for the Applicants.
Year: 1897

page_text: We, HENRY DAVEY, JOSEPH DAVEY, and FREDERICK DAVEY, trading as Henry
Davey & Sons, 37, Cumberland Street, Leicester, Last and Model Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention has reference to divisional or sectional lasts used in the manu-
facture of boots and shoes.
The invention relates to the type of last formed in two parts (exclusive of the
instep block) viz.: a heel piece and a front piece which construction facilitates
the removal of the last from the boot.
Our improved last is simple and efficient in construction and operation and has
no springs or loose parts to get out of repair or become lost, neither is a key
required to unlock the two parts after they are once connected or before they can
be withdrawn from the boot.
Our improved last is divided in an irregular diagonal line from a point at the
top of the heel extending downwards to about the centre of the waist, and the two
parts formed thereby which may be termed the front part and the heel part, are
made with stepped meeting faces i.e. meeting faces in different planes the said
faces being provided with dovetail projections and recesses which interlock or fit
the one within the other when placed together.
The two parts may also be further secured or fastened together by a pin or split
cottar preferably connected by a cord to the front of the last and passed through
a continuous socket or opening in each of the two parts of the last.
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1907
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicants.
We, HENRY DAVEY, JOSEPH DAVEY, and FREDERICK DAVEY, trading as Henry
Davey & Sons, 37, Cumberland Street, Leicester, Last and Model Manufacturers,
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 divisional or sectional lasts used in the manu-
facture of boots and shoes.
The invention relates to the type of last formed in two parts (exclusive of the
instep block) viz.: a heel piece and a front piece which construction facilitates
the removal of the last from the boot.

page_text: Our improved last is simple and efficient in construction and operation and has
no springs or loose parts to get out of repair or become lost, neither is a key
required to unlock the two parts after they are once connected or before they can
be withdrawn from the boot.
.
Our improved last is divided in an irregular diagonal line from a point at the
top of the heel extending downwards to about the centre of the waist, and the two
parts formed thereby, which may be termed the front part and the heel part, are
made with stepped meeting faces.i.e. meeting faces in different places the said
faces being provided with dovetail projections and recesses which interlock or fit
the one within the other when placed together.
The invention will be fully understood from the accompanying drawings and the
following further description having reference thereto.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a last constructed in accordance with this inven
tion.
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Figure 2 is a plan of the bottom of the last showing also the stepped meeting
faces of the front part thereof and,
Figure 3 is a view of the heel part of the last showing its corresponding stepped
meeting faces.
A represents the front part of the last which may or may not have a loose instep
block A, and B is the heel part of the said last.
These two parts as shown most clearly in Figure 1 are separated or divided by
an irregular diagonal line A** extending from near the top of the heel to the centre
of the waist or thereabouts.
These two parts are made with stepped meeting faces located in different planes.
A¹ A A³ are stepped faces on the front part of the block and B³ 12 B³ the cor-
responding stepped faces on the heel part of the block.
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On one or more of the stepped faces on either the front or heel part, there may
be a dovetail projection as A* A5, shown in the present case on the front. part A,
and on the stepped faces of the other part, there may be a similar number of dove-
tail recesses B B into which the said projections, fit with sufficient friction to
enable them to adhere and interlock the two parts of the last as shown in Figure 1.
The projections are formed with bevelled side edges inclining outwardly towards
the front or face of the same and the recesses are formed with undercut or
inwardly inclined sides to correspond as indicated by the dotted lines in each case.
In wooden lasts the projections are by preference fastened to the meeting faces
by pins or rivets A but in metal lasts the projections may be cast integrally with
the body of the last.
In the case of wooden lasts the two parts A and B may be further..connected
together by means of the pin or cottar fastening as described in the specification of
our former l'atent No. 14646 of 1896, but in the case of metal lasts we prefer to
employ the locking pin C.
This is pivotted at C¹ in a recess C in the upper part of the face of the front of
the last, the said pin being pushed normally outwards by a flat steel or other
spring C³ one end of which is fixed into the pin and the other end bears against
the wall of the recess.
The pin is provided with a shoulder C which enters and bears frictionally against
the wall of a recess C in the heel part of the last.
To, withdraw a last constructed as shown, from a boot, the locking pin C is
pressed towards the front part of the last so as to withdraw the shoulder C* from
the recess C³ in the heel and a last hook inserted in the hole A', the heel part of
the last being held meanwhile by the operator and removed from the boot subse-
quently.
3.
If the respective positions of the dovetail blocks and recesses are changed and
the stepped faces on the heel part made to fit over the stepped faces on the front
part of the last (instead of under as shown) the heel would then be the first to be
removed from the boot.

page_text: 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. A sectional or two part last divided in an irregular diagonal line and pro-
vided with stepped meeting faces in different planes substantially as described.
2. In a sectional or two part last divided in an irregular diagonal line and pro-
vided with stepped meeting faces in different planes substantially as described the
combination of means for connecting or interlocking the two parts of the last.
3. In a sectional or two part last divided in an irregular diagonal line and pro-
vided with stepped meeting faces in different planes the combination of a dovetail
projection or projections on one or more of the stepped meeting faces of one part
of the last and one or more correspondingly shaped recesses on one or more of
the stepped meeting faces of the other part of the last substantially as described.
4. The improved sectional last consisting of the parts, constructed, arranged and
adapted to interlock substantially as described and with reference to the accom-
panying drawing.
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HENRY DAVEY,
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant.