EP0353881A2 - Maschine zur fortschreitenden Bearbeitung entlang der Randbereiche von Schuhen - Google Patents

Maschine zur fortschreitenden Bearbeitung entlang der Randbereiche von Schuhen Download PDF

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EP0353881A2
EP0353881A2 EP89307022A EP89307022A EP0353881A2 EP 0353881 A2 EP0353881 A2 EP 0353881A2 EP 89307022 A EP89307022 A EP 89307022A EP 89307022 A EP89307022 A EP 89307022A EP 0353881 A2 EP0353881 A2 EP 0353881A2
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43D—MACHINES, TOOLS, EQUIPMENT OR METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING OR REPAIRING FOOTWEAR
    • A43D119/00—Driving or controlling mechanisms of shoe machines; Frames for shoe machines
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43D—MACHINES, TOOLS, EQUIPMENT OR METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING OR REPAIRING FOOTWEAR
    • A43D25/00—Devices for gluing shoe parts
    • A43D25/18—Devices for applying adhesives to shoe parts
    • A43D25/183—Devices for applying adhesives to shoe parts by nozzles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05C—APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05C1/00—Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is applied to the surface of the work by contact with a member carrying the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. a porous member loaded with a liquid to be applied as a coating

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  • This invention is concerned with machines for operating progressively along marginal portions of shoes comprising a shoe support for supporting a lasted shoe with marginal portions thereof exposed, tool supporting means for supporting a tool for effecting an operation on such marginal portions, means for effecting relative movement in a direction lengthwise of the shoe bottom between the shoe support and the tool supporting means whereby a tool supported by the latter can effect an operation progressively along the marginal portions of a shoe supported by the shoe support, and means for effecting relative movement, in a direction heightwise of the shoe bottom, between the shoe support and the tool supporting means.
  • EP-A 0276944 being a machine forapplying adhesive progressively to marginal portions of shoe bottoms.
  • the tool is constituted by a rotary brush which surrounds a nozzle outlet through which adhesive is supplied, the arrangement being such that, as the tool is caused to operate progressively along the shoe bottom, the rotating brush serves to spread the adhesive, giving a clearly defined edge adjacent to the edge of the shoe bottom.
  • a seam is provided, e.g. between the vamp and the quarter of the shoe, which is stitched.
  • the roughing brush breaks the stitches, with a result that while the underlying portion in the region of overlap remains adhered to the insole of the shoe, the top portion in such region, previously held in position by the stitching, is now loose.
  • a subsequent adhesive-applying operation therefore, where such top portion is "downstream" of the Vietnamesewhile seam (in terms of the direction of movement of the tool relative to the shoe bottom) there is a tendency for the tool to lift such top portion and fold it back upon itself.
  • the tool tends to break the adhesion between the lasting margin of the upper and the insole.
  • sequence control means is provided whereby, for a selected marginal portion of the shoe relative heightwise movement of separation is effected between the shoe support and the tool supporting means to cause the tool and such marginal portion to be moved out of operative contact with one another while relative lengthwise movement is taking place in a first direction, and thereafter relative heightwise movement of approach is effected between the shoe support and the tool supporting means to return said marginal portion and the tool into such operative contact and the direction of relative lengthwise movement is reversed whereby the tool is caused to operate progressively along said marginal portion in a reverse direction, at the end of which operation the direction of the relative lengthwise movement is once more reversed and thus continues in said first direction.
  • the facility is thus provided for reversing the direction of relative lengthwise movement between the tool and the marginal portion of the shoe being operated upon in the region of any overlap in order to ensure that the top portion in the region of the overlap lies "upstream" of the occidentalle seam in terms of the direction of relative lengthwise movement over said marginal portion.
  • the action of the tool in each case is effective to press the top portion against the underlying portion and thus retain the two portions in the desired relationship.
  • the tool supporting means supports an adhesive-applying tool comprising a nozzle having a housing in which a ball is accommodated for controlling the flow of adhesive through the housing and which has an end face providing an annular rim by which the ball is retained in the housing but which allows a portion of the ball to project beyond said end face, spring means being provided for urging the ball into a sealing position against the annular rim, thus to prevent the flow of adhesive from the nozzle, but the ball being movable against the spring pressure out of such sealing position, thus to allow adhesive flow, such movement of the ball being limited by an abutment such that a portion of the ball still projects beyond the end face of the housing.
  • an adhesive-applying tool of this type is of course of particular benefit in that the adhesive flow is automatically shut off each time the ball of the tool and the marginal portion of the shoe move out of operative contact with one another.
