Patent Model - Improvement in Machines for Forming Boot and Shoe-Stiffeners
Maker and role
Louis Coté (b.1836, d.1915), Patentee
Production date
Feb 24 1874
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Zinc(?), iron, steel
Measurements
6 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/4" (16.5 x 11.4 x 5.7cm)
Description
The nature of Coté's invention "consists in placing upon a rotating shaft a mandrel of a spheric, spheroidal, or sphero-cylindrical shape, and below it a matrix of a corresponding form, but stationary, so that by the revolutions of the mandrel and band of leather, composition, or other stuff, introduced between them, is drawn in and carried through the concavity of the matrix, and by being strongly pressed during its passage through the machine, it receives a curved form both in its length and breadth, and is thereby adapted to be used as stiffening for boots or shoes." (Patent Number 147,906)
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Object number
2015.14.1710a,b
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