Improved Machinery for the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes and for other Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1887
Complete Left, 22nd Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 13th Apr.. 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Machinery for the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes and
for other Purposes.
WILLIAM ROSS of Broomfield Cottage Southgate in the County of Middlesex
Engineer and JOHN BILBIE of "Fairleigh "Bowes Road, Palmers Green in the
said County of Middlesex Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
To provide a Machine for preparing Studs or Nails of Iron or other suitable
material threaded or otherwise and insert them to any given design, and in any given
position in the soles and Heels of Boots and Shoes and for such other purposes as the
Machine can be applied to and as partly described in our former Specifications
No. 4131 18th March 1887 No. 5184 7th April 1887 and No. 6446 3rd May 1887.
We first provide as described in our former Specifications a roller or Cylinder and
segments, or a series of rollers and Cylinders threaded or otherwise having cutters in
both or only one or either for the purpose of cutting the wire or other material. We
do if desirable provide flat plates as there described for the same purpose. We also
sometimes provide a roller or Cylinder or a series of rollers or Cylinders cut as there
described from solid metal or built up in sections or rings each thread and cutter
forming a separate ring or section, or two or more threads or rings being cut in one
solid piece with one or more cutters thereon or the cutter or cutters may be separate
from the threads or rings. Outside this roller or Cylinder or rollers or Cylinders we
place a segment or segments of a larger Cylinder threaded or otherwise and having
cutters as before described or not, of a sufficiently larger diameter to form when fixed
the exact condition of distance at the place of ingress of the wire, and the same
condition of distance at the place of egress, and by having a hopper or container for
holding wire or other material, cut to length and straightened if necessary, we feed
the before mentioned cutting and threading machine at any convenient point or points,
and revolving either roller or exterior Cylinder segment or both a portion of the
revolution and returning it or them to the same position as when we started the machine.
By so continuously reciprocating the roller or the exterior Cylinder segment one
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page_text: portion of the machine is fed and cutting and threading during the time the other
portion is returning for its supply. This reciprocating or tumbling motion may be
attained by means of a Cam or Cams or other suitable appliance for producing such
travel to and fro. These rollers and Cylinders or Segments of Cylinders, described
here and in our former above named Specifications may be placed horizontally or at
any desired angle. Having thus attained the effect of cutting to any required length
and threading or otherwise any thickness of wire or other material we provide a
recess or slot in our outer segment or segments and a box or container for the purpose
of receiving such studs when cut or threaded or cut only, applying to this box or
container a shaking or jigger motion obtained by any suitable mechanism, we induce
the wire studs or nails into holes perforated in such box or container to which are
attached tubes or other suitable guides communicating with certain perforations in a
filler and thus preparing for filling the perforated die or dies or Cylinder or Cylinders
or segments of Cylinders or Cylinder as may be desired and is described hereafter,
and in our before named Specifications. Having got thus far we sometimes instead
of the dies and mechanical motions mentioned in our Specifications No. 4131 18th
March 1887 No. 5184 7th April 1887 No. 6446 3rd May 1887 provide an inner
roller or Cylinder for pressing the studs into the material (or nails) and a Segment
of an outer Cylinder or Cylinders perforated to the design or designs required and
having a reciprocating or tumbling motion similar in adjustment and arrangement to
the herein before named roller or Cylinder and outer segment or segments for cutting
and threading the wire. In this exterior Segment or Cylinder, or Segments or
Cylinders perforated to the required designs we insert in the perforations loose drivers
of steel or other suitable material of the length required to drive out the studs as the
Cylinder and segments revolve. This exterior segment or Cylinder by means of
suitable mechanism places its perforated portion under the fillers, and having taken in
its charge of Studs or Nails is brought to the point where the material passes between
the above named die segment or Cylinder and an endless band running on an endless
chain or chains of friction rollers, held in position relative to each other's distance by
links or other suitable devices. This endless band being perforated for the core driven
out of the material by the insertion of the studs or nails referred to above by means of
such pressure obtained by the adjustment of the interior roller or Cylinder and
exterior perforated Cylinder or Cylinders, or Segment or Segments. This segment or
Cylinder, or these segments or Cylinders continue to pass to filler and return to
Cylinder and endless band pressing alternately and continually during the working of
the machine.
