IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CLOG SOLES AND PATTEN SOLES BY POWER
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Barraclough, of Halifax, in the County of
York, Mechanic, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CLOG SOLES AND PATTEN SOLES BY
POWER"
Sealed the 23rd March 1855, and dated the 27th September 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Barraclough at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th September 1854.
I, CHARLES BARRACLOUGH, of Halifax, in the County of York, Mechanic,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CLOG SOLES AND PATTEN
SOLES BY POWER" to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in employing a rotating wheel or disc, formed with
a series of openings or other receivers capable of receiving and holding
blocks or pieces of wood whilst they are successively being cut by suitable
cutters as required to the form of patten or clog sole, and in employing in
connection therewith cutters, capable of being varied in form and size, carried
by spindles, which have a quick rotary motion given to them, and which are
placed in such position and actuated in such manner as to have an in and out
or oscillatory motion, so as successively to act upon each block or piece of

page_text: wood brought up to them by the revolving wheel or disc, cutting the blocks to
the form or figure required; and whilst the blocks or pieces of wood carried
by one part of the wheel or disc are being cut to form, others which have been
cut will be removed, to be replaced by fresh ones, to be operated upon as
required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Barraclough in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th March 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
BABBACLOUGH, of Halifax, in the County of York, Mechanic, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Barraclough, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Barraclough, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Charles Barraclough, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "Ix-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CLOG
SOLES AND PATTEN SOLES BY POWER," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Charles Barraclough, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Barraclough, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):-
The Invention consists in employing a rotating wheel or disc, formed with
a series of openings or other receivers capable of receiving and holding blocks
or pieces of wood whilst they are successively being cut by suitable cutters as
required to the form of patten or clog sole, and to employing in connection

page_text: therewith cutters, capable of being varied in form and size, carried by spindles,
which have a quick rotary motion given to them, and which are placed in such
position and actuated in such manner as to have an in and out oscillating
motion, so as successively to act upon each block or piece of wood brought up to
them by the revolving wheel or disc, cutting the blocks to the form or figure
required; and whilst the blocks or pieces of wood carried by one part of the
wheel or disc are being cut to form, others which have been cut will be
removed, to be replaced by fresh ones, to be operated upon as required.
Heretofore clog or patten soles have been manufactured by hand by means
of tools commonly known as "stock knives," which process is necessarily
tedious, nor can the work be executed with regularity, or similarity of shape or
form, nor with neatness of finish. But by my Invention the work can be
accomplished with great facility, regularity, and neatness. The annexed
Drawings will more clearly explain the Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a machine as constructed according to my
Invention; and Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same.
a represents the
rotatory wheel or disc, toothed on the outer edge, for the purpose of being
driven slowly by means of a worm and shaft b, which is in connection with
another worm and shaft c, deriving motion from the main driving shaft d.
e are openings or receivers, which in this illustration there are ten on each side
of the wheel, formed by projecting arms or fixings f, connected together at the
ends by portable cross bars g, having screws or set pins therein for setting and
holding the blocks or pieces of wood firmly betwixt the forks or blocks h;
i, the spindles and cutters, and j the arms or frames for carrying them, being
hinged on the studs or bearings at k; 1, the driving pullies, receiving motion
from the main driving shaft d by the strap or belt m; n, tappets or guides
made to the form or pattern of clog or patten sole required, and fixed to the
wheel so as to act upon the spindle and frames as the wheel turns or is brought
to them, producing an in and out or oscillatory motion; o, weights to balance
the said frames, spindles, &c.; p, lever, pullies, cord, and weight for keeping the
strap or belt which drives the spindles, &c. tight, as by the oscillatory motion
thereof the belt is lengthened and shortened; q, blocks or pieces of wood as
fixed in the wheel, and in process of being cut or shaped on two sides to the
form or figure required.
Figure 8 is part of the other side of the wheel, &c., or left side in Figure 1,
shewing another arrangement of tappet or guide for cutting the two other
sides or edges of the clog or patten sole to the form required, in which process
there are four spindles with cutters, two rotating in one direction and two in

page_text: the other, all of which have an oscillatory motion; the brown line and arrow
indicates the belt for driving them from the main shaft, and the direction in
which the spindles rotate.
Figure 4 is a plan and elevation of a cutter, full size, as suited to part r,
No. 1, in Figure 1, and spindle No. 1, in Figure 2.
Figure 5 is another mode of constructing the cutters with loose knives
screwed thereon. Part of the cutters are placed upon one spindle and
another part on another spindle, as will be seen by reference to the accom-
panying Drawings in Figure 1 at Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, so that the work is
divided amongst the whole of the said spindles and cutters. It will be
readily seen that when a block or piece of wood is inserted at s, the wheel
will carry it to No. 1 spindle, where a part is cut away, then to No. 2, and
so on, to the No. 8 spindle, (and each other block in succession,) until it
comes round finished on two sides; it is then taken out and placed in the
opposite side of the wheel, as at t, Figure 1, when it will be again carried
forward and operated upon by the four spindles and cutters in succession, by
which it will be finished on the other two sides or edges, and when arrived
again in the front of the machine is taken out, and by means of another small
rapid rotating cutter, as seen at u, in Figures 1 and 2, the rabbet or place for
the "welting" or top leather is cut out in the clog soles.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of my Invention, I
desire it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the particular con-
struction of machine as herein illustrated, as such may be varied or modified
without departing from the main features of the Invention; but what I claim,
and which I believe to be new within this realm, is, the manufacture of clog
soles and patten soles by means of a rotating wheel and revolving or rotating
cutters, as herein described, or any modification thereof, by power.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Barraclough, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
IY TASTE.
Patent Agent,
Halifax.
CHARLES BARRACLOUGH. (L.S.)