IMPROVE- MENTS IN CUTTING OUT PARTS OF BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Sparkes Hall, of Regent Street, in the
County of Middlesex, Bootmaker, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CUTTING OUT PARTS OF BOOTS AND SHOES."
Sealed the 27th August 1853, and dated the 4th March 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Sparkes
Hall at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 4th March 1853.
I, JOSEPH SPARKES HALL, of Regent Street, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Bootmaker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CUTTING OUT PARTS OF BOOTS AND SHOES" to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in adapting machinery to the cutting out of
parts of boots and shoes, an operation hitherto performed by hand.
I make use of cutting tools, or dies of steel, which are formed agreeably
to improved patterns, so arranged, that, by a combination of two or
more patterns, I effect a great saving of material and time; for instance,
I produce from a piece of leather of the ordinary size of one "golosh"
vamp "three pieces suitable for the "golosh" or "toe cap" of an
ordinary half boot; and I effect this by a suitable combination and
arrangement of patterns, with a view to economy of material, and also

page_text: of comfort to the wearer. I usually combine three different forms and
sizes in one "cutter," and occasionally weld together three of these
tools, by which means I cut, at one and the same time, a number of
parts of uppers." I also do the same with the bottoms or soles.
I place the leather or other material to be cut or punched out on the
table of a suitable press, and bring down pressure on the cutting tools
or dies, whereby the materials are cut or stamped out according to the
shape of the tools.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Sparkes Hall, in the Great Seal Patent
Oflice, on the 3d September 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOSEPH SPARKES HALL, of Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Bootmaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty, Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Joseph Sparkes Hall, Her special licence that I, the
said Joseph Sparkes Hall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Joseph Sparkes Hall, my executors, ad-
ministrators, 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 Treland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CUTTING
OUT PARTS OF BOOTS AND SHOES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Joseph Sparkes Hall, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Oflice within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Sparkes Hall, do hereby
declare 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, reference being had to the Drawings here-
unto annexed, that is to say:
My Invention consists in adapting machinery to the cutting out of
parts of boots and shoes, an operation hitherto performed by hand.
I make use of cutting tools or dies of steel or other suitable metal,
which are formed agreeably to improved patterns, so arranged that
by a combination of two or more patterns I effect a great saving of
material and time; for instance, I produce from a piece of leather of
the ordinary size of one golosh "vamp" three pieces suitable for the
golosh or "toc cap" of an ordinary half boot; and I effect this by a
suitable combination and arrangement of patterns, with a view to
economy of material, and also of comfort to the wearer. I usually com-
bine three different forms and sizes in one "cutter," and occasionally
weld together three of these tools, by which means I cut, at one and
the same time, a number of parts of "uppers." I also do the same
with the bottoms or soles. I place the leather er other material to be
cut or punched out on the table of a suitable press, and bring down
pressure on the cutting tools or dies, whereby the materials are cut or
stamped out according to the shape of the tools.
The drawings hereunto annexed represent different shapes of the
cutters which I use for stamping out the leather, india rubber, or other
suitable material for forming the various parts of the shoes, goloshes, or
such other similar articles. Figure 1, represents a pair of "cutters," so
combined as to stamp out the leather to such shapes, and so form A,
a man's golosh, and B, a cap or toe piece for a child's shoe. Figure 2,
indicates a cutter for stamping out three shapes, which severally
represent, A, the cap for a woman's shoe; B, a woman's low golosh;
and C, a similar shape, but of a larger size. Figures 3, and 4, represent
similar plans of stamps for cutting out a variety of other shapes.
Figure 5, shews another arrangement of three cutters for stamping,
A, the back for a woman's boot or shoe; B, a child's "cap;" and C, the
front of a woman's shoc. Figure 6. represents a further arrangement

page_text: and combination of cutters, whereby I am enabled to stamp out two
soles of a boot or shoe at one and the same operation. It is obvious
that cutters may be made of other and different shapes, and so arranged
aud combined as to cut or stamp out the several other shapes and
patterns necessary either to form a boot, shoe, golosh, or other similar
article.
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 cutting or stamping out two or more parts of boots and shoes
by means of suitably-shaped cutting tools, in a stamping press, at one
operation, as hercin-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Sparkes Hall, bave
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Third day of September,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
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JOSEPH SPARKES HALL.
ES HALL. (L.S.)
JOSEPH SPARKES
(L.S.)