Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes and in Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 6th Sept., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 7th Oct., 1887
RESERVE
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes and in
Apparatus therefor.
1, CHRISTOPHER DAGGETT, of 20, Bucklersbury, in the city of London, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of soles for boots and
shoes, in the method of attaching soles to boots and shoes and in apparatus therefor.
In carrying out my invention I provide the sole with a number of plugs or pieces
of metal or other suitable material which I drive into the sole (before the same is
attached to the middle sole and upper) by means of an apparatus constructed in the
following manner.
I employ a bed plate upon which I place a number of drivers or plungers.
I also provide a top plate having a series of holes for receiving the said drivers or
plungers.
Between the said plates and at each corner thereof I place a spring serving normally
to keep the said plates apart.
In order to drive the plugs or pieces of metal into the leather sole, the holes in the
top plate are filled with the said plugs or pieces of metal and the sole is placed thereon
and the whole being then placed under pressure in a suitable machine, the said plugs
or pieces of metal will be driven into the sole and can be left level with the face of the
sole or they may project therefrom if required.
In order to receive the scraps of leather which may be produced by the plugs as
they are driven into the sole I find it advantageous to place over the sole a plate having
a similar number of holes to those in the hereinbefore described top plate.

page_text: For attaching soles to boots and shoes I make use of a bed plate and a top plate as
herein before described and provide the same respectively with a row or rows of drivers
or plungers and with holes of a size suitable to receive ordinary rivets. In this case
the boot or shoe is lasted and prepared in the usual manner and the outer sole is then
attached by the rivets being driven through the same by the drivers or plungers to
which pressure is applied as herein before described.
Dated the 10th day of November 1886

page_text: Apparatus шегетот.
I, CHRISTOPHER DAGGETT, of 20, Bucklersbury, in the city of London, Gentleman,
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:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of soles for boots and
shoes, in the method of attaching soles to boots and shoes and in apparatus therefor.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe how the same
can be carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawings in which
figure 1 represents a side elevation of my apparatus for the manufacture of soles for
boots and shoes according to my invention the figure shewing a sole in position for
being operated upon. Figures 2 and 3 are a plan and a side sectional elevation
respectively of the main or lower part of the said apparatus. Figures 4 and 5 are a
side elevation and a plan respectively of the upper plate or part of the said apparatus.
Figures 6 and 7 are a plan and a sectional edge view respectively of a sole for a boot
or shoe, manufactured according to my invention. Figure 8 is a view of one of the
plugs or pieces of metal I employ in making my improved soles. Figures 9 and 10
are a plan and a central longitudinal section respectively of my apparatus for attaching
soles to boots and shoes. Similar reference letters indicate similar or corresponding
parts throughout the drawings.
In manufacturing soles for boots and shoes according to my invention I provide the
sole with a number of plugs or pieces of metal or other suitable material which I drive
into the said sole (before the same is attached to the middle sole and upper of the boot
or shoe) by means of an apparatus constructed in the manner shewn in figures 1 to 5.
The apparatus is constructed of a bed plate a, provided with a number of drivers or
plungers b, b; c, is a top plate upon which the sole g, to be operated upon is placed as
shewn by the dotted lines in figures 2 and 3, having a series of holes d,_d,
corresponding with and arranged for receiving the said drivers or plungers b, b. The
plate c, is connected to the plate a, by means of screws c³, c¹.
Between the said plates a, and c, and at, each corner thereof I place a spring e,
serving normally to keep the said plates a, and e, apart.
In order to receive the scraps of leather which are produced by the plugs f, f,
(figures 6, 7, and 8) as they are driven into the sole g, I place over the said sole a
plate k, having holes i, i, similar in number to and coincident with the holes d, d, in
the top plate c; j, j, are pins on the plate h, which fit into sockets in the plates a, and c,
thereby allowing the plate h, to be removed and replaced without altering the relative
position of the holes d, d, and i, i.

page_text: In order to drive the plugs or pieces of metal f, f, into the leather sole g
(figures 1 and 2), the holes d, d, in the top plate c, are filled with the said plugs or
pieces of metal and the sole g, is placed thereon with the plate h, above it, as shewn in
figure 1. The whole is then placed under pressure in a suitable machine the said
plugs or pieces of metal being thereby driven into the sole producing a sole as shewn
in figures 6 and 7, the scraps of leather forced out of the sole g, passing into the
holes i, i, of the plate h. The plugs f, f, can be left level with the face of the sole,
as shewn in the said figures, or they may project therefrom if required.
For attaching soles to boots and shoes I make use of the apparatus shewn in
figures 9 and 10 which consists of a bed plate a, and a top plate c, similar to those
herein before described; I provide the said plates a, and c, respectively with a row
(or rows) of drivers or plungers b, b, and with holes d, d, of a size suitable to receive
ordinary rivets. Springs e, e, and screws c¹, c¹, are also used similar to those in
figures 1 to 5. In this case an ordinary rivet is placed in each of the holes d, d, and
the sole to be attached is placed on the plate c.
The boot or shoe which is to receive
the sole is then lasted and prepared in the usual manner and placed above the said sole
which is then attached by the rivets being driven through the same and into the middle
sole of the boot or shoe by the drivers or plungers b, b, to which pressure is applied
in a similar manner to that hereinbefore described with reference to figures 1 to 5.
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 :-
1. A sole for boots and shoes consisting of a leather sole into which have been
driven a number of plugs or pieces of metal substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated in figures 6 and 7 of the accompanying drawings.
2. The manufacture and use for driving metal plugs or pieces into leather soles,
of the machine constructed arranged and operating substantially as herein before
described and illustrated in figures 1 to 5 of the accompanying drawings.
3. The manufacture and use, for attaching soles to boots and shoes, of the improved
machine herein before described and illustrated in figures 9 and 10 of the accompanying
drawings.
4. A boot or shoe provided with a leather sole into which has been driven a number
of plugs or pieces of metal as hereinbefore described.
Dated the 10th day of August 1887.