Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 9th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 16th Mar., 1888
We WILLIAM Ross of Holmside Muswell Hill in the County of Middlesex Engineer
and JOHN BILBIE of Fairleigh, Bowes Road, Palmers Green in the County of Middlesex
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To provide Machinery for producing Studs of Wire or other material, threaded or
otherwise, and inserting them to any given design, and in any given position, in any
suitable material used in the manufacture of Soles and Heels for Boots and Shoes.
We first provide a roller or Cylinder of Cast Steel or other suitable material, and
turn it in a lathe on its spindle or shaft. We then form threads or rings continuously
throughout its entire length, of V or other suitable shape. We then provide a
suitable frame of any material to receive the spindles or shaft. Outside the above
named Cylinder or roller we provide a segment or segments of another Cylinder
threaded in its inner surface to match the threads or rings as described in the above
named roller or Cylinder.
We then insert in these Segments cutters set to the required distance for the cutting
off the wire (during the process of being threaded) to the length necessary for the
purpose intended. The Segments with Cutters we secure to the frame by means of Bolts
or other suitable appliances so as to leave one portion or end of the Segment the distance
of the size of the wire so that it will just enter. The other portion or end is set to the
distance of the size of the wire less the indent of the thread.
In some cases we find it advisable to provide 2 flat plates arranged with grooves,
threads, and suitable cutters, instead of the roller or Cylinders and Cylinder segment
or segments above described and for the purpose of cutting and threading the studs as
above described.
Having now constructed this portion of the machine as aforesaid we then (having
straightened the wire if necessary) insert it in the machine and revolve the inner roller
or Cylinder so as to roll the wire from the widest to the narrowest portion of the
segment when the wire will be threaded and cut off to the required length. It will
then be rolled by the same action into a recess prepared for it at the narrow end of
the segment and will at once by gravitation fall endwise into a tube prepared for the
purpose, and as there will be several tubes and segments on one roller these tubes will

page_text: in turn communicate with other tubes attached to a die pierced to the required design
and hereinafter called the filler. We then provide a strong frame having properly
constructed base and bearings and run a shaft with one or more cams or eccentrics
communicating with a shaft or connector and a pressure plate, such shaft having a
cogged wheel, friction wheel or other suitable arrangement for communicating rotary
motion to the shaft and eccentrics, thus raising and lowering the pressure plate each
revolution. Under this pressure plate we by means of another cam or other suitable
arrangement bring a die and plunger (filled in with studs by the above means through
the filler) under the pressure plate and place the material to be operated upon on such die,
when the pressure plate actuated by the Cam or Cams lowers and forces the studs into
the material in accordance with the design of the die. This studding die having been
emptied returns to its filler on one side of the pressure plate, while the second die
having been filled on the opposite side by the other filler comes into position under the
pressure plate, through the notion of the second Cam as above described. These dies
and fillers and pressure plates are made in sets and can be changed from the machine
at will to suit size, shape, design &c. of the soles and heels to be operated upon.
Thus
a piece of wire and a piece of leather or other material may by simply setting the
Machine be operated upon so as to stud the material used to any shape, size, or
design.
WILLIAM ROSS,
Holmside, Muswell Hill, N.
JNO. BILBLE,
Fairleigh, Bowes Road,
Palmer's Green, N.

