US155349A

US155349A - Improvement in riveting plates for boots and shoes

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Publication number: US155349A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1874-09-22
Anticipated expiration: 1891-09-22

Description

A."V-AN WAGENIEN. Riveting-Plates for Bnpts and Shoes.l N0 155,34.9, Parentedsepnzznan.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

ALBERT VAN VAGENEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN RIVETING PLATES FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,349, dated September 22,1874 application filed May 27, 1874.

clare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings.

The object of the invention is not only to protect from injury by the nails the shoe-supporting horn or arm of the nailing-machine,

(viz., the well-known McKay shoe-nailing ma-- chine, or one as described in the United States Patent, No. 76,150, to Blake and Libby,) but to aiford a means of keeping` in shape and in proper position the boot or shoe while being nailed, or while the upper, the insole, and the outer sole may be in the process of being united by metallic fastenings driven or inserted through them from the tread-surface of the outer sole, such fastenings being usually clinched against the said plate or clincher.

Of the said drawings, Figurel is a top view, Fig. 2 a bottom view, Fig. 3 an edge view, Fig. 4 a longitudinal section, Fig. 5 a transverse section, and Fig. 6 a perspective view, of one of the said riveting plates or clinchers.

It is a thick plate of met-al, A, formed like an ordinary sole, and when used is to go within the shoe or boot, and rest against and lit closely to the inner surface of theinsole there of. It is to be provided, at or near the heel part of it, with a staple, B, to project from its inner surface, as shown, to enable it to be readily extracted from the shoe or boot by means of a hook.

In the lower surface of the plate, or that which is to rest upon the upper part of the horn or arm of the nailing-machine, such plate has a rabbet or groove, a, suitably formed to receive the upper part of the arm or horn, and thereby keep the plate in its due relation thereupon while being moved around upon the said horn. The plate without the rabbet or groove is liable to slip laterally on the horn, while the shoe may be in movement or fed along, or in the act of being nailed. Vith my plate, which is solid from edge to edge, a shoe or boot may have nails inserted in any part ot' the tread of the outer sole.

My said plate is to be inserted in the shoe or boot after the last may have been Withdrawn therefrom, and is in no sense to constitute part of a last.

It yenables ordinary wooden lasts to be used in lasting shoes, and saves the necessity ot making each last with a detachable plate to constitute part of it, and remain in the shoe after withdrawal of the rest of the last, for the purpose of enabling the shoe to be nailed.

I claim- 1. The shoe-sole-support plate A, provided in its inner surface with the staple D, all as described.

2. The shoe-sole-support plate A, provided on its inner or concaved side with the rabbet or groove a, arranged in and around it, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

. A. VAN VAGENEN. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW.