CN101203152B

CN101203152B - Equipment for ironing leather

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Publication number: CN101203152B
Application number: CN2006800220823A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 卡洛杰罗·迪贝拉
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2005-04-21
Filing date: 2006-04-12
Publication date: 2012-01-11
Anticipated expiration: 2026-04-12
Also published as: CN101203152A; WO2006111808A1; BRPI0612453A2; ITMI20050718A1; EP1887900A1

Abstract

An equipment (1; 101) for ironing at least one shoe (2), or a part thereof, of the type comprising at least one device (3, 4, 5, 6; 103) for ironing the leather, which is provided with means (3, 5, 6; 103) for delivering hot air, optionally humidified, and/or steam to said shoe, or a part thereof. The equipment also comprises, in combination with said ironing device, means (7, 8, 9; 107, 108) for blow striking this shoe, or a part thereof.

Description

Equipment for ironing leather

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of ironing equipment that is used to press shoes or its a part of leather.The present invention also relates to a kind of method that on this equipment, presses leather.

Technical background

Should note; Term among this paper " flatiron " means machinery and/or the heat chemistry operation that any surface irregularity that is suitable for making shoes or its a part of leather becomes smooth; Said out-of-flatness comprises folding line, fold, the microgroove or coarse on shoes or its a part of leather, so term flatiron, smooth and leveling (planarization) can be considered synonym.

In addition, " leather " speech generally not only refers to stem from the material of animal, and refers to that other is suitable for making the material of shoes, and synthetic material.Shoes are being carried out in the process of multiple processing; Particularly after the pre-operation of vamp being sewed up and being shaped or after the completion step of shoes; On the leather of shoes through regular meeting folding line, microgroove, fold or other surface irregularity appear; They mainly are positioned at suture place or the discontinuous place of geometry or material disconnecting place of shoes, that is, leather causes strain differentiation place because of previous processing.

In order to eliminate these surface irregularities, generally use handheld tool, through these instruments the leather that is placed on the suitable supporter (counter support) is clashed into fast, folding line, microgroove or fold are flattened.This usually utilizes that the hammer that is shaped and anvil piece implement leather flatiron technological being called at shoe industry, impact (beating).

This impacting is similar to hammering (hammering) technically; Impervious blanket district on can smooth very effectively shoes; But also not really be applicable to the extensional surface district on smooth these shoes; The same with all manual operationss, it requires the craftsman to have quite technology, and this is just very consuming time and may other infringement be arranged to leather.

Perhaps, be well known that shoes or its part are remained on the suitable shoe last, randomly make it tight, simultaneously shoes or its are had a those irregular part injection thermal current, the preferably thermal current of humidification or vapor streams.Subsequently leather is cooled off and drying, this can make that usually treated surface region becomes smooth.

In the several application of this method, for example, after spraying hot gas and/or steam, perhaps simultaneously, a step that leather is applied mechanical static pressure through the forming tool such as roller is provided for some types of shoes or when out-of-flatness is very obvious.

GB471.918 BP with the application of " BRITISH UNITED SHOE COMPANY LTD " name has been described a kind of leather ironing apparatus, and wherein, a flatiron instrument contacts with the part that stands the hot gas injection of shoes under pressure.

GB540.332 BP with the application of " UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORP. " name has disclosed out-of-flatness, the particularly out-of-flatness of shoes superficies that utilizes the next smooth shoes of jet of humidified thermal current surface, randomly utilizes suitable forming tool that shoes are applied local static pressure.

EP-A-0.895.730 european patent application with the application of " ELETTROTECNICA B.C. " name has been described a kind of special transmission nozzle, and it is applicable to the shoes ironing apparatus that utilizes means of humidified hot air.

Although utilize means of humidified hot air or steam to press, always can not press leather and all be able to elimination so that stand the surface irregularity of the location of this flatiron operation with best mode for making the leather surface out-of-flatness that mainly is positioned in shoes or its a part of extension area or the non-impervious blanket district become smooth very effective.