We can also arrange a ratchet motion to drive the above named exterior or die
Cylinder so as to give time for inserting the studs into their proper position in the
perforations of the die Cylinder.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Machinery for the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes and
for other Purposes.
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We, WILLIAM Ross, of Broomfield Cottage, Southgate, and JOHN BILBIK
Fairleigh," Bowes Road, Palmer's Green, both in the County of Middlesex,
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 :-
The object of this invention is the production of improved machinery for the
manufacture of studs, threaded or plain; and the subsequent insertion of them, to any
given design, and in any required position, in the soles and heels of boots and shoes;
as well as in other materials for the studding of which it is applicable; although it
has more particular reference to the construction of the machines described and
illustrated in the specifications of former Letters Patent, Nos. 4131, 5184, and
No. 6446, all of A. D. 1887.
In order that our invention, and the means by which the same is to be carried into
practical effect, may be thoroughly understood; we will now describe the same in
detail, referring in so doing to the accompanying figures, which are to be taken as
part of this specification and read therewith.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a machine embodying the combination
of the several functions which is the essence of our invention; and
Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation, corresponding with Fig. 1.
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These two figures are intended to illustrate the method and operation of our
invention, as a whole; and not as a definition of the individual devices which we
employ, inasmuch as the said individual devices may, it is clear, be varied without
interfering with the combination of the operative parts, and the sequence as well as
the mutual relationship of their functions.
A, A¹ are a pair of standards constituting the frame of the machine.
B is a hopper adapted to receive the lengths of stud-material horizontally, and to
deliver them vertically downwards through its mouth, b, into the threading and
cutting device. This latter is illustrated in the figures as built up of circular cutters, c,
interspaced by threading rings, c'; both cutters and rings being fixed upon a shaft, C,
and held thereon by collars, c². The shaft, U, has its bearings in the top of the
standards of the machine.
The cutting and threading roller, formed by the two series of cutters and rings
above described, is rotated within an eccentric cylinder, D.
In the matter of constructing the cutting and threading roller and the cylinder
in which it works, we do not confine ourselves to the particular construction illustrated;
inasmuch as we may adopt any one of the constructions described in either of the
Specifications Nos. 4131 or 5184 above referred to. Either roller or cylinder, or both,
may be constructed of segments, or of sections. Both, instead of one only, may the
furnished with cutters, and their peripheries may be smooth, or threaded, according.as
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With reference to the motion to be imparted to the operative parts of the cutting
and threading device, either roller or cylinder may receive a regular, or an intermittent,
rotary motion round their common axis. The cutting and threading device may be
horizontal, or at an angle with the horizontal plane.
Instead of a roller-and-cylinder device, we may adopt the plane-surface-and-
cutter construction described and illustrated in our said former specification, No. 4131,
of A. D. 1887. But whether plane or curved surfaces be used for producing the
studs, the distance between the respective surfaces is always adjusted according to the
thickness of the stud to be produced, and the hopper, B, fed with stud-material of a
suitable gauge, accordingly.
The studs are delivered through a suitable shoot, d, into a box, D³, having a
perforated bottom. The perforations, d³, in the said bottom are of the same diameter
as the studs, or at any rate not smaller.
The box, D', is adapted by means of any suitable device to be moved to and fro
with a jigging motion. The jigging device illustrated consists of two drums D¹, D¹,
with cam surfaces, d', the elevations of one surface being opposite to the depressions
of the other. Each end of the box is furnished with a push, d³, which projects through
the adjoining standard for a sufficient distance to bring itself within reach of the
elevation of the cain surface above described on that side of the machine.
E, E are a series of filling tubes, or equivalent devices, supported in suitable
transverse plates, e, e', and are adapted to receive the studs which, after they have
been jigged into a vertical position, drop into them from the box, D²; and to deliver
them to the studding mechanism.
The studding mechanism may be of any of the types described and illustrated in
: any of the three prior specifications above referred to, or it may be as illustrated in
the accompanying figures.
F is a cylinder perforated according to the pattern of the studding. The
perforations, f, are aligned to pass opposite the ends of the tubes, E. Each
perforation, f, is furnished with a headed driver, f¹. The heads of the drivers bear
upon the periphery of an internal drum, G, supported on a shaft, g, extending through
the machine-standards. The internal diameter of the cylinder, F, is larger than the
external diameter of the drum, G; and these two are eccentric the one to the other 3.
the eccentricity sufficing to withdraw the drivers into the cylinder, as they approach
the line of feeding tubes, for a distance sufficient to form cavities, each one capable of
receiving a stud from its corresponding tube, E, and to cause the drivers on the
opposite side to protrude for a corresponding distance.
