US1197594A - Shoe-beating machine. - Google Patents

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C. F. BENNION. SHOE BEATING MACHINE.

APPLICATION man FEB. 25, 1913.

Patented Sept. 12, 1916.

' fl NTTED STATEE PATENT @FETCW- CHARLES FAVVCETT BENNION, 0F LEICESTER, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

SHOE-BEATING MACHINE.

Patented Sept. 12, 1916.

Application filed February 25, 1913. Serial No. 750,545.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Cr-rannns F. BnNNIoN, a subject of the King of England, residing at Leicester, Leicestershire, England, have invented certain Improvements in Shoe- Beating Machines, of which the following description, 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 machines for beating or pounding up boots and shoes and is intended to increase the efliciency of such machines by provision for automatic adjustment to the varying condition of the different parts of work being beaten of a tool which may rest substantially continuously upon the surface being treated while it receives beating impulses, thus insuring a more thorough operation on all parts of the work and at the same time rendering it easier to manipulate the work presented to the machine. I

An example of the type of machine for which this invention has been adapted is shown in United States Letters Patent No. 1,009,721, granted November 28, 1911. That machine is equipped with a beating device having a working face which maintains a constant relation to the direction of movement of the device.

A feature of the present invention con sists in a beating tool having a work engaging member that is pivotally supported near one edge and is yieldingly supported near its other edge to enable it to move for adapting its angular position to the surface with which it contacts, combined with means for imparting to the tool rapid percussional impulses against the work while remainingin substantially continuous contact with the work.

Another feature of this invention consists in a tool which has two cooperating acting faces which are approximately at right ana gles to each other, one face being adapted to engage the shoe bottom and the other face being adapted to engagethe side of the shoe. The tool is rapidly reciprocated so that a shoe when pressed against itwill receive a series of blows from the saidfaces and thereby be pounded up and have its edge and the adjacent portions of the side and bottom properly shaped. i

In the tool as constructed in accordance with a feature of this invention the acting faces are located on parts pivoted together in such a manner that the angle which the faces subtend will be varied to suit the angular relationship of the different parts of the work as they are operated upon by the tool. When the tool with its acting faces thus arranged is used on'the heel seat of the shoe, where the angle between the bottom and the sides of the work on either side of the edge varies, the relationship of the acting faces of the tool will automatically be changed to suit the different portions of the heel seat as they are brought into contact therewith and consequently the faces of the tool will simultaneously fully contact withthe material at both sides of the edge, or with the adjacent surfaces of the bottom and side faces of thelasted shoe. Preferably the tool is constructed with that part which is provided with one face immovable as regards its angular position, the part having the other face being pivoted to the immovable part and pressed forwardly by a spring plunger or like device. According to the illustrated construction embodying this feature of the invention the angularly movable part is pivoted to the stationary part about an axis that is'parallel to both acting faces and that is at or approximately at the junction .of the said acting faces so that the maximum beating effect may be localized close to the angle.

A convenient construction of a machine embodying the invention in which the face that engages the shoe bottom is fixed and the face that engages the side of the shoe is pivoted will now be described with the aid of the accompanying sheet of drawings. It must. be understood, however, that this description is merely illustrative of the preferred way of carrying the invention into effect and that the invention is not confined to the precise construction or to the exact arrangement of the parts.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a transverse section through a last carrying a shoe with the't'ool shown in operative relationship thereto at one side, and Fig. 2 is an end view of the tool regarded in the direction of its acting faces.

In this embodiment of the invention there is a rod 2 which is mounted to slide freely in hearings in the machine frame. The end 3 of the rod 2 is arranged to come within recess 6 is received the cylindrical shaped end?- ofthe movable part8 of the tool. The portion of, the-head 5 from. the line of opening of the recessforms .an acting'face 10 of the tool which. as shown in the drawings extends outwardly at an oblique angle to the line of reciprocation of the tool. The movable part 8 is normally maintained at sub: stantially the same angle asthe face l0to the line of reciprocation of, the tool and at approximately a right angle to the portion 10-.by, a plunger 12, The plunger preferably is-l'ocated in a recess 14 in a downwardly extendedportion 15 of the head, a spring 16,

being located inthe recess 14:. at the back of the plunger to propel. it forward. The movable part ofthe toolS is prevented from being pushed by the spring plunger 12 beyond its normal angular position by pins 18 which.

are passed through openings in extensions ofthe cylindrical shaped ends 7 of the movable part, the saidextensions projectingbeyond the sidesof thehead'5 so that the pins 1 8',passedtherethrough. are held in contact with other stop pins 19 projecting from the sides ofthe head 5. The acting face of the movablepart 01f the toolmay be concaved or recessedas at 2 0'to adapt itself to the curvature of 'the side faceofa shoe.

