Improvements in Machines for Lasting Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1892-Accepted. 22nd Oct.. 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Lasting Boots and Shoes.
FREDERICK CUTLAN, Castle Hill, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of an addition to the automatic toc plates described in
Patent No. 1262 January 27th 1888. To the back end of the plates I propose
attaching a pair of levers and to fix to the end of these levers a spring for the
purpose of drawing the levers together thus causing the toe plates to open to
receive the toe of the boot or shoe. Jointed to the side of the machine near the
toe of the boot or shoe is a lever with a plate to rest upon the inner sole of the
boot or shoe this lever may be worked by hand or foot. So, that when the last
upon which the upper is to be lasted is forced against the automatic toe plates the
spring attached to the back levers opens and allows the plates to close upon the
upper, and at the same time the cross lever resting upon the inner sole keeps
the inner sole flat upon the last whilst the upper is forced over the inner sole.
Dated this 25th day of November 1891.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Lasting Boots and Shoes.
FREDERICK CUTLAN, Castle Hill, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire,
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 :-
It consists of an addition to the automatic toe plates described & shewn in
Specification No. 1262 dated 27th January 1888, and will be better understood by
reference to the accompanying drawings-of which Fig. 1 is a plan-shewing the
toe clasped by the toe plates-attached to the said toc plates & jointed at A A is
a pair of levers B B-these levers are connected by a pair of links C C. The
pin D passes through a slot in the top plate E and causes the levers B B to open
& close equally. The spring F is for the purpose of bringing the levers together,
which movement causes the toe plates to open when the boot or shoc is removed
from the machine. The lever G is jointed at the side of the machine by the
stud H-attached to the lever G is a plate I which said plate rests upon the inner
sole of boot or shoe as shown in Figs. 1 & 2.
The operation is as follows:-
The last with the inner sole and upper is placed in the machine-the toe plates
being held open by the spring F on the levers B-and the cross lever G is brought
over upon the inner sole and pressed down whilst the toe plates are forced against
the last by the action of the back lever causing the spring F to open and the toe
plates to close automatically upon the toe of the boot or shoe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed-I declare that what
I claim is
1st. In lasting machines—the employment of automatic levers in connection

page_text: with the toe plates substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
2nd. In lasting machines a cross lever as G-substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 25th day of August 1892.
FREDERICK CUTLAN,