ransverse-slides for intercepting the nails and dropping them into nail shoots,
receiver located under the latter for the reception of the nails and adapted to
be moved forward and discharge the said nails into the horn of a heeling
nachine substantially as described.
2. In a machine of the character described the combination of a hopper, pin
levator and discharge slides, a series of parallel bars, slides between the latter,
ransverse slides, a series of nail shoots, shutters therefor and a receiver under
he nail shoots, substantially as described.
3. In a machine of the character described the combination of a
levating and delivering slides, mechanism for actuating same, parallel bars
hopper, pin
ith nail races between, slide between said bars, mechanism to move the slides
etween said bars, nail shoots under the latter, shutters for the shoots and rack

page_text: and pinion mechanism for actuating the shutters in the manner and for the
purpose described.
4. In a machine of the character described the combination of a hopper, pin
elevating and delivery slides, parallel bars with nail races between, slides between
the latter, rack and pinion mechanism for actuating the last named slides, nai!
shoots shutters for same, rack and pinion mechanism for the shutters, levers
for operating the said racks, and carriage for actuating the said levers for the
purpose described.
5. In a machine of the character described the combination of a hopper, pin
elevating and delivery slides, parallel bars with nail races between, slides located
in said races, a reciprocatory carriage to actuate the latter slides, rack and pinion
mechanism operated by a foot treadle to actuate the said carriage substantially
as described.
6. In a machine of the character described the combination of a hopper, pin
elevating and delivery slides, parallel bars thereunder to receive pins, nail shoots
under the said bars, transverse slides to determine which shoots the pins shall
drop into, shutters actuated to support the pins incliningly thereon and when
withdrawn to let the pins fall head foremost down shoots and a receiver under
said shoots operating as and for the purpose described.
7. In a machine of the character described the combination of a series of nail
hoppers, a series of nail elevating and discharge slides, a series of parallel bars
with nail races between, a series of slides between said bars, a series of nail
shoots under said parallel bars, a series of shutters to control entrance to nail
shoots, a receiver under said shoots and mechanism for operating the receiver
in the manner and for the purpose described.
8. In a machine of the character described the combination of a hopper, nail
elevating and discharge slides, parallel bars with nail races between, transverse
slides adapted to engage the foremost nails in the nail races and deliver them
into the shoots thereunder; shutters for the said shoots and a receiver under the
said shoots operating in the manner and for the purpose, described.
9. The improved machine consisting of the parts constructed, arranged and
operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose described and illus-
trated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 14th day of Anril 1899