Henry Billings Brown

“ By erasing the paragraph immediately before the words, 'What I claim as my invention is,' and substituting therefor the following: 'The combination of ten finger-rest, D, with the burnishing tool and the rest for the face of the sole is the main feature of my invention; all the other points of novelty in my machine also relate to new combinations of old elements.' This also would indicate that the rest for the face of the sole was something distinct, both from the finger-rest and from the burnishing tool, which is impossible, as it must necessarily form a part of one of them. ”

“ Cutting or trimming the edge of the sole and burnishing the same with a tool have been practiced time out of mind in the art of making shoes; but within the past 50 years there has grown up a separate business in the manufacture of edge trimmers and edge burnishers, the outline of each tool corresponding with that of the other. The machine shown and described in the Helms patent in suit consists of a reciprocating tool-holder, carrying an ordinary burnishing tool, and an adjustable finger-rest or hook, ht front surface of which projects just below the tool. ”