US1169709A - Method for use in the manufacture of shoes. - Google Patents

Description

E. F. WYLlE.

METHOD FOR USE IN THE MANUFACTURE .OF SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB-23. 1915.

1 16939., Patented Jan. 25, 1916.

WUVESSESI m5 COLUMB IA PMNDGRAPH :0. WASHINGTON. n. c.

ENTTED TATE PATENT @lElElEQ EMERSON F. WYLIE, OF BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

METHOD USE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. as, rare,

Original application filed October 19,1910, Serial No. 587,944. Divided and this application filed February To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that I, EMERSON F. WVYLIE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brockton, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Methods for Use in the Manufacture of Shoes, of which the following description. in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification.

This invention relates to the manufacture of shoes and has for its object to improve turn shoes and facilitate certain steps in the making of such shoes and this application is a division of my co-pending application, Serial No. 587,944, filed Oct. 19, 1910.

As is well understood," turn shoes are assembled, pulled over, lasted and sewn while they are wrong side out and are then turned to present the upper on the outer side and the lining, on the inner side of the shoe. When the uppers of such shoes, as made heretofore, com prise a vamp and a tip, or have an ornamental line of stitches to represent the tip line, the location of the tip line is hidden from view by the lining in the pulling-over operation during which the upper is adjusted upon the last preparatory to being fastened to the sole. When these shoes were pulled over and lasted by hand the workman was enabled by the sense of feeling", while he held the shoe in his hand, to ascertain the position of the tip seam and thus to adjust the upper so that the tip seam would occupy in the finished shoe approximately the desired location. The fact that the lining hid the tip seam from View was therefore of minor importance to him, although considerable skill and judgment were required to obtain uniform length of tip and position of the tip seam in such work. More recently, since these turn shoes have been pulled over and lasted by the use of machines, the fact that the tip seam cannot be seen has proven a serious embarrassment, particularly because of the timerequired to enable the operator to feel of the shoe which is supported in the machine.

This invention provides a method for use in the manufacture of turn shoes by the practice of which the operator is enabled to determine the correct location of the tip line while the shoe is supported in the pullingover, lasting or other machine, without the Serial No. 9,976.

necessity for feeling of the materials. An important step of this method consists in rendering the location of the tip seam or of the tip line stitches apparent on the lining side of the assembled upper materials, so that the operator is provided in the pullingover operation with a visible indication of the location of the tip line on that side of the upper materials which he cannot see, and by adjusting the materials with reference to such indication is assured of the correct location of the tip line when the shoe is finally turned right side out. This step may be performed in various ways, and conveniently and according to the preferred practice by extending the tip seam or the tip line stitches through the lining, thereby providing an infallible indication on the lining side of the materials of the position of the tip line of the concealed upper.

The improved method of this invention, including the relation of the step above described to other steps of the series, will be more fully explained in the following detailed description with reference to the accompanying drawing and will then be pointed out in the claims.

The drawing is a perspective view of the parts of a turn shoe prepared in accordance with the method of this invention and assembled with the lining outside of the upper for the pulling-over operation.

The usual sole of a turn shoe is shown at 2, the upper at l, and at 5 the tip which is joined to the vamp portion of the upper by one or more lines of stitches 6 which constitute the so-called tip seam. At 8 is shown the lining which, in accordance with this invention, has been provided with a visible indication of the location of the tip seam of the upper. This indication is herein shown as consisting of rows of stitches 10 made by extending the tip seam stitches 6 through the lining when the vamp and the tip are stitched together. Vith the parts thus prepared and assembled as shown in the drawin the operator proceeds to perform the pulling-over operation in the usual with referenceto the sole. This operati'on extending the tip seam or tip line stitches through the lining for the purpose in View is particularly advantageous s1nce the lm 111g stitches are not only readily vis ble to the operator but necessarily constitute a permanentanel invariable indication of the locationof the line ofstitches in the upper.

It should be understood also that except as required-bythe express terms of the claims the inyention is not limited to a series 01 steps carried out in the precise order in which they are named. V

Havingexplained the nature of the in vention andset forth fully how it may be practised, What Lelaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States e 1 That improvementin methods of makingshoesW-hich consists in assembling an. upper and a lining,lstitchingthrough the upper and the liningalong the tip line of the upper, bringing;thestitched upper and lininginto; assembled relation to. a sole with'the lining outside ofthe upper, pulling over and lasting the upper and lining and in the pulling-over and" lasting operaticns lccating the ends of the row of lining stitches in the relation to the sole desired for the ends of the tip line of the upper, securing the upper to the sole, and turning the shoe right side out.

2. That improvement in methods of making shoes which consists in assembling shoe materials comprising an upper and a lining, extending through the lining adjacent to its bottom edges at the tip seam line means to serve as visible indications of the tip line of the upper, bringing said materials into assembled relation to a sole with the lining outside ofthe upper pulling over and lastingthe upper and lining and in the pullingover and lastingoperations so locating the upper and lining as to bring the indications of thelocaticn of the tip seam on the lining side of the materialsinto the relation to the sole desiredfor the ends of the tip line of the upper, securing the upper to the sole,

and turning the shoe right side out.

In testimony-whereof I have signed my nameto this Specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. I

EMERSON F. WY I Vitnesses: i

LI MfKmnn, W. J. GILLETTE.

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" Washington, D. C.

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