Improved Apparatus for Fastening Tips or Studs to Boot and Shoe Heels, and Attaching Heels to Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improved Apparatus for Fastening Tips or Studs to Boot and
Shoe Heels, and Attaching Heels to Boots and Shoes.
We JOHN CAVE, PAUL CAVE and AMOS CAVE, of Rushden, in the county of
Northampton, Shoe Manufacturers trading as John Cave and Sons do hereby
declare the nature of the said invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FASTENING
TIPS OR STUDS TO BOOT HEELS AND ATTACHING HEELS TO BOOTS" to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improved apparatus for attaching tips to the heels of
boots or putting studs into them, and for attaching heels to boots.
This invention while it is applicable to various heeling machines, is here described
in application to the well known McKay heeling machine.
Our invention consists in making that part of a heel nailing device known as
the nail block, in two parts, an inuer part and an outer part.
The outer part
surrounds and encloses the inner part on every side except the top, and the end
facing towards the toe of the boot formning a shell which the inner part completely
fills. When the inner part rests on the bottom of the outer part, the top surfaces
of both shell and inner part are level, that is to say both surfaces are in one plane.
The exterior figure and the size of this compound device are such as would be
given to an ordinary nailing device for doing similar work.
The thickness of the sides of the shell must be at least as great as to allow the
heads of the nails used in attaching the tip, or used round the heel in attaching it
to the boot to lie wholly over the shell.
The stem of the nail block is fixed to the inner part only and slides freely
through a hole in the bottom plate of the shell, so that when the compound
device is placed in the heeling machine where it is to be used the shell or outer
part rests upon the part known as the hollow post in the McKay machine (or on
that part that answers to it in other machines) and the inner part is supported by
the spring upon which the stem of the device is carried, the effect being that the
inner part stands up out of the shell a certain distance.
This distance is regulated so as to be a little greater than the distance the nail
is to be driven.
Should it be desired to put nails into that part of the heel that may lie over the
surface of the inner part, holes must be made in the inner part in the desired
position, and be fitted with drivers in the usual way, the drivers will rest upon the

page_text: bottom plate of the shell or outer part, which will then serve the purpose of the
part known as the "driver plate" in the M°Kay heeling machine.
To attach a heel to a boot or shoe with a tip the boot is placed on the work
holder of the machine in the usual manner, and the heel into which are inserted
a short distance, nails in the desired position for attaching both the tip and the
heel, is placed upon the device the projecting heads of the partially driven pails
that may be in the middle part of the heel, for attaching the heel to the boot,
entering the holes prepared for them in the inner part, and the projecting heads of
the nails in the tip being over the sides of the shell.
The machine being set in motion, the bottom plate of the shell will be forced
against the devices and drive home the nails in the inner part at the same time that
the sides of the shell drive home the nails into the tip.
It is evident that this device may be used for attaching heels without tips the
attaching nails being placed around the heel in such a position as to be driven by
the shell, or studs may be driven in the same way.
We, also, in place of using an entire shell surrounding the inner part sometimes
use a shell in which parts of the sides are cut away, and their place filled by
corresponding projections on the inner part. The parts of the sides of the shell
left standing work up and down in the grooves so formed in the inner part and
being adapted to drive nails arranged in groups.
We also make the device by grooving the nail block all round its outer edge one
groove for every nail, and partly cut away the sides of the shell in such a manner
that the remaining parts enter and slide in these grooves, and sometimes we
surround a nail block so grooved at its outer edge, with a thin shell fastened to it
and covering the grooves, and in that case, we detach the portions of the shell or
other part left to act as drivers entirely and allow them to merely rest on the
bottom plate.
G. F. REDFERN,
Agent for the Applicants. 3
Improved Apparatus for Fastening Tips or Studs to Boot and
Shoe Heels, and Attaching Heels to Boots and Shoes.
We JOHN CAVE, PAUL CAVE and AMOS CAVE, of Rushden, in the county of
Northampton, Shoe Manufacturers trading as John Cave and Sons 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:—
Our invention relates to improved apparatus for attaching tips to the heels of
boots and shoes for inserting studs in them, and for attaching heels to boots and
shoes.

