No. 22570.—20th March, 1907.—UNITED SHOE MACHINERY
COMPANY, of Paterson, State of New Jersey, United States
of America, a corporation duly organized under the laws of
the said State of New Jersey, carrying on business as Shoe-
machinery Manufacturers at 203 Lincoln Street, Boston,
Massachusetts, United States of America (the assignees of
Charles Elmer Shattuck, of Nashua, Hillsboro, New Hamp-
shire, United States of America, Foreman). Improvements
in pounding-up machines.*

Extracts from Specification.—This invention relates to ma-
chines for use in the manufacture of shoes, and is shown as
embodied in a machine for pounding-up and blocking a shoe.
A feature of the invention consists in providing means for en-
gaging the side of a shoe adjacent to the edge of the shoe-
bottom, and means for actuating said engaging-means to rub
the shoe-upper. In the preferred embodiment of the inven-
tion the engaging-means consists of a roller which is turned
to rub the side of the shoe presented to it, whereby the upper
material may be smoothed and polished, and wrinkles or in-
equalities, if any exist, in the upper may be obliterated. The
roller may, if desired, be heated to enable it to “iron” the
shoe. It is a common practice to smooth and polish a shoe
after the several making operations have been substantially
completed, but when the shoe reaches that stage the position
of the sole makes it different and impractical to treat the upper
at the edge of the shoe. The present invention is designed
particularly for operating upon a shoe prior to the application
of the sole, at which stage of the manufacture the upper at
and adjacent to the edge of the shoe can be advantageously
smoothed and ironed. Another feature of the invention
consists in providing novel means for working toward
the shoe - bottom the upper at and adjacent to the
edge of the shoe. As shown, the smoothing - rollers
are constructed and arranged to work the upper up-
wardly toward the edge of the shoe-bottom as they are
turned in contact with the side of the shoe. To this end
they may be provided with rubbing-faces moving upwardly
toward the shoe-bottom as the rollers are turned—as, for
example, rubbing-faces formed by spiral grooves in the
acting faces of the rollers. . . A further feature of this
invention consists in providing novel means for ironing the
several portions of the shoe, and in novel means for heating
said ironing-means. These and other features of the inven-
tion, including a novel construction of blocking-hammer,
together with certain details of construction and combina-
tions of parts, will be more fully set forth in the description
and pointed out in the claims.

[NOTE.—The above extracts from the specification are inserted in place
of the claims.]

(Specification, 18s. ; drawing, 5s.)

No. 22655.—10th April, 1907.—JOSEPH BARTLETT DAVIES,
of No. 330 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,
Accountant, and HARCOURT BELL, of 13 Sturt Street, South
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Engineer. An improved
machine for the manufacture of nails having enlarged or ex-
tended heads.*

Extracts from Specification.—This invention relates to a
new and improved machine for forming enlarged or extended
heads upon nails and the like, in which such enlargement or
extension consists of a separate disc or washer. This inven-
tion refers more particularly to a machine for the manufacture
of nails having dome or inverted-cup-shaped heads of sheet
metal for use with corrugated iron. . . . The object of our
invention is to provide a machine in which the operation of
affixing the disc to the nail is mechanically effected, thereby
producing a nail with an enlarged or extended head in a state
fit for galvanising. We accomplish this object by providing
a machine comprising three separate functions : (a) means
for assembling and delivering the nails one at a time; (b)
means for assembling and delivering the discs one at a time;
(c) means for uniting the said individual nails and discs, and
subjecting them to pressure between suitable dies. In the
machine described there are six each of these respective
functions (that is to say, six nails and six discs being fed
at the same time), though the machine may be adapted
for any convenient number. . . . At the bottom of the
nail-races 26 is provided a series of gates 34 (one for each
race) mounted upon a further reciprocating shaft 35. This
reciprocating shaft 35 receives its cross motion from a vertical
sliding plate 36. engaging a slot within the same and attached
at its lower end to the beam 16. The sliding plate 36 is also
of variable width, and, being wider at its upper end, the
shaft 35 is moved to the furthest extent towards the left-
hand side of the machine when the beam 16 is at its lower-
most position. The gates 34 are made of peculiar shape,