On the other hand, when repeating on leather, to utilize the flatiron operation meeting of humidifier and/or steam that leather is damaged, therefore do not recommend as long as blemish is not eliminated the flatiron operation that just shoes is repeated to utilize moisture and/or steam fully.

Thereby, generally, its objective is and remove some the little defectives that after said flatiron is operated, possibly leave on the leather utilizing means of humidified hot air or steam to carry out the manual operation that impacts through regular meeting after pressing.

As the alternative scheme that impacts and utilize jet of humidified hot gas or steam that leather is pressed, dried ironing equipment is also arranged, it can randomly utilize static pressure that shoes or its part are carried out mechanical compression after heating at the shoes that will exert pressure or its part.

In the equipment of these kinds, shoes are placed on the suitable shoe last, and shoe last can randomly heat, and shoes withstanding pressure instrument is like the effect of flatiron roller then, and it is exerted pressure to the one or more regional part on the shoes with the static(al) mode.

The IT1.156.288 italian patent that reaches " BELLETTI " name with " UBALDI " has been described a kind of footwear with doing ironing equipment, and wherein the truncated cone shape roller utilizes mechanical arm to engage with the various zones of shoes in operation.

Further shoes are placed on the shoe last that comprises the device that shoes are heated.

EP-A-0.403.720 european patent application with the application of " TESMA " name has been described a kind of toes district of vamp and equipment that heel area becomes smooth of making; A kind of like this method of this equipment utilization; That is, only mechanical compression is carried out in these zones through the shaping roller.

Leather is done the flatiron operation always do not produce the satisfied result of other people, and they possibly further need be furnished with the equipment of mechanically complex and senior technology, it is difficult to the different shape of adaptive shoes.

Summary of the invention

So; An object of the present invention is to provide a kind of be used to press shoes or its a part of ironing equipment and method, it has avoided shortcoming of the prior art, can make the surface irregularity of leather become smooth efficiently; Need not very complex apparatus, and do not damage the danger of shoes.

Another object of the present invention provides a kind of very general equipment, and it allows the user that his required flatiron type is set, that is, footwear are must do to press and/or press with humidifier or steam, and can reduce the time of carrying out the flatiron operation.

A purpose more of the present invention provides a kind of shoes or its a part of flatiron method of pressing, and is effective especially when its surface irregularity when shoes is positioned at the less and impervious surface layer region on the shoes.

Through first independent claims of present device and the equipment of dependent claims thereof, and independent claims 11 and dependent claims thereof through the inventive method, can reach these and other purpose.

According to the present invention; The equipment that a kind of surface irregularity that makes at least one shoes or its a part of leather becomes smooth; Comprise at least one leather ironing apparatus; Said leather ironing apparatus is provided with device of sending hot gas and/or steam of the hot gas that can choose humidification wantonly and/or steam delivery to said at least one shoes or its part, it is characterized in that, also comprises the beating unit that said at least one shoes or its part are impacted.

" shoes, perhaps its part " of reaching hereinafter is meant finished product shoes that need carry out the leather flatiron or the shoes part that is used to form shoes here, like vamp.In addition, for for simplicity, the hereinafter unified shoes that are called, it promptly means and comprises any finished product that must press or non-finished product shoes.

Through will itself known utilize the humidification of hot gas-normally-or the ironing apparatus of steam and the device that is used to impact shoes-such as the hammer that has pneumatic linear actuator to activate-combine; The operator is just as long as be placed into an enterprising line operate of treatment facility with shoes or its part, thus this operator can be in position to shoes perhaps its part carry out flatiron operation or the series of operation that carry out.

In addition, equipment of the present invention allows the operator to carry out new shoes leather flatiron method, and it is hot gas-can choose wantonly humidification-and/or the sending and impact and combine of steam, that is, when shoes preceding be heated in step with humidification after shoes are impacted.This new method is proved to be and can be very effectively the surface irregularity of the number of different types on the shoes be pressed.

