Improvements in Machinery for Attaching Heels to Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Attaching Heels to Boots and Shoes.
I, WILLIAM SHEA of 75 Well Street, Hackney, London, N.E. Boot and Shoe
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to machinery for attaching heels to boots and shoes
by nails or the like and is as follows:-
On a suitable stand or base or plate a stout pillar or support is formed or
mounted said support being advantageously formed with a large aperture therein
just opposite the "horn" or place where the heeling operation takes place or
otherwise, suitably arranged to form a clearance at such point and then said
support is curved forwardly and upwardly or formed in suchwise that same over-
hangs the said base or carries projecting arms or other means thereon overhanging
said base for a vertically acting plunger or ram to slide therein.
This vertically acting plunger or ram has a spring or springs combined there-
with to normally keep same pressed upwards while same is adapted to
be pressed downwards in any suitable manner for instance by a screw
or eccentric or crank or lever operated either mechanically or by hand
but as my present invention is especially designed to produce a hand-operated
machine for the purposes stated I will proceed to describe same constructed 'with
a hand lever which has its fulcrum in or upon the said support advantageously
at or near the top of the latter and at a point close to the aforesaid ram or plunger
to which it is connected by a double forked link or other suitable connection
whilst said lever being of considerable length a powerful action is thus obtained
by hand over said ram or plunger-on the lower end of which latter any suitable
head or end may be arranged advantageously a removable head.
Immediately below this ram or plunger the horn is arranged carried on a
support for same which latter is or may be horizontally adjustable on said base
plate for instance by having a flange on the bottom thereof slotted on each side
of said support and screw-bolts passed through said slots into said base.
The horn is adapted to be forced downwards against the action of a spring or
springs combined therewith and guided in its movement in any suitable manner
for instance by a downwardly projecting flange on the horn overlapping the
said horn support while a guide rod projects centrally and downwardly from the
underside of said horn and slides in a corresponding vertical guideway in said
horn support.
A series of vertical holes or cylinders open at their upper end are arranged on
or carried by said horn into which the nails etc are placed and a corresponding
number of fixed vertical rods (projecting upwardly from said horn support) form
the lower end of said cylinders and when the latter with the horn are forced down

page_text: upon said fixed rods the latter acts like rams or pistons to force out said nails
into the boot or shoe and heel which is laid on same and forced downwards by
the operation of said lever.
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Improvements in Machinery for Attaching Heels to Boots and Shoes.
I, WILLIAM SHEA of 75 Well Street, Hackney, London, N.E. Boot and Shoe
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:
This invention relates to machinery for attaching heels to boots and shoes
by nails or the like and in order that my invention may be easily understood
and readily carried into practice I will proceed to fully describe same with
reference to the drawings hereunto annexed.
Fig. 1 is a view in elevation of the heel-attaching machine.
Fig. 2 is a similar view at right angles to Fig. 1 i.e. looking in the direction of
the arrow 2 Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view (on an enlarged scale) on the line 3-3 Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view on line 4-4 Fig. 3.
On a suitable stand or base or plate a a stout pillar or support b is formed or
mounted said support being advantageously formed with a large aperture 6*
therein just opposite the "horn" h or place where the heeling operation takes place
or otherwise suitably arranged to form a clearance at such point and then said
support is curved forwardly and upwardly or formed in suchwise that same over-
hangs the said base or carries projecting arms 61 62 or other means thereon
overhanging said base for a vertically acting plunger or ram c to slide therein.
This vertically acting plunger or ram e has a spring d (or springs) combined
therewith to normally keep same pressed upwards while same is adapted to be
pressed downwards by a lever e (or in any other suitable manner for instance by
a screw or eccentric or crank operated either mechanically or by hand) but as
my present invention is especially designed to produce a hand-operated machine
for the purposes stated I have illustrated and will proceed to describe
same constructed with a hand lever e which has its fulcrum in or
upon the said support advantageously at or near the top of the latter
viz: at e as shown at a point close to the aforesaid ram or
plunger c to which it is connected by a double forked link f or other suitable
connection while said lever e being of considerable length a powerful action is
thus obtained by hand over said ram or plunger c on the lower end of which
latter any suitable head or end may be arranged advantageously a removable head
such as g.
Immediately below this ram or plunger the horn his arranged carried on a
support for same which latter is or may be horizontally adjustable on said base
plate a for instance by having a flange on the bottom thereof slotted on each side
of said support and screw-bolts passed through said slots into said base.
The horn h is adapted to be forced downwards against the action of a spring j
(or springs) combined therewith and guided in its movement in any suitable

page_text: manner for instance by a downwardly projecting flange h on the horn h over-
lapping the said horn support while a guide rod projects centrally and
downwardly from the underside of said horn (to which it is fixed) and slides in
a corresponding vertical guideway in said horn support i.
A series of vertical holes or cylinders m open at their upper end are arranged on
or carried by said horn h into which the nails etc are placed (with the points of
said nails upwards) and a corresponding number of fixed vertical rods n (projecting
upwardly from said horn support i on which rods n the heads of the nails etc rest)
form the lower end of said cylinders m and when the latter with the horn h are
forced down upon said fixed rods n the latter act like rams or pistons to force out
said nails into the boot or shoe and heel which are laid on same--and forced
downwards by the operation of said lever e--that is to say the boot or shoe and
heel are forced downwards on to the said nails and are impaled thereon and
thereby the heel is attached.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is:-
construction and
1. The herein-described improved, construction and arrangement of
machinery for attaching heels to boots and shoes the several parts being combined
and operating substantially as and for the purposes specified.
2. A heel attaching machine constructed and arranged to act substantially in
the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and as illustrated in the
drawings hereunto annexed."
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.