  • the invention has been found particularly useful, moreover, in a machine wherein the adhesive-applying tool further comprises a brush assembly rotatable about an axis extending lengthwise of the nozzle for spreading adhesive supplied from the nozzle, and comprising bristles which extend in a direction lengthwise of the nozzle housing and are disposed about the whole of the periphery of said end face, and which project beyond said end face by a distance which can be set, drive means being provided for effection such rotation of the brush assembly.
  • the machine in accordance with the invention thus comprises a base (10) supporting, by a bracket (12), a pivot shaft (14) about which a support (16) for a shoe support (18) can pivot.
  • the shoe support is arranged to support a shoe (S) bottom uppermost, with the toe end thereof facing towards the front of the machine, i.e. towards the operator.
  • the base (10) supports a support column structure (22) carrying a casting (24) on which is supported, for pivotal movement about a vertical axis, a support casting 34 having two upstanding lugs 32 between which tool supporting means generally designated 26′ is supported for pivotal movement about a horizontal axis 31.
  • the machine further comprises a first stepping motor (144) mounted on the base (10) and effective to cause pivotal movement of the shoe support (18) to take place about the horizontal axis provided by the shaft (14) (X-axis movement).
  • a second stepping motor (84) is provided, carried by the casting (24) and effective to cause pivotal movement of the support casting 34 about its vertical axis (Y-axis movement).
  • a third stepping motor (122 - described in EP-A0043645) is supported by the support casting 34, rearwardly of its vertical pivot, to cause it, and thus the tool support means 26′ supported thereby, to pivot about its horizontal axis 31 (Z-axis movement).
  • the X-, Y- and Z-axes represent three coordinate axes along which a tool supported by the tool supporting means 26′ can move. Details of the shoe support (18) can be found in GB-A2077090, and further details of the construction by which movement along the three axes can take place can be found in EP-A0091321 and also in 0043645.
  • the tool supporting means 26′ of the machine in accordance with the invention comprises a housing 650 mounted for pivotal movement about said horizontal axis 31. From a forward face of the housing projects a hollow, tubular arm 652 within which is accommodated, for rotational movement therein, a support rod 654. At the forward end of said rod is a plate 656 supporting two forwardly projecting arms 658, which are spaced apart widthwise of the machine and on each of which is mounted, for pivotal movement, a pair of links 660, 662, upper ends of which pivotally support a plate 664.
  • the links 660, 662, together with the plate 664 and arms 658, thus comprise a first parallel linkage arrangement of the tool supporting means.
  • a further plate 666 Fixedly secured to a forward end of the plate 664, and projecting forwardly therefrom, is a further plate 666, in a forward, bifurcated, end of which is pivotally mounted a block 668 forming part of a tool holder generally designated 670. Also secured to the tool holder, at the left-hand side thereof, is a further link 672 which is in turn pivotally connected to each of the left-hand links 660, 662.
  • the links 660, 662, tool holder 670, link 672 and composite plate 664, 666 thus constitute a second parallel linkage of the tool supporting means.
  • the various pivots are so arranged in relation to one another that the tool holder is caused to pivot about an axis (a virtual centre) extending transversely of the bottom of a shoe supported by the shoe support (18) and passing through a point P, which lies on the axis of the support rod 654.
  • a point P which lies on the axis of the support rod 654.
  • the point P represents a height datum of the machine in a desired relationship with which the bottom of a shoe supported by the shoe support (18) can be positioned by means of a holddown member (450) and toe support means (470) of said support.
  • the point P lies vertically above the axis (14) of the shoe support (18).
  • the links 662 carry therebetween a block 674 to which is pivotally connected a forward end of a push-rod 676, the rearward end of which is similarly pivotally connected to a block 678 which is mounted on a pulley 680 freely rotatable about a drive shaft 682.
  • the pulley 680 is caused to rotate about said shaft by a timing belt 684 entrained around a second pulley 688, a tensioning pulley 690 being provided for maintaining the tension in the belt.
  • a third pulley 692 around which is entrained a second timing belt 694 meshing with a fourth, drive, pulley 696 secured on the drive shaft 682.
  • the shaft 682 is driven by a stepping motor 698 (constituting third drive means of the machine in accordance with the invention).
  • a similar drive arrangement comprising a stepping motor 700 acting through pulleys 702,704, 706 (the fourth not being shown) and timing belts (not shown), the pulley 706 being fixedly mounted on the support rod 654.
  • This drive arrangement thus constitutes fourth drive means of the machine in accordance with the invention.
  • the tool holder 670 is arranged to support a tool generally designated 250 in the form of an adhesive applicator device generally as described in EP-A0276944, the tool being fixedly mounted in the block 668.
