Patent Model - Improvement in Lasting-Machines
Maker and role
Charles Glidden (b.1835, d.1895), Patentee
Production date
Jul 29 1879
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Media/Materials
Brass, iron, wood, paper
Description
Glidden's patent is an improvement on his lasting machine patent number 211,147 which was granted on January 9, 1879. It "has for its object such a construction of parts as will enable the upper-holding devices or jaws to be automatically but independently closed, so as to permit the said holding-jaws at each edge of the upper to adapt themselves to the material of more or less thickness,..." (Patent Number 217,865)
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Object number
2015.14.2943a,b
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