IMPROVEMENTS IN TOOLS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER AND OTHER RINGS, WASHERS, AND LACES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John William Scott, of the City of Worcester, Button
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TOOLS FOR THE
MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER AND OTHER RINGS, WASHERS, AND LACES."
Sealed the 1st April 1862, and dated the 1st October 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John William Scott
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,"
on the 1st October 1861.
I, JOHN WILLIAM SCOTT, of the City of Worcester, Button Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TOOLS
FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER AND OTHER RINGS, WASHERS, AND LACES," to
be as follows:―
My Invention consists in the construction of tools for the manufacture of
rings and washers, by stamping several of such articles at the same time out
of the solid, whether the material be leather cloth or other material or fabric.
I affix to a plunger or punch a series of fixed concentric circular cutters, and
place between every two an annular piston; all the pistons are connected to a
cross bolt or bar, and this bar to an external ring; the bar is free to move in
a slot cut in and through the tool.
The operation is as follows:-On the tool being forced down by a screw or
the cutting blades cut out a series of concentric rings, which fill
other
press,

page_text: the spaces between them; then, on the rising of the tool, the ring directly or
through a helical spring and upper collar, comes in contact with a fixed abut-
inent and depresses the annular pistons, whereupon the rings stamped out and
held between the cutters are driven from the tool, and the same action takes
place on every down and up-stroke of the tool.
Various modifications may be made in the forming and working of my tools,
without departing from the features of my Invention, some of which I will set
forth in my Complete Specification. I have simply instanced that construction
of tool I have found to answer well.
My tools for manufacturing laces consist of a cutting blade fixed or bedded
spirally in any suitable bed or holder, the spaces between the coils of the spiral
determine the thickness of the lace. I either use a spiral movable piston with
this spiral cutting blade, or I use the cutting blade without mechanical
contrivance for pushing out the lace, and then withdraw the lace from the
tool by hand.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John William Scott in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st April 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WILLIAM SCOTT, of the City of Worcester, Button Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John William Scott, Her special licence that I, the said John William
Scott, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said John William Scott, 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 TOOLS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER AND
OTHER RINGS, WASHERS, AND LACES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said John William Scott, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly

page_text: 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 John William Scott, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in the construction of tools for the manufacture of
rings and washers, by stamping several of such articles at the same time out of
the solid, whether the material be leather cloth or other material or fabric.
I affix to a plunger or punch a series of fixed concentric circular cutters, and
place between every two an annular piston; all the pistons are connected to a
cross bolt or bar, and this bar to an external ring; the bar is free to move in
a slot cut in and through the tool.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a side elevation, and Figure 2 is
a vertical section of this tool. a is the plunger; b, c, and d are the concentric
circular cutters; and e, f, and g are the pistons; h is the bolt passing through
the pistons, free to move up and down in the slots i, i, in the concentric rings,
and secured by heads to a ring k, extending round the plunger; is a helical
spring bearing against the ring k and upper collar m.
The operation is as follows:-On the tool being forced down by a screw or
other press, the cutting blades b, c, d, cut out a series of concentric rings,
which fill the spaces between them; then, on the rising of the tool, the ring
directly or through the helical spring and upper collar m, comes in contact
with a fixed abutment and depresses the annular pistons e, f, g, whereupon the
rings stamped out and held between the cutters are driven from the tool, and
the same action takes place on every down and up stroke of the tool.
Various modifications may be made in the forming and working of my tools
without departing from the features of my Invention. I have simply instanced
that construction of tool I have found to answer well.
My tools for manufacturing laces consist of a cutting blade fixed or bedded
spirally in any suitable bed or holder; the spaces between the coils of the
spiral determine the width of the lace. I either use a spiral movable piston
with this spiral cutting blade, or I use the cutting blade without any mecha-
nical contrivance for pushing out the lace, and then withdraw the lace from
the tool by hand.
Figure 3 is a side view, and Figure 4 is a plan of the under side of this

page_text: tool. A "head" or solid piece at one end of the lace to take the place of and
prevent the necessity of making a knot as usual, is formed by leaving a space
in the centre of the tool, as shewn at n, and this space may be of any desired
shape or device, as, for example, shown in Figure 5. Sometimes I leave the
space for forming the solid piece at the outer end of the tool, as shewn at
Figure 6. The length of the lace is determined by the number of coils in the
spiral cutting blade. I sometimes form the tool with spaces to cut "heads"
at each end, so that by dividing the lace in the centre, two laces are formed,
each having a head at one end. The tools are shewn circular, they may, how-
ever, be oval, or of any other convenient form. Although I prefer to cut laces
with a "head," yet they may be cut of the same width throughout.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, the construction of tools for cutting leather and other rings and
washers, with a series of fixed concentric cutters in combination with pistons,
made to act substantially in manner herein-before described.
Second, the construction and employment of cutting blades fixed or bedded
spirally in any suitable bed or holder for cutting laces, substantially in manner
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John William Scott, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of March, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two.
Signature witnessed by
JOHN BLAKEWAY.
☑
J. W. SCOTT. (L.S.)