IMPROVEMENTS IN TOOLS OR APPLIANCES FOR REMOVING WORN SOLES FROM CLOGS BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 21st Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 21st Jan., 1887.
from Ologs, Boots, and shoes.
.I BARKER CROSSLEY of Walsden Todmorden in the County of Lancaster, Clog Iron
Works Clog Iron Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN TOOLS OR APPLIANCES FOR REMOVING WORN SOLES FROM CLOGS
BOOTS AND SHOES, to be as follows :-
For purpose of forcing off the remaining portion of the sole of a clog boot or shoe
or for forcing off the soles and welt from the uppers-I employ a tool or machine
constructed as follows.
Mounted upon a block is a standard the legs of which are arched-upon the upright
is a stud on which is a segment wheel and hand lever, the wheel gears with a
vertical rack formed on a slide piece, working through guides, attached to the upright
of the standard, the lower end of the slide, carries a tool, somewhat similar to a
chisel. When the machine is in operation the clog, boot or shoe is placed on its side
on the block and under the chizel, and the handle on being worked will by the
segment wheel impart vertical up and down movement to the slide & tool so that
on the edge of the chisel being brought to the edge of the clog, boot, or shoe sole
and the handle further depressed a great leverage power is obtained whereby the
sole is readily torn off or separated from the upper.
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Town Hall Buildings,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Tools or Appliances for Removing Worn Soles
from Clogs, Boots, and Shoes.
I, BARKER CROSSLEY of Walsden, Todmorden, in the County of Lancaster, Clog
Iron Works, Clog Iron Manufacturer 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 :-
For the purpose of forcing off the remaining portions of the sole of a clog, boot,
or shoe or forcing off the soles and welt from the uppers I employ a tool or machine
constructed as follows,
Mounted upon a block is a standard the legs of which are arched-upon the
upright is a stud on which is a segment wheel and hand lever, the wheel gears with
a vertical rack formed on a slide přece working through guides attached to the
upright of the standard, the lower end of the slide carries a tool, somewhat similar
to a chisel.
When the machine is in operation, the clog, boot or shoe is placed on its side on
the block and under the chisel, and the handle on being worked will by the segment
wheel impart vertical up and down movement to the slide and tool so that on the
edge of the chisel being brought to the edge of the clog, boot, or shoe sole and the
handle further depressed a great leverage power is obtained whereby the sole is
readily torn off or separated from the upper.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention, the following is a complete
description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part
of this specification in which
Fig. 1 is front elevation of
my invention.
Fig. 2 end elevation of same.
Fig. 3 elevation shewing how the apparatus is operated.
Upon a stand 1 is a table or platform 2 cast to and forming part of which are the
arched supports 3, 3, of the standard 4, through the latter is a stud 5 on which is
mounted a segment wheel 6, to the opposite end of the said stud is secured the hand
lever 7, the segment wheel gears with the teeth of the vertical rack 8 formed on
the slide piece 9 which works through the supporting straps or guides 10, 10, attached
to the standard.
The lower end of the slide carries a tool 11 somewhat similar to a chisel, at 12 is
a serrated plate hinged to the right hand side of the platform 2, its other end is
by the link 13 connected by a hook or finger 14 cast to and extending from the rim
of the segment wheel 6.
The motion being as follows:-
On the hand lever 7 being depressed, the slide and tool 11 descend whilst the
link 13 and finger 14 lift or raise one end of the serrated plate 12 upwards and in
direction of the descending tool 11, so that when the clog, boot, or shoe is placed

page_text: with the edge of its sole on the serrated plate 12 and under the descending tool 11,
it is subject to the opposing forces of the tool 11 and also of the serrated plate 12
whereby the efficiency of the leverage motion is fully utilized.
I prefer to use the serrated plate 12 and link as described but the same are not
indispensable they however give the best results, so likewise in reference to the
operating of the vertical slide and tool holder the segment wheel as described gives
the best results, but it is obvious that the necessary motion of the vertical tool holder
could be imparted from the hand lever without the segment, for example-by
means of a pin and friction pulley on the back of the slide working in a radius slot
formed in the hand lever, or by means of connecting the hand lever and vertical
tool holder by means of a link.
Having thus described the nature and particulars of this my said Invention together
with the manner in which the same is to be performed or carried into practical effect
I would have it understood that I do not limit or confine myself to the precise details
herein described, as such may be modified or varied without departing from the
principle of the invention, but what I do claim is :
A tool holder such as 8, and tool such as 11, in combination with and operated
by a lever such as 7 and segment wheel 6, or by stud and slot or link as described
and substantially as illustrated by the annexed drawings.
BARKER CROSSLEY.
By his Agent, Walter Brierley,
Town Hall Buildings,
Halifax.