Improvements in Machines for Lasting Coverings for the Feet.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Jan:, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 16th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Lasting Coverings for the Feet.
I, THOMAS GARE, of 25, Booth Street, Edgeley, Stockport, in the County of
Chester, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in machines for lasting coverings for
the feet.
The machines hitherto employed for such purpose are of a very complicated.
and expensive character and used in connection with men in teams which prepare
the work for the machine and afterwards finish the operation of lasting.
The object of my invention is to considerably simplify and reduce the cost of.
lasting machines and permit each man to perform the whole of the operations of
lasting upon one machine, so that if the machine should require repairing the work
of that machine only is interrupted and not that of a whole team of men.
To this end I employ in a suitable socket, which may be secured upon a bench:
or frame as found most convenient, a table or platform, arranged to swivel in the
said socket. Upon this table or platform I employ in a line with each other three:
pillars, the middle one being adapted to carry the last whilst the one near the toe
forms a support and the one near the heel, carries an arm adapted to swivel and
hold the last firmly in position upon the said support. Upon the latter I employ a
sliding collar baving attached a number of spring blades furnished at the upper:
ends with anti-friction bowls, leather, rubber, or the like.
In connection with the said collar a lever, suitably fulcrumed and operated by a.
treadle is employed, in such a manner that by means of the latter the free ends of
the said spring blades are caused to glide up the contour of the toe of the last and
work the upper in position for being turned down and afterwards secured. This:
turning down, as well as that at the heel, may be performed by hand by means of
pinchers or by automatic means consisting of two bell crauk or other suitably
shaped levers each carrying at the upper eud tongs, the other ends being jointly
connected to a treadle which when operated causes the said tongs to move inwardly
and partly closing around the toe and heel, lay the upper over. The partial
closing of the said tongs may be effected by allowing the back limbs thereof to
slide against fixed projections arranged at the side thereof.
In order to facilitate the drawing and laying over of the upper at the waist of
the last the aforesaid swivelling arm may be furnished at each side with pinchers
adapted to be manipulated by hand separately or jointly by means of a lever
arrangement.
The simplicity of my improved lasting machine causes the work to be always
exposed to the view of the operator and thus enables him to produce better work
than is the case on other machines, and its reduced cost renders it within the reach
of small manufacturers who hitherto had no machines for lasting.
Dated this 15th day of Januar 1806
:
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant..

page_text: I THOMAS GARE, of 25, Booth Street, Edgeley, Stockport, in the County of
Chester, Engineer, 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 machines for lasting coverings for
the feet.
The machines hitherto employed for such purpose are of a very complicated
and expensive.character and used in connection with men in tearns, which prepare
the work for the machine and afterwards finish the operation of lasting.
The object of my invention is to considerably simplify and reduce the cost of
lasting machines and permit each man to perform the whole of the operation of
lasting upon one machine, so that if the machine should require repairing the work
of that machine only is interrupted and not that of a whole team of men.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a sectional side elevation, Fig. 2 an end view, and Fig. 3 a plan of my
improved lasting machine. Fig. 4 is a sectional side elevation of a modification of
the same.
In carrying out my invention and referring to Figs. 1, 2 & 3, I employ in a
suitable socket a, which may be secured upon a bench or frame b as found most
convenient, a table or platform c, arranged to swivel in the said socket. Upon
this table or platform I employ in a line with each other three pillars d, e, f, of
which e & fare carried by a bracket 9 secured longitudinally adjustable upon the
table or
platform c, and e is adapted to carry the last h, whilst, d near the toe forms
a support and, near the heel carries an arm g₁ adapted to swivel- and hold the
last h firmly in position upon the pillar e. Upon the latter I employ a sliding
collar i having attached a number of spring blades k, k, k, say three, furnished at
the upper ends with anti-friction bowls k¹, k, kl, or covered with leather, rubber or
the like yielding material.
In connection with the said collar, a lever is fulcrumed to a bracket m, secured
upon the table or platform c. One end of the said lever engages the collar i and
the other is jointed to a treadle n by means of the rod o which passes through the
pivot c¹ of the table or platform c. By means of the treadle n the free ends or
rollers k, k, k', of the spring blades k, k, k, are caused to glide, as shown in dotted
lines, Fig. 1, up the contour of the toe of the last and work the upper in position
for being turned down and afterwards secured. This turning down as well as that
at the heel and laying over of the upper at the waist may be performed by hand
by means of pinchers or by wipers as will be readily understood or by suitable
automatic means.
Referring to Fig. 4 a modification of my invention consists in arranging the
last and upper thereon to be depressed between the upper ends or the anti-
friction bowls k', k, k, of the spring blades k, k, k. To this end I adapt the
pillar e to slide vertically in the bracket g and the pillar f I secure to the pillar e
by means of the arm p, whilst the pillar d and the spring blades k, k, k, I fix
upon a projection c² formed on the table or platform c and the rod o I joint to
pillar
the arm p.
When depressing the treadle n connected to the rod o, the last with the upper is
depressed between the upper ends or the bowls k, k, k, of the blades k, k, k, the
pressure or friction of which also causes, the upper to be drawn tightly around the

page_text: toe in position for being turned down. Upon the bracket g I employ a hand
lever q adapted to bear against the arm p by means of which the last and upper
can be raised out of contact with the spring blades k', k¹, k¹.
Spring blades such as described may also be employed at the heel end and waist
of the last as will be easily understood.
The simplicity of my improved lasting machine causes the work to be always
exposed to the view of the operator and thus enables him to produce better work
than is the case on other machines, and its reduced cost renders it within the reach
of small manufacturers which hitherto had no machines for lasting.
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
1st. In lasting machines, the use of spring blades k, k, k, the upper ends of which
serve to draw the upper around the last, all substantially as set forth.
2nd. The general construction and combination of parts constituting my
improvements operating substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.