US1105333A - Support for shoe-uppers. - Google Patents

Description

H. W. LAMBERT.

SUPPORT FOR SHOE UPPERS.

APPLIUAT'ION FILED MAB..11, 1912. RENEWED MAY 29, 1914. 1 1 05,333

Patented July 28, 1914.

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Specification of LetterslBatent. v Patented uly 28, 191 4.

Application filed March 11, 1912, Serial No. 6 8 3,051. Benewed May 29, 1914. Serial No. 841,960.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. LAMBERT,

of Stoughton, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Support for Shoe-Uppers, of

which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

their manufacture,

One object of the-invention is to provide a device adapted to be applied to the upper of a shoe during the process of its construction and for sustaining or supporting said upper during following stages in its process of construction.

Another object of the invention is to so construct a device that, by the use of the same, the shoe upper may be protected: from injury.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following description.

The invention consists in the supporting and protecting device hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 represents a side view of a shoe and shows the improved supporting and protecting device applied thereto. Fig. 2 represents a sectional View taken on line 22 Fig. 1, parts of the shoe being broken away.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.

In the manufacture of shoes and particularly in the finishing steps, after the lasting of the shoe, I have found that handling of the shoe is facilitatedv by distending the upper and supporting the samepractically free from wrinkles or folds and that injury to the material of the upper is thereby to a large degree avoided especially when the supporting device extends over the inner or the outer surface of the upper.

In carrying this invention into practice I preferably constructthe new supporting device from leather board or similar durable and comparatively stiff material and having thesupporting member 5 and the flap 6. The member 5 is preferably of such length that it extends from the inner surface of the shoe sole A to and above the upper edge 2) of the shoe upper B while the flap 6 extends from the upper portion of member 5 over Said edge 5 and down over the outer surface of the shoe upper B. The shape of said members 5 and 6 depends somewhat on the protection desired to be afiorded thereby but member 6 should be suiiiciently wide to be stable. Provision is made to utilize the stability of said member 6 for supporting or sustaining theupper B approximately in the the member 5 of this supporting device is placed in the shoe with its lowerv end bearing against the sole A or against any other portion of the shoe which will sustain the same and theflap member 6 overlapping the exterior of the shoe upper. The clamping member 9 is now swung downwardly to bring its shoulder 10 between the arm 8 of plate 7 and the flap member 6 whereby the shoe upper B is frictionally engaged between said flap member 6 and the supporting or strut member 5 and is thereby sustained in the position shown approximately in Fig. 1,

of thedrawings. The upper B is thus held from wrinkling or creasing during subsequent steps of manufacture, the lining of the upper is protected and the handling of the shoe is facilitated as the upper is sup ported ina convenient position to be grasped while the flexibility of the material from which the supporting devices are made i such that it may yield somewhat.

While I have shown and described herein the preferred form of my new supporting device, I do not intend thereby to limit my invention to such construction as I am aware that the supporting member of my device may be attached to or engaged with the up per of a shoe in other ways than that shown. By the use of the flat supporting members 5, 5 the lower ends of the same can be inserted between the last L and the sides of the shoe as is shown in Fig. 2while the upper portions of such members do not interfere with the introduction within the shoe 7 of sultable tools or devices for engaging said last or for supporting the shoe during operations thereon subsequent to the application of my supporting devices,

Having thus described my invention I Which is fixed to said supporting member claim as new and desire to secure by Letters and the other of whichoperates against said Patent- 'fia A supporting device for the uppers of p HENRY W'. LAMBERT.

5 shoes comprising a flat supporting member WVitnesses:

having at its end an integral flap, and a HENRY J. MILLER, clamping device having two members one of E. C. MURPHY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

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