Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd May, 1887
Complete Left, 3rd Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 29th Mar., 1888
WILLIAM ROSS of Holmside Muswell Hill in the County of Middlesex Engineer
and JOHN BILBIE of Fairleigh Bowes Road Palmers Green in the County of Middlesex
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, viz. :-
To improve certain portions of a machine described in our two former specifications
being respectively No. 4131 dated 18th March 1887 and No. 5184 dated 7th April
1887 for producing studs of wire or any other material threaded or otherwise and
inserting them to any given design and in any given position in any suitable material
used in the manufacture of soles and heels for boots and shoes.
Wherein we describe a cylinder or roller and segments of a cylinder we in some
cases use a number of rollers having threads or rings thereon or being plain and
insert them in cylinders set as there described viz.:-so as to just admit the wire or
other material at the place of its entrance between the roller and exterior cylinder and
at the place of egress the distance of the thickness of the wire less the indent of the
thread-On the before described rollers we cut solid cutters or attach loose cutters as
may be deemed best for the purpose intended. The rollers being chucked and turned
with threads upon them or plain and the cutters left with the projection required to
cut off the wire or other material and at the distance apart requisite to cut the studs
to any required length. We fill in the wire and revolve the rollers or cylinders or all of
them rolling the wire round the rollers and inside the cylinders to the place of egress
when it will be placed in a recess prepared for it either in the interior of the cylinders
or exterior of the rollers and fall by gravitation as described in our former specifica-
tions into tubes or other receptacles prepared for that purpose-In some cases we
provide a driver which as soon as the wire arrives in the recess drives it into the
receptacle prepared to receive it thus clearing the roller and cylinder of such wire
as soon as it is cut and threaded and has entered the prepared recess.
We also place a clutch or gripper or several clutches or grippers on or in each
roller or cylinder arranged to draw in the wire or other material between the rollers
in a parallel position and yielding or loosing the wire as soon as the roller and
cylinder grip the wire.

page_text: And wherein we describe dies and sundry motions having reference to filling the
dies with studs and inserting them in the material to be studded we sometimes use
a cylinder or roller having drivers on its outer surface placed according to the design
the studs are to assume in the material. Outside this cylinder or roller we place
another cylinder hung in its bearings eccentric to the centre of the interior cylinder
or roller and pierced to the same design as the studs are set in the interior cylinder or
roller above named so as to enable the exterior cylinder to be filled with studs at one
portion of the revolution while at another portion of the revolution the cylinders come
close together causing the drivers before named to drive the studs into the material to
be studded.
The cylinders may be worked up into any number of designs so that one or more
descriptions of work may be done at the same time. For the purpose of bringing the
material to be studded into position for receiving the studs we may provide an endless
band running on rollers and falling as they leave the leading roller on a projecting
rim of a revolving disc or circle placed at such an angle as to admit the ends of the
band falling or leading on to this rim or flange and getting its full bearing at the
portion of the revolution where the greatest pressure falls.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boot and Shoe Machinery.
We, WILLIAM ROSS, of "Holmside," Muswell Hill, and JOHN BILBIE, of "Fairleigh,"
Bowes Road, Palmer's Green, Middlesex, Engineers, 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 boot and shoe machinery; and has more
particular reference to improvements upon the machinery described in our two
former specifications, Nos. 4131 and 5184, dated respectively 18th March and 7th
April, 1887.
In order that our invention, and the means by which the same is to be carried into
practical effect, may be thoroughly understood; we will now describe the same in
detail, referring in so doing to the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as
part of this specification and read therewith; and in which
Fig. 1 is a sectional side elevation; and
Fig. 2, a sectional front elevation taken on the line Y-Z of Fig. 1.
A is a cylinder or roller rotated round the axis of its shaft, B, in any convenient
way, which shaft B has its bearings in the standards, C, of the machine.
The periphery of the cylinder, A, has a series of perforations formed in it which are
severally provided with drivers, a. These drivers are arranged upon the cylinder
according to the patterns to be produced by the juxtaposition of the studs in the
material to be studded.
