US1216304A - Blacking-machine. - Google Patents

Description

F. M. FURBER.

BLACKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21.1916.

1,21 @0 1. Patented Feb.20,1917.

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FREDERICK M. FURBER, OF REVERE, MASSACHUSETTS, AS-SIG-NOR TO UNITED SHOE JERSEY.

NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JBLACKING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented lFelo. 20, 191W.

Application filed June 21, 1916. Serial No. 104,927.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK M. FURBER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Revere, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Blacking-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. V

This invention relates. to machines for use in applying to boots and shoes various fluids, such as blacking, stain or sizing, referred to hereinafter generically as blacking. An object of the invention is to provide improved means for applying blacking to the upper surface of the bottom portion of a shoe which projects outwardly below the rand crease.

Tn a more particular aspect, an object of the invention is to sheet an improvement in machines of the .type illustrated in my earlier Patent No. 1,025,523, granted May 7 1912, in order to render such machines more efl'ective in operation upon certain classes of work. Such machines include a rand crease guide, usually consisting of a metal disk, which serves to position the shoe during the application of blacking to portions of the surface as, for example, to the edge of the heel, and the guide is depended uponto apply the required coat of blacking to the upper surface of that portion of the shoe which projects outwardly below the rand crease. While the rand crease guide is entirely satisfactory for this purpose upon most types of shoes, it has been found less reliable where the bottom portion of the shoe projects out-. wardly from the upper to an unusual extent, as in stitchdown shoes. This invention has for an object, therefore, the provision in such machines of more satisfactory means for performing the blacking operation heretofore performed by the rand crease guide.

To the above and other ends, a feature of the invention consists in novel means comprising a rotatable brush for applying blacking to the upper surface of that portion of a shoe which projects below the rand crease.

by the sole securing stitches, and remains in effective engagement with the work notwithstanding slight variations in the angle at,

which the work is presented to the machine. The effective operation of the brush is further insured, in the construction shown, by the arrangement of the bristles in such manner as to project at an angle to the surface to be treated. In the illustrative embodiment of the invention, moreover, the brush is mounted upon a rand crease guide which serves the usual purpose of positioning the shoeand also protects the upper from contact with the brush.

A further feature of the invention consists in a novel combination of means for applying blacking to the edge and to the upper surface of the projecting bottom portion of a shoe. The construction shown comprises two brushes, one rotatable across the edge of the bottom portion of the shoe and the other rotatable longitudinally of the rand crease, with means for preventing deflection of either brush through engagement with the other. This construction is of particular utility for treating the heel portion of a shoe and is accordingly illustrated as applied to this use, but it should be understood that the invention is not thus limited in its application and that the term heel, as used herein for convenience todesignate the work to be treated, is generally of broad significance and except where obviously required by the context is not to be regarded as implying a limitation with respect to any particular portion of the shoe bottom.

The above and other features of the invention, including certain details of construetionand combinations of parts, will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of machine of the same general type i as that shown in my prior patent, with the construction of the present invention embodied therein, and

Fig. 2 is a plan view, partly in section, of a portion of the mechanism shown in Fig. 1.

An important advantage of a brush for thisdi i The machine comprises a brush 2 mountpurpose is that it is readily conformable tofifijied on a shaft 4 and rotatable to apply blacksurface irregularities such as may be caused.

ing to the edge of the projecting bottom portion of a shoe, such as the heel cm, Fig. 2, and a rand crease guide 6 mounted on a shaft 8 and rotatable in a plane substantially perpendicular to the plane of rotation of the brush 2, these parts being arranged in substantially the same relation as in the machine shown in my prior patent and operated through connections not illustrated herein in detail but fully shown and described in said patent, which may be referred to for more complete information with reference to details of the illustrative machine. The guide 6 is thus arranged to rotate longitudinally of the rand crease and positions the shoe in such relation to the brush 2 as to cause the brush to wipe across the edge of the heel.

The guide 6 is substantially 'frusto-conical in shape and in the construction herein shown is formed to provide inner and outer concentric portions 10 and 12 with their outer edges lying substantially in the same plane perpendicular to the axis of the guide. Between the two portions 10 and 12 is mounted a brush 14 which may have any desired form and is shown herein as comprising a plurality of tufts of bristles secured firmly in position in the space between the two portions 10 and 12 as by means of a wire 16 extending through holes 18 in the portion of the guide '6 which connects the two portions 10 and 12. The brush 14 is thus in position to engage and apply blacki ng to the upper surface of the projecting bottom portion of a shoe simultaneously with the engagement of the brush 2 with the edge of the heel or like part.

Blacking is supplied to the brush 14 and to the outer edges of both portions 10 and 12 of the rand crease guide by means of a disk 20' which may rotate in a suitable reservoir for blacking in the same manner as in the machine shown in my prior patent. The portion 12 of the guide is thus effective in the same manner asthe crease guide in the earlier machine to apply blacking in the very bottom of the rand crease, while the brush 14; engages the considerable eX- tent of surface on that portion of the shoe which projects below the crease, the portion 12 serving also to protect the upper of the shoe from contact with the brush 14.

The portion 10 of the guide serves to guard the brush 1-1 against deflection through engagement with the brush 2, this function.

being of particular importance in case the brush 2, as in the illustrative construction, is considerably larger than the brush 14, although the member 10 is in position to act as a guard to prevent the deflection of either brush by engagement with the other. The portion 10 of the guide has also the function of transferring to the brush 2 the blacking deposited thereon by the disk 20, the brush taking up the blacking as it wipes over this portion of the guide and applying the blacking to the edge of the heel.

The manner of operation and the use of the illustrative machine will be clear from the preceding description and require no further explanation.

Having described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. I11 a machine of the class described, the combination of a rotatable brush having bristles projecting in oblique relation to its axis for applying blacking to the upper surface of that portion of a shoe which projects below the rand crease, and means for protecting the upper of the shoe from contact with said brush.

2. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a rotatable rand crease guide, and a brush rotatable with said guide and having bristles projecting in oblique relation to the axis of the guide for applying blacking to the upper surface of that portion of a shoe which projects below the rand crease.

3. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a rotatable rand crease guide having a flaring portion shaped for engagement on one side with the upper of a shoe above the rand crease, and a brush carried by said guide on the opposite side of said upper engaging portion for applying blacking to the upper surface of that portion of the shoe which projects below the rand crease.

4:. In a. machine of the class described, the combination of a rotatable rand crease guide having inner and outer concentric portions arranged to provide a space between them and means'secured to the guide between said inner and outer portions in position to apply blacking to the upper surface of that portion of a shoe which projects below the rand crease.

5. In a machine of the class described, the combination of arotatable rand crease guide of substantially frustoeonical shape having inner and outer concentric portions with their edges in substantially the same plane at the larger end of the guide, and a brush mounted between the two portions of said guide and projecting in position to en gage the upper surface of the projecting bottom portion of a shoe upon the rotation of said guide in the rand crease.

(3. In a machine of the class described, a pair of brushes arranged respectively for movement across the edge of the heel of a shoe and lon itudinally of the rand crease for applyinglalacking simultaneously to the edge of the heel and the upper surface of the projecting bottom portion of the shoe.

7. In a machine of the class described, the combination of blacking applying means ar- 1,21a,soa

ranged for movement across the edge of the heel of a shoe, a rotatable brush for applying blacking simultaneously in the rand crease of the shoe, and means for guarding the brush against deflection by said means.

8. In a machine of the class described, a pair of brushes rotatable simultaneously in transverse planes for applying blacking respectively to the edge of the heel of a shoe and to the upper surface of the projecting bottom portion of the shoe, and means for preventing deflection of either of said brushes through engagement with the other.

9. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a rotatable rand crease guide, means for supplying blacking to said guide, a brush rotatable in a plane transverse to the plane of rotation of said guide and arranged to receive blacking from the guide and apply it to the edge of the heel of a shoe, and a brush carried by said guide and arranged to receive blacking from said sup plying means and apply it to the upper surface of the projecting bottom portion of the shoe.

10. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a rotatable rand crease guide of substantially frusto-conical shape having inner and outer concentric portions,

a brush mounted between said inner and outer portions of the guide for applying blacking in the rand crease of the shoe, and a brush rotatable in a plane transverse to the plane of rotation of said guide for ap plying blacking simultaneously to the edge of the heel of the shoe, the inner portion of said guide being arranged to guard said first named brush against deflection through engagement With the other brush.

11. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a rotatable rand crease guide of substantially frusto-conical shape having inner and outer concentric portions, a brush mounted between the two portions of the guide in position to engage the upper surface of the projecting bottom portion of a shoe, means for supplying blacking to said brush and to said inner portion of the guide, and a brush rotatable in a plane transverse to the plane of rotation of said first named brush for applying blacking to the edge of the heel of the shoe, said last named brush being arranged to receive its blacking from said inner portion of the guide.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

FREDERICK M. FURBER.

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

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