Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 30th Mar., 1889
1, FRANÇOIS FONTAINE, père, of 128 Avenue Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said Invention relates to sewing machines adapted for bootmaking and similar
" shuttle box"
work, and ordinarily made with a hollow arm, sometimes termed a
to project inside of a boot or shoe or other article ; and my object is to render a
single machine capable of operating on articles of different sizes and which ordinarily
require separate machines.
The under sewing thread is contained in a shuttle which is commonly of the
oscillating kind and is placed within the outer end of the arm, being actuated by
means of a rod which reciprocates along the arm being worked by driving mechanism
at the inner end. In carrying out my Invention I provide two or more separate
arms with any convenient arrangement for attaching them to or detaching them from
the main body of the machine easily and quickly, the attachment parts of all the arms
being made exactly alike although their outer parts may differ considerably in size
or form. Each arm is provided with its own shuttle details and reciprocating rod, and
the ends of all the rods which have to receive the driving motion are made exactly
alike and so that any one can be easily connected by a pin or equivalent to a slide
which is in the body of the machine and which is actuated like the reciprocating rod
of ordinary arm machines.
Dated this Thirty-first day of May 1888.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: Improvements in Sewing Machines.
I, FRANÇOIS FONTAINE, père, of 128, Avenue Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, in the County
of Lanark, North Britain, Manufacturer, 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, that is to say :-
My said Invention relates to sewing machines adapted for bootmaking and similar
work, and ordinarily made with a hollow_arm, sometimes-termed a "shuttle box"
to project inside of a boot or shoe or other article; and my object is to render a
single machine capable of operating on articles of different sizes, and which ordinarily
require separate machines.
The under sewing thread is contained in a shuttle which is commonly of the
oscillating kind, and is placed within the outer end of the arm, being actuated by
means of a rod which reciprocates along the arm and is worked by driving mechanism
at the inner end.
In carrying out my Invention I provide two or more separate arms with any
convenient arrangement for attaching them to or detaching them from the main
body of the machine easily and quickly, the attachment parts of all the arms being
made exactly alike although their outer parts may differ considerably in size or
form. Each arm is provided with its own shuttle details and reciprocating rod, and
the ends of all the rods which have to receive the driving motion are made exactly
alike and so that any one can be easily connected or arranged so as to be actuated
like the reciprocating rod of ordinary arm machines.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to be
hereinafter referred to and showing one modification of my improved arrangements.
Figure, 1, on the sheet of drawings is a plan of an arm and figures, 2, and 3, are a
side elevation and an inverted plan of the same arm. Figure, 4, is a side elevation of
an arm of a different form. Figure, 5, is a plan of a slide to which the reciprocating
rod of any arm has to be connected. Figure, 6, is a sectional side elevation showing
an arm like that shown in figures, 1, 2, and 3, as fixed in position on the main body
of the machine. In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the
same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
The main body A, of the machine is made with a projection or bracket, B, having
a flat upper surface to serve as a seat for any of the arms, C, a vertical or right-angle
abutment, D, being formed on the body at the inner end of the seat. Each arm, C,
is made with a square inner end to fit against the abutment, D, and with a flat
surface to fit on the seat, or Bracket, B; and is rigidly fixed to the bracket by two
vertical screws, E, the heads of which are in recessed parts in the top of the arm so
as not to project above the upper surface of the arm. The reciprocating rod, G,
which moving in a groove or space in the arm, C, works the shuttle by means of a
rack, H, at its outer end and two pinions, J, has an eye, K, formed at its inner end;

page_text: and a slide, L, is formed with fork eyes to be connected by a pin to the reciprocating
rod, G. The reciprocating rod, G, of the various arms are all made with an eye, K,
in the proper position for connection to the slide, L, the rod being bended for that
purpose, if necessary, as indicated in figure, 4. The slide, L, works between guides, M,
formed on or fixed to the body, A, and it is provided with an antifriction roller, N,
to be acted on by a cam in the ordinary way.
Instead of there being a single slide, L, to which different reciprocating rods, G, have
to be connected, each rod, G, may be made with a slide part to work between the
guides, M, and with an antifriction roller, N.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
In sewing machines having shuttles in arms constructed to project into boots, shoes,
or other articles, providing each machine with two or more arms of different forms
or sizes with the parts for attachment and connection precisely alike for all the arms
for one machine, substantially as hereinbefore described.
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EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.