IMPROVEMENTS ́IN APPARATUS FOR AFFIXING HEELS TO BOOTS AND SHOES."
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Michel Lion Lion, of No. 44, Canonbury Square,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
´IN APPARATUS FOR AFFIXING HEELS TO BOOTS AND SHOES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Michel Lion Lion at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th July 1874.
I, MICHEL LION LION, of No. 44, Canonbury Square, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR AFFIXING HEELS TO BOOTS AND SHOES," to be
as follows:-
The object of the Invention is to facilitate the affixing heels to boots.
and shoes by means of screws, and the apparatus according to my:
Invention is arranged to operate on three, or it may be more than three
screws simultaneously. .
The boot or shoe to have a heel applied to it is with the inside thereof
passed over a "form." which may be of wood or other suitable material..
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page_text: This form is perforated with holes corresponding with the number of
screws to be applied, and it is placed with its holes over a series of tubes
in each of which is applied a spindle, the upper ends of which are formed
to act as screwdrivers. The screws to be applied are placed within the
upper or outer ends of the tubes in the "form" on the screwdriver ends
of these spindles, and before the boot or shoe is placed over such "form."
The stems of the screws are held to be correctly and centrally operated
by the screwdrivers by means of spring or yielding pressure. These
spindles are all driven simultaneously by tooth gear, operated by a
crank handle or other suitable driver, and screw threads single or
otherwise applied to operating with the spindles cause them progressively
to drive the screws before them into the heel of the boot or shoe.
Springs applied to the spindles and to the form aid their respective
action. Stops applied to the spindles control the extent of their elastic
yielding.
The heel is held in position during the operation by a screw lever or
excentric clamp capable of being turned out of the way of the boot or
shoe.
The apparatus may be readily attached to and removed from any
table or counter or such like place.
In the turning of the spindles to drive the screws a spring is wound
up, and this spring when the screws have been driven in then acts by
its unwinding to return the screwdrivers ready for the next operation.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
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filed by the said Michel Lion Lion in the Great Seal Patent Office 25
on the 16th January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MICHEL
LION LION, of No. 44, Canonbury Square, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
:)
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 30
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in
the thirty-eight year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
.

page_text: successors, give and grant unto me, the said Michel Lion Lion,
Her special license that I, the said Michel Lion Lion, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Michel
Lion Lion, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR AFFIXING HEELS TO BOOTS
AND SHOES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Michel Lion Lion, my executors or administrators, by .an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Michel Lion Lion, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of the Invention is to facilitate the affixing heels to boot
and shoes by means of screws, and the apparatus according to my
Invention is arranged to operate on three, or it may be more than three
screws simultaneously.
The boot or shoe to have a heel applied to it is with the inside thereof
passed over a form which may be of wood or other suitable material.
This form is perforated with holes corresponding with the number of
screws to be applied, and it is placed with its holes over a series of tubes
in each of which is applied a spindle, the upper ends of which are formed
to act as screwdrivers. The screws to be applied are placed within the
upper or outer ends. of the tubes in the "form" on the screwdriver ends
of these spindles, and before the boot or shoe is placed over such form.
The stems of the screws are held to be correctly and centrally operated
by the screwdrivers by means of spring or yielding pressure.. The
spindles are all driven simultaneously by tooth gear operated by a
crank handle. or other suitable driver, and screw threads, single or
otherwise,. applied to or operating with the spindles cause them

