US595972A - William scheuer - Google Patents

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. W. SOHEUER. FASTENER SETTING APPARATUS. No. 595,972. Patented De-0.21,1897.

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IIVVE/V TOR ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM SCHEUER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FASTENER-SETTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,972, dated December 21, 1897.

Application filed January '7, 1897. Serial No. 618,245. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM SCHEUER, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fastener-Setting Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to construct a ratchet-punch in an exceedingly simple, durable, and economic manner, the punch being particularly adapted for securing buttons, hooks, or similar devices in the uppers of boots or shoes or any other material.

A further object of the invention is to construct a revolving head for the ratchet-punch in which the buttons, hooks, or other articles to be attached may be carried without danger of being dropped and from which head the attached hooks or buttons may be expeditiously and conveniently disengaged.

Another object of the invention is to provide a revolving head for the buttons, hooks, or other articles which will have timed movement through the medium of a ratchet brought into operation when the mandrel of the device is carried from the head.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved tool, a portion of the head'being in section and a portion of the mandrel, together with a clamping-section of a hook and a piece of the material to which the hook is to be secured, the mandrel being shown in position to effect a clamping engagement of the hook with the said material. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the tool, wherein the mandrel is shown as carried from the head. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through a portion of the upper jaw of the tool and through the upper portion of the feed device of the ratchet. Fig. 4 is a section taken substantially on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2, a hook being shown in position in the head and attached to a piece of material; and Fig. 5 is a section taken through the ratchet-wheel attached to the head, illustrating the detent for the ratchet-whee1 in side elevation and in engagement therewith, and also showing in side elevation the dog through the medium of which the ratchet-wheel is revolved.

Two handles A and B are pivotally connected in a manner which will bring one handle above the other, and at the rear of the pivot of the handles the said handles are normally held separated through the medium of an interposed spring 10. The upper handle B is provided with a jaw B forward of the pivotpoint of the upper handle; but the jaw B is the lower jaw of the tool, the upper jaw A being a continuation of the lower handle A. The upper jaw A may be given any desired shape, but preferably it is somewhat circular and stands at an angle to the upper face of the lower jaw 13,. The upper face of the lower jaw is virtually an anvil; but preferably a removable anvil-block 11 is located on the upper face of the lower jaw B and provided with a center pin 11.

The upper jaw A has a shoulder 12 formed in its inner face at the back portion, the said shoulder extending ordinarily from top to bottom of the jaw. A spring 13 is placed in a recess in the said shoulder, and'the said spring has bearing against a detent 14, pivoted upon the inner face of the aforesaid upper jaw in advance of the shoulder 12, as is best shown in Fig. 5 A pin 15 is passed through an opening in the center of the circular portion of the upper jaw A, as illustrated particularly in Fig. 4. This pin is smooth where it is passed through the jaw, and where the pin extends from the inner face of the said jaw the said pin is of increased diameter and is provided with a head at its inner end. The outer end of the pin 15, or that which extends beyond the back of the jaw A, is provided with a thread 16, adapted to receive a nut 16.

A head 1'7 is mounted to turn upon the inner or headed end of the pin 15, as is also shown in Fig. 4, and while the head 17 may be of any desired formation it is preferably given a polygonal contour,being, for example, hexagonal or provided with a number of peripheral faces, each face being usually fiat.

.At the back of the head 17 a ratchet-wheel 18 is formed. (Shown best in Fig. 5.) This ratchet-wheel is somewhat on the order of a star-wheel, and its teeth are engaged by the detent 14, which prevents the ratchet-wheel from slipping from the position in which it may have been placed. Each tooth upon one side has an undercut recess 19 made therein.

A pin 20 is located upon the upper handle B forward of its pivot, and the pin 20 is in engagement with the hook-like or curved lower extremity 22 of a lever 21, the lever being fulcrumed upon the jaw A. The pin 20 is, broadly, a projection. A spring 22 is secured upon the lower jaw B below the pivot of the handle 13, and this spring engages with the bottom of the lever 21, holding the upper or concaved face of the aforesaid lower end of the lever in engagement with the pin 20. The ratchet-wheel 18 is revolved andthe head 17 is turned by the engagement of the head 23 of a dog 2& with the undercut surfaces of theratchet-wheel teeth, the said dog being pivotally attached to the upper end of the lever 21. The undercuts 19 are made in the teeth of the ratchet-wheel in order that the head 23 of the aforesaid dog may have a good purchase on the teeth of the ratchet-wheel.

.A pin 26 is attached to the upper edge of the jaw A, and a spring is secured to the said pin and to the dog 24, the spring serving to assist in carrying the dog to a rear position or to an engagement with the teeth of the ratchet-wheel.

When the handles are brought in direction of each other, the spring 22, together with the pin 20, acting on the lower end of thelever 21, will carry the upper end of said lever 21 forward, consequently carrying the dog 24: in the same direction, compressing the spring 25 andcarrying the head of the dog beyond the teeth of the ratchet-wheel, as shown in Fig. 5. In this position of the handle the button orhook carried by the head will be fixed in the material to which it is to besecured. WVhen the handles are allowed to separate, the spring 10 coming into action, the spring 22 and the pin 20 will act upon the bottom of the lever 21 in a manner to carrythe upper end of the lever rearward, thereby drawing the head of the dog backward a sufficient distance to revolve the ratchet-wheel18 the distance of one tooth, the upper spring 25 assisting in the rearward movement of the dog.

