IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM FOR SECURING HEELS TO BOOTS & SHOES BY MEANS OF STAPLE-LIKE FASTENERS
Year: 1885

page_text: I ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES of the firm of W Brookes & Son of .55 & 56
Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex Patent Agent do hereby declare the
nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM FOR SECURING HEELS
TO BOOTS & SHOES BY MEANS OF STAPLE-LIKE FASTENERS and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object to produce a power machine to drive staple-
like fasteners from the inside of a boot or shoe outward through the heel to attach
the latter to the boot or shoe.
In the invention herein to be described the boot or shoe to which the heel is to
be attached is placed upon a post or standard with preferably the sole uppermost,
and the heel composed of any desired number of separate lifts is laid upon the sole,
and the post and drivers within it are lifted to cause the staple-like fasteners to
be driven through the sole into the heel, a heel shaped resisting plate acting against
the top lift of the heel to prevent the heel from rising while the staple-like
fastenings are being driven therein.
The curved edge of the heel from breast to breast is corrugated across its lifts
by means of a corrugating device pivoted with relation to the resisting: plate
against which the top lift end of the heel is forced while the staple-like fasteners
are being driven.
One part of my invention consists in a spring supported resisting plate against.
which the outer or top-lift end of the beel is pressed, and a reciprocating carriage
provided with an arm or post upon which is placed the boot or shoe to be heeled,
the said arm or post containing, a driver-plate provided with drivers the arm or
post also containing a.rod and a connected supporting-plate provided with guides
for the staple-like fasteners as will be described.
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The invention alsó consists in a resisting plate against which the outer or top-lift
end of the heel is pressed, a carriage and arm or post connected therewith, and

page_text: driver-plate and drivers, and a rod provided at its upper end with a supporting-
plate and extended into guides in said arm or post, and a spring surrounding the
said rod and acting normally to keep the supporting-plate elevated above the
driver-plate, combined with means substantially as will be described to actuate
the said parts whereby the sole and heel of the boot or shoe are first held between
the resisting plate and supporting-plate referred to, the first part of the upward
movement of the arm or post effecting the elevation of the driver-plate to drive
the fasteners, the final upward movement of the said post or arm compressing the
heel as will be described.
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Also, in a carriage, its attached post or arm provided with awls, and a rod, a
supporting-plate, and a spring, combined with a resisting plate to act upon the top
lift or outer end of the heel, and with means substantially as described to move the.
carriage, whereby the heel to be pricked is first caught between the supporting-
plate and the resisting plate after which the said supporting-plate remains at rest
while the carriage and the arm or post continue to rise to enable the awls to
penetrate the work before the heel is finally compressed substantially as will be
described.
Also, in a heeling machine, a supporting-plate provided with conical pointed tubes,
or open ended nail-tubes, combined with a rod, a driver plate attached to it, and a
series of awls and drivers, and with means to operate the said rod and driverṛ
plate.
Also, in a heeling machine, an arm or post, and a supporting-plate carried by it
to receive upon it and support the interior of the sole combined with suitable
guides substantially as will be described and a driver-plate to act upon the crowns
of the staples and force them through the sole from its inner side outward into the
heel, substantially as will be described.
Also, in a heeling machine, a resisting plate to act against the top lift or outer
end of the heel, combined with corrugators to act upon and corrugate the edges of
the heel across its lifts, substantially as will be described.
Also, in a heeling machine, the post or arm to receive upon it the boot or shoe to
be heeled, and a perforated plate to support the said boot or shoe, the said plate
having conical projections concentric with the perforations in the plate to counter-
Bink the innersole where the awls enter and pass through the same.
In this invention the parts are so arranged as to compress the heel after driving
the staples through it the awls and staples entering the heel more readily when the
latter is not in compressed condition, but I desire it to be understood that with but
slight alterations which would be readily understood by any mechanic the heel may
be more or less compressed as or before the staples enter the same.
Fig: 1, is a side elevation of a heeling machine. embodying my invention, the
dotted lines showing the arm or post and its connected parts turned outward to
receive upon or to permit a boot or shoe to be taken from it.
Fig: 2, is a front elevation of Fig: 1.
Fig 3, a sectional detail of the upper end of the machine to show the driver
plate in its upper position, or after the drivers have driven the staples into the sole
and heel, not shown.
Fig: 4, is a top view of the supporting-plate shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
Fig 5, is a section of Fig 4, in dotted lines x-x.
