A New or Improved Tool or Bunking Wheel for Raising, Indenting, and Pricking Up the Stitches in Welts or Soles of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 8th June, 1893-Accepted, 13th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Tool or Bunking Wheel for Raising, Indenting,
and Pricking Up the Stitches in Welts or Soles of Boots and
Shoes.
We LINUS RICHTER of No. 96 Wellingborough Road Northampton_in_the
County of Northampton Tool Manufacturer and CHARLES Cox of 9, Newland
Street, Kettering Boot Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to provide a tool commonly called a bunking wheel
so arranged shaped and formed that when run round the edge of the welt or bottom
of boots and shoes it leaves an oval raised imitation stitch and at the same time
pricking up the stitch already placed around the welt or sole and thus giving a
better appearance to machine, rivetted or hand sewn boots and shoes.
In carrying out our invention we provide a small piece of steel or other hard
metal which we form into a small wheel. We then cut out and shape and form the
centre part of the outer edge of the wheel which leaves a ring of small sharp raised
oval shaped holes in the direction the wheel is to travel.
This having been done we then cut away the edge sides of the wheel cross ways
between the oval shaped holes in such a way as to leave a ring of small raised
knife shaped pieces.
The wheel is then attached to any ordinary bunking wheel handle in any well
known manner.
The wheel when desired to be used has to be run round the welt or bottom of a
boot or shoe where the stitches are shewn, and pressing the same thereto as with
ordinary bunking wheels it will be found to immediately indent or mark the leather
at the same time raise the stitch and give the boot the appearance of a hand
sewn boot,
The wheel can also be used for the welts or bottoms of hand sewn boots and
shoes giving them a much better appearance by raising the stitches and better
indenting or marking the same.
Dated this 12th day of Sentember 1892
S. C. BEEL,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Tool or Bunking Wheel for Raising, Indenting,
and Pricking Up the Stitches in Welts or Soles of Boots and
Shoes.
We LINUS RICHTER, of 96 Wellingborough Road, Northampton, in the County
of Northampton, Tool Manufacturer, and CHARLES Cox of 9, Newland Street,
Kettering Boot Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The object of our invention is to provide a tool commonly called a bunking wheel
80 arranged shaped and formed that when run round the edge of the welt or bottom
of boots and shoes it leaves an oval raised imitation stitch and at the same time
pricking up the stitch already placed around the welt or sole and thus giving a
better appearance to machine, rivetted or hand sewn boots and shoes.
And in order that our invention may be thoroughly understood, we now proceed
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page_text: to describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being nad to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1, is a front elevation of the handle and bunking wheel.
Fig. 2, is a view of the raised knife shaped pieces on the outside of the wheel.
Fig. 3, is a section of the raised knife shaped pieces and the oval shaped holes
in the bunking wheel.
Fig. 4, is a view of the raised knife shaped pieces on the inside of the wheel.
Fig. 5, is a plan of Fig. 3.
Parts of the fig's. are broken off for convenience.
In carrying out our invention we provide a small piece of steel or other hard
metal which we form into a small wheel a. We then cut out and shape and form
the centre part of the outer edge of the wheel which leaves a ring of small sharp
raised oval shaped holes in the direction the wheel is to travel. This having been
done we then cut away the edge sides of the wheel cross ways between the oval
shaped holes in such a way as to leave a ring of small raised knife shaped
pieces c.
The wheel revolves on a countersunk screwed spindle e and is attached to an
ordinary bunking wheel handle d in any well known manner.
The wheel a when desired to be used has to be run round the welt or bottom of
a boot or shoe where the stitches are shown and pressing the same thereto as with
ordinary bunking wheels it will be found to immediately indent or mark the leather
at the same time raise the stitch and give the boot the appearance of a hand
sewn boot.
The wheel can also be used for the welts or bottoms of hand sewn boots and
shoes giving them a much better appearance by raising the stitches and better
indenting or marking the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In a bunking wheel, the combination of the oval shaped holes and the raised
knife shaped pieces for raising indenting and pricking up the stitches in welts or
soles of boots or shoes, substantially as herein described and according to the
accompanying drawings.
2. In a bunking wheel, the combination of the wheel mounted to a handle,
substantially as herein described.
3. The oval shaped holes and the raised knife shaped pieces cut on the periphery
of the bunking wheel, substantially as herein described and for the purpose
specified.
Dated this 8th day of June 1893.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicants.