A TOOL OR APPARATUS TO BE USED IN THE BLOCKING AND LASTING OF LEATHER, AND IN OTHER CASES MA IS REQUIRED TO BE DRAWN OVER AID
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Hearnden Golding, of Maidstone, in the
County of Kent, Engineer, for the Invention of "A TOOL OR APPARATUS
TO BE USED IN THE BLOCKING AND LASTING OF LEATHER, AND IN OTHER CASES
MA
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Sealed the 19th February 1856, and dated the 3rd September 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Hearnden Golding
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd September 1855.
I, GEORGE HEARNDEN GOLDING, of Maidstone, in the County of Kent,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A TOOL OB
APPARATUS TO BE USED IN THE BLOCKING AND LASTING OF LEATHER, AND IN OTHER
CASES WHERE A COVERING IS REQUIRED TO BE DRAWN OVER A SOLID SUBSTANCE,"
to be as follows:-
This tool consists of a central rod, screw threaded, supported and held at
bottom in a bearing in which it is free to revolve; the bearing itself is held in
a horizontal piece, with two or more holes for the passage of nails or screws.
The screwed rod carries a cross head with an internal thread, corresponding
with that on the rod, and to each side of the cross head is connected a pair of
arms, made to terminate in a grasping or nipping head. The two plates
forming this head are brought nearer to or separated from each other by a
tightening screw and nut. The operation of blocking, for instance, is performed

page_text: as follows-The horizontal plate is screwed to the back of the block, the
cross head is placed at the bottom of the rod, and the two lower corners of
the leather are gripped by the nipping head, where they are securely fixed by
turning down the nut on the tightening screw. The screwed rod is made to
revolve, whereby the cross head is made to travel up the rod, taking with it
the nipping heads, and thus gradually bringing the leather into the desired
form of the block. From what has been already stated, it will readily be
understood in what manner the tool will operate in other cases where two ends
or sides have to be drawn over a shape or block.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Hearnden Golding in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 3rd March 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HEARNDEN GOLDING, of Maidstone, in the County of Kent, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reigu, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Hearnden Golding, Her special licence that I, the said George
Hearnden Golding, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said George Hearnden Golding, 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 Inven-
tion for "A TOOL OR APPARATUS TO BE USED IN THE BLOCKING AND LASTING OP
LEATHER, AND IN OTHER CASES WHERE A COVERING IS REQUIRED TO BE DRAWN OVER A
SOLID SUBSTANCE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Hearnden Golding, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should parti-
cularly 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Hearnden Golding, do hereby
leclare 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:-
This tool consists of a central rod, screw-threaded, supported, and held at
bottom in a bearing, in which it is free to revolve; the bearing itself is held in
a horizontal piece, with two or more holes for the passage of nails or screws.
The screwed rod carries a cross head with an internal thread, corresponding
with that on the rod, and to each side of the cross head is connected a pair of
arms, made to terminate in a grasping or nipping head. The two plates
forming this head are brought nearer to or separated from each other by a
tightening screw and nut. The operation of blocking, for instance, is performed
as follows:-The horizontal plate is screwed to the back of the block, the
cross head is placed at the bottom of the rod, and the two lower corners of the
leather are gripped by the nipping head, where they are securely fixed by
turning down the nut on the tightening screw. The screwed rod is made to
revolve, whereby the cross head is made to travel up the rod, taking with it
the nipping heads, and thus gradually bringing the leather into the desired
form of the block. From what has been already stated, it will readily be
understood in what manner the tool will operate in other cases where two ends
or sides have to be drawn over a shape or block.
Figure 1 is a view of the tool. A is a step or bearing in which the central
screwed rod B is fitted, and in which it is free to revolve; C is a cross head,
threaded through the centre with an internal thread, corresponding to that on
the rod; D, D, are arms connected to the cross head. These arms terminate
in two plates, roughened on the inside, and made to grip any article between
them by the tightening screw and nut E, E. F is a thumb-piece, in which the
central rod terminates, whereby it is caused to turn.
Figure 2 shews the tool applied to the blocking of a piece of leather. G is
the block, held in the frame H, H; I is the leather, the front of which is
passed over a pin a at the front of the block. The tool is fixed by screws
passing through the sides of the step A into the heel of the block. The two
ends b, b, of the leather are gripped and held between the jaws of the arms.
The leather is damped and worked somewhat into the shape of the upper part
of the block, and it is gradually pulled into the form shewn in the Figure by
turning the screwed central rod of the tool, whereby the cross head, and with
it the arms and ends b, b, of the leather, are drawn back.

page_text: 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 the improved
blocking and lasting tool, herein-before described, whether employed for the
blocking of leather, or for drawing leather or other material over a solid
substance.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Hearnden Golding, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of February, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
GEORGE HEARNDEN GOLDING. (L.S.)