Improvements in Machines for Ornamenting Leather Straps and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 20th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 10th Apr., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Ornamenting Leather Straps and
the like.
MARSHALL HENRY PEARSON of Blue Boar Lane, Leicester, Engineer, and
PEARSON & BENNION, LIMITED, of Blue Boar Lane, Leicester, Engineers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to machines for ornamenting leather straps &c. and consists
of an improved machine for impressing or forming lines, stripes or grooves in the
surface of the straps.
Mounted upon suitable framework we provide a spindle carrying a feed roller
against which the straps are held by one or more impressing tools with sufficient
force to impress the lines &c. and to cause the straps to pass under the tools when
the feed roller is revolved.
The impressing tools, which are formed to suit the breadth &c. of lines required,
are pressed against the straps by springs, or other suitable means, and are indepen-
dently adjustable as regards their distance apart, pressure, and distance from the feed
roller. They are also arranged so that they may be readily moved away from the
feed roller for placing straps in or removing them from the machine.
Suitable adjustable guides are provided.
Dated this 21st dex of Move 1896
MARSHALL H. PEARSON.
PEARSON & BENNION, LIMITED,
FRANK E. WHEELER, Secretary,
For the Company.
Improvements in Machines for Ornamenting Leather Straps and
the like.
We MARSHALL HENRY PEARSON, of 16, Blue Boar Lane Leicester, Engineer and
PEARSON & BENNION LIMITED, also of 16, Blue Boar Lane, Leicester, 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 :---
Our invention relates to machines for ornamenting leather straps and the like,
by impressing or forming lines, stripes, or grooves in their surface, and has for
its object the construction of a machine in which the straps etc. are pressed upon
a feed roller by impression tools in such a manner that the impression tools not
only form the desired lines, etc. in the surface of the straps, but also create sufficient
friction between the straps and the feed roller, to cause the latter to draw the former
through the machine.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a machine constructed according to our invention..
Fig. 2 is an end elevation.
Figs. 3. 4. 5. & 6 are views of different forms of impression tools.
The feed roller A is mounted upon a spindle A' supported by a bearing formed

page_text: in the framework B, and may be rotated by means of a crank or belt-driven
pulley A².
b
The impression tools which are made to suit the desired ornamentations and may
be as shewn by CC in Figs. 1. & 2. or by Figs. 3. 4. 5. & 6 are clamped in separate
holders C mounted upon a right and left-handed screw C².
Each holder C is provided with an arm C³, which normally rests against the swing
frame D, and has screwed to it a pressure adjusting screw C, surrounded by a
spring C³, and washer C.
By means of clamps C7, the height of the impression tools is so adjusted, that they
are just clear of the feed roller when the arms C³ rest upon the swing frame D, but
when a strap is placed between the impression tools and the feed roller, the springs C
yield, and the pressure exerted by the impression tools upon the strap may be
independently adjusted by turning the screws (".
When two tools are employed, the distance between thein is adjusted by turning
the hand wheel 08 attached to the screw C².
Any number of tools and holders may be used, and the screw C may be dispensed
with, a plain bar with the requisite number of adjustable collars being substituted.
The tools are heated by gas, which is passed from the inlet E, through cocks E
flexible tubes E2, and the tools C emerging from small holes near the bottom of the
tools C where it is lighted.
The swing frame D is mounted upon a shaft D¹, supported in bearings D2, formed
in the framework B.
The axes of the screw C2, and the shaft D' are preferably in a straight line, and
the end of the screw C2 may be supported in a hole D³, formed in the end of the
shaft D' as shewn in Fig. 1.
To raise the impression tools simultaneously for the purpose of placing straps etc. in
the machine, the lever F is depressed and by means of the link F and lever F, the
swing frame D etc., is turned about the axis of the shaft D'. The lever F, link Fi
lever F2 swing frame D etc., are normally held in the position shewn in Fig. 2 by the
spring F and stops F formed on the lever F and link F¹.
Suitable adjustable guides such as G, Gare provided.
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 wo
claim is
1. In machines for ornamenting leather straps and the like, the employment of
fixed impression tools in combination with a feed roller, substantially as herein
described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In machines for ornamenting leather straps and the like the combination of
impression tools, holders, stops, and spring adjustments, substantially as herein
described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. In machines for ornamenting leather straps and the like the combination of
impression tools with the swing frame, and means of operating same substantially
as herein described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
4. In machines for ornamenting leather straps and the like by impressing or
forming lines &c. in their surfaces, the employment of impression tools indepen-
dently adjustable as regards their distance from the feed roller, pressure, and
distance apart, with means for moving them simultaneously away from the feed
roller, substantially as herein described, and as illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 19th day of February 1897
MARSHALL H. PEARSON.
PEARSON & BENNION, LIMITED,
FRANK E. WHEELER, Secretary,
For the Company.