By this, of the present inventionly surface irregularity on shoes or its a part of leather is carried out method of flattening following steps is provided successively:

A. to said shoes or its part be injected into the humidification of few hot gas-randomly-with/

Or steam; Then

B. the part impacts said shoes or its part, and said shoes are held to resist the said effect that impacts, and for example places it on supporter or the anvil piece, and is perhaps hand-held by the operator.

The preferred aspect of process according to the invention, the step of sending means of humidified hot air and/or steam on the shoes also comprises the mechanical compression step, for example utilizes the flatiron roller, it is carried out before impacting step said.

Description of drawings

With reference to accompanying drawing, below present device is described and the multiple preferred embodiments of the special flatiron method on said equipment, carried out through non-limiting example.

Fig. 1 is the axonometric projection graph of ironing equipment according to a particular aspect of the invention, wherein sends the humidification of hot gas-randomly-and/or steam to shoes;

Fig. 2 is the axonometric projection graph of Fig. 1 equipment, wherein, shoes is impacted operation; And

Fig. 3 is the local axonometric projection graph of another embodiment of present device.

The specific embodiment

Referring to accompanying

drawing

1 and 2; The equipment 1 that at least one shoes 2 or its part are pressed according to a particular aspect of the invention comprises cylinder 10, utilizes the shoes ironing apparatus of hot gas and/or saturated vapor and the beating unit that the shoes of placing on it are clashed into or impact; Said cylinder 10 randomly holds at least a portion of the actuator of electronic controller and equipment 1, and hot gas wherein is humidification randomly.

Especially; Ironing apparatus can comprise that delivery head 3, the steam boiler 6 that is used to generate steam, water tank 5 and the surrounding air induced-draught fan of the mixture of the mixture (promptly carrying out the hot gas of humidification with the particle water that pressurizes at thermal current) that is used for hot gas and atomized water or hot gas and saturated vapor are (for well known in the art; Not shown in the figures), with inhaled air be delivered to equipment 1 passage (also not showing among the figure) and water and/or steam channel, be used for the equipment that air and steam and/or atomized water is mixed and; If desired; To be delivered to device that the inlet air stream of shoes 2 heats (for known through delivery head 3; For example constitute by one or more resistance, not shown in the figures).

This ironing apparatus also can comprise and be used for shoes 2 or its a part of press tool, and it is preferably by constituting the cylindrical roller 4 that the leather of shoes 2 carry out leveling through lamination effect (lamination).

As the technical staff in present technique field understand immediately; Equipment 1 is provided with one or more control device, its flow velocity to air-flow, temperature, pressure and release time and control with the mixed steam of air stream and/or Delivery time, temperature conditions, pressure and the flow velocity of water.

Advantageously, as previously mentioned, also be provided with the beating unit that shoes 2 or its part are clashed into or impacted on the equipment 1, it preferably includes the instrument that knocks that drives according to the linear reciprocating motion of machinery or fluid actuator (seeing Fig. 2 arrow A).

Concrete like equipment 1 shown in the drawings in; These beating units can comprise the hammer 7 that drives according to straight reciprocating motion A through pneumatic linear actuator 8; This hammer 7 is the elbow hammer, and the forced air that will be delivered to pneumatic linear actuator 8 from the pipeline 9 that is connected to compressor with mode not shown in the figures is supplied to the elbow hammer.

In the equipment shown in the figure, this pneumatic linear actuator 8 is suitable for being fastened on the cylinder 10 of equipment 1 so that the operator can maybe can not make pneumatic linear actuator 8 and relevant hammer 7 unclamp from frame 11 through rigid frame 11.