page_text: Improvements in Boot and Shoe Machinery.
We, WILLIAM Ross, of Holmside, Muswell Hill, Engineer, and JOHN BILBIE, of
Fairleigh, Bowes Road, Palmer's Green, both in the County of Middlesex, 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:
Our invention relates to improvements in machinery for the manufacture of studs
from lengths of wire and the subsequent insertion of them, according to a determinate
design, in the soles and heels of boots or shoes.
In order that our invention, and the means by which the same may be carried into
practical effect, may be thoroughly understood, we will now describe it in detail,
having reference to the accompanying figures which are to be taken as part of this
specification and read therewith, and which illustrate the embodiment of our invention
in a machine adapted to manufacture studs and insert them in sole leathers. The
adaptation of the machine to the studding of heels, or of soles and heels at the same
time, is simply a matter of adjusting the filler to produce the desiderated design,
modifying the pistons accordingly, and making the necessary change in the size and
shape of the presser.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation.
Fig. 3 is a sectional front elevation of the lower part of the machine, taken on the
line AB of Fig. 4.
Fig. 4 is a plan corresponding with Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation, taken on the line CD of Fig. 6;
Fig. 6 is a plan of the indenting and cutting mechanism.
The four latter figures are drawn to a double scale.
and
The frame of the machine consists of a suitable base plate, E; two standards, F, F;
a cross-piece, G; and a bracket, H.
I is the driving pulley, actuating by means of a pair of mitre gears J, J', the
vertical shaft, K, for which suitable bearings, k, k are provided in the cross-piece, G,
and the bracket, H.
Lis a cylinder of hardened steel, or other equivalent material, fast upon the vertical
shaft, K. Its periphery has formed upon it a series of indenting ridges, 1.
We provide a set of fixed segments, M, arranged concentrically around the cylinder, L;
and provided with suitable adjusting devices, by means of which their radial distance
from the axis of the cylinder, I, can be regulated.
The cylinder, L, may be fixed; and the segments, M, rotated around it.
The inner faces of the segments are eccentric to the periphery of the cylinder, and
have indenting ridges m corresponding with those on the cylinder; the ridges on the
segments being opposite to, instead of interspacing, those on the cylinder. The
greatest distance between a segment and a cylinder is equivalent to the diameter of

page_text: the wire to be operated upon. The smallest distance is equal to the minor diameter of
a stud.
N are channels between the segment-ends; and are adapted to receive the lengths of
wire, n.
O are cutters projecting from the faces of the segments and are eccentric to the
cylinder Lin the same direction as the segment-faces are.
Radial strips, o, are provided between each pair of segments, and which serve to
separate the feeding spaces, N. from the recesses, h, adapted to receive the finished
studs. Suitable openings, h, are provided in the bracket, H, leading from the
recesses, h, into a hopper, h², from which the studs are guided by any suitable device
vertically into the tubes, p, of a feeder. The diameter of each tube corresponds with
that of a stud; and the tubes of a feeder are assembled in plan to correspond with the
design according to which the studs are to be inserted in the sole.
Four sets of feeder tubes are illustrated in the drawings, the proper quantity for
supplying studs to two pairs of soles at one operation.
The several tubes, p, of each feeder enter a base plate, p¹, with the bottom face of
which they are flush.
Qis a plate adapted to be revolved intermittently by suitable gearing, y, driven
from a shaft, y¹.
From the removable central part, 93, of this plate project as many sets of plungers, 1,
as there are fillers. The plungers in each set are, respectively, arranged, and the two
opposite sets, respectively, distanced, to coincide with the respective tubes of the fillers
when the action of the gear, q, brings the said sets under the said fillers.
Over the plungers, ², a perforated plate, R, is supported by spiral springs, r, at a
distance equivalent to the length of a sind; and as the projection of the plungers, ²,
above the surface of the plate, Q, at its centre, q³, is equivalent to the thickness of the
perforated plate, R, it follows that the resilience of the springs, 7, (their strength
being adapted to effect this) will support the plate, R, at a height above the plungers,
equal to the length of a stud.
S is a presser worked by an eccentric, s', upon the shaft, 7', from which eccentric it
is evenly and strongly hung. The shaft is driven in any convenient way, but is timed
to rotate in harmony with the plates, Q, and R.
In size it corresponds with the area within which are comprised the sets of plungers;
Its under faces is perforated to receive the plungers and a clearance space s¹ is provided
between the presser and said under face.
A machine constructed according to our present invention operates as follows.
Lengths of wire, n, are fed into the channels, N, until they are full, and afterwards
kept full by manual labour, or any suitable automatic feeding device. The lengths in
front, i.c., nearest to the cylinder, L, are caught by it, rotated around their several
axes between the faces of the segments and the periphery of the cylinder and past the
cutters, O, and delivered into the recesses, 4, in the condition of individual studs (their
sides indented by the cutting ridges, 1, m.). They then drop through the openings, ³,
into the hopper, 2; and from thence into all the filler tubes, p, in which they rest in
vertical columns upon the plates, Q and R, until the action of the gears, 7, brings the
perforations in the latter plate under the filler-tubes, when each perforation receives a
stud which then rests upon a plunger, q². The motion of the plates, Qand R, is con-
tinued until the perforations in the latter, and the plungers, q, in the former, are,
respectively, under the sets of perforations in the presser face, s, when the said motion
is automatically arrested by any convenient device, e.g., the omission of teeth from
the pinion of the gearing,
The eccentric, s, on the shaft at this moment drives the presser, S, down upon the
soles previously laid fairly over the sets of perforations in the plate, R. The latter
yields before the descent of the presser, and the studs are forced into the soles, the
expelled pellets of leather rising into perforations in the presser-face, s.
The presser is raised by the eccentric, and the studded soles removed. The pinion
of the gear, 7, re-engages with its spur wheel; and the plate, R, is again charged with
studs as before described

