Shoe Uppers and the like.
Year: 1885

page_text: Shoe Uppers and the like.
We GEORGE ATKINS of 1° Friars Causeway Leicester Boot and Shoe Manu
facturer and GEORGE CHAMBERLAIN of 33 Conduit Street London Road Leicester
Machinist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to provide a mechanism that will at one and the
same time punch and gouge upper leather and the like and by automatic action
hold it in the required position and regulate the distance of its movement up to
and past the gouge and punch which may be of any desired size and pattern.
We first procure suitable standards on which is fixed a convenient bed. There
may then be fixed on the bed an ordinary Sewing Machine arm partly a vertical
pillar and then stretching a convenient distance over the bed of the machine. At
the end of the said arm may be a vertical socket in which may work a pin
preferably triangular shaped, the base of which may be bored to hold the gouge
and punch of the desired size. The socket referred to may have a suitable vertical
groove on one side so that a plate may be fastened horizontally to it and by means
of a rod fastened to the end of the said plate and attached preferably to a looped
cam on a shaft placed beneath the machine enables the said pin to be moved
upwards and downwards in the socket. There may be a metal or other plate to
form a bed for the descending pin containing the combined punch and socket and
the said plate may be suitably grooved so that said punch and socket may be
allowed to partly enter the said grooves after passing through the leather.
There is a shaft in a convenient position beneath the machine a looped cam
having a vertical upright rod at the end of which may be a flat or angular grooved
or serrated foot which rises the desired distance above the level through a suitable
alot or opening on the bed of the machine so that by each revolution of the shaft
the foot is made to regulate the distance of the movement of the leather being
punched and gouged.
A vertical springed plate having a foot grooved or serrated which may be called
a presser may be connected with the socket-pin mechanism the said presser being
capable of being raised or depressed; when the latter to hold the leather in a true
position and the said presser may be caused automatically to rise and fall after
each punching and gouging operation is completed.
Treadle or other suitable driving mechanism may be applied to the machine in
the ordinary manner.

page_text: Shoe Uppers and the like.
We GEORGE ATKINS of 1ª Friars Causeway, Leicester, Boot and Shoe Manu-
facturer, and GEORGE CHAMBERLAIN of 33 Conduit Street, London Road, Leicester,
Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of our invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:—
The object of our invention is to provide a mechanism that will at one and the
same time punch and gouge upper leather and the like and by automatic action
hold it in the required position and regulate the distance of its movement up to
and past the gouge and punch which may be of any desired size and pattern.
We first procure suitable standards on which is fixed a convenient bed. There
then may be fixed an ordinary sewing machine arm, partly a vertical pillar and
then stretching a convenient distance over the bed of the machine. At the end of
the said arm may be a vertical socket in which may work a pin preferably
triangular shaped, the base of which may be bored to hold the gouge and punch
of the desired size. The socket referred to may have a suitable vertical groove on
one side, so that a plate may be fastened horizontally to it and by means of a rod
fastened to the end of the said plate and attached preferably to a looped cam on a
shaft placed beneath the machine enables the said pin to be moved upwards and
downwards in the socket.
There may be a metal or other plate to form a bed for the descending pin
containing the combined punch and gouge and the said plate may be suitably
grooved so that the said punch and gouge may be allowed to partly enter the said
grooves after passing through the leather.
There is a shaft in a convenient position beneath the machine a looped cam
having a vertical upright rod at the end of which may be a flat or angular grooved
or serrated foot which rises the desired distance above the level through a suitable
slot or opening in the bed of the machine so that by each revolution of the shaft
the foot is made to regulate the distance of the movement of the leather being
punched and gouged.
A vertical springed plate having a foot grooved or serrated which may be called
a presser may be connected with the socket pin mechanism, the said presser being
capable of being raised or depressed when the latter to hold the leather in a true
position and the said presser may be caused automatically to rise & fall after each
punching and gouging operation is completed.
Treadle or other suitable driving mechanism may be applied to the machine in
the ordinary manner.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machine
apart from the table or standards on which it may be mounted Figure 2 is a
face view of the eccentric slotted cam Figure 3 is a section and Figure 4 is
an end view.
A is the bed of the machine.
B¹ are bearers for the support of the shaft D

page_text: C is the slotted or grooved cam, which causes the vertical rod D to rise and fall
within the opening A¹..
The rod D fastened at D¹ to the set screw plate E¹ which is let into a portion
of the plunger F to operate it.
It will be seen that the arm A' supports the socket E in which the plunger F
works. At the bottom of the plunger F is the combined gouge and punch Ġ the
sizes and shape of which may be varied as required.
H is the vertical rod at the end of which is a flat or angular grooved or serrated
foot which rises the desired distance above the level through a suitable slot or
opening in the machine, so that by each revolution of the shaft the foot is made to
regulate the distance of the leather being punched and gouged.
The end view of mechanism shewn under Figure 4 gives the rod and serrated
foot H connected with which are the jointed rod H' and the jointed spiral springed
rod H³, the whole being operated by the cam or wiper H¹.
The action will be well understood. The shaft B with the cam C give the
required motion to the rod D which raises and depresses the plunger F as already
described.
The combined gouge and punch being fixed at the base of F also receive the
desired motion.
The serrated foot mechanism H. H'H' H³ cause the necessary movement of the
leather and is intended to operate so that the desired effect may be obtained.
It will be understood that the said punches and gouges are removable and that
one or more punches or perforators may be employed.
Small plates having recesses to suit the size and shape of the cutters may be
fixed to the bed beneath the plunger.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is :-
1. The complete punching and gouging machine substantially as specified.
2. In a punching and gouging machine the combination with the plunger F of
the rod D and eccentric C substantially as and for the purpose specified.
3. In a punching and gouging machine the combination with the plunger F of
the combined and renewable punch and gouge G substantially as specified.
4. In a punching and gouging machine a combined gouge and punch substantially
as specified.
5. In a punching and gouging machine the rod H with serrated foot together
with the jointed rods H3 and H³ operated by the eccentric cam H₁'substantially as
and for the purpose specified.
•
day of December 1000.
Witness to both signatures,
E. N. LEWIS,
Patent Office,
Market St., Leicester.
GEORGE ATKINS.
GEORGE CHAMBERLAIN.