VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING IRON AND OTHER METAL TIPS FOR THE HEELS AND TOES OF SHOES, CHAIN LINKS, AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1832

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALEXANDER
STOCKER and WILLIAM SOUTHWOOD STOCKER, both of the Union Rolling Mills,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Machinists, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the twenty-second day of October, in the third year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Alexander Stocker and William Southwood Stocker, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said Alexander Stocker
and William Southwood Stocker, our exors, adiñors, and assigns, or such.
others as we, the said Alexander Stocker and William Southwood Stocker,"
our exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the terin of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully, might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention of "VARIOUS
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING IRON AND OTHER METAL TIPS
FOR THE HEELS AND TOES OF SHOES, CHAIN LINKS, AND OTHER ARTICLES;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that we, the said Alexander Stocker
and William Southwood Stocker, or one of us, shall cause a particular descrip-
tion of the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in

page_text: part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being mercant
had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Alexander Stocker and William Southwood Stocker, do hereby declare that
the nature of our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to
be performed, is described and ascertained as follows (that is to say):-
Our improved machinery for manufacturing iron and other metal tips for
the heels and toes of shoes, chain links. and other articles to the formation of
which it will be found applicable, is fully illustrated and explained by means of
the accompanying Drawings, and the explanation of the several parts, and
the rises thereof.
Figure 1 represents a side view of a machine; Figure 2 represents certain
parts of the machine, both connected and distinct, more clearly than could
be seen in Figure 1; and Figure 3 represents a sectional view of part of
the machine for the more clear illustration thereof.
Figure 1.-a is a strong frame of wood, or other suitable material; b, a strong
hollow axis or support; c, a strong wheel and disc; d, a circular bed or platform;
e, a templet or mould for giving the required form to the article to be made; f, a
strong piece of metal or other material attached to the wheel and disc c; ga guide
piece for carrying the roller h round the templet or mould; h, a roller moving
freely on a pin which is part of the guide piece g; i, screws for fixing the guides
9 to the part f; j, screws for fixing the piece f to the wheel and disc.. k, a
nutt and screw for adjusting the position of the guide g and roller h, previous
to fixing them by the screws i; l, an axis and pinion for communicating
motion to the wheel and disc c; m, a drum or pulley attached to the axis 1;
n, a band or strap for communicating motion to the machine from a steam
engine or other power; o, a strong fulcrum attached to the frame a; p, a
lever moving on the fulcrum o, and serving to raise (when required) the
templet or mould e from the bed or platform d; q, a vertical shaft with a
friction roller at its upper end, and a strong projecting pin (conveniently
situated) on the shaft for depressing the long end of the lever p, and thereby
raising the templet or mould e. r, a strong piece projecting from the wheel
and disc, which serves to depress the shaft q, and thereby raise the templet
or mould e at a convenient point in each revolution of the wheel and disc b.
In Figure 2, 1 is a long piece of iron, to which other pieces are attached, and
by means of which they are also adapted to the machine, of which they form
an important part. This shaft is properly fitted into a square hole, which
passes through the support 6 (Figures 1 and 3), and is held down in its place
by a weight hung to the lower end thereof. 2 is the templet or mould

page_text: (denoted by e, Figure 1), through a square hole in which the shaft 1 passes.
3 is a guide or stop piece, also fitted on the shaft. 4 is a nutt fastening the
pieces 1, 2, and 3 firmly together. (5 is a staple or holder, passing through the
mould, and held in its place by a nutt in the opposite side thereof.
Figure 3 is a sectional view of the parts b, c, and d, shewing the manner in
which they are connected, and in which the wheel c, carrying with it the parts
attached thereto, revolves round the fixed support b, and the templet or mould e.
The parts are denoted by the same letters in each Figure.
Figure 4 represents a plan of the upper surface of the machine, with a section
of a mould or templet for forming a heel tip for a shoe, for enabling us more
fully to explain our Invention, and the manner in which it is to be applied.
The various articles to the formation of which our machinery will be found
applicable require similar suitable adjustments thereof. An explanation of the
manner in which shoe heel, tips are formed thereby will consequently illustrate
its use generally.
The material of which articles are required to be made, being cut in suitable
lengths, is bent or formed by pressure against a mould or templet of suitable
shape or figure, and this is effected by the roller h, carried round by the
wheel c. In the Plan, Figure 4, the dotted straight lines denote the position
of the material before being bent into form. The dotted ring denotes the
circle described by the edge of the roller h in its revolution round the mould,
and it will be evident from an inspection of the Plan that one end of the
material being confined by the staple, and the stop (5 and 6, Figure 2) and
the roller h in its revolution coming in contact with the material, it will be
bent or deflected from a straight line, and caused to assume the figure of the
mould or templet. In some articles (as in these tips) the ends of the material,
when formed against the templet or mould, approach nearer together than
other parts of the curve or figure, and therefore could not without further
contrivance be drawn or released from the mould in such instances. To effect
this important operation as soon as the formation of the article has been
effected, the projecting piece r, in passing the shaft q, depresses it, and
thereby raises the parts shewn in Figure 2, when the piece to which they are
attached (1, Figure 2) being of less dimensions than the mould, allows of the
article being withdrawn, and the weight of the bottom of the piece to which
the mould is attached causing it forthwith to descend again, the operation may
be repeated without loss of time. When the shape of the article does not
require the mould to be raised, in order to effect its release therefrom, the
vertical shaft q may be removed from the machine. It is important to observe
that the centre of the mould or templet does not coincide with the centre of