  • the mounting arrangement is generally similar to the alternative mounting arrangement referred to in the aforementioned specification.
  • the adhesive applicator device 250 thus comprises a hollow shaft 366 (Fig. 2) mounted in the block 668 and carrying at its lower end a sprocket 368 pivotally connected by a chain (not shown but numbered 386 in said specification) to an electric motor also carried on the tool holder 670.
  • the shaft 366 carries a collar 370 in which is secured an upstanding pin 372 accommodated in a bore 374 of a further collar 376 which is threadedly secured to an output end 378 of a rotary coupling generally designated 380.
  • Force-fitted into the collar 376 is the upper end of an adhesive supply tube 382 which passes through the hollow shaft 366 and has screw-threaded on the lower end thereof a nozzle housing 384 (see Figs. 3 and 4). It will thus be appreciated that rotation of the sprocket 368 causes, through the pin 372 and bore 374, rotation of the tube 382 and thus of the nozzle housing 384 secured thereto.
  • the nozzle housing 384 has a frustoconical lower end face 384 a which provides an annular rim spaced from the lower end face 382 a of the tube 382 to form therein a chamber in which a ball 392 is accommodated with a portion thereof projecting beyond the annular rim.
  • a spring 394 is accommodated in a counter-sink formed in the lower end of the tube 382 and urges the ball against the annular rim into a sealing position in which adhesive flow through the nozzle is prevented.
  • pressing the ball 392 against a component to be coated with adhesive causes the ball to retract, to allow adhesive to be supplied through the nozzle, the supply continuing until the ball is moved out of contact with the component whereupon sealing takes place substantially immediately with consequent cut-off of the adhesive.
  • the ball is shown in its retracted condition in Fig. 4.
  • the nozzle housing 384 is capable of "floating" relative to the bearing block 364, that is to say excessive pressure applied to the ball is accommodated by sliding movement of the nozzle housing bodily in relation to the hollow shaft 366, so that any irregularities in the surface of the shoe bottom to be coated with adhesive, in relation to the heightwise path as determined by the third n.c. motor (122), can be accommodated.
  • a further spring 396 is provided acting between the nozzle housing and the underside of the hollow shaft, the force applied by the spring 396 being significantly greater than that applied by the spring 394, so as to ensure that the ball will first retract when engaged. As can be seen from Fig. when the housing is in its lowermost position it lies below the point P.
  • a "teaching" mode of operation in setting the Z-axis position desirably the operative surface portion of the tool is set at the point P, that is to say a certain amount of the "float” is taken up during teaching, thereby allowing variations of a plus or minus value from that position to take place according to any irregularities in the contour of the shoe bottom.
  • the operator when the machine is in its "teaching" mode, has regard to the distance between the two collars 370, 376. If desired, furthermore, a scale may be provided on one of the collars to assist the operator.
  • a brush assembly generally designated 398 is secured to the outside of the nozzle housing 384, e.g. by a Jubilee clip 400.
  • the brush assembly 398 comprises a ring 402, e.g. of plastics material, which is slid along the nozzle housing and in which are embedded sets of bristles 404 arranged to form a cylindrical shape which surrounds the nozzle housing and projects beyond the end face 384 a , being disposed about the whole of the periphery of said end face 384 a .
  • the machine has a "teaching" mode as well as an “operating” mode.
  • operator-actuatable means in the form of a cursor arrangement (not shown) or a joystick control (also not shown) is provided whereby the path of movement of the tool can be determined; the particular path determination procedure is described in detail in US-A4541054.
  • the machine For the digitising procedure itself and also for controlling the operation of the machine in its operating mode the machine also comprises computer control means.
  • This means comprises a memory in which a number of programmed instructions can be stored for different styles of shoe and also in which a number of sub-routines are stored for processing the data relating to the various styles. Thus one such sub-routine serves to determine the path the tool will follow, based upon the digitised points.
  • a further sub-routine is a grading programme which, according to the shoe length, as "measured” by the shoe support (18) (details of the shoe length measuring arrangement are described in GB-A2077090), is effective correspondingly to vary the distance between successive digitised points along the X-axis and also proportionately to vary the Y-axis movement, such variation of the X-axis movement also serving to vary the incidence of the Z-axis movement and the pivotal movement about the first and second axes ('camber' and 'tilt' movement) of the tool holder 670.
  • the change in direction of the tool movement can be achieved during the "teaching" mode of operation in the following manner: after the "teaching" of a point P1 which lies “upstream” of a seam and spaced therefrom by at least the distance between successive points (which is of course predetermined), and with the tool moved to its next start position along the X- and Z-axes as aforesaid, the operator again actuates the "teach” button (642) thereby effectively “teaching” a point P2 which is in space.
