AN IMPROVED PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING LACING STUDS OR HOOKS FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake,
and Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for an Invention
of "AN IMPROVED PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING LACING STUDS OR HOOKS
FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER ARTICLES." A communication from abroad
by Mellen Bray, of Newton, Massachusetts, United States of America,
Manufacturer.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Robert Lake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th April 1882.
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WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London. "AN IMPROVED PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING
LACING STUDS OR HOOKS FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER ARTICLES:"
A com-
munication from abroad by Mellen Bray, of Newton, Massachusetts, United States
of America, Manufacturer.
This Invention relates to an improved process of forming lacing studs or hooks
for boots, shoes, and other articles from wire of a diameter about equal to the
diameter of the shank of the stud or hook, and it consists in cutting from the said
wire a cylinder blank or piece of suitable length, submitting the said blank to the
action of dies to bend one portion thereof at right angles to the other portion and
emboss or swage the same, so as to form a shoulder around the shank, and give
shape to the neck and outer head projecting radially from one side of the said
shank, bending the said neck to bring the outer head over the shank, and then
drilling out the centre of the shank to form a tube.
In the accompanying Drawing
Figure 1 is an elevation of a cylinder or piece of iron wire from which a lacing
stud is to be formed.
Figures 2 and 3 represent a plan and a side elevation of the same piece of metal
after it has been subjected to the action of the bending and swaging dies.
Figures 4 and 5 represent an inverted plan and a longitudinal section of the
said piece of metal after being subjected to the action of the trimming dies.
Figure 6 is a side elevation of the stud or hook after the neck is bent, and
Figure 7 is a vertical section of the same after the shank has been drilled.

page_text: In carrying into practice this improved process, a blank A of the proper length
(as shown in Figure 1) is first cut from a wire of a diameter corresponding to the
desired diameter of the shank to be formed. The blank A. is then subjected to
the action of a pair of dies to bend a portion of the said blank at right angles to
its other portion, and flatten it out or partially swage it to tho shape desired, and
is afterwards subjected to a second pair of dies to complete the swaging to the
shape shown in Figures 2 and 3, in which a is the shank; b, the hoad collar or
shoulder, which bears upon the material when the stud is set; c, the neck; d, tho
outer or button head; and e, the fin or surplus metal thrown out between the
swaging dies.
This surplus metal or fine is then cut away by a pair of suitably shaped dies,
and the neck c is bent so as to bring the button head d directly over the shank a
and the inner head or collar b, as shewn in Figure 6. After this the shank a is
drilled out to form a tube, as shewn in Figure 7, when the stud is complete, with
the exception that it must be submitted to the operation of tumbling and coating its
exterior with a suitable covering of japan, lacquer, tin, or other metal, which
operations constitute no part of this Invention.
By my improved process Incing studs may be produced having all the advantages
of strength and neatness of finish of the studs now formed by cutting the neck and
outer head from a solid piece of metal without bending, and at a very material
saving in cost.
Having thus fully described the said Invention, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the same, I wish it under-
stood that I claim,-
The herein described process of forming lacing studs or hooks, which process
consists in cutting a cylindrical blank from a wire of a diameter about equal to the
desirud diameter of the shank of the stud or hook to be made, bending one portion
of the said blank at right angles to the other portion, and embossing or swaging
the said bent over portion by means of suitable dies to give contour to the parts
which are to constitute the neck and the outer or button head, bending the neck
to bring the button head over the shank and inner head, and then drilling out the
centre of the shank, all substantially as and for the purposes specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
TUM DORT LAKE