Machine for Shoemakers . 4M 
“ to me for relief from a train of bowel complaints, and 
H frequently had occasion to take the medicines usually 
“ employed for the relief of dyspepsia. 
“ I repeatedly informed him, that his employment was 
“ the cause of his disorder, and desired him to relinquish 
“ it, or invent some method to do his work standing. This 
“ hint, and his corporeal sufferings, prompted to the in- 
“ vention. That it answers the purpose, I have reason 
“ to believe, as he and others use it. He is now free of 
“ complaints, and so improved in his corpulence and 
“ countenance, that he is not like the same man, and for 
“years has had no occasion for medicine. ?? 
Reference to the Engraving of Mr. Holden’s Invention 
for Shoemakers , PL 13, Fig 1. 
A. The bed for the closing block, and to lay the shoe in 
whilst sewing. 
B. The closing block. 
C. A loose bed to lay the shoe in whilst stitching; the 
lower part of which is here exhibited reversed, to show 
how it is placed in the other bed, A. 
D. The hollow or upper part of the loose bed C, in which 
the shoe is laid whilst stitching. 
E. A table on which the tools wanted are to be laid. 
F. An iron semicircle, fixed to each end of the bed A, to 
allow the bed to be raised or depressed. This half 
circle moves in the block GL 
H. Another iron semicircle, with notches, which catch 
upon a tooth in the centre of the block, to hold the bed 
in any angle required. This semicircle moves sideway 
on two hooks in staples, at each end of the bed. 
I. The tail or stem of the bed A, moving in a cylindrical 
hole in the pillar, enabling the bed to be turned in any 
required direction, and which, with the movement F, 