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Fig: 6, is a detail in partial elevation and section to show the staple guides,
staple-drivers, driver-plate, and the supporting-plate, and some of their attached
parts.
Fig: 7, is a section of Fig: 5, in the line looking down upon the driver-plate.
Fig: 8, represents the parts which are substituted for some of those shown in
Figs. 4, 5 and 6, when the sole and heel are to be pricked for the reception of the
staples and temporarily nailed in place, and
Fig: 9, is a top view of the supporting-plate on which the sole rests when it and
the heel are being pricked.

page_text: The frame-work A has suitable bearings to sustain the driving shaft A* which 18
provided with a belt pulley A* and a balance wheel A³.
The main shaft A¹ has a pinion A which engages the toothed wheel B loose on
the shaft B¹ and provided at its end with the crank B², said shaft B¹ in practice
having fast upon it a clutch B³ of ordinary construction, which is provided with
mechanism whereby the shaft B¹ may be stopped after each complete revolution,
the stopping point of the shaft being with the crank pin B2 in its lowest position.
The crank pin B³ receives the strap of a connecting rod B which is joined by n
pin a with a carriage C having preferably dove-tailed edges and fitted into guide-
ways C, C¹, forming part of the frame-work.
The upper end of the carriage C is provided with a box which receives through
it and also through the lower end of the arm or post E a bolt a¹ by which the
carriage and arm or post are so connected that the arm or post may be turned into
the dotted line position Fig: 1, to remove or apply the boot or shoe to which the
heel is to be attached.
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The arm or post E is provided with a locking device shown as a balanced
dog a³ having a lug a shown in dotted lines Fig: 1, which when the said lug is as
in full lines in said Fig, keeps the arm E in vertical position.
The arm or post E at its upper end, is bored or countersunk for the reception, as
shown in dotted lines Fig: 2, of the tubular shank of the driver plate b shown
separately in Fige: 5, 6, and 7, the said plate being provided with projections b¹ to
receive and in connection with pins be to hold the drivers 63, which in this invention
are made of flat steel or bars having a width and thickness substantially equal to
the crowns of the staples a to be driven thereby.
The arm E has a central bearing c and a second bearing at its upper end to
receive a rod D which at its upper end has connected with it the heel supporting-
plate 24 provided with a series of elongated holes 22 through which the staples s are
driven into the sole and heel.
From the lower end of this plate depend the staple-guides 19 consisting essentially
of narrow bars of metal grooved at their contiguous edges to receive the legs of the
staples as best shown in Fig: 1, the said staple-guides at their lower free ends
entering suitable holes in the driver plate, see Fig: 7.
The rod D, near its central part is provided with an adjustable collar e, and below.
the said collar and between it and the bearing c is a spiral spring e¹ which latter
surrounds the said rod.
The supporting-plate 24, at its upper side, is provided with the register pins 23
which enter the register holes previously made in the inner sole by the conical
projections 5 of the supporting plate D', see Fig: 8, upon which the sole rested
when it and the heel were being pricked by the awls d to be described.
At its outer edge, the supporting plate is provided with a shield H which is
extended downwards to cover the staple-guides and the upper end of the arm E.
The normal condition of the parts previous to inserting the staples s through the
innersole into the heel is as in Figs. 1 and 2, in which it will be 'noticed, especially
in Fig. 1, that the driver-plate b is some distance below the supporting-plate 24.
'A boot or shoe with its heel temporarily connected thereto by one or more nails
and with the sole and heel pricked, is placed upon the supporting plate with the
parts in the condition represented in Figs 1 and 2, and the shaft B' is started..
Movement of the shaft elevates the carriage C, and with it the driver-plate band
supporting-plate 24, the latter being'lifted by the action of the spiral spring e¹,
the collar. e.
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As soon as the supporting-plate 24 has been lifted sufficiently to merely pinch
the sole and its attached heel between it and the resisting plate g against which the
outer or top-lift end of the heel is forced, the supporting-plate 24 comes to rest or
stops, and the spring elis compressed as the arm E continues to rise, and during
such movement of the arm E after the supporting-plate has been arrested, the
drivers 63 act, against the crowns of the staples s forcing them upward- through
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their guidés and through the holes 22 in the supporting-plate and into the sole and
outward into the heel.
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As the crowns of the staples are brought snugly against the innersole, the crank
pin B arrives nearly in its highest position and thereafter as the crank pin passes
to its highest position, the staples having been driven, the heel is compressed and
solidified and the "settle" thus given to the stock is held by the corrugated legs of
the staples.
