Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus Employed in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Mar., 1887.
Complete Left, 19th Mar., 1387
Complete Accepted, 19th Apr., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus Employed in the
Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
I. JOHN HENRY SIMPKIN EVANS of Hollywell Lane, Armley, near Leeds in the
County of York, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to construct machinery or apparatus for driving or
forcing hob and other nails into the heels of boots and shoes in a more perfect and
simple manner than hitherto,
For the above purpose I use the ordinary pressing machine or stand usually
employed in driving nails into the heels of boots and shoes.
On the stand is fixed a pillar carrying a movable or fixed plate, the upper surface of
which is countersunk to receive the nail heads, and in the form of the face of the boot
or shoe heel over this a table is supported on a spring or springs, and on this table is
inverted and applied a cup containing the leather or material for forming the heel,
The nails having been placed with their heads in the countersunk part and their
points in a vertical direction, the inverted cup containing the material for forming the
heel is then pressed forwards by the ordinary machine and in so › doing the table recedes
and allows the nails to be driven or forced into the heel and firmly fixed therein.
On the pressure being released the table rises, assisted by the aforesaid spring or
springs the heel piece can then be removed and is ready to be applied to boots and
shoes.
Dated this 10th day of March 1887
J. W. HARDING,
For the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus Employed in the
Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
1, Jons HENRY SIMPKIN EVANS of Hollywell Lane, Armley, near Leeds in the
County of York, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
The object of my invention is to construct machinery or apparatus for driving or
forcing hob and other nails into the heels of boots or shoes in a more perfect and
simple manner than hitherio.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is a transverse section and Fig. 3 a sectional
plan looking at the top.
For the above purpose I use the ordinary pressing machine or stand usually employed
in driving nails into the heels of boots and shoes.
On the stand or table A is fixed a pillar B carrying a moveable or fixed plate C:
the upper surface thereof is countersunk as shewn at D to receive the heads of the
nails E, and in the form of the face of the heel of a boot or shoe.
Over this and supported on a spring or springs F and rod or rods G is applied a
cup or receiver I into which the leather is placed for forming the heel.
The nails having been placed with their heads in the countersunk part. D and with
their points in a vertical direction as shown, the cup or receiver H containing the
material for forming the heel is pressed forwards by the ordinary machine K and in
so doing the nails are driven or forced into the heel.
On the pressure being removed the cup or receiver I assisted by the aforesaid
spring or springs Frises carrying the heel piece with it, which can then be removed
and is ready for use.
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 :—
The arrangement, construction and combination of the various parts forming the
apparatus for forcing or driving mails into the heels of boots and shoes, substantially
as herein set forth.
Dat this 14th day of March 1887
J. W. HARDING,
For the Applicant.