Outting Pliers or Jaw Nippers for Removing Sprigs, Tacks, or 'other Obstructions from the Insides of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 9th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 4th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Outting Pliers or Jaw Nippers for Removing Sprigs, Tacks, or
'other Obstructions from the Insides of Boots and Shoes.
JAMES HEWITT of Queen Street Leicester Manager of a Public Company do
thereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The cutting pliers are made of cast steel or other similar material throughout,
the jaws being recessed into each other, and secured together by steel screw and
lock nut. The shape of the jaws being half round or other desired shape, and the
handles being of a suitable length every part of the inside of a boot or shoe can be
readily reached by the pliers and the sprig, tack, or other obstruction nipped off
closely to the insole. The jaws are kept open and ready for action by a spring
inserted in position between the handles or arms. The handles or arms are so
shaped and constracted as to give to the user great leverage so that a protruding
The handles or
tack or sprig can be readily nipped off with the greatest ease.
arms are also constructed with a heel on the inside of each, which coming together
when the pliers are closed prevent undue pressure being put upon the sharp edges
of the cutters.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Cutting Pliers or Jaw Nippers for Removing Sprigs, Tacks, or
other Obstructions from the Insides of Boots and Shoes.
JAMES HEWITT of Queen Street, Leicester, Manager of a Public Company, 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:-
In the manufacture of boots and shoes it frequently happens that a lasting tack
or other nail is left protruding through the inner sole, to the injury of the foot and
stocking, and to remove such nail is sometimes very troublesome for the uail has to
be bent and broken off usually by the aid of a rasp, or by hammering on an iron
last, which is but a temporary expedient, for it soon works up again.
The object of my invention is the production of a tool which may be readily
inserted within the boot or shoe, and by which the protruding nail or fastener may
be cut off down close to or below the inner surface of the inner sole. My cutting
pliers have cutting-edges which are curved forward and upward from the under side
of the tool, the cutting members being curved both longitudinally and laterally,
whereby they may be placed in operative position on any part of the boot or shoe
from the heel to the toe.
Figure 1 represents a shoe in longitudinal section, and my cutting pliers introduced
therein to cut off a tack or fastener left with its point above the inner sole.
Fig. 2 is a top view of a part of my cutting pliers,
Fig. 3, a section in the line x Fig. 2, and
Fig. 4 a section on the line 'Fig. 1.
My cutting pliers are composed of two long arms or levers a. b. connected
together by a pivot-screw c. Between the two levers is placed a spring c², which
acts normally to separate the levers. The cutting-edges of the pliers form parts of
the jaws a b', connected with the arms, a. b. respectively, beyond the pivot c, the
said cutting-edges starting from the lower side of the jaws, and being extended

page_text: forward and upwards in a curve, as best shewn in Figs. 1 and 3, and ending at or
just above the level of the upper line of the jaws. The jaws are curved in cross
section, as best shewn in Fig. 4 and the bevel of the cutting edges is such that
when the jaws are closed on the tack or nail to be cut, the edges will act to
cut the nail flush with, or a little below the surface of the inner sole.
The arms a. b. have projections a² 2, which are of proper length to meet just
before the cutting-edges come together.
The long arms and very short jaws, and the peculiar curve given to the jaws,
enable a nail in any part of the boot or shoe to be cut off.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
An improved article of manufacture, the herein described cutting pliers having
the long handles and the short jaws, the latter being curved as shewn and described,
and having the curved cutting-edges to operate as set forth.
Dated this Eighth day of December 1892.
JAMES HEWITT.