Improvements in Machines for Lasting Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left. 27th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 14th May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Lasting Boots and Shoes.
FREDERICK CUTLAN, Castle Hill, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has reference to the lasting of the toe of boots & shoes and to the
class of work known as welted work. Hitherto it has been the practice to draw the
upper over the toe of the last with pincers or by a machine and to drive a number
of tacks or nails through the upper into the last so as to hold the upper in its
proper position until a wax thread has been drawn round the toe (on the outside of
the tacks or nails) and the wax thread made fast at each end--when the thread has
been drawn tight & fastened, the tacks or nails are drawn out and the boot or shoe
so lasted is ready for the sewing on of the welt:-By my invention it is intended
to dispense with the tacks or nails by grooving the edge of the toe plates (plates
shewn in Patent No. 1262 January 27th 1888) the size to receive the wax thread.
The wax thread is placed into the groove, before the last with the upper is put
into the machine to be lasted, so that when the upper is lasted and the toe is
blocked by the force of the toe plates against the upper, the ends of the wax thread
next fastened either by drawing through the leather or by tacks one on each
side of the boot or shoe-the process is then complete and the boot or shoe may
be removed from the machine.
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FREDERICK CUTLAN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Lasting Boots and Shoes.
I, FREDERICK CUTLAN, of Castle Hill, Wellingborough, 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 has reference to the lasting of the toes of boots and shoes and
particularly to the class of work known as welted work. Hitherto, it has been
the practice to draw the upper over the toc of the last by means of a hand-pincer
or by a machine and to drive a number of tacks or nails through the upper into
the last to hold the upper in its proper position until a wax thread has been
drawn round the toe, on the outside of the tacks or nails, and made fast on each
side of the boot or shoe. When the said wax thread has been made fast the tacks
or nails are withdrawn and the boot or shoe so lasted is ready for the sewing on
of the welt.
Now my invention is intended to dispense with the tacks or nails by grooving
the edge of the toe plates I described and shown in Specification No. 1262 dated
27th January 1888, and my invention will be the better understood by reference
to the accompanying drawings of which
Fig. 1 is a plan showing the last clasped by the toe block and plates, and
Fig. 2 shows the toe plates in perspective.
A is the toe block to which are jointed at A' the two toe plates B.
A groove C for the reception of the thread E is formed on the inner curved
edge of each plate B, or that edge which engages with the leather stretched on
the last.

page_text: The operation is as follows,-
Before the last with the upper is placed in position in the machine, the wax
thread E is placed in the groove C of the toe plates B, and when the upper is
drawn over by the machine and the toe blocked by the force of the grooved toe
plates against the upper, the ends of the wax thread are drawn tight and fastened
by passing them through the leather as at F on each side of the boot or
shoe the process is then complete and the boot is ready for the sewing on of
the welt.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
1. In lasting machines the employment of toe plates grooved for the reception
of the thread substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
2. In a lasting machine a toe-plate such as B having a groove such as C
substantially as described and illustrated in Figure 2 of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 27th day of February 1892.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.