Improvements in Machines for Attaching Heels.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Dec., 1890-Accepted, 3rd Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Attaching Heels.
1, FREDERICK CUTLAN, of Castle Hill, Wellingborough, in the County of
Northampton, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to that class of machines which are known as heel attaching
machines but it may also be used in conjunction with heel-building machines or with
combined heel-building and attaching machines.
According to present practice in attaching the heels to boots and shoes the lasts are
first removed and what is called the horn is inserted inside the shoe. This horn is fed
or supplied with nails which upon pressure being applied are inserted from the inside
of the boot into the heel which is thus attached.
.
By my present invention I am able to drive the nails from the outside instead of the
inside and without the necessity for withdrawing the last and in carrying out my
invention I prefer to proceed as follows:-
I provide the horn with a tapered pin or equivalent which will fit the ordinary hole
in the last and as it may be necessary to move the last which carries the shoe to a
certain extent so as to place it in the proper position to meet the heel I so arrange
this tapered pin that instead of being necessarily co-axial with the born it may be
moved eccentrically or otherwise as required. This may be accomplished in various
ways but a convenient way of doing it I find to be to fix in the horn a piece of netal
which is adapted. to slide at right angles to the axis of the horn and to this sliding
piece I pivot a plate which carries the tapered pin. It will thus be seen that the
sliding piece can be moved so as to carry the tapered pin say in the vertical plane out
of line with the axis of the horn while the plate can be turned on its pivot so as to
move the pin in a path across that provided by the slide and thus accommodation in
both directions is secured. A similar result would be obtainable by employing two
slides one operating in a direction across the other.
In this invention as already explained the nails are applied from the outside instead
of from inside of the boot or shoe and to accomplish this I may proceed as
follows:-
In the heel-building machine I provide the press block with a number of tapered
holes corresponding in number and position with the nails by which the heel is to be
attached to the boot and I drive these nails through some of the inner leathers of the
heel so that after passing through the leathers they enter the holes of the press block
and when the heel is removed they extend beyond the leathers for a sufficient distance.
The outside or top piece leather of the heel can then be applied in the usual manner
and I thus produce the complete heel but with the nails projecting on the inner
side.
To fix this heel to the boot it is now only necessary to place the heel in its proper
place in the heel attaching machine and force it up against the boot when the nails
will pass through the sole and their points will be turned over or clenched against a
metal plate upon the last.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1890
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT, ·
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
v
Improvements in Machines for Attaching Heels.
I, FREDERICK CUTLAN of Castle Hill, Wellingborough, in the County of
Northampton, Engineer, 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 that class of machines which are known as heel-attaching
machines but it may also be used in conjunction with heel-building machines or with
combined heel-building and attaching machines.
According to ordinary practice in attaching the heels to boots and shoes the lasts are
first removed and what is called the horn is inserted inside the shoe. This horn is fed
or supplied with nails which upon pressure being applied are inserted from the inside
of the boot into the heel which is thus attached.
By my present invention I prefer to proceed as follows:-
I provide a horn with a tapered pin or equivalent which will fit the ordinary
hole in the last and as it may be necessary to move the last which carries the shoe to
a certain extent so as to place it in the proper position to meet the heel I so arrange
this tapered pin that instead of being necessarily co-axial with the horn it may be
moved eccentrically or otherwise as required. This may be accomplished in various
ways but a convenient way of doing it I find to be to fix in the horn a piece of metal
which is adapted to slide.in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the horn and to this
sliding piece I pivot a plate which carries the tapered pin. It will thus be seen that
the sliding piece can be moved so as to carry the tapered pin say in the vertical plane
out of line with the axis of the horn while the plate can be turned on its pivot so as to
move the pin in a path across that provided by the slide and thus accommodation in
both directions is secured. A similar result would be obtainable by employing two
slides one operating in a direction across the other.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 represents a side elevation partly in section showing the last with a portion
of the shoe upon it and the various parts of this invention.
Fig. 2 is an elevation of the horn and attachments taken in a plane at right angles
to that of Fig. 1.
Like letters represent like parts throughout the drawings.
A is the last and B the horn of the machine, C is the tapered pin fitting into a
tapered hole or socket in the last A. D is a slide carried in a suitable channel or
guides at the lower end of the horn B, and adapted to slide in a direction perpendicular
to the axis of the horn B or in other words across the end of it. E is a plate fitting
upon D and secured to it by a screw F in such manner that E may be turned round
upon D with the screw F as a centre. The tapered pin C forms part of or is secured
to the plate E, and by this means any required adjustment of the pin C upon the
horn B can be obtained so as to bring the heel properly in position underneath or
opposite the horn B.
D¹ is a block which is pressed against the slide D by the spring D³ with sufficient
force to retain said slide in any position to which it may have been previously adjusted
and until it is next adjusted by hand.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a machine for heeling boots or shoes the combination with the horn B of a
pin such as C for engaging the last the said pin C being so connected with the horn B
that the relative position of its own axial line with that of the axial line of the horn
may be varied substantially as described.

page_text: 2. In a machine for heeling boots or shoes the combination with the horn B of a
slide such as D block D¹ spring D2 and a rotatable plate and horn such as E C sub-
stantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of December 1890.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.