A Nailing Apparatus for Use in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 29th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 7th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Nailing Apparatus for Use in the Manufacture of Boots and
Shoes.
We, JOHN BOSTOCK and FREDERICK POLLARD trading as Bostock & Pollard
of Albert Street, New Bridge Street, Leicester, Engineers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to nailing apparatus for use in the manufacture of
boots and shoes and embodies improvements thereto specially designed to facilitate
the insertion at one operation of a series of fitters or hob nails around the whole or
a part of the edge of the sole or heel of a boot or shoe.
The insertion of these heavy nails has usually been effected by hand one at a
time by the operator using a hammer for that purpose.
Our invention consists in the employment of means which acting in conjunction
with the descending head of a screw or cutting press will effect the insertion of the
required number of the nails mentioned into any desired part of the sole or heel.
The invention comprises a device for receiving the nails and holding them in
position to be subsequently driven into the sole or heel upon pressure being applied
thereto.
The nail receiving and holding device may consist of a base plate suitably
recessed or a removable plate thereon slotted to receive the heads of the said nails
which may be placed therein by the operator.
The recess or groove in the plate referred to may be of the required shape
according to whether the nails are to be driven into the whole or a part of the sole
or heel of a boot or shoe.
The nails are placed in the said groove or slot with the points directed preferably
upwards and the heel or sole into which they are to be driven is inserted into a
mould or holder and placed on the points thereof.
A plate or block to fit the said mould is then placed over it when the recipro-
cating head of a screw or eccentric press or a beeling machine is lowered upon it
and imparts the necessary pressure to drive the heel or sole down onto the nails.
The heel or sole can then be removed, the whole of the nails having been inserted
therein at one operation.
By the use of our invention fitters, hob and like nails are inserted into a heel or
sole with greater precision than by hand and in a more uniform curve relatively
to that of the heel or sole which latter can be safely bevelled by the sole and heel
trimming or paring machines.
Dated this 27th day of November 1895.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: A Nailing Apparatus for Use in the Manufacture of Boots and
Shoes.
We, JOHN BOSTOCK and FREDERICK POLLARD trading as Bostock & Pollard
of Albert Street, New Bridge Street, Leicester, Engineers, 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 nailing apparatus for use in the manufacture of
boots and shoes and embodies improvements thereto specially designed to facilitate
the insertion at one operation of a series of fitters or hob nails around the whole or
a part of the edge of the sole or heel of a boot or shoe.
The insertion of these heavy nails is usually effected by hand one at a time by
the operator using a hammer for that purpose.
Our invention consists in the employment of simple and inexpensive apparatus
capable of being manipulated by unskilled labour and which when placed under
the descending head of a screw or cutting press will effect the insertion of the
required number of the nails mentioned into any desired part of the sole or heel.
The invention will be fully and clearly understood from the following further
description in reference to the accompanying drawing in which,
Figure 1 is a perspective view of an apparatus for inserting a series of hob nails
into a boot or shoe heel and constructed in accordance with our invention.
Figure 2 is a plan of the removable plate A provided with a curved slot A' for
the reception of the heads of the nails.
A represents a circular plate which may have a recess A¹ therein in which the
heads of the hob nails B may be placed with their points directed upwards as
shown.
This plate may be of any desired thickness but as a general rule it will be found
advisable to mount it on a pedestal C furnished with a base plate C' so that it may
be the more readily placed under a press and removed therefrom by the operator,
besides which the head of the press does not have so far to descend before meeting
the apparatus to force the heel on to the points of the nails as hereinafter
described.
In the preferred construction we form integrally with the upper end of the
pedestal C, a plate C 2 provided with two upwardly projecting pins C3 C4.
On the top of this plate we place a removable plate D perforated to pass over
the pins C3 C4 and made of hardened steel and over this we put a further
removable plate A with two perforations A2 A3 through which the two
pins C3 C4 also pass and provided with a curved through slot A' so that when
the heads of the nails B are fitted therein they rest on the hardened steel plate D
which is best adapted to withstand the pressure.
When the nail receiving slot A¹ has been filled or partly filled with nails
according to whether the nails are to be inserted all round the edge of the heel or
for only a certain distance thereof, a heel E ready built and compressed is placed
within a correspondingly shaped hole in a mould E' which is also furnished with
holes E 2 E3 to fit removably over the pins C3 C4.
The said mould is then placed with the heel upon the points of the nails aud the
apparatus moved under a press whereupon the heel is forced down on to the nails
and the latter are all thus inserted or forced into the heel at one operation.
In some cases we may place a metal block (not shown in the drawing) over the
beel E in the mould so as to assist in the attachment of the heel and nails, but this
can be dispensed with and is not requisite if the depth of the mould be slightly
less than the thickness of the heel so that the latter before being placed under the

page_text: press will project slightly above the mould as shown and be forced down flush with
the upper surface thereof when placed under the press.
After the heel and nails have been attached the mould E¹ is lifted off the
pins C3 C4 and the heel removed. Another heel is then placed therein and the
slot A¹ refilled with nails ready for the next operation.
If the upper part of the stand C C¹ be made of hardened steel the plate A
which will then be such and take the place of C2 D, need not be so thick as the
combined plates C 2, D, A.
By means of the pins C3 C4 and the perforations in the plates D, A, E¹ the
parts are held firmly together and prevented shifting when placed under the press.
The invention has been hereinbefore described in reference to driving the nails
into the heel of a boot or shoe, it is obvious however that the invention is equally
applicable to driving the nails into the sole, the only variation needed being a
difference in the shape of the various parts described to make them agree with the
contour of the sole.
By the use of our invention fitters, hob and like nails are inserted into a heel or
sole with greater precision than by hand and in a more uniform curve relatively to
that of the heel or sole which latter can then be safely bevelled by the heel or sole
trimming or paring machines without injury to the blades of the rotary cutters
which often occurs in heels that are loaded with nails by hand as in the latter
case the nails are not inserted so regularly and uniformly.
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. In apparatus for driving at one operation a series of headed nails into the
heel or sole of a boot or shoe the combination of a plate grooved or recessed to
receive the beads of the said nails, a removable mould adapted to contain the said
heel or sole and to be placed over the recessed plate and submitted to pressure
substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.
2. In apparatus for driving at one operation a series of headed nails into the
heel or sole of a boot or shoe the combination of stand C, C1, C2 removable
hardened steel plate D, removable slotted or recessed plate A to receive the heads
of the nails and removable mould E' containing heel E, and means for holding the
said parts together while being submitted to pressure substantially as described.
3. The apparatus for driving at one operation a series of headed nails into the
heel or sole of a boot or shoe consisting of the parts constructed, arranged and
operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing.
Do I C A want 1806
JOHN BOSTOCK.
FREDERICK POLLARD.
JOHN BOSTOCK.
FREDERICK POLLARD.
Witness―
E. N. LEWIS,
Berridge Street Chambers, Leicester.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicants.