US1241939A - Method of making turn-shoes. - Google Patents

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M. L. DODGE.

METHOD OF MAKING TURN SHOES. APPLICATION HLED NOV. 6 I916. RENEWED AUG. 30.1911.

1,241,939. Patented oer. 2, 1917.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILTON L. DODGE, OF NEWBURYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF MAKING TURN-SHOES.

Specification of Letters latcnt.

Patented Oct. 2, 1917.

Application flied November 6, 1916, Serial No. 129,660. Renewed August 30, 1917. Serial No. 188,878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Mnxron L. Dooon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newburyport, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Im rovements in Methods of Making Turn-S oes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to turn shoes and particularly to the method of fastening toe boxes therein.

In my co ending application, Serial No. 110,855, file July 24, 1916, I have disclosed a method of making a turn shoe with a previously molded stiif toe box, according to which the shoe is lasted, sewed, andturned without a toe box, after which the toe box is inserted into the 'shoe and secured by adhesive substance. A feature of the specifically described method is that the toe portion of the lining is turned back until after the shoe has been turned andthe toe box inserted, and is then tucked into the toe box. My present method is like that of the aforesaid application in that the toe portion of the linin may be turned back until after the shoe as been turned, and then tucked into the toe box but the present method differs from my former met ed in that the toe box, which is previously molded, is attached to the shoe before the latter'is turned. A new feature of the present invention is that the toe box is arranged right side u on the sole-while the shoe is wrong si 0 out, and is fastened directly to the sole or to the upper, as the case may be, before the shoe is turned, thus insuring suitable anchorage for the toe box to kee it in the desired position in the finished s 0e.

Of the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 represents a longitudinal vertical section through the toe portion of a lasted turn shoe before being turned right side out, and includes a toe box shown in its initial position by solid lines and in its ultimate position by dotted lines.

Fig. 2 represents a erspective view of a stifi molded toe box ike that included in Fig. 3 re resents a longitudinal vertical section. oft e toe portion of a lasted shoe similar to that shown in Fig. 1, the toe box being anchored directl to the sole by a tack instead of by the stitch shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 represents a sectional view similar to Figs. 1 and 3 excepting thatthe toe box section through a shoe made in accordance with Fig. 1, the shoe being turned right side out and the toe portion of the lining being represented by solid lines in a turnedback position, and by dotted lines as having been tucked into the toe box.

Fig. 6 represents a vertical cross section through the shoe as shown by Fig. 5, in the plane indicated by line 6 6 of Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 represents a vertical cross section through the structure intersected by line 7-7 of Fig. 5.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts wherever they occur.

The toe portion of the last is indicated at 10, and the sole and upper are indicated respectively at 11 and '12. The pulled over mar inal portion of the up er is secured to t e sole by the usual stitches, one of which is indicated at 13, such stitches being arranged in the usual stitch-receiving channel 14 of the sole. The lining 15, with the exception of the toe portion thereof, is secured to the sole by the stitches 13 (see Fig. 6) but the toe ortion 15 of the lining 1s initially turns back, as represented in Fi s. 1, 3,1 and 5.

eferring particularly to Fig. 1, a stiif molded toe-box like that shown by Fig.2, is used. The body of the toe .box is indicated at 16. It is provided with a flan 16 that is adapted to rest upon the so c. This fiange is snipped at the toe and to provide a tab 17, and such tab is initially turned outwardly as shown by Fi 2. The

function of the tab is to receive t e fastening means by which the toe box is to be secured directly to the sole. Still referring to Fig. 1,the toe box is arranged, in the first instance, in