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We lead an endless band composed of solid links, H, around two rollers, I, I,
supported by the machine standards.
The inner faces of the said links are engaged by a pinion, J ; and their outer faces
are provided with teeth, h, adapted to engage in corresponding cavities in the periphery
of the cylinder, F. The said outer faces are concave, and struck with the same radius
as the said cylinder, past which they are carried at a distance equal to the thickness of
the material to be studded. The ends of the links are of course radial to the said
oylinder.
The driving gear of the machine may be of any suitable type, the relative speeds
being arranged so that the various parts are operated at proper relative times.
As the studs drop from the cutting and threading device, they are jigged into the
filling tubes, E, from which they are taken by the cavities in the top of the cylinder, F,
as the latter is rotated past said tubes by the links, H of the endless band. The
cylinder carries them forward; and as the heads of the drivers begin to bear against
the inner drum G, the said drivers are protruded, and the studs consequently driven
into the material to be studded previously introduced between the cylinder, F, and
said band for that purpose.
The pellets punched out of the material are forced into the cavities, h¹, in the outer
or concave face of the endless band; from which they are expelled, on the withdrawal
of the drivers, by the resilience of the imprisoned air.
We may, if preferred, replace the cylinder, F, by a segment of a cylinder, to which

page_text: shall be imparted, through the pinion, J, and endless band, a reciprocating circular
motion past the mouth of the tubes, E, and the concave face of the endless band; said
circular motion being eccentric to the inner drum, G, and in either case, the motion,
-continuous-circular or reciprocating circular through a given arc, as the case may
be may be made intermittent by the introduction into the driving gear operating the
pinion, J, of a ratchet device, by means of which the cylinder, F, or its substitute
segment, will be made to pause for a moment as a line of perforations coincides
with the filling tubes, E, and then moved on as soon as the said line of perforations is
charged.
We wish it to be distinctly understood that we do not confine ourselves to the use
of the filling tubes E or an equivalent device inasmuch as the same may be dispensed
with, and the bottom of the box, D, be made to fit directly upon the periphery of the
cylinder, upon which therefore the studs would fall directly from the shoot, d.
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. The combination of hopper adapted to receive lengths of studding material
horizontally thereinto; roller adapted to move with either a continuous or a
reciprocating motion with an eccentric cylinder; annular space between the adjacent
surfaces of roller and cylinder adapted to receive said lengths of wire; cutting and
threading devices in either or botli; and a delivery shoot formed in the side of the
said cylinder.
2. The combination of horizontal hopper; horizontal roller and cylinder separated
by an annular space and provided with cutting and threading devices, either or both;
a box adapted to receive the studs falling from said cylinder; a jigging device
adapted to jig the said box; a filling device adapted to receive the studs from said box
and to deliver them to the studding device; a cylinder, or a segment being a part
thereof and substitute therefor, perforated according to the pattern to be produced in
the studded material by the juxtaposition of the studs therein; an inner drum hung
eccentrically to said cylinder or its substitute segment; drivers adapted to be
protruded through the perforations in said cylinder; an endless band adapted to present
a moving concave face to the said cylinder or its substitute segment; and a driving
gear of any suitable type adapted to actuate the aforesaid operative parts in harmony
with each other substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
3. The combination of horizontal hopper; horizontal roller and cylinder separated
by an annular space and provided with cutting and threading devices, either or both;
a box adapted to receive the studs falling from said cylinder; a jigging device adapted
to jig the said box; a cylinder, or a segment being a part thereof and substitute
therefor, perforated according to the pattern to be produced in the studded material
by the juxtaposition of the studs therein; an inner drum hung eccentrically to said
cylinder or its substitute segment; drivers adapted to be protruded through the
perforations in said cylinder; and an endless band adapted to present a moving
concave face to the said cylinder or its substitute segment; and a driving gear of any
suitable type adapted to actuate the aforesaid operative parts in harmony with each
other; substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this ist day of reoruary 1000.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Patent Agents,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.