D is a hollow cylinder adapted to be rotated in bearings formed in the frame of the
machine. It is hung eccentrically with respect to the first mentioned cylinder, A ;
but both are rotated at the same angular velocity in consequence of the constant
engagement of the drivers, a, with the outer cylinder, D. The said cylinder is
perforated to correspond with the drivers, a, for the purpose of allowing the latter to
enter the perforations, d, in the said cylinder, as the two come into contact.
E and E are a pair of rollers having their bearings in the standards of the
machine.
Around these rollers we lead an endless chain built up of equal links, F. This
chain is, preferably, constructed as illustrated in the drawings; but we do not confine
ourselves to the exact construction shewn, provided that it be adapted to furnish a
moving table upon which the material to be operated upon can be studded, and also
to effect the rotation of the outer cylinder, D, described above.
Each link is adapted to be engaged twice in one revolution by spur pinions, G,
having their bearings conveniently situated in the standards, C; and driven in any
convenient way. The means by which this engagement is effected is shewn as con-
sisting of mortises, g, formed in the inner face of each link, as indicated by the dotted
lines in the case of four of the links. If mortises are used, then can the rollers, E, E¹,
be made with smooth peripheries. If, on the contrary, the links are toothed; then
must the contour of the said rollers be modified accordingly.
Each link is also provided with a tooth f.
responding mortises, f, in the periphery of the
rotating it.
These teeth engage seriatim in cor-
outer cylinder, D, for the purpose of
Perforations, f, are formed in the links to correspond with the perforations in the
cylinders, A and D.
H, H are two rings of, preferably, an angular section and are supported in the

page_text: respective standards, C, on antifriction rollers, h, over which latter they travel. They
are adapted, in respect of their position, to provide, in virtue of the bottom arcs of
their horizontal flanges, a moving tramway, over which the endless chain is worked,
the contact between the two being, therefore, what is known as a rolling one, and,
consequently, proceeding with a minimum of friction.
The standards, C, of the machine are inclined outwards, so that the rings H, H³,
can move in planes inclined away from the vertical centre of the machine. The angle
of inclination is sufficient to prevent a ring impeding the motion of a link, F, of the
endless band as it leaves the roller, E, for the tramway above described.
The operation of a machine constructed as hereinbefore described is as follows.
The studs are fed by any convenient device into the perforations, d, in the top of the
outer cylinder, D, as they come up to and pass the top. Room for them is provided
in said perforations in virtue of the relative eccentricity of the two cylinders, A. and D,
this eccentricity decreasing as the cylinders move round. The two cylinders are
gradually brought into touch with cach other near the lowest point of a revolution ;
whereupon the drivers, a, expel the studs from the perforations, d, and force them
into the material which has been previously fed on to the adjacent face of the endless
chain to receive the said studs.
The pellets punched out of the material by the insertion of the studs fall through
the perforations, f, in the links F.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The combination of two cylinders hung eccentrically to each other and adapted
to be in constant contact at one portion of their respective peripheries, substantially
as above described with reference to the accompanying figures.
2. The combination of two cylinders eccentrically hung; a series of drivers pro-
jecting from the periphery of the inner cylinder into perforations in the outer cylinder,
and adapted to occupy said perforations for the purpose of expelling studs therefrom
during the contact of said cylinders in their rotations; substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
3. The combination of two cylinders eccentrically hung; drivers projecting from
the periphery of the inner cylinder into perforations formed through the thickness of
the outer one, which perforations are adapted to receive studs in virtue of the
eccentricity of one cylinder withdrawing the said drivers into the said perforations ;
substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
4. The combination of perforated endless band and rollers around which it is
adapted to be travelled concentrically with the periphery of a perforated drum;
substantially as described with reference to the accompanying figures.
5. The combination of endless band and rings adapted to rotate, or stand, in planes
respectively inclined away from the vertical centre of the machine, substantially as
described.
6. The combination of machine frame; two cylinders hung therein eccentrically
to each other; drivers in the inner cylinder-adapted to enter perforations in the outer
one; an endless band adapted to travel concentrically past the outer cylinder; and a
tramway for the said band to travel on; substantially as hereinbefore. described with
reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of February 1888.
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PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Patent Agents,
22, Southampton Buildings, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.