page_text: The indenting ridges and cutters illustrated in Figs. 1 to 6, and described therewith,
are circular in plan and actuated with a continuous rotary motion. But we wish it to
be distinctly understood that our invention is not limited to the said circular shape and
continuous rotary motion, inasmuch as the cylinder, L, and segments, M, may be
replaced by straight surfaces and cutters actuated with a reciprocating linear motion.
This modification is illustrated in Figs. 7, 8, and 9.
Fig. 7 is an elevation, partly in section.
Fig. 8 is a plan corresponding therewith, and
Fig. 9 is an isometric perspective view of the indenting and cutting-off plate.
Tis a hopper adapted to receive the length of wire, n, in a horizontal position.
The hopper rests upon a plate, t, which serves, in part, as a guide for the oscillating
plate, U, which is adapted to be moved with a reciprocating linear motion at right angles
with the lengths of wire, n.
A slot, t, is formed in the plate, t; and one, u, of the same length but preferably
wider, in the oscillating plate, U.
V is the indenting and cutting-off plate; and e, u, slots therein. W is a fourth
plate fixed firmly to the frame of the machine, for the purpose of providing a founda-
tion for the above mentioned parts. It has two slots re, w', formed in it communicating
between the slots v, vl, and the shoots a, a, leading to the fillers illustrated in Figs. 1,
3 and 4.
The transverse central band, 2, of the top surface of the indenting plate, V, receives
the lengths of wire, n, as the latter fall from the hopper T. A set of indenting
ridges, l, and of cutters, m¹, is provided on each side of the said central band.
The action of a machine constructed according to the above mentioned modification
is as follows.
When the oscillating plate, U, presents the slot, u, in it to the mouth of the hopper, T,
the said slot is filled with lengths of wire; whereupon the plate, U, is moved out to
the left, thereby converting all the said lengths of wire into finished studs, which are
dropped into the slot, . The plate, U, is then returned, and a second supply of wires
converted into finished studs by the motion of the plate to the right.
We do not confine ourselves to the exact details illustrated in Figs. 7, 8, and 9, and
described therewith; inasmuch as it is evident that the same may be modified without
departing from the substance of our invention. For instance, the plate U may be
furnished with indenting ridges and cutters m.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
1. The combination of cylinder having a series of indenting threads formed upon
its periphery, segments arranged around said cylinder and having corresponding series
of indenting threads formed upon their inner surfaces which surfaces are set eccentric
to the periphery of the said cylinder and cutters dividing the respective series of
threads into strips of a depth equal to the desired length of a stud substantially as
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of two opposite surfaces adapted to be moved past each other
and having parallel indenting threads cut thereupon, said threads being set opposite
each other and interspaced by cutters set from each other at a distance equal to the
ength of a stud, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accom-
banying drawings.
3. The combination of two opposite surfaces adapted to be moved rectilinearly past
ach other, series of indenting ridges, series of parallel cutters projecting from one of
aid surfaces, feeding chambers adapted to deliver lengths of wire into the mouth of
he tapered spaces between said indenting surfaces, and deliveries from said spaces
ubstantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
4. The combination of an automatic filling device consisting of a hopper delivering
tuds into a set of vertical tubes adapted severally to receive the studs in column with
presser actuated with a reciprocating vertical motion and plate rotating in harmony

page_text: with the operation of said presser upon a perforated plate adapted to fall and rise over
sets of plungers substantially as described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
5. The combination of perforated plate supported by springs over a second plate
having plungers entering the respective perforations in the said perforated plate and
adapted to be moved intermittently under the filling devices and the presser plate sub-
stantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
6. The combination of two indenting surfaces parallel cutters feeding and delivering
devices, hopper, filling holes, presser plate, perforated plate pistons and driving gear
substantially as described.