page_text: the circle described by the roller h, the mould requiring to be fixed in such a
position that the roller may pass the staple or holder (5, Figure 2,) which
projects from the mould, and after bringing the material into contact with the
mould about the centre of the curve, compleat, the operation by urging
the extremity also into close contact, therewith. A part of our Invention
consists in making the surface of the bed or platform d. convex, concave, or of
such other form as may contribute to give the desired shape to the articles to
be formed by the machine; in, the formation of shoe heel tips (by which.we
endeavour fully to explain our Invention, and the application thereof). The bed
or platiorm is made slightly convex, which causes the outer edge of the tip
to the leather of the shoe heels, thereby producing a better article than if such
a circumstance had been disregarded; and, we further, declare that, we cause
the edge of the roller h to be made of such a form as will cause it to contribute
most effectively to the formation of any articles by urging it against the mould
or templet e, and also against the bed or platform d.
We do not claim any exclusive right to the Invention or the use of such
parts as the wheel c, the axis and the pinion b, or the roller h, but to such a
combination and application of them as is necessary to constitute the particular
machine which we have described, and of which we are the Inventors.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Southwood Stocker, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of April,. in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
HARRISON, Extra.
.
W (L.S.) SOUTHWOOD STOCKER.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Nineteenth day of April, in
the year our Lord 1833, the aforesaid William Southwood. Stocker came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written: And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that
purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

page_text: In the Matter of a Patent granted to ALEXANDER STOCKER, and
WILLIAM SOUTHWOOD STOCKER, both of Union Rolling Mills, Bir-
mingham, in the County of Warwick, Mechanists, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-second, day of October, One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-two, in the third year of the reign of His
present most Excellent Majesty, for "VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING IRON AND OTHER METAL TIPS FOR
HEELS AND TOES OF SHOES, CHAIN LINKS, AND OTHER ARTICLES," to
which said Letters Patent a Specification was duly enrolled, and
said Letters Patent, and all rights and privileges, have been
assigned to Richard Southall the younger, of Birmingham aforesaid,
Merchant.
DISCLAIMER proposed to be entered by Richard Southall the younger,
with the Clerk of the Patents of England, pursuant to an Act passed
in the fifth and sixth years of His present Majesty's reign, ințituled
"An Act to amend the Laws touching Letters Patent for Inventions."
I, the said Richard Southall, having discovered that the said Alexander
Stocker and William Southwood Stocker did not invent the whole of the
combination of the machinery, nor the separate parts thereof, but that the
Invention only related to the combination and application of certain mechanical
parts to the purposes described in the said Specification, do therefore hereby
disclaim all the parts separately of which the said machine is composed, and
do declare that the Invention relates only to the mode of combining and apply-
ing to the other parts of the machine the various parts as described in the
Specification in the following words:"o, a strong fulcrum attached to the
frame a; p, a lever moving on the fulcrum o, and serving to raise (when
required) the templet or mould e from the bed or platform d; q, a vertical
shaft, with a friction roller at its upper end, and a strong projecting pin (con-
veniently situated) on the shaft for depressing the long end of the lever p, and
thereby raising the templet or mould e. r, a strong piece projecting from the
wheel and disc, which serves to depress the shaft, and thereby raise the

page_text: templet or mould e at a convenient point in each revolution of the wheel or
disc c." And I do further disclaim any novelty or invention in making the
bed or platform d convex or concave, or of such other form as may contribute
to give the desired shape," as described in the said Specification. And I do
further disclaim the sentence in the said Specification, "when the shape of the
article does not require the mould to be raised in order to effect its release
therefrom, the vertical shaft q may be removed from the machine," such an
arrangement not being useful. And I do further disclaim the sentence, "we
do not claim any exclusive right to the Invention or the use of such parts
as the wheel c, the axis or pinion 6 or the roller h, but to such a combination
and application of them as is necessary to constitute the particular machine
which we have described, and of which we are the Inventors."
b
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Southall, have hereunto set my
hand the Twenty-sixth day of July, One thousand eight hundred
and thirty-six.
This is to certify that Richard Southall the younger, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Merchant, has applied to me for leave to enter with
you the above-written Disclaimer and Memorandums of Alteration of part
of the title and of the Specification of a certain Invention for which Letters
Patent were duly granted to Alexander Stocker and William Southwood
Stocker, both of Union Rolling Mills, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Merchants, under the Great Seal, dated the 22nd day of October,
1832, and the Specification of which was inrolled on the 22nd day of April,
1833, and, on considering of the said application, I directed him to advertize
his said Disclaimers and Alterations in the London Gazette, the Morning
Chronicle and Aris's Birmingham Gazette Newspapers, and such advertize-
ments have been duly made in the said Gazette and Morning Chronicle on
the 29th day of July, and in Aris's Birmingham Gazette on the First of
August, 1836, and no objection having been made to the said application,
I have accordingly granted leave to the said Richard Southall to file bis Dis-
claimers and Alterations pursuant to the Statute passed in the 6th year of the
reign of His present Majesty entitled An Act to amend the Law touching
Letters Patent for Inventions.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on Twenty-sixth day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1836, the aforesaid Richard Southall came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Disclaimer aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Disclaimer aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.