  • the operator must also take into account the fact that the tool "floats" and must ensure that the tool is in fact clear of the shoe bottom even when the operative surface of the tool is urged downwardly by the spring 396 as aforesaid. If in fact the next start position is such that the ball is in contact with the shoe bottom, then clearly the operator must, through the operator-actuatable means, effect sufficient Z-axis movement to ensure that the tool and shoe bottom are moved out of operative contact prior to actuation of the "teach" button.
  • this procedure is preferably repeated for a second point P3 whereafter the next point P4 will be digitised and "taught" in the usual manner, that is to say with the tool and shoe support in operative contact.
  • the next point P5 to be digitised is then effected in the reverse direction, i.e. back towards the seam, and the digitising of points P6, P7 in a reverse direction continues to be effected until a position is reached beyond the seam, which is coincident with or overlaps the last point P1 to be digitised in the first direction of movement of the tool , at which point operative contact was maintained between the tool and the shoe bottom.
  • the reversal of the direction of movement of the tool need only be effected on the side of the shoe where, in terms of the first direction of movement of the tool, the top portion of the overlap is disposed "downstream" of the seam.
  • the operator may select whether to effect two separate reverse movements of the tool or a single reverse movement, according to the spacing of the seams.
  • a sub-programme may be provided whereby the operator merely digitises the shoe bottom in the usual manner but, at the first point "downstream" of a seam, that is to say, immediately after the seam has been passed during the digitising process, the operator may activate the sub-programme whereby automatically a procedure generally as set out above, including points in space, can be effected as part of the digitising process, but without physically moving the tool in a reverse direction, so that a similar effect can be achieved in the operating mode of the machine.
  • a facility could be provided whereby, in the teaching mode of the machine, a signal can be supplied by the operator before a seam is reached, but otherwise digitising takes place in the usual manner, the effect of the signal being that the next succeeding points are interpreted by a sub-routine of a computer programm to effect the movement through space, the reverse movement with the tool and shoe bottom in operative contact, followed by further movement in space in the manner described above.
  • the computer control means together with the programmed instructions for controlling the relative movement between the shoe and the tool constitute sequence control means of the machine.
  • marginal portions of shoes with broken seams can readily be treated, e.g. by way of the application of adhesive to such marginal portions, without the detrimental effect which has been experienced in machines not having the facility for reversing the direction of movement of the tool in relation to the shoe bottom in those regions.
  • the invention has been described hereinbefore with reference to the application of adhesive to marginal portions of shoe bottoms, it would also be applicable to the control of the roughing of marginal portions of shoe bottoms and other operations thereon and also to various operations to be performed on the side wall portions of shoes.

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EP0450778A2 (de) * 1990-03-28 1991-10-09 British United Shoe Machinery Limited Handhabung eines Mehrkomponentenklebers
EP1270080A1 (de) * 2001-06-19 2003-01-02 Ford Global Technologies, Inc., A subsidiary of Ford Motor Company Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum Auftrag von Schmieroel
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EP0091321A1 (de) * 1982-04-08 1983-10-12 British United Shoe Machinery Limited Maschine zum fortschreitenden Aufrauhen der Randteile eines Schuhbodens
EP0276944A2 (de) * 1987-01-30 1988-08-03 British United Shoe Machinery Limited Klebstoffauftragevorrichtung

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EP0043645A1 (de) * 1980-06-10 1982-01-13 British United Shoe Machinery Limited Vorrichtung zum fortschreitenden Aufrauhen von Randbereichen der Schuhböden
EP0091321A1 (de) * 1982-04-08 1983-10-12 British United Shoe Machinery Limited Maschine zum fortschreitenden Aufrauhen der Randteile eines Schuhbodens
EP0276944A2 (de) * 1987-01-30 1988-08-03 British United Shoe Machinery Limited Klebstoffauftragevorrichtung

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EP0450778A2 (de) * 1990-03-28 1991-10-09 British United Shoe Machinery Limited Handhabung eines Mehrkomponentenklebers
EP0450778A3 (en) * 1990-03-28 1992-03-18 British United Shoe Machinery Limited Handling multi-component compositions
EP1270080A1 (de) * 2001-06-19 2003-01-02 Ford Global Technologies, Inc., A subsidiary of Ford Motor Company Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum Auftrag von Schmieroel
CN106263295A (zh) * 2016-08-11 2017-01-04 浙江香香莉鞋业有限公司 一种制鞋用均匀涂抹白胶装置
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CN116765942A (zh) * 2023-08-16 2023-09-19 泉州市智锐机械制造有限公司 自动示教组件及连续可变角度磨削设备及其自动示教工艺
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