Equipment 1 also can comprise shoes 2 or its a part of bracing or strutting arrangement (not shown); Its for example comprise the shoe last that connects with ironing apparatus and/or with the anti-mutually anvil piece that supports of beating unit, and the device that is used for or is convenient to treated shoes 2 are delivered to from ironing apparatus beating unit (or opposite).

In the concrete of equipment 1 and the embodiment simplified, shown in Fig. 1 and 2, yet, when the hand-held shoes 2 of operator or its are a part of, can press operation to these shoes 2 or its part through ironing apparatus and beating unit.

Advantageously, the distance range between the operating area of the operating area of ironing apparatus and beating unit can be 60-1000mm.Therefore, can shoes be transported to another step from the flatiron step more conveniently.

Knocking on the instrument that hammer 7 or any other are equal to can be provided with the heater of for example using Joule effect, and similarly, when being provided with the anvil piece that is used for shoes 2 or platform member, they also can comprise such heater.

Yet, described like hereinafter, when the operator is implemented as the present invention's the concrete processing method of purpose, can saves said being used for standing on the shoes 2 knocked the said heater that heat in the zone (its part at least) of processing.

Existing referring to Fig. 3; Shoes 2 or its a part of ironing equipment 101 these different embodiment have been shown among the figure; Wherein utilize the humidification of hot gas-randomly-and/or steam accomplish the operation of ironing equipment, and control the operation of the knocking device of shoes 2 through at least one controller (not shown).

Particularly, equipment 101 comprises framework 110, delivery head 103, is used for impacting according to stroke A ' the pneumatic linear actuator device of shoes 2, randomly with the mixed hot gas of atomized water or the saturated vapor of therefrom drawing from said delivery head 103 supplies.Similar with the beating unit of equipment 1 in Fig. 1 and 2, the said pneumatic linear actuator device of equipment 101 comprises the hammer 107 and the pneumatic linear actuator 108 of suitable shaping.

Also it should be noted that and be not provided with the flatiron roller 4 that Fig. 1 and 2 apparatus shown 1 are provided with on the equipment 101.

Equipment 101 also comprises sensor 112, is specially photoelectric cell (photocell), and it is suitable for detecting shoes 2 or its part is the existence at pneumatic linear actuator device place and generates corresponding output signal.Then, will be sent to the said control device of pneumatic linear actuator device by the signal that photoelectric cell 112 generates, said control device is set to operation pneumatic linear actuator device when photoelectric cell 112 sends the signal of indication shoes 2 existence.Thereby the operator can be simply activates the pneumatic linear actuator device through shoes 2 or its part are shifted to the pneumatic linear actuator device.

Similar sensor (not shown) also can be set; It is used for shoes 2 near utilizing delivery head 103 these states of the ironing apparatus of means of humidified hot air and/or steam to inform the above-mentioned control device that the operation of ironing apparatus is controlled, thereby as long as makes shoes 2 can operate this ironing apparatus near delivery head 103.

Equipment

1 or 101 operation are following.

Randomly by means of the conveyer that is positioned at equipment 1,101 upper reaches; The shoes 2 that the operator can at first will press or its part are placed on delivery head 3,103 and the flatiron roller 4 (if needs); Then after the setting operation parameter, the operator activates and utilizes the humidification of hot gas-randomly-and/or the ironing apparatus of steam.

If the operation of ironing apparatus system carries out through sensor automatically, as long as make shoes can operate ironing apparatus near delivery head 3,103.

Thus, the operator can utilize the routine flatiron of spraying hot gas (randomly with the saturated vapor humidification) like vamp to shoes 2 or its part, and utilizes flatiron roller 4 (when being provided with) to push.In this operation, can shoes 2 or its part be remained on the suitable shoe last (not shown), perhaps hand-held by the operator.

Then, or utilize through ironing apparatus hot gas (randomly humidification) and/or steam press operation before, or select as its another kind; The operator can be placed on hammer 7,107 places with shoes 2 or its part; Randomly be placed on supporter or the anvil piece, operate said pneumatic linear actuator 8,108 then so that the leather in the zone that can need press shoes 2 carries out the part impacts.

