US Patent: 5,459X
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| Measuring for and Cutting Leather for Boots
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Patentee:
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| Thomas Howe (exact or similar names) - Worcester, Worcester County, MA |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Apr. 18, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
"The boots are to be cut by using metal patterns, of which there are two, made in the shape of the common “” used by boot-makers. These patterns are graduated, so that by the same guide the largest and the smallest boot can be cut. To effect this, holes are drilled near to, and at equal distances from, each other, extending inwards from the cutting edge of the pattern, of which holes there are several rows, which serve to mark the leather for placing the pattern to cut according to the size required.
A strap, properly divided, is used to obtain the measure of the foot.
All I claim in my improvement, is, the holes drilled in the patterns, by means of which boots of the largest as well as the smallest sizes may be cut with one set of patterns.
The advantages to be derived from my improvement consist in the saving of time, in cutting and fitting the boot to the foot more exactly, and with greater certainty, nothing being left to the judgment, as by the common method; in the fact, that any cobbler may cut a boot that will fit, with the same exactness as that cut by the most skillful in the art."
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 5, Aug. 1829 pg. 112
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