page_text: This invention while it is applicable to various heeling machines is nere described
in application to the well known M Kay heeling machine.
In order to enable the invention to be fully understood we will describe the
same by reference to the accompanying drawings in which figures 1 and 2 are a
plan and an elevation respectively of an apparatus constructed according to this
invention, for fastening tips or studs to boot and shoe heels and attaching heels to
boots and shoes; figures 3, 5, and 7 are similar views to figure 1, but shewing
modifications of the apparatus; figures 4, 6 and S are elevations of figures 3, 5
and 7 respectively.
Figure 9 is an elevation partly in section of part of a M°Kay heeling machine
shewing our improved apparatus applied thereto only those parts of the machine
being shewn sufficient to illustrate the application of our invention.
letters in all the figures represent similar parts.
Similar
figures 1 and 2
the nail block, in
The outer part A
the top, and the
Our invention which we will first describe by reference to
consists in making that part of a heel nailing device known as
two parts that is to say an inner part B and an outer part A.
surrounds and encloses the inner part B on every side except
end a, facing towards the toe of the boot or shoe, and forms a shell which the
inner part B completely fills.
When the inner part B rests on the bottom a³, of the outer part A the top
surface a², of the shell A and the top surface b¹, of the inner part B are level, that
is to say, both the said surfaces are in the same plane.
The exterior figure and the size of this compound device are such as would be
given to an ordinary nailing device adapted for doing similar work. When it is
desired to pare the heel at the time it is attached to the boot or shoe as is usually
done in the McKay heeling machine the exterior vertical surface of the outer part
or shell A serves as a guide to the paring device and may be furnished (or not)
with a hardened steel extension plate a³, as shewn upon the edge of which the
paring knife can slide.
The thickness of the sides of the shell or if an extension plate be used the width
of its upper surface must be at least as great as to allow the heads of the nails
used in attaching the tip, or used round the heel in attaching the latter to the
boot or shoe to lie wholly over the shell, or over the extension plate as the case
may be.
The stem c, of the nail block is fixed to the inner part B only, and slides freely
through a hole in the bottom plate a¹ of the shell A so that when the compound
device is placed in the heeling machine where it is to be used, as shewn in figure 9,
the shell or outer part rests upon the part known as the hollow post in the McKay
machine, marked Z in the drawings (or on the part that corresponds therewith in
other similar machines) and the inner part is supported by the spring Y figure 9
upon which the stem C of the device is carried, the effect being that the inner
part B will stand up out of the shell A a certain distance.
This distance is regulated so as to be a little greater than the distance the nail
is required to be driven by the machine.
Should it be desired to insert nails in that part of the heel that may lie over the
surface of the inner part B, holes must be made in the inner part in the desired
position as at e, e, e, figure 1, and be fitted with drivers o, o, o, o, in the usual way;
the drivers will rest upon the bottom plate a¹, of the shell or outer part A, which
will then serve the purpose of the part known as the "driver plate" in the McKay
heeling machine.
By this construction of apparatus in order to attach a heel to a boot or shoe
with a tip, the heel into which nails have been inserted a short distance in the
desired position for attaching both the tip and the heel, is placed upon the device
in the heeling machine, the projecting heads of the partially driven nails that may
be in the middle part of the heel for attaching the heel to the boot or shoe entering
the holes e, e, e, prepared for them in the inner part B and the projecting heads of
the nails in the tip being over the sides of the shell A. The boot or shoe is then

page_text: placed on the work holder or last X of the machine as shewn in figure 9 in the
usual manner and brought into position over the heel.
The machine being set in motion the hollow post Z will be raised by the action
of the moving parts of the machine and the bottom plate a', of the shell will force
up the drivers o, o, o, o, in the holes e, e, e, and so drive home the nails, the heads
of which as above stated were placed in the holes e, e, c. At the same time the
upper surface of the sides of the shell A or of the extension plate a³, as the case
may be drive home the nails into the tip.
It will be obvious that our improved device can be used for attaching heels
without tips the attaching nails being placed around the heel in such a position as
to be driven by the shell or the extension plate as the case may be instead of by
means of drivers working in holes in a block as above described or as is commonly
used on the McKay heeling machine; or studs can be driven into the heel in the
same manner.
In place of using an entire shell surrounding the inner part we sometimes use a
shell A in which parts of the sides are cut away as shewn in figures 3 and 4 the
place of the cut away parts being filled by corresponding projections E, E, on the
inner part B. The parts f, f, of the sides of the shell A left standing work in
the grooves so formed in the inner part and serve to drive nails previously placed
in the heel in such a manner as to be situated over them; this modification is
adapted to drive nails arranged in groups.
We can also groove the nail block B all round its outer edge, one groove being
provided for each nail as shewn at g, g, in figures 5 and 6 and partly cut away the
sides of the shell A in such a manner that the remaining parts h, k, shall enter and
slide in these grooves and act as drivers. Sometimes as shewn in figures 7 and 8
we surround a nail block grooved at its outer edge in the manner just described
and illustrated in figures 5 and 6 with a thin shell K fastened to it, and covering
the grooves and in that case, we detach the portions of the shell or other part left
to act as drivers entirely, and allow them to merely rest on the bottom plate as
at k, k, figure 8.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven;
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:
1. Making a device to be used in a heeling machine for driving nails into the
heels of boots and shoes in two parts an inner and an outer part in the manner and
for the purposes substantially as.herein before described.
2. The manufacture and use of the improved apparatuses for fastening tips or
studs to boot and shoe heels and attaching heels to boots and shoes as herein before
described and illustrated in the various figures of the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 23rd day of Wobru 18°C