Improvements in Heeling Machines for Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 30th May, 1889-Accepted, 30th Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Heeling Machines for Boots and Shoes.
FREDERICK CUTLAN Engineer Castle Hill Wellingboro Northamptonshire do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I prepare a strong frame of iron the proper form to receive the various parts of the
machine, and would describe the frame work, as the Head, Bed & Stand the head &
bed being cast in one, and bolted to the cast iron stand. Ahout nine inches below
the bed of the machine is a horizontal shaft about two inches in diameter with fly
wheel & pullie on one end, and on the other end is a crank to work with treadle.
About the centre of the shaft, and between two bearings is a cam, which is made to
slide upon the shaft about 2 inches by means of a lever, for the purpose of putting in
and out of motion, perpendicular with the cam is a piston about 4 inches in diameter,
the end of the piston is slotted to receive a roller which runs upon the cam, when the
cam is brought under the roller by means of the lever before described. The piston
comes up through the bed of the machine to within 1 inches of the upper surface
this portion of the bed of the machine is bored to a larger size than the bearing to
receivo the piston and forms a recess to receive a piece of iron about 14 inches in
thickness, the piece of iron is perforated, and on the underside of this piece of iron is
a plate, a little less in diameter and about a inch in thickness. A number of wires,
which I call drivers, are fixed into this plate to match the perforations in the upper
piece of iron, so that when the nails aro dropped into the holes, heads downwards, the
heel of the boot or shoe is placed in position over the nails and held down upon the
perforated iron, into which the nails are placed, by means of the head of the machine
which forms a press, the shaft is sot in motion either by treadle or other power. The
lever is then moved which brings the cam into position under the piston roller, and
as the cam revolves with the shaft it rises the piston, and the piston coming in contact
with the drivers, forces the nails into the heel of the Boot or Shoe.
Dated this 29th day of August 1888.
FREDERICK CUTLAN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Heeling Machines for Boots and Shoes.
I, FREDERICK CUTLAN, of Castle Hill, Wellingborough, in the County of North-
ampton, Engineer, 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 :-
Hitherto the power for nailing together the parts of a heel in a heel making
machine has been supplied by the operative attending such a machine, through a foot
lover which was directly connected to the piston or plunger; by my present invention
I greatly facilitate the operation and thereby save considerable expense by utilizing
rotary motion for operating the plunger this rotary motion either being imparted by
means of a treadle and crank or other equivalent means or transmitted through a
pulley or the like from a steam engine or other motor.
In constructing a machine according to my present invention I mount the various
working parts in a strong frame which comprises the parts referred to herein as the
head, bed and stand, the head and bed of which are preferably cast in one and bolted
or otherwise secured to the stand. On a horizontal shaft which is supported in the

page_text: lower part of the machine I provide a cam which is capable of being moved longi-
tudinally over a feather" secured in the said shaft with which shaft the cam always
rotates when rotary motion is imparted to the said shaft. This rotary motion as
hereinbefore mentioned may be imparted by means of a treadle and connections or by
steam or other power transmitted through a pulley or equivalent means. A lever is
provided for enabling the cam to be moved longitudinally on the shaft so as to bring
the said cam below an anti-friction roller carried in the lower end of the piston by
which the nailing together of the heel is effected.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is an elevation partly in section and fig. 2 is another elevation taken at right
angles to Fig. 1 of sufficient of a machine to illustrate the mode of carrying my
present invention into practice.
Like letters indicate like parts in both figures of the drawing.
A is the head a portion of which only is shown as it is of the usual well known con-
struction. B is the bed and C the stand. .D is the horizontal shaft which is supported
in bearings E and E. In the part of the shaft D which is between the bearings El
there is fixed the "feather" D'. F is the cam which may be moved longitudinally
over the "feather" D¹ by means of the lever Ga pin or stud G¹ projecting upwards
from which engages with the annular groove F' formed in the boss or sleeve F of
the cam F. His a bracket to which the hand lever G is pivotted. J is the anti-
friction roller which is free to rotate on a pin J' in the slotted or forked end of the
plunger K. D2 is a crank secured on the shaft D and to the free end of which is
pivotted the upper end of a connecting rod L the lower end of which is similarly
pivotted to a foot lever or treadle M. the free end of which passes out through and is
guided vertically in a slot C¹ in the stand C as shown clearly in fig. 1 where the said
lever is represented in section. D³ is a fly wheel and D' a driving pulley secured on
the shaft D.
N represented in dotted lines is a block perforated in the usual manner for receiving
the nails by which the nailing together of the heel is effected in the ordinary manner,
these nails being inserted into the perforations heads downwards and being driven into
the heel by a number of drivers fixed in a plate represented in dotted lines in
figure 1 as will be well understood to those acquainted with the class of machine to
which this invention relates.
When it is desired to operate the before described machine rotary motion in the
direction indicated by the arrow in figure 2 is imparted to the cam F through the
shaft D either by means of the treadle M, connecting rod L and crank D³ or through
the pulley D'.
Supposing now that the cam F is in the position indicated by dotted lines in
figure 1 that is to say to one side of the roller J, the lever G is so moved as to bring
the said cam beneath the roller that is to say as shown in full lines in Figure 1, when
the plunger K will alternately be caused to move upwards by the cam and to fall by
its own weight or by the aid of springs or the like. When it is desired to stop the
working of the plunger K the cam F is moved to the side of the roller J so as not to
act upon it.
The cam F is so shaped that if when it is being moved from its inoperative to its
operative position it should press against the side of the roller J no damage will
result as it will remain in such a position until the part F presents itself to the
roller when the cam can be moved further along the shaft D into its proper working
position.
Although a lever G applicable for working by hand has been described for shifting
the cam along the shaft D other suitable means such as a foot lever may be applied
for that purpose.
Instead of the cam F being capable of moving longitudinally on the shaft D it
might be fixed thereto and longitudinal motion be imparted to the shaft itself, or the
shaft might be raised and lowered so as to bring the cam within a proper working

page_text: distance from the roller F, or other suitable means may be employed for throwing the
cam from an operative to an inoperative position and vice versa.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. In a machine such as described the combination with the plunger K of a cam
such as F adapted to be moved into or out of its operative position in regard to the
said plunger.
2. In a machine such as described the combination with the plunger K of a cam
for intermittently operating the said plunger substantially as described.
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CM 1000
FREDERICK CUTLAN.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.