The outer portion or periphery of the heel will be corrugated substantially as
will hereinafter be described during the time that the heel is being compressed.
To enable the machine just described to prick the soles and heels preparatory to
driving staples therein, the arm E will be removed and another arm just like it
will be connected with the carriage C by the same bolt a¹.
This arm so substituted for arm E will have secured to its upper end the metal
plate d², Fig. 8, shaped like the driver plate b but which is provided with a series
of awls d.
The rod D, when pricking is to be done, has attached to its upper end a sup-
porting plate D, having conical pointed tubes 4, and pins or studs 5.
In this invention I have however added to the plate D a nail receiving tube 6,
and I have added to the plate da driver marked 7 which in operation drives a
nail 8 into the sole and through it into the heel as the awl plate d' is lifted to
drive the awls d through the sole and heel, the said nail temporarily securing the
sole and heel together as stated.
The frame-work has attached to it a projection or lug m against which the lower
end of the rod strikes as the carriage and arm E are drawn down, the said projec-
tion acting to stop the rod while the arm is descending thus insuring the placing of
the supporting plate above the driver plate.
The resisting plate ġ has at one side a slotted shank g' which is extended into
a sleeve g made vertically adjustable by a screw g³, the end of the shank being
acted upon by a rather stiff spring g which normally acts to keep the upper end
of the slot in the shank g¹ against the screw 98 therein, the said spring yielding as
the staples are being driven into the heel and being fully compressed by the time
that the staples are driven, the plate g thereafter remaining at rest while the heel
is being compressed.
The lower end of the sleeve g' is beveled so that as the resisting plate g is lifted
as described, the upper ends of the corrugators g³, g³, pivoted at 15 on ears of the
plates g, act on the said beveled portion causing the corrugators g³ to be turned on
their pivots and closed one toward the other to corrugate or indent the lifts of the
heel crosswise thus leaving the latter as if beat with the peen of a hammer and
with the cracks or lines of junction of the lifts more effectually concealed as will
be understood,
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
In mechanism for securing Heels to Boots and shoes by means of staple like
fasteners :-
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1. The spring supported resisting plate against which the outer or top-lift end of
the heel is pressed, and a reciprocating carriage provided with an arm or post upon
which is placed the boot or shoe to be heeled, the said arm or post containing a
driver-plate provided with drivers the arm or post also containing a rod and a
connected supporting-plate provided with guides for the staple-like fasteners,
substantially as described.
2. The resisting plate against which the outer or top-lift end of the heel is
pressed, a carriage and arm or post connected therewith, and driver-plate and
driver, and a rod provided at its upper end with a supporting-plate and extended.
into guides in said arm or post and a spring surrounding the said rod and acting.

page_text: normally to keep the supporting plate elevated above the driving plate, combined
with means substantially as described to actuate the said parts whereby the sole
and heel of the boot or shoe are first held between the resisting plate and
supporting plate, the first part of the upward movement of the arm or post
effecting the elevation of the driver-plate to drive the fasteners, the final upward
movement of the said post or arm compressing the heel, substantially as described.
3. The carriage, its attached post or arm provided with awls, and a rod, a
supporting-plate, and a spring, combined with a resisting-plate to act upon the
top-lift or outer end of the heel, and with means substantially as described to
move the carriage, whereby the heel to be pricked is first caught between the
supporting-plate and the resisting-plate, after which the said supporting-plate
remains at rest while the carriage and the arm or post continue to rise to enable
the awls to penetrate the work before the heel is finally compressed, substantially
as described.
4. The supporting-plate provided with conical pointed tubes or open ended
nail-tubes, combined with a rod, a driver-plate attached to it, and a series of awls
and drivers, and with means to operate the said rod and driver-plate, substantially
as described.
5. The arm or post, and a supporting-plate carried by it to receive upon it and
support the interior of the sole, combined with suitable guides, substantially as
described, and a driver-plate to act upon the crowns of the staples and force them
through the sole from its inner side outward into the heel, substantially as
described.
6. The resisting-plate to act against the top-lift or outer end of the heel,
combined with corrugators to act upon and corrugate the edges of the heel across
its lifts, substantially as described.
7. The post or arm to receive upon it the boot or shoe to be heeled, and a
perforated plate to support the said boot or shoe, the said plate having conical
projections concentric with the perforations in the plate to countersink where the
awls enter and pass through the same, substantially as described.
Dated this 17th day of April 1885.
W¼ BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the said Alfred George Brookes.