Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes, and in the Machinery or Apparatus Employed therefor.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 14th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 17th May. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes, and
in the Machinery or Apparatus Employed therefor.
We, THE UNION BOOT AND SHOE MACHINE COMPANY Limited, of 51, King Street,
Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Manufacturers, and FREDRICK Cox, of
29, Pychley Street, Northampton, in the County of Northampton, Boot and Shoe
Machine Operator, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows :-
In sewing in welts on boots and shoes by welting machines it has been necessary
to channel the insole by cutting an inclined slit therein for receiving the stitches, the
said slit also serving to receive the end of the channel-guide of the machine; such
inclined channelling of the insole necessitates using thicker leather than would
otherwise be necessary.
The object of this invention is to obviate the above objections and for this purpose
instead of forming an inclined slit in the insole as hitherto, we form a shallow groove,
that is to say, a groove of just sufficient depth to receive the stitches; instead of
employing the usual pointed channel guide, we employ a foot having a small
projection adapted to travel in the groove in the insole.
By this arrangement we are not only enabled to employ an insole of less thickness
than is necessary with the ordinary process of channelling, but we obtain a greater
thickness of leather for the stitches, thereby making a firmer seam, the tension being
stronger, with less liability to break, the seam being by this process much flatter,
requiring no more filling than a hand made boot.
Our improvements are more particularly adapted for use in connection with the
Eppler and Adams turn-shoe and welting machine.
Dated the anth
T
1000
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes, and
in the Machinery or Apparatus Employed therefor.
We, THE UNION BOOT AND SHOE MACHINE COMPANY Limited, of 51, King Street,
Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Manufacturers, and FREDRICK Cox, of
29 Pychley Street, Northampton, in the County of Northampton, Boot and Shoe
Machine Operator, 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 :-
Our invention relates to the manufacture of boots and shoes and to the machinery
or apparatus employed therefor.
In sewing in welts on boots and shoes by welting machines it has been necessary to
channel the insole by cutting an inclined slit therein for receiving the stitches, the
said slit also serving to receive the end of the channel-guide of the machine; such
inclined channelling of the insole necessitates using thicker leather than would
otherwise he necessary.
The object of this invention is to obviate the above objections and for this purpose
instead of forming an inclined slit in the insole as hitherto, we form a shallow groove,
that is to say, a groove of just sufficient depth to receive the stitches; instead of
employing the usual pointed channel guide, we employ a foot having a small
projection adapted to fit into the groove in the insole.

page_text: Our improvements are more particularly adapted for use in connection with the
Eppler and Adams turn-shoe and welting machine.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe how it can be
carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which
Figure 1 is a cross section of an insole, upper and welt illustrating our improvements
in the manufacture of boots and shoes.
Figures 2 and 3 are elevations of the guide foot which we employ in manufacturing
boots and shoes according to our invention, and
Figure 4 is a sectional view shewing the use of the said guide foot.
a, figure 1, is the insole, which, according to our invention, is provided with a
groove instead of being channelled as hitherto. c is the upper, d the welt, and
e, e are the stitches for securing these parts together in a well known manner.
will be noticed by reference to Figure 1 that the groove b is only of sufficient depth
to receive the stitches.
It
In sewing boots provided with a groove b in the insole as hereinbefore described,
especially in the Eppler and Adams welting machine, we make use of a foot similar
to that shewn in Figures 2 and 3 which is provided with a projection f adapted to
enter the groove in the insole as shewn clearly in figure 4.
By our improvements we are not only enabled to employ an insole of less thickness
than is necessary with the ordinary process of channelling, but we obtain a greater
thickness of leather for the stitches, thereby making a firmer seam, the tension being
stronger, with less liability to break, the seam being by this process much flatter, and
no more filling is required than in a hand made boot.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
(1.) In the manufacture of boots and shoes, forining a shallow groove in the insole,
instead of the usual inclined slit, the said groove being only of sufficient depth to
receive the stitches, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
(2.) The use in a welting machine employed in making boots and shoes of the foot
or guide herein before described with reference to figures 2 and 3 of the accompanying
drawing.
Dated the 11
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1000
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.