Improvements in Machines for Finishing Boots or other Coverings for the Feet.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 21st Aug., 1891-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Finishing Boots or other Coverings
for the Feet.
I, THOMAS GARE, of the Gare Machine Co. Ltd., of Carrs Ironworks, Stock-
port, in the County of Chester, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:—
My invention relates to improvements in machines for finishing boots or other
coverings for the feet, for which Provisional Protection dated April 24th 1890 and
numbered 6234 has been granted to me and in particular to the means therein
described for supporting and feeding the boot or other covering for the feet to be
operated upon, so as to facilitate an easier feeding and thus more regular bunking,
printing or stitch wheeling than heretofore.
To this end I cause the horn or support on which the boot or other covering for
the feet is placed to laterally reciprocate. To effect this lateral reciprocatory
motion arrange the bracket in which the shank or shaft carrying the horn or
support is passed to move to and fro in the standard of the machine by means of a
crank or disc pin, or cam fixed to the driving shaft of the machine. The said shank
or shaft I may mount vertically or slightly inclined and to permit its reciprocatory
motion I form it in its continuity with a joint. The shank or shaft carrying the
horn or support is held up by means of a spring and permitted to be depressed by
means of a foot lever for the purpose of placing or removing the boot or other covering
for the feet to be operated upon, and in order to ease the feeding of the boot or other
covering of the fect, I cause the horn or support to drop at the commencement of
the reciprocatory movement and to raise again at its return by means of a cam fixed
on the driving shaft and suitable connections between the latter and the aforesaid
foot lever, preferably such as described in connection with an invention for which
Provisional Protection has been granted to me dated September 3rd 1890 and
numbered 13833.
Datal this 20th dow of November 1890
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Finishing Boots or other Coverings
for the Feet.
I, THOMAS GARE, of the Gare Machine Co. Ltd., of Carrs Ironworks, Stock-
port, in the County of Chester, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in machines for finishing boots or other
coverings for the feet, for which Letters Patent, dated April 24th 1890 and
numbered 6234 has been granted to me, and in particular to the means therein
described for supporting and feeding the boot or other covering for the feet to be
operated upon, so as to facilitate an easier feeding and thus more regular bunking,
printing or stitch wheeling, than heretofore.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures, of which
Fig. 1, is a side view and Fig. 2, an end view of my improved machine.
In carrying out my invention, the improvements consist in the first place in

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causing the horn or support a, on which the boot or other covering for the feet is
placed, to laterally reciprocate. To effect this lateral reciprocatory motion I
arrange the bracket b, which supports the shank or shaft c carrying the horn or
support a, to move to and fro, in the standard d of the machine, by means of a disc
or crank pin e, or cam fixed to the respective end of the driving shaft of the
machine, engaging a slot formed in the bracket or slide . The shank or shaft c
may mount vertically or slightly inclined and to permit its reciprocatory motion
I form it, in its continuity with a joint c. The shank or shaft c, carrying the horn
or support a, is held up by means of a spring h, placed between a bracket i near
the foot of the machine and a shoulder on the shank or shaft c, and permitted to
be depressed by means of a foot lever k, for the purpose of placing or removing the
boot or other covering for the feet to be operated upon. In lieu of gearing up the
bunking or other. wheels a', I mount the same loosely on a stud a², carried by a
bracket made adjustable in the head of the machine.
In carrying out the second and last part of my invention, in order to case the
feeding of the boot or other covering of the feet, I cause the horn or support a to
drop at the commencement of the reciprocatory movement and allow it to rise again
at its return, by means of a cam fixed on tlic driving shaft and suitable con-
nections between the latter and the aforesaid fbot lever, preferably such as described
in connection with an invention for which Provisional Protection has been granted
to me dated September 3rd 1890 and numbered 13833, and consisting of a bell crank
lever m, operated by the cam and connected by means of a link to a gripper o,
jointed to a sleeve p placed on the rod q, connected to the back end of the foot
lever k. On the horn or support a commencing to feed, the cam operates the
lever m and causes the gripper o to engage the rod q and thus depress the horn or
support a, through the medium of the foot lever k and shank or shaft c.
On the driving shaft is suitably arranged a driving pulley p' in connection
with a clutch p, operated from the front of the machine, by means of a lever r¹,
shafts and pedal t, whereby the machine can be set in or out of operation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven™
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is―
"In machines for finishing boots or other coverings for the feet."
1st. The combination with the bunking or other wheels a¹ of a lateral reciprocatory
horn or support a, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
2nd. The combination with the rod y on the foot lever k, of a gripper o operated
by suitable connections from a cam l on the driving shaft, substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.
Dated this 20th day of August 1801
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.