In operation, when the work is. pressed.

against the tool, the latter will. be moved inwardly to bring the end of the rod 2 under theinfiuence of the rotating rolls whereby a series oftblows will'beimpa'rtedto the work. Should-the angular relationship of the side and bottom of the part of the work being operatedupon vary the movable-part 8 of the tool will bemoved'more or less in opposition to thespring plunger 12 to enable the relationship ofthe acting faces 10, 20 of'the fixed and movable parts respectively to be altered to adapt themselves. to the angular condition of: the part of "the work being dealt.

with.

Having thus explained the nature of my saidinvention, I claim asnew. and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United.

States;

1. A shoe beating machine having, in combination, a beating tool-that comprises two parts having angularly disposed acting faces, one ;of such parts being pivoted to the other part-aboutan axis that is substantially parallel' to both acting 'faces and that is at or approximately at the junction of the said acting faces, mountings adapted for holding the tool continuously against the edge of a shoe bottom, and operating means imparting a rapid succession of percussional impulses to the tool while it is so held against the work.

2. In a machine of the class described, a shoe beating tool comprising an endwise reciprocating member having a beating face extending at an angle to the direction of reciprocation of the member, a part pivoted to said member and having a cooperating beating face normally forming substantially the same angle with the direction of reciprocation of said member, means for oper ating said tool to cause said faces to beat the stock on opposite sides of the bottom edge line of a shoe, and means adapted to yield to permit movement of the pivoted part of the tool for increasing the anglebetween said two beating faces to enable the tool, to beat the material adjacent to the edge of'the shoe bottom at different parts of the shoe irrespective of the angle formed by the bottom and side faces of the shoe.

3. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a shoe beating tool adapted to have substantially continuous contact with the work and to act progressively along the surface being treated, said tool having a work engaging member, that is pivotally supported near one edge and is yieldingly supported near its other edge to enable it to move for adapting; itsangular position to the surface with which it con? tacts, of means for imparting to said tool rapid percussional impulses against the work while the tool remains in substantially continuous contact with the work.

4:. A machine of the class described having, in combination, a tool self adaptable in shape to the angular edge of; a lasted shoe at different portions of the shoe bottom, mountings for the tool adaptechto hold it in substantially continuous contact with the work, and means for imparting to the tool rapid percussional impulses toward the Work while in substantially continuous engagement with the work.

5. A machine of the class described having, in combination, a tool comprising two plates presenting acting surfaces normally disposed approximately at right angles to each other and relatively movable about acenter located near the junction of said acting facesto vary the size of the angle, and means to impart rapid vibrations to said tool while maintaining it" in continuous contact with the work between vibrations.

6. A machine of the-class described having, in combination, a movable support having a beating face rigidly connected therewith and extending at an oblique angle to the direction of the movement ofthe support a beating member having an acting face extending from said first mentioned face at a similar angle to said direction of movement and connected to said support to turn about a center substantially at the junction of said acting faces, means tending to hold said movably mounted beating member yieldingly toward the rigid beating face, and mean for actuating the support to cause the angular edge of a shoe to be beaten by said faces substantially as described.

7. A machine of the class described having, in combination, a tool comprising acting faces located on parts pivoted together in such a manner that the angle which the faces subtend will be varied to suit the angular relationship of the different parts of the work as they are operated upon by the tool, and means for actuating the tool arranged to apply force to the tool in a direction making substantially equal angles with each of said acting faces.

8. A machine of the class described having, in combination, a beating tool for the purpose stated comprising an angularly immovable part having an acting face, and a part having a cooperating acting face and which is pivoted to the said immovable part about an axis that is parallel to both acting faces and that is at or approximately at the junction of the said acting faces so that the maximum beating effect may be localized close to the angle.

9. A machine of the class described comprising, in combination, a reciprocatory tool having work engaging portions arranged relatively to the direction of movement of the tool to beat with substantially equal effect the stock on opposite sides of the bottom edge line of a shoe, said work engaging portions being relatively movable to vary the angle between their beating faces, yielding means arranged to insure normally a relatively small angle between said beating faces and to permit said angle to be increased through engagement of the tool with the work, and means for imparting beating movements to the tool.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES FAWOETT BENNION.

Witnesses: I

FREDERICK WILLIAM WORTH, ALBERT ERNEST HUNT.

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