US1059310A - Toe-binding apparatus. - Google Patents

Description

R. F. MCPEELY.

TOE BINDING APPARATUS.

APTLIGATION FILED JULY20|1912,

1,059,310. Patented Apr.15,1913.

, "outrun strains n rrnnir OFFICE- RONALD F. MGFEELY, OF BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORTTO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, OFPA'IERSON, NEWJERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

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TOE-BINDING APPARATUS..

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 20, 1912. Serial No. 710,670.

To a 10/1 out it may concern:

Be it known that I, RONALD F. \l chnnm', a citizenof the United States, residing at Beverly, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain In1- provements in '.loe-Bin :lin,g Apparatus, of which the following t'lcscription, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to shoe manufacturing apparatus and particularly tomcans for use in connection with the toe binding operation by which the toe portions of up pers on welt shoes, and sometimes other kinds of shoes, are secured in lasted position preparatory to permanently sewing the upper to the inncrsolc.

The toe binding 'n'naterial most generally used is soft wire which is usually anchored to a tack on one side of the toe and then pulled tightly around the toe and Secured under tension by wrapping it around a tack on the other side of the shoe. In order to anchor the Wire to the first tack the workman either holds the end of .the wire with the fingers of one hand while twisting it a number of times around the tack and then drives the tack clown firmly, or else he forms a loop or eye in the end of the wire with his fingers, aided sometimes by the handle of his lasting pincers, and then tightens the loop around the tack and hammers the tack down to make it secure. Either of these procedures requires some expenditure of time which it is one object of this invention to reduce, and in both cases the wire and the tack are made so fast to the shoe that it is rather ditlicult to remove them after the ill per has been sewn to theinnersole and it is an object of this invention to reduce this Work. The short end of the binding wire, after it has been anchored as aforesaid, freqnently projects where it is liable to engage and scratch or mar another shoe as the shoe is being handled and placed on the racks with other shoes and it,is a further object of this invention to eliminate this danger of inj from this end of the binder.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises the .featnres of the bindeneye forming means lmreinaft er described and inted out in theclahns.

'ihe drawing shows "111 Figure 1 a perspective view representing a preferred embodiment of the eye-forming means upon the machine for which it was originally designed. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, partly in section, of a part shown in Fig. 1. l

The device comprises a post or stud 2 which preferably projects horizontally from a support, which is shown as the side clamp arm of the machine of my earlier application, Ser. No. 372,055, filed May 6, 1907, said support having a base or plate 4 in which is formed adjacent to the post a socket 5 to take the end of the binder wire thrust therein, and to hold the binder end while the strand is given a turn about the post to form the eye in the end of the binder. If a stringing tool 6 is used the weight of the tool and of the strand will hold the binder eye on the post ready for use and the tool will be conveniently suspended thereby. The socket 5 forms a prone; on the under side of the eye which will engage the shoe upper and the socket is preferably inclined so that the prong will be inclined downwardly and backwardly toward the body of the binder.

The socket is so located that the main strand of the binder crosses over the prong'cd end in position to press and bind the prong; in hold int engagement. with the shoe upper. Thu

wire holder (5 may conveniently be used for manipulating the wire to form the eye by inserting the end of the binder strand into the downwardly inclined socket 5 to form the prong, then bending the wire first downwardly and then upwardly around the post 2 and downwardly. adain across the portion of the strand that is adjacent to the prong.

The novel binder herein disclosed is not claimed in this application but is made the sulJjcct=matter ot' a divisional application Ser. No. 726,747, filed Oct. 19, 1919.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States z-- 1. A toe-binder eye-formintr device comprising a horizontally projecting posttB, a base plate 4 with a vertical face having, a socket 5 lochtcd near and atone lateral ,side

of the post and-inclined downwardly to receive and form an inclined prong on the lower side of the binder eye when the strand is carried downwardly and around the post, substantially as described.

2. A toe-binder eye-forming dev'iceIcoinprising a-base plate, an eye-t'or1ning post Patented Apr. 15, 1913.

projecting perpendicularly therefrom, and n .Jn testimony whereof I have signed my prong-forming socket formed in the base naine tothis speeification in the presence of plate near the post in position to receive the two subscribing witnesses. I end of the strand find bend thereon a down- RONALD F. MCFEELY.

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the eyewhich is formed by bending the BARTHOLDMEW TfMcDoNoiien, stranct around the post. CHARLES H. Hon.

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