Be equally in this situation, described like equipment 101 with reference to Fig. 3, can detect shoes 2 near the sensor that knocks instrument 112 if be provided with, then knock the instrument operable automatically.

The integrated beating unit that shoes 2 or its part are pressed of the equipment 1,101 of the ironing apparatus through will utilizing jet of humidified hot gas and/or steam, equipment 1,101 has just had considerable purposes, and the operator can quite freely press shoes 2.

In fact, the operator can freely select the combination of shoes 2 or its a part of flatiron pattern or flatiron pattern, and need not more exchange device.

Above-mentioned equipment 1,101 also allows the operator to be beneficial to following to have novelty and creationary step of carrying out successively presses shoes 2 or its a part of leather, that is, make lines, fold, folding line, microgroove or other surface irregularities become smooth:

A. shoes 2 are sprayed thermal current,, are able to be heated and humidification, that is, need not to wait to leather cooling or dry so that leather will be eliminated the surface irregularity part preferably with the saturated vapor humidification,

B. impact being heated and adding wet zone of shoes 2 or its part, nature, shoes will grasp so that to the anti-fight effect.

By this, observe, utilize longer, the more soft-flatiron carried out that becomes of the leather-fiber of beating unit through suitable humidification of the warp that impacts shoes 2 and/or heating to move very effective.

In addition, utilize above-mentioned novel method, need not again heater to be set for the instrument that knocks of shoes 2 or its supporter.

Foregoing the present invention's method; And be not precluded within utilize the humidification of hot gas-randomly-and/or the flatiron step of steam during or be right after after it; The flatiron step of utilizing static(al) to push; For example utilize flatiron roller 4, also be not precluded within and knock after the step, partially or even wholly repeated several times utilize in the flatiron step of hot gas (randomly humidification) and/or steam and the flatiron step that utilization impacts shoes 2 step or its both.

Claims

1. equipment (1 that the surface that makes at least one shoes (2) or its a part of leather becomes smooth by out-of-flatness; 101); Comprise at least one leather ironing apparatus; Said leather ironing apparatus is provided with the device of sending hot gas and/or steam with hot gas and/or steam delivery to said at least one shoes or its part; It is characterized in that, also comprise the beating unit that said at least one shoes or its part are impacted, said hot gas be humidification or the hot gas of humidification not.

2. equipment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, said beating unit comprise at least one by machinery or fluid actuator according to linear reciprocating motion (A; A ') instrument that knocks that drives.

3. equipment as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, the said instrument that knocks is by pneumatic linear actuator (8; 108) hammer (7: 107) that drives.

4. equipment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, said beating unit comprises the instrument of knocking and is used to heat the said device that knocks instrument.

5. equipment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, the said device of sending hot gas and/or steam comprises and is used for the device controlled by the temperature of the hot gas sent and/or steam and/or pressure and/or flow velocity and/or Delivery time.

6. equipment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, said leather ironing apparatus comprises at least one moulding press tool.

7. equipment as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, said at least one moulding press tool is a flatiron roller (4).

8. equipment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, comprises being used for said at least one shoes or its part are carried out two-way transmission between said at least one leather ironing apparatus and said beating unit conveyer.

9. like each described equipment in the aforementioned claim; It is characterized in that; Comprise the controller that at least one is controlled the operation of said at least one leather ironing apparatus; And comprise that at least one is used for the checkout gear (112) that said at least one shoes or the existence of its part at said ironing apparatus and/or beating unit place are detected; Said ironing apparatus is provided with sends hot gas and/or steam delivery device and said beating unit, and said checkout gear (112) may be operably coupled at least one controller of said actuator.

10. equipment as claimed in claim 9 is characterized in that, the distance range between the operating area of said ironing apparatus and the operating area of said beating unit is 60-1000mm.