page_text: De varied. Each of such screws is placed with its nead downwards in
the upper part of one of the corresponding tubes cover which the form
is placed. One of such screws is represented in position by dotted
lines z in Figure 5, resting on the upper end of a spindle d. One of
these tubes c is formed with a slotted opening to receive one end of a
screw stop 63 applied to the form b, by which whilst that form may have
a slight downward motion as hereafter referred to, it is prevented from
being raised off the tubes c in the removal of a boot or shoe therefrom
or otherwise, except when that stop 62 has been released from, the
slot.
The tubes c are affixed by set screws or otherwise to the cylindrical
box or case a² formed on or applied to the plate a.
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The spindles d which are capable of revolving freely within their.
respective tubes c. are formed at their upper ends with projections d'
adapted to pass into the slits in the heads of the screws placed over
them, and thereby to act on them as screwdrivers. The lower end d³ of
each of the spindles d. is spread out sideways, so as to form a broad thin
surface adapted to pass into a corresponding slit or opening e¹ formed in
the upper portion of each of other spindles e, one for each spindle d.
These spindles e are each formed at their lower parts e³, as a screw with
a thread on it to pass into a corresponding thread in the part a³, so that
when rotary motion is given to the spindles e the spindles e will be
raised or lowered according to the direction in which the rotary motion
is imparted, and I prefer that the pitch of the screws e be slightly
greater than that of the screws at z. Upon each spindle e is formed or
applied a pinion e², the teeth of which are taken into by the teeth of the
broad pinion 9 affixed in the shaft or axis g₁ which is capable of
revolving freely in suitable bearings, as shown, and has applied to it the
winch handle g², or it may be a handle wheel by which rotary motion is
imparted to the pinion g, and thence by the pinions e³ to the spindles e,
and by means of the spindles d to operate the holding screws for the
heel to be applied.
h is a holder connected to the adjusting screw i for the purpose of
holding the heel to be applied to the heel of a boot or shoe during the
screwing in of the holding screw to unite the heel to the boot or shoe.
The lower end of the screw i. whilst it supports the holder h is capable of
turning freely therein, as shown, and the holder is prevented from:

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turning with the screw by means of the projecting stem ½ which is
capable of freely sliding in a hole formed for it in the arm j, so that
with the turning of the screw i the holder h will be raised or lowered as
the case may be. The arm j is supported with capability of turning on
the upper end of the pillar k, as shown. But to regulate the extent of t
such motion and enable the holder to be brought properly over the heel
to be fixed, there is provided a stud / acting as a stop at the top of
the pillar to act in a corresponding groove in the under side of the
arm j.
The screws to be used in connecting the heels to the bottoms of boots 1
or shoes are held upright or centrally in the upper ends of the tubes c
by spring or yielding pressure applied to the upper ends of such tubes,
or by a small disc of wood or other suitable material, such as shown by
plan and edge view of one of them at Figure 7, and which is applied on
the thread of the screw before its insertion in a tube c.
When as hereafter explained the screws begin to pierce the boot or
shoe and its heel, these discs on coming in contact, with the interior
surface of the boot or shoe, and by being forced on to the cylindrical"
portions of the respective screws become split and fall off.
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The method of operating with this apparatus is as follows:-The 2
screws to be used in connecting a heel to a boot or shoe are first placed,
one in the upper end of each tube c, as indicated by Figure 5, the
boot or shoe to have a heel applied to it is then placed with the heel
portion of the sole correctly over these screws on the form b, when the
heel to be applied is then placed in position correctly over the heel portion 2
of the sole of the boot, and the arm j is then turned on the pillar k until
the holder h is over the heel to be affixed to the boot or shoe, as
indicated by dotted lines at Figure 3. The screw i is then turned so as
to cause the heel to be borne downwards tightly on to the portion of the
boot or shoe to which it is to be affixed by which the form b. which is 3
otherwise supported by the spring 6', will be pressed downwards on to the
plate m, and the points of the screws will be caused just to penetrate
the sole of the boot or shoe.. The operator, then turns the axis ġ¹ by
the handle g² so as to give motion to the axes e, and in a direction such
as to cause them to ascend in such rotation by which the screwdriver 3
ends d' of the spindles & will take into the slits in the respective screws z,
and cause them to revolve and penetrate to hold the heel to the sole.

page_text: d³ is a spring applied to each of the spindles d to admit of slight yielding
arising from the pitch of screws at e³ being somewhat in excess of that
to the screws at 2, and to aid the holding of the parts d' in the slits of
the screw heads.
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n is a barrel spring which connected at one end to the axis g³, and
at the other end of it to the interior of the case a³, and which is
wound up in the act of turning the axis g¹ to screw in the screws, and
by which immediately the handle g² is released it will cause the axis g¹
to revolve in the opposite direction to that in which it had been moved,
bringing back the spindles d to their original position ready for the
repetition of the operation, and to prevent the action of this spring n
in its return motion from causing jamming of the collars of the spindles e
against the upper surface of the plate a³, I apply a plate spring e*
between the collar of each spindle e and the surface of the plate a³;
es are stops to hold these plate springs correctly in position.
Having thus described my Invention and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that I'do not
confine myself to the precise arrangements of parts, as shown and
described, as the same may be varied without, departing from the
peculiar character of the Invention, but what I do claim is the arranging
or combining parts whereby heels may be affixed to boots or shoes by
means of several screws simultaneously operated, substantially as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Michel Lion Lion, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of January,