The head 17 is provided upon its front surface at each of its peripheral or edge surfaces with an angular pocket 27, the said pockets extending through the peripheral faces of the said head, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and at, and adjacent to each pocket on each peripheral face of the head an aperture 28 is-made, which is adapted to. receive the centerpin 11 of the anvil 11. The hooks 29, buttons, or other objects to be fastened tothe stripof fabric 30 are placed in the various pockets 27, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 4, in which hooksare shown as located in the said pockets, the hooks being especially adapted for attachment to the upper of a shoe, and each hook is provided with an eyelet 31, which is integral with or is attached to its under face. The heads of the hooks are located in the longitudinal sections of the pockets, while the eyeleted ends of the hooks extend out through the vertical portions of the pockets beyond the peripheral faces of thehead.

In operation one of the faces of the head and one of the pockets will always be opposite the mandrel 11 or the mandrel-surface of the lower jaw B, so that when the handles A and B are brought together, the material 30 being placed between the lower jaw and the head, the eyeleted or pronged portion of the hook, button, or other object carried by the head will be passed through the material 30 and the center pin 1 1will pass up into the eyeleted portion of the hook, the mandrel closing or clamping the eyelet to the material, as is particularly shown in Fig. 1.

As soon as the upper handleB is relieved from pressure it will be forced upward by the spring 10, and the ratchet mechanism will then act to carry the head around so as to present another face having a pocket carrying an article to be fastened to the lower .jaw. It will be noticed that after a hook or a button has been secured to an object by simply carrying the toolto one side the object fastenedto the material 30 will be removed from the pocket in which it was contained without the slightest inconvenience to the operator.

With a tool of this description buttons and hooks for shoes or other articles of. simi- "to receive them.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with pivotally-connected handles having an interposed spring, each handle terminating in a jaw, the jaws being placed one above the other, a head mounted to revolveupon one of the said jaws, the head being provided with recesses in one of its faces, which recesses extend through theperiphery of the head, and a clenching or anvil block carried bythe opposingjaw, of a lever carried by the jaw of one handle, being operated by the opposing handle, a ratchet-wheel attached to the saidhead, a dog pivoted tothe said lever, having a head arrangedfor engagement with the aforesaid ratchet-wheel, a spring controlling the movement of the dog in one direction, and a second spring operating upon the aforesaid lever, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with pivotally-connected handles terminatingin jaws, the jaws being arranged one above the other, a revolving head havingpockets for the reception of articles carried by one of the said jaws, and a ratchet-wheel attached to thesaid head, of apin securedupon one of the handles, alever fulcrumed upon the opposite handle, terminating in a hook-like extremity engaged by the aforesaid pin, a spring having bearing against the hook-like extremity of the lever, and a dog connected with the said lever and arranged for engagement with the aforesaid ratchet-wheel, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination of two pivoted handles, an anvil-block on one handle, a rotary head mounted on the second handle and coacting with the anvil-block, a lever f ulcrumed on the handle that has the head and rocked by the movement of the other handle, adog pivoted to the lever and coacting with the head to turn the same, and a spring actuating the dog.

4. The combination of two pivoted handles, a rotary head mounted on one handle, a lever fulcrumed on that handle which has the head and operated by movement of the remaining handle, a dog carried by the lever and coacting with the head to turn the same, and a spring actuating the lever.

5. The combination of two pivoted handles, a rotary head mounted on one handle, a lever fulcrumed on one handle, a projection on the remaining handle,the projection engaging the lever upon the movement of the said remaining handle whereby to swing the lever, and av dog pivoted to the lever and coacting with the head to turn the same.

6. The combination of two pivoted handles, a rotary head mounted on one handle, a lever fulcrumed on one handle and having a bent end, a projection carried on the remaining handle and engaging the bent end of the lever to swing the lever, and a dog pivoted to the lever and coacting with the head to turn the same.

7. The combination of two handles pivoted to each other, a lever fulcrumed on one handle and having a bent end, a projection carried by the remaining handle and engaging the bent end of the handle to swing the lever, a dog pivoted to the lever, and a member operated by the movement of the lever.

8. The combination of two handles pivoted to each other, a rotary head mounted on one handle and having ratchet-teeth, a detent pivoted to the handle which carries the head, a spring pressing the detent so that one side thereof will engage with the teeth of the head, and means for turning the head upon the movement of the handles.

9. A head for fastener-sets, the head-having a series of fiat peripheral faces, the front surface of the head having apocket adjacent to each peripheral face of the head, the pockets extending respectively through the said peripheral faces and each peripheral face also having an aperture passing into the respective pockets.

WILLIAM SOHEUER. Witnesses:

ISIDOR STEINER, GUSTAV VAN LIER.

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