Improvements in connection with Sole-sewing Machines.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Aug., 1897
Improvements in connection with Sole-sewing Machines.
1, FRANCIS DARBYSHIRE, of 32 and 33, Corn Market, Dublin, Ireland, Boot, Shoe
and Clog Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved horn-plate for that type of sewing machines
adapted for sewing on the soles of boots and shoes, and refers more particularly
to that class or make of machine known as the "Blake machine."
Machines of the type referred to have an upstanding arm adapted to be rotated
about a centre, the upper end of which said arm carries a pointed horn-plate having
a hole in which the point of the needle sinks in making each stitch, and upon the
said arm the boot or shoe is mounted, the stitches as made passing entirely through
the inner and outer soles of the same, the said machine with such a horn-plate
being unsuited for what is known as "welt" sole sewing, and my present invention
is designed with a view to the employment of the same machine, or make of
machine for both purposes.
My invention consists of a horn-plate of rectangular or approximately rect-
angular formation, adapted to be screwed upon or otherwise connected to the upper
end of the before mentioned arm of such a machine, either upon or in lieu of the
said pointed horn-plate, my said improved plate having a suitably disposed hole
for receiving the needle point, and so constructed and arranged that its outer edge
may pass between the welt (already sewn upon the upper of the boot or shoe by
the same or other like machine having a pointed horn-plate) and the upper, so
that the stitches may connect the sole to the welt in manner similar to that of a
hand-sewn boot or shoe.

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
My invention relates to an improved horn-plate for that type of sewing machine
adapted for sewing on the soles of boots and shoes, and refers more particularly
to that class or make of machine known as the "Blake machine."
In order that my said invention and the manner of its use may be clearly under-
stood I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings, of which.
Figs. 1 and 2 are side and back elevation respectively of an ordinary horn-plate
as used upon machines of the type named for sewing on the soles of boots and shoes.
Figs. 3 and 4 are like views of my improved horn-plate for use upou like machines,
in lieu of Fig. 1, for the purposes of my invention.
Fig. 5 is a view of the arm, and so much of a sewing machine of the type
named, as will serve to illustrate the manner of mounting a boot thereon for sewing
on a sole in the ordinary way, by the use of the plate Fig. 1.
Fig. 6 is a much enlarged view similar to Fig. 5, but illustrating the manner of
mounting upon the said arm, and using my improved horn-plate as hereinafter
explained.
Machines of the type referred to have an upstanding arm such as A, adapted
to be rotated about a centre B, and having internal mechanism to which is fed
a thread C, from a reel or spool D. For ordinary sole sewing the said arm A carries
a horn plate E, constructed substantially as at Figs. 1 and 2, and this when fixed
upon the upper end of A receives the boot or shoe F (shewn in position by dotted
outline) as illustrated by Fig. 5, the upper end of the said horn-plate E having a
hole G, into which the point of the needle H sinks and makes contact with the
thread C in making the stitch, the said stitches as made passing entirely through
the inner and outer soles of the said boot or shoe, but such a machine with such
a hornplate E is unsuited for what is known as welt sole sewing" and my in-
vention is designed with a view to the employment of such a machine or make of
machine for both purposes.
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My invention consists of a horn plate J constructed of any suitable metal sub-
stantially as at Figs. and 4, having an approximately rectangular head K, and
a wing L, by means of the latter of which it may be screwed upon the arm A in the
same way as the wing of the horn plate E Fig. 1, and as shewn in Fig. 6. The
head K of J has a hole or passage M, similar to the hole or passage G in the horn
plate E, through which the needle H passes in like manner, the front or nosing
of the said head being concave in one direction as shewn at P Fig. 3, and convex
in the opposite direction as shewn at P¹ in Fig. 4.
In practice the welt R of the boot or shoe would be first sewn to the insole by
the means of such a machine, having a horn plate such as E, G, and by the same
means and manner as that illustrated by Fig. 5, and when the welt is so sewn on,
the sole S would be fixed in position upon R, and the boot be held with the toe T
of the upper resting in the hollow P of the hornplate J, fixed upon another machine,
(or upon the same machine in place of the horn plate E) so that the pointed
edge a of the head K would fit into the angle between the welt R, and the
with the said welt resting upon the upper surface of K as at Fig. 6, when by
upper T,
operating the machine in the usual way the needle H would enter the usual stitch-
channel formed in the sole S, and by passing down through this and the welt R,
would unite $ to R in the same way and as strong and as neatly as if sewn by hand.
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 combination with a machine for sewing soles upon boots and shoes the con-
struction use and application of a horn-plate such as J, having a head K, concave
at P and convex at P1, with needle hole or passage M, and means such as a wing L
for attaching the whole to the arm A of the machine, substantially as and for

page_text: the purposes herein described and shewn by Figs. 3, 4 and 6 of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 26th day of March 1898.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
No. 1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.