US44266A - Improvement in lasts - Google Patents

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` mouth and State of Massachusetts, havemade declare that the following is arfull,elear,\and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawingjs, making. .part ottti'sspecitcation, in'which+v i provement attached theretof-"Fijgfisaview -sothat it may be taken ott and be replaced by desired, to accommodate the changes inV j ,stand and use my invention, I will now proi ceed to describethe manner in which I have f carried it out.

apo'tion of the toe of which is cut away, .leaving a projection or tenen, B, to which is adapted a removable toe-piece, G, which is f flnade of brass or other suitable material.;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'HENRY M. WErriinirtsni, or AEINGTO'N, MASSACHUSETTS, Assrenon :to y

HIMSELF AND MERITT NASH, OF SAME PLACE,

.IMPROVEMENT N LASTS. i

Specification forming part ot' Letters Patent No.44,266, dated Septembe il?! 18e; y'

Be it known that I, 'HENRY M. WHIT- MARSH, ot' Abington, -in -the county of Plyacertain -new and uset'ul Improvementin Lasts lfor Boots and Shoes; and I- hereby 'r Eigene-is anew of a. last Showing my imof around toe-piece-detached. Fig. 3 is avertical 'longitudinal section through Fig. 1, and Fig'. 4 is a' view of a square toe-'piece detached.` Owing to the frequent changes made in the form of the toes ot' boots and shoes,git has been necessary touse alast of dii'erentshape every time the style was changed, and ,conse-l quently these changes of style were 'attended with considerable expense to the shoe-manufacturer. A r The object of my improvement is to reduce this expense; and it consists in making that part of the last which forms the toe removable,

one of a di'ereut pattern with facility, when lt'ashion. Io enable others skilled in theart to under- In the said drawings, A represents a last- The interior. ottheQtoe-piece C is.beveled to correspondto' the form of the lprojection 15,-. and is secured i-n-place by means of one or more screws, a.. It will thus be seen that when themanufactfurer wishes to make a boot `of a different pattern at the toe-it is only necessarygto unscrew and remove one toe-piece and substitute 'another of'thestyle required.

By'thu's having the toe-piece removable thel expense of lastsv occasioned by thealteration in the fashion of the boot `is less than' one,-

thirdet that-which iti-has usnallyrbeemwhen it wasnecessary to use 'a new last altogether.; By my said invention I am also enabled to utilize lasts which have been discard ed on account of the variation of the style by simply providing them with toe-pieces of the required form, and lasts which have been broken or. defaced at the toe by use may be trimmed down and my .improvement adapted thereto.

' I do not confine myself to any particular me- Y chanicalconstruction of the toe-piece and last,

as it is evident that, insteadof the toe-piece beine; made as represented,it may consist of a solid piece with a projecting tenen, while the last may be provided with a corresponding What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent as ,an improvement in lasts for boots and shoes, iS-' A toe-piece made separate from the body of the last, so that .it may be removed and another of di'erent form substituted, substantially as described, for the purpose set forth. l HENRDY M. WHITMAR-SH'.

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THOMAS P. LITGHEIELD, BENJ. WQRMELL.

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