Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Controlling and Regulating the Supply of Gas to Boot and Shoe Finishers' Stands, applicable for other like purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, "28th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 18th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
*Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Controlling and Regulating
the Supply of Gas to Boot and Shoe Finishers' Stands, applicable
for other like purposes.
I, WILLIAM HENRY HIND of Byron 'Street, 'Leicester, Engineer, 'do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
"This invention' has reférence to finishing stands such as are used in the boot and
shoe trade, and to other like apparatus, and has for its object the provision of
improved mechanism as hereinafter described for controlling and regulating the
supply of gas to such stands is such a manner that the mechanism employed for
that purpose shall be enclosed within a suitable cover or casing with a view to
Freduce the possibility of it being tampered or surreptitiously interfered with by
the operator to unnecessarily increase the consumption of his employer's gas.
Upon the finishers iron or other tool to be heated, being placed on the stand the
weight of the same, as is well known, lowers the stand and a lever connected thereto
becomes depressed and turns on the gas tap.
'Upon the heated tool being removed from the stand the latter is raised and the
light is extinguished by the following mechanism.
To the underside of the stand there is connected the upper end of a preferably
vertical lever whose lower end is movably pivotted to a horizontal lever fulcrummed
at a convenient point to the bed plate and furnished at its opposite end with an
adjustable and removable counterweight which of its own weight raises the stand
and shuts off the gas through the medium of the levers mentioned after the heated
tool is removed.
The mechanism on the lower part of the stand and the gas tap are enclosed by a
suitable case ör.cover.
"Dated this 28th day of July 1891
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.
"COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Controlling and Regulating
the Supply of Gas to Boot and Shoe Finishers' Stands, applicable
for other like purposes.
I, WILLIAM HENRY HIND of Byron Street, Leicester, 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::
This "invention has reference to finishing stands such as are used' for heating the
irons for boot and shoe finishers, and also for other purposes.
In such stands "as is well known, the gas is automatically turned 'on' when the
finishers iron or other tool is placed thereon and the supply of gas is stopped when
the tool is removed.
The object of this invention is to provide an improved arrangement of mechanical
parts for regulating or controlling the supply of gas and at the same time to provide
a simply constructed and compact machine.
The invention will be understood from the following description in reference! to
the accompanying drawing in which,
"Eigure 1 is'a' perspective view of a finishers' stand constructed according to my
invention.

page_text: Figure 2 is a central vertical section of the same on a smaller scale than
Figure 1.
As is generally understood in connection with this class of machine, the gas is
turned on or off by the lowering or raising of the "pan" intermediate mechanism
being operated by the latter for that purpose.
The lowering of the pan is effected by the operator placing his iron or tool
thereon, the weight of the latter being sufficient for that purpose.
The raising of the pan takes place when the iron or tool is removed therefrom,
the ordinary counterweight being employed for this purpose.
In order, however, to control the supply of gas by the operation of the pan A A'
there is connected to the underside plate A' of the latter, a vertical lever B movably
attached at its lower end to a horizontal lever C.
A represents the usual top plate of the pan upon which the iron or other tool to
be heated, is placed by the operator in the well known way. The pan is movably
carried on a fulcrum C2 in bearings D on the bed plate E.
The lever C is slightly cranked at C¹ to pass round the gas supply pipe and
carries at its opposite end the usual balance weight F secured thereon by a screw Fl
and located between the forked lower end of the pedestal G the upper end of the
latter being outwardly and upwardly extended so that the pan A A' may be
movably supported on a pin H thereon.
The lever C has also loosely connected thereto by a screw J¹ a plate J to which
is attached an extension of the tap K by which the gas is turned on or off.
The gas is supplied from any main pipe not shewn in the drawing and is carried
through a pipe L under the bed plate E communicating with a burner M over
which is screwed or otherwise fastened a tube N provided with perforations N¹ at
its base for the admission of air.
The apparatus when in its normal position, i.e. with the gas jet turned off is as
shewn in Figure 2, with the pan slightly elevated at one end, but upon the to-be-
heated tool being placed thereon the pan is lowered into a horizontal plane. The
vertical lever B being simultaneously depressed the weighted end of the lever C is
thereupon raised as shewn in Figure 1 the action of which will be to cause the
plate to turn the gas-tap K. and admit a supply of gas to the burner M.
Upon the finishers tool being removed from the pan after it has been heated to
the required degree, the counterweight F causes the parts to assume the position
indicated in Figure 2 whereby the supply of gas is shut off.
An opening El is made in the bed plate to allow the counterweight F and lever C
to sink the required depth and the pedestal G is secured in position by screws G¹
passing through lugs G2 on each side thereof into the bed plate E.
In this class of machine it is usual to maintain a small light termed the pilot
light constantly burning to avoid the necessity of re-lighting.
In this invention O is the pipe at the upper end of which is the pilot light or
flame.
In order that the action of the gas tap may not influence this light, the pipe Ọ
has its lower end, let into the supply pipe below the tap K and its opposite end is
let into the upper part of the tube N so that any gas passing through the burner M
will soon become ignited by the pilot light.
In order to make the machine appear more compact, I enclose the working
mechanism within a circular tin cover P as in Figure 2 but as the idea of covering
or enclosing the working parts of machines appears to be well known and adopted
in connection with various classes of machinery I make no claim to this.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In an apparatus such as described the combination with the tool holding
pan of a vertical lever such as B counterweighted horizontal lever such as C and
plate such as J or equivalent connected to the gas tap, constructed and operating

page_text: substantially in the manner and for the purpose described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.
2. The improved apparatus constructed and operating substantially in the
manner and for the purpose described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
Dated thin 97th dow of A: 1900
WILLIAM HENRY HIND.
W. P. Thompson. & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.