Improvements in Sewing Machines for Binding Leather or other Material used in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 17th Sept., 1900-Accepted, 27th Oct., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sewing Machines for Binding Leather or other
Material used in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
We, WALTER EDWARD BROCK and HARRY BENSON CRANAGE, of 104 and 106,
Skinner Lane, Leeds, in the County of York, Engineers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates mainly to a feed mechanism for use in machines for
binding leather or other material used in the manufacture of boots and shoes, the
object being to provide a means whereby such material is kept in position under
the needle when working round curves, so preventing the stitch passing off the
edge of the material.
According to our invention we employ the ordinary V-shaped binding feeder,
but with a cross or diagonal feed instead of a straight feed. This may be effected
in any convenient manner, but preferably by providing on the feed lever a suitable
projection or cam, which engages with an adjustable pin on the needle plate or on
the bed of the machine.
We also provide a specially constructed foot in which a small projection, closely
adjacent to the needle way, bears against a shoulder on the V-shaped feeder.
By this means the binding is attached immediately on its issuing from the feeder,
so avoiding any possibility of such binding getting away from. the needle.
15th
Danmhan 1800
JOHN E. WALSH.
Royal Exchange Chambers,
Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent for the Applicants.
Improvements in Sewing Machines for Binding Leather or other
Material used in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
We, WALTER EDWARD BROCK and HARRY BENSON CRANAGE, of 104 and 106,
Skinner Lane, Leeds, in the County of York, Engineers, 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 a feed mechanism for use in machines for binding
leather or other material used in the manufacture of boots and shoes, the object
being to provide a means whereby such material is kept in position under the
needle when working around curves, so preventing the stitch passing off the
edge of the material.

page_text: We accomplish our object by providing an oblique or diagonal feed instead of
the straight feed hitherto used in this class of machine, the binding being fed
from the ordinary V-shaped binding feeder.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING
Fig. 1 is a view of the underside of a machine bed, the shuttle mechanism being
removed to illustrate more clearly our invention as applied to the feed mechanism.
A is the feed lever, which is actuated by the shafts B and C and the spring D
in the ordinary manner when a straight feed is required.
When a diagonal feed is required, a projection or cam E on the said feed
lever A engages with a pin or incline carried preferably by an adjustable slide G
on the bed of the machine. This slide G is preferably actuated by a pivotted hand
lever H, but if desired suitable treadle or knee levers may be provided for this
purpose.
By this means both the straight and diagonal feeds are available, and are
interchangeable at will.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
(1) In machines for binding leather and other materials used in the manufacture
of boots and shoes, the employment of an oblique or diagonal feed to keep the
material in position under the needle whilst working around curves, substantially
as shown and described.
(2) In a feed mechanism for binding machines, the combination of the feed
lever A having projection or cam E, the pin or incline F, slide G, lever H, shafts B
and C, and spring D, arranged and operated substantially as, and for the purposes,
shown and described.
LAVAYA
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers,
Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent for the Applicants.