Improvements in and applicable to Boot Stitching Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 25th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 7th Jan.,
1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and applicable to Boot Stitching Machines.
I, WILLIAM HENRY GADSBY, of Commercial Street, Higham Ferrers, in the
County of Northampton, Currier and Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to boot stitching machines and especially to the machine
known as the Keats stitcher No. 7, the chief object of my invention being to adapt
this machine for stitching that class of work wherein a false welt is fair stitched
upon the edge of a sole.
According to my invention I apply adjacent to the work support a loop or guide
through which the false welt is pulled as the boot is moved upon the work support,
the said loop or guide being provided with an arm by which it can be fixed to the
frame of the machine.
In practice a machine is provided with a series of guides the guide slots in which
are of different widths to take welt strips of corresponding width.
I do not limit the application of my invention to the machine before referred to
as it may be applied to other machines.
Dated this 25th day of February 1898
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in and applicable to Boot Stitching Machines.
I WILLIAM HENRY GADSBY, of Commercial Street, Higham Ferrers, in the
County of Northampton, Currier and Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment:-
My invention relates to boot stitching machines and especially to the machine
known as the Keats stitcher No, 7, the chief object of my invention being to adapt
this machine for fair stitching a false welt between the edge of the sole and the
upper of a boot or shoe.
According to my invention I apply adjacent to the work support a loop or guide
through which the false welt is pulled as the boot is moved upon the work support,
the said loop or guide being provided with an arm by which it can be fixed to the
frame of the machine.

page_text: To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by refer-
ence to the accompanying drawing, in which:-
Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a front elevation and a plan of my improved
false-welt guide:
Figure 3 is a front elevation of so much of a Keats stitcher as is necessary to
illustrate the application of my improved guide thereto; and,
Figure 4 is a plan view of the work supporting part of the said mechanism:
Figure 5 is a side elevation of the parts shewn in Figure 4 and illustrating the
way in which the work is carried.
Figures 3, 4 and 5 are drawn to a smaller scale than Figures 1 and 2.
a indicates the frame of the machine and 6 the work support which is attached
to the said frame and which has formed in it the slot e through which the needle
and awl e can pass; f is the ordinary channel guide.
g is my improved welt guide which has formed upon it the arm or plate h by
means of which it is attached adjacent to the work support.
In using the Keats stitcher for attaching a false-welt the latter is passed through
the guide y so that it lies upon the work support b with the sole upon it, as shewn
in Figure 5, whereby as the work is traversed over the work support the false-welt
will be guided into position between the edge of the sole and the upper and secured
to the sole by the machine.
I prefer when using my guide to use the edge guide i, shewn in Figures 3, 4
and 5, which edge guide has a plain strip of metal secured upon the work support by
the fixing screw for the said support a slot & being formed in the said edge guide to
permit of adjusting the latter according to the width of the false-welt being
applied. This edge guide enables the operator when manipulating the work to
avoid pressing the upper against the work support and so marking the said upper.
In practice a machine is provided with a series of guides the guide slots in which
are of different widths to take welt strips of corresponding width.
I do not limit the application of my invention to the machine before referred to
as it may be applied to other machines.
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. The manufacture and use of a false-welt guide, substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
2. The combination with a boot stitching machine of a false-welt guide con-
structed and arranged substantially in the manner hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 25th day of November 1898
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.