An Improved Fitting Hammer and Fitting Board or Cutting Board for Use in the Shoe Trade.
Year: 1886

page_text: An Improved Fitting Hammer and Fitting Board or Cutting
Board for Use in the Shoe Trade.
THOMAS WRIGHT 7 Harold Street Northampton, Carpenter and Joiner, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The Fitting Hammer is shewn by Figures 5 and 6 of the accompanying
Drawing and the novelty proposed is the plate or layer of gutta percha at the
head of hammer the effect of which will be to greatly lessen the noise when
using the same. A further advantage will be that the gutta percha will be softer
to the work than the iron now is-Figures 1 2 and 3 of Drawing show the Fitting
Board, made up of an iron plate placed between two thicknesses of lime wood,
with a coat of gutta percha or similar material at top. The iron plate is introduced
to give weight and solidity to the board, and the top and bottom thicknesses of
wood are made to slide out, so that if the board should be made and used without
the gutta percha layer, and merely for cutting purposes, the wood can be renewed
at any time.
The board can be made without iron plate if required as shewn on
Figure 4 and used as a cutting board only, with the layer of gutta percha on the
top-The periodical planing of the old cutting board will thus be obviated, and
after the board as shewn here has been cut about by the knife, the surface of the
gutta percha can be made perfectly smooth and level again by an application
of heat For very hot shops, instead of the solid wood, the cutting board might be
made with a flat shallow vessel of tin and filled with water and covered with
a thin board with the layer of gutta percha at top.
Dated this 8th day of February 1886.

page_text: Board for Use in the Shoe Trade.
THOMAS WRIGHT 7 Harold Street Northampton, Carpenter and Joiner, do
hereby declare the nature of his invention for the above, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The hammer is of the ordinary form, but the head has a layer of gutta percha,
india rubber or cork, the effect being to greatly lessen the noise when in use. If
required the hammer could have an iron face or covering over the gutta percha
layer The fitting board is made up of an iron plate inserted between two
thicknesses of lime wood, with a coat of gutta percha, india rubber or similar
material at top-The iron plate is to give weight and solidity to the board and the
thicknesses of wood are made to slide out so that when the board is used for
cutting purposes only and made without the layer of gutta percha the wood can
be renewed when required-Board can be used either with or without iron plate,
and with layer of gutta percha, india rubber or similar material, and when used
for cutting and clicking purposes the necessity for the periodical planing of the
board is obviated, and the board, after being in use for some time can be made
perfectly smooth and level again by an application of heat to the gutta percha-
The board could also be used as a press board. For very hot shops, instead of
the solid wood, the cutting board might be made with a flat shallow vessel of
tin, and filled with water and covered with a thin board with a layer of gutta
percha at top.
The fitting hammer is indicated by Figures 5 and 6 of the Drawing left with
the provisional specification and the other diagrams shew the cutting and fitting
board described above.
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. That the layer of gutta percha, india rubber or cork in the head of hammer
is a novelty.
2. That the layer of gutta percha, india rubber or similar material to the board
both as a preventer of noise and also in mitigating the necessity and likewise the
expense of planing the board at frequent intervals is a novelty.
3. The addition of the iron plate to the board by giving weight and solidity to
the same is also a feature of novelty.
Dated this twenty fourth day of November 1886.