IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HEELS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES, OF SWIVELS, OF BAG FASTENINGS, OF REVOLVING FURNITURE, AND OF THE CONNECTIONS OF PIPES FOR GAS AND OTHER FLUIDS
Year: 1848

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MOSES
POOLE, of the Patent Office, London, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of
December, One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, in the twelfth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Moses Poole, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Moses Poole, my
exors, adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Moses Poole, my
exors, adiñors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HEELS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES, OF SWIVELS, OF BAG
FASTENINGS, OF REVOLVING FURNITURE, AND OF THE CONNECTIONS OF PIPES FOR GAS
AND OTHER FLUIDS," communicated to me from abroad; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Moses Poole, should cause
a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument under my hand
and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Moses Poole, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
The Invention relates to a mode of constructing screw fastenings, applicable
in the making of heels for boots and shoes, also of swivels, also of bag
fastenings, also of revolving furniture, and also for the connections of pipes
for gas and other fluids; and consists of making such fastenings of male and
female screws, so formed and combined that the male screw having passed
through the female screw, the stem of the male screw shall alone remain
in the female screw; the thread or worm of the male screw then acting
as a stop to prevent the return of the male screw out of the female screw,
unless the two screws are acted on in a direction to separate them, combined
with a back movement.
Figure 1 shews the section of the heel of a boot or shoe constructed
according to my Invention.
Figure 2 shows a plan, a section, and an edge view of the portion a of the
heel, which has the female screw:
Figure 3 shows a plan, a section, and an edge view of the part 6 of the
heel, which carrics the male screw. The part a is affixed, as shewn, to the
heel by screws or otherwise, and the part 6 having a portion of leather or other
suitable matter for a heel fixed thereto, as shewn, or otherwise; and it will
be understood that if the male screw b¹ be screwed into a, till the thread passes
beyond the thread of the female screw, the two parts a and b will not readily
separate, yet will allow of the heel revolving, so as to be turned from time
to time into a different position, so that the wear may be equal. In the
part a there is a cut a¹, and in the part 6 there are four cuts 6, the object
being to insert a pin or stop to prevent movement, except when the pin or
stop is withdrawn.
Figure 4 shows a side view; and Figure 5 a section of the frame for a
bag, having a swivel to fasten it with, which consists of a male screw b, b,
and a female screw a, which acts in like manner to that above explained.
Figures 6 and 7 show a swivel suitable for carrying or fastening a bag in
place of a padlock, and similar ones, when of a. suitable size, are useful for
watches and watch chains, and for other purposes. In this case the female
screw a is a nut, and the male screw 6 constitute the end of the bent horns
c, c, of the swivel, so that when the thread of the male screw is through the
nut, the parts cannot be opened without the nut being intentionally moved.

page_text: Figures 8 and 9 show sections of two furniture castors. In the first the
socket has the female screw a formed therein, the horns 6 having the male
screw 6 formed thereon. In the one at Figure 9 this arrangement is reversed
as will be seen by examining the Figure.
Figure 9* shows an arrangement for a table or other surface supported on
a pillar or leg, so as to turn thercon, and the parts are marked with the same
letters of reference.
Figure 10 shows a pulley, such as is required for furniture where, the frame
of the pulley and pulley require to be taken down at times, and also where
it is required that the frame should be capable of being moved round. In
this case the stem 6 is formed with a male screw 6', which passes through
the female screw formed in the plate a. Figure 11 shows a similar stem for
retaining any article fixed thereto in a position capable of revolving.
parts are similar to those of Figure 10.
Figure 12 shows the form of a joint of pipes for gas and other fluids.
The socket of one is formed with a female screw a, and the other has a male
screw b thereon, which act together in the manner above described.
The
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I would wish it to be understood that I do not
confine myself to the details herein shown and described; but what I claim is
the making of screw fastenings for the heels of boots and shoes, for swivels, for
bag fastenings, for revolving furniture, and for pipes, as herein explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Moses Poole, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
MOSES (L.S.) POOLE.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of Junc, in
the year of our Lord 1849, the aforesaid Moses Poole came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her 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.
Enrolled the Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord Onc
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.