IMPROVEMENTS IN SINGLE OR COMBINED RIVETS POR RIVETTING OR SECURING THE SOLES OF BOOTS AND SHOES OR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES, AND IN THE MACHINERY OR MECHANICAL COMBINATION FOR MANUFACTURING OR PRODUCING THEM, LIKEWISE IN THE MEANS FOR GROOVING OR CHANNELING BOOT AND SHOE SOLES FOR RECEIVING SUCH IMPROVED RIVETS AND ALSO IN THE TOOLS OR MEANS USED FOR APPLYING THE SAME
Year: 1868

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Henry Gould at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th March 1868.
I, CHARLES HENRY GOULD, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SINGLE OR COMBINED RIVETS POR RIVETTING OR SECURING
THE SOLES OF BOOTS AND SHOES OR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES, AND IN THE MACHINERY
OR MECHANICAL COMBINATION FOR MANUFACTURING OR PRODUCING THEM, LIKEWISE
IN THE MEANS FOR GROOVING OR CHANNELING BOOT AND SHOE SOLES FOR RECEIVING
SUCH IMPROVED RIVETS, AND ALSO IN THE TOOLS OR MEANS USED FOR APPLYING
THE SAME," to be as follows (that is to say):-
My improvements relate to metallic rivets which give to the
character of the work to which they are applied, such as the soles of
boots and shoes, the appearance of being stitched or sewn with wire.
To effect this object (by machinery hereafter referred to) forming

page_text: loops or staples of round wire divided off in an oblique direction
so as to leave the wire in a condition for better receiving or under-
going the process of pointing, which I effect by the cutting tools
that divide the wire, and as an equivalent for this staple form of
rivet I purpose making rivets of a T form, which may be conveniently
made from sheet metal cut out by suitable tools applied to an ordinary
fly press.
The improved machinery before referred to for making or producing
my improved combined or staple rivets consists of a bed supporting a
shaft, which shaft carries a fly wheel and fast and loose pulley for
steam or other convenient power with lateral and direct cams for, firstly,
actuating a feed motion for advancing the wire progressively under
the operation of the cutters; secondly, for cutting off; thirdly, for
forming; and, fourthly, for removing the rivet so formed from the
forming tools.
In applying or using rivets thus constructed I purpose setting up the
boot or shoe upon a stand working upon an eccentric or its equivalent
that presents the edge of the sole to the action of a knife, the action
of which knife is followed up by a kind of plough action which lifts
the leather so cut, and lays it over the reverse side so as to form a
channel more or less deep according to the setting of the tools, and in
which channel the rivets are applied by means of a tool constructed
as follows: A short hand piece suitable for the grip of the hand
formed of wood or other suitable material is provided with a metal
tube or bush of a rectangular form passing through it, in which tube
a punch works fashioned at the lower end for guiding and directing
the rivet into the leather, a small spring being applied to the side of
the handle for holding the rivet in position, the punch projecting beyond
the handle to the extent of the length of the rivet; the top part of the
punch is so fashioned as not only to receive the blow by which the rivets
are applied, but also to form a stop to their being overdriven, the
action of the punch being corrected by the elastic force of a helical
spring. After the sole and upper has been thoroughly secured by the
application of these rivets applied in the manner herein described with
the use of an iron or other suitable rest or bed, the leather taken from
the channel before referred to is turned over and laid down into its
original position, protecting the ends of the rivets from wear.

page_text: The soles of boots and shoes secured to the uppers by the rivets and
in the manner herein described will be more flexible, endurable, and
agreeable to the wearer than if rivetted together by the ordinary or
common process.