US131552A - Improvement in boot-crimps - Google Patents

Description

S''IATES T FFICE.

IMPRGVEMENT IN BOOT-CRINIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,552, dated September 24, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. Lor, of Winchester, in the county of Frederick and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in BoOt-Crimps, of which the following is a full description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters ot' reference marked thereon.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a side view of my improved boot-crimp, and Fig. 2 is a detached View of a clamp for holding the leather to the stretching-bar.

My invention consists, tirst, in the combination of a peculiar, novel, hinged or pivoted stretcher-bar with an oblique screw and clamp at the top of the crimping-board 5 and, second, inthe combination of a hook at the toe of the stretcher-bar with a pin in the toe of the stretcher-board.

rIlle crimping-board A may be of any suitable shape, with a groove to receive the stretching-bars B B B. A series of clamps, E', Figs. l and 2, are intended to seize upon the edges ofthe leather and clamp them to the b ars B B B without the use of tacks, which are liable to tear the leather and also 'injure the bars. The two sections B and B are hinged together in order that the upper section, B, may be thrown backward, to stretch the calf of the leg, by means of the screw F, which is set obliquely in order to avoid the leather on the board A, and also to allow the bar B B to travel downward, under the combined action of the two screws F and G, which are both inclined at the same angle in respect to the board A. The lower bar B is also allowed to travel in relation to the foot of the board A, and is provided with a hook, I, and pin D to prevent the bar from dropping out when not in use. The lower screw Gr revolves leather is folded over the front of the board, and its edges securely clamped. by the series .of clamps E E', which, as they are driven, seize upon the stretcher-bars. Now,byturningtl1e screw G, the bars B B and also the nut K are moved backuntil the instep of the boot is crimped ,and sufficiently stretched. In like manner the upper screw F is turned in order to push back the bar B, and thus stretch the upper part or calf of the leg.

Having thus described my invention, I claiml. The combination of the hinged or pivoted section B of the stretcher-bar, the clamp E', and the upper screw F for stretching the call' ofthe leg, substantially as set forth.

2. I claim the hook I in combination with the bar B and the pin D in the board A, substantially as set forth.

GEORGE WASHINGTON. LOY.

Witnesses:

JOHN SMITH, GHAs. W. HOLLIS.

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