having inclined extensions 37 upon their lowermost edge
upon the left-hand side which engage the shanks of the nails
and gradually bring them into a vertical position to insure
that they are fed point foremost. These gates 34 are pro-
vided with recesses 38 which coincide with the lowermost
end of each corresponding race 26 when the said gates 34
are moved across to the furthest extent upon the left-hand
side. Immediately beneath each race 26 is provided a chute
39 having a tube 40 through which the nails pass point fore-
most. These tubes 40 leading from the chutes 39 discharge
into inclined recesses 41 formed in covers 42 held upon a
stationary cross-beam 43 by means of thumb-nuts 44. Within
this cross-beam 43 are a series of vertical channels 45 within
which work plungers 46 attached to the reciprocating cross-
beam 16 by set screws 47, while at the bottom of each channel
45 is a pair of jaws 48 having springs 49. The recesses 41
are arranged at the side of the channels 45, and the nails
pass therefrom into the said channels 45 as the plungers 46
rise, and are then driven through the jaws 48 as the said
plungers 46 descend.

[NOTE.—The above extracts from the specification are inserted in place
of the claims.]

(Specification £1 5s. ; drawing, 6s.)

No. 22912.—29th May. 1907.—THOMAS ROBSON, of Wel-
lington, New Zealand, Joiner. An improved carpenter's-
bench stop.*

Claims.—(1.) A stop for a carpenter's bench, consisting of
a metal plate adapted to be fastened on the bench, a frame
depending from the plate and passing down through the bench
and having a horizontal member, a stop-bar passing longi-
tudinally and vertically down through the plate and the bench,
having a stop-piece at its upper end and a horizontal arm on
its lower end, and a vertical threaded rod screwed through such
horizontal arm, journaled at its bottom end in the horizontal
member of the frame and projecting at its upper end through
the bench and plate, substantially as specified. (2.) The general
arrangement, construction, and combination of parts in my
improved carpenter's-bench stop, substantially as described
and explained, as illustrated in the drawings, and for the
several purposes set forth.

(Specification, 3s. 6d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 22939.—4th June, 1907.—ALEXANDER GILLIES, of
No. 2 Brown Street, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, Dairy-
man. An improved method of and means for pulsating
teat-cups.*

Extracts from Specification.—This invention relates to pneu-
matic milking-apparatus, and consists of an improved method
of and means for creating pulsations within double-chambered
teat-cups for the purpose of causing the milk to be drawn
from the teats in a natural manner, and without injury or
pain to the animal. . . . This method of milking is ac-
complished by maintaining a constant suction in the outer
chamber and alternately affecting a variable degree of suction
within the inner chamber by means of temporarily substantially
cutting off the connection between the source of suction-power
and the milk-way, and at the same time permitting atmo-
spheric air to enter the latter. By this means, when the inner
chamber is distended the suction is temporarily reduced so
that the teat is not distended as heretofore, but merely fills
naturally, and consequently is not subjected to any strain,
whilst when the suction is again admitted within the inner
chamber its pressure is about equal to that in the outer cham-
ber, and consequently said inner chamber resumes its natural
shape, thus embracing the teat, but does not press inwardly
below the point. The degree of suction within the inner
chamber may be broken down from the maximum to nil
when suitable means are provided for holding the cups on the
teat, but when the suction is relied upon for this purpose it
is not desirable to reduce the pressure to such a degree. An-
other advantage is that the cup will remain in position on the
teat, and is, moreover, usable for teats of variable size without
requiring adjustment. The milk-drive is obtained by ad-
mitting a small quantity of air to the interior of the inner
chamber. The intermittent suction in the “milk-way” is
effected by intermittingly connecting same with the suction
power by means of valves, cocks, or the like, operated by any
suitable mechanism, and as it is only necessary to overcome
the small quantity of air admitted into the “milk-way,”
it will be apparent that this may be effected with a minimum
of power, and consequently expensive and excessive machinery
hitherto used in milking-plants are unnecessary. This is a
distinct advantage over known pulsating-devices, as the in-