US127020A

US127020A - Improvement in methods of cutting soles from sides of leather

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Publication number: US127020A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1872-05-21
Anticipated expiration: 1889-05-21

Description

SAMUEL BOYD. Cutting Soles from Sides of Leather. 7 02,0.

Patented May 21,1872.

UNITED STATES TENT SAMUEL BOYD, OF. MARLBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENT, TO WOODLEY HEEL AND SOLE CUTTING COMPANY, OF

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

l IMPROVEMENT IN METHODS 0F CUTTING SOLES. FROM SIDES OF LEATHER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,020, dated 21, 1872.

To all whom lt may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL BOYD, of Marlborough, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Method of Cutting Soles for Boots and Shoes, of which the-following is Aa full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the ac` companying drawing making part of this specification, in whichl `Figure l is a plan illustrating my method of cutting soles from a piece of leather.

To utilize the greatest percentage of the stock employed in cutting out soles for boots and shoes is the object of my invention; which consists ina pattern of sole in which the ordinary heel portion is omitted, this form of pattern, when reversed, being best adapted to t the line on which the preceding sole has been cut, and also enabling me to avoid the waste which has heretofore occurred between the toe and heel portions when the full pattern of sole was employed.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

Adie of the form and required size of the pattern of the sole, designed by me, is placed upon the side of leather, and the sole A is cut therefrom, after which the die is reversed so that one of its edges will nicely lit and coincide with the lin'e 5 6, upon which the soleAhas just been cut. When the second sole B is cut the die is again reversed so that its toe portion a will lie toward the left, as was the case in cutting the sole A, one edge of the die conforming accurately to the line or edge from 7 to 8 upon which the sole B has been cut. After one row of soles,ABCDEFGHIJ, has been cut from the side of leather in the direction of its length, the die isagain taken up and placed so that its toe portion a will exactly conform or extend to the line 9, 10, 1l of the heel portion of the sole A, so that when the sole L is cut out no waste .occurs between the heel portion of A and the toe portion of L, as has heretofore been the case. The die is again reversed and the sole M cut out in the manner previously described, no loss whatever Claim.

Y The method of cutting out soles of boots and shoes, whereby the toe of one sole is inserted linto the heel of the other until the line across v the toe equals the line across the heel, and no loss of stock occurs between the soles, substantially as herein set forth.

Witness my hand this lOth day of October,

' SAMUEL BOYD.

Witnesses N. W. STEARNs, W. J. CAMBRIDGE.