Improvements in "Peg-ribbon" or Material to Form Pegs in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 20th Nov., 1897
Improvements in "Peg-ribbon" or Material to Form Pegs in the
Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
I, JAMES LEGGAT, of 728 Craig Street, Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada,
Inventor, 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:-
Pegging machines employed to drive pegs in the manufacture of boots and
shoes, and in leather work, belting, etcetera, have commonly been supplied with
peg wood in the form of strips or ribbons, the strips or ribbons being of a width
equal to the length desired for the peg to be cut therefrom by a transverse cut,
the grain of the wood running crossways of the strip or ribbon.
In this class of peg-wood the strips vary in width, they, in a measure, cor-
responding with the thickness of the stock to be united by the peg, but in the use
of this class of peg-wood each peg is driven home with its outer end flush with the
outer surface of the sole or other article into which the peg is driven, and the
point of the peg, it always protruding entirely through the stock, enters usually a
wooden last, and as a result these lasts are frequently broken or rapidly worn out,
and the point ends of the pegs so left have to be cut off or rasped out of the interior
of the shoe before the shoe can be worn.
Attempts have been made to cut off the point ends of these pegs while standing
in a hole in a horn.
In my attempts to improve the quality of pegged shoes and facilitate their
manufacture, I have devised a novel peg-ribbon of substantially indefinite length,
the said ribbon having its cross section of a size desired for the cross section of the
peg, the fibre of the wood running in the direction of the length of the peg-ribbon
rather than transversely of said length, as heretofore, and preferably of compressed
fibrous material.
Fig. 1 represents a plank of any usual or suitable length, width, and thickness,
the dotted lines on said Fig. showing one plan of dividing the plank into sections.
Fig. 2 shows two of these sections with their ends bevelled at an angle of about
450 degrees and glued together firmly, the dotted lines on said Fig. representing
the manner of cutting the same for the manufacture of my peg ribbon.
Fig. 3 shows one of the strips taken from the united sections of Fig. 2, and the
dotted lines thereon show how the strip may be divided into individual peg
ribbons.
Fig. 4 shows one of my improved peg ribbons wound into coil form.
In the manufacture of my improved peg-ribbon, I take a plank A of any desired
length, width, and thickness, the grain running in the direction of the length of
the plank.
I then cut this plank into sections on the dotted lines shown in Fig. 1, but the
particular width of these sections is immaterial, preferably, however, the sections
may be from about to 1 inch in width.
These sections are then taken and their ends are bevelled at any angle, as at a,
and the end of one section is put to the end of another section and they are firmly
glued together, and by using a great number of these sections and joining them

page_text: end to end, a section may be made of indefinite length, say three to five hundred
feet if need be.
The united sections c, Fig. 2, are then divided longitudinally on the dotted lines
shown on Fig. 2, into strips, the narrow edge of the strip being of the width or
of the thickness of the peg ribbon to be made, and each of these strips cis further
sub-divided longitudinally on the lines represented in Fig. 3, leaving peg-
ribbons d, see Fig. 4, of indefinite length. To finish accurately as to size in cross
section this peg-ribbon, it will preferably be compressed between grooved feeding
rolls, and be forced into and through a die having an opening corresponding in
area with the cross section desired for the finished peg-ribbon, and said die may
have suitable cutting edges or portions co-operating with it to trim off any surplus
fins or projections that might possibly appear or be left on the edges of the peg-
ribbon.
The peg-ribbon herein shown is represented as square in cross section, but it
will be obvious that the cross section of the peg-ribbon might be varied, as it
might be diamond shape, lozenge shape, oval etcetera, the oval shape being
obtained by compressing or cutting each peg ribbon before it is reeled for use in
the machine.
This peg-ribbon may, before it is reeled, be subjected to the action of any usual
or suitable wood filler, compacting, or pressing mechanism so that the peg strip
may be rendered very smooth and finished if desired.
These peg ribbons are suitably wound in the form of a coil, ready to be applied
to any usual or suitable reel or coil holder of any usual or suitable machine in
which the peg-ribbon is to be used, said machine having preferably an awl to
form a hole for the reception of the end of the peg-ribbon, a support for the shoe
or other article in which the peg is to be driven, and cutters to sever or cut off
flush with the outer sole, the peg-ribbon after the leading end of the
has arrived at or substantially at the inner side of the sole being united by the
pegs.
peg ribbon
In this way a pegged shoe may be made in which the points of the pegs will not
protrude through the inner sole, and hence there are no peg points to be cut off
and there is no line of roughness to wear stockings and injure the feet.
It will be obvious that this novel peg-ribbon may be handled, and have its end
driven into the material before the peg is cut off, just as wire and other fastenings
used in coil form is handled and driven so that it is not necessary herein to specific-
ally illustrate or describe a machine for such purpose.
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. A peg-ribbon of finite length, the same presenting in cross section
the shape desired for the peg in cross section, the fibres of the peg-ribbon running
in the direction of the length thereof, substantially as described.
2. A coil of peg-ribbon of indefinite length, presenting in cross-section the shape
desired for the peg in cross-section, the fibres of the ribbon running in the direction
of the length thereof, substantially as described.
3. A peg ribbon of compressed, fibrous material, of indefinite length, correspond-
ing in cross section to that desired for the pegs to be severed therefrom, the fibres
of the ribbon running longitudinally thereof, substantially as described.
Dated the 18th day of October 1897.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 and 56 Chancery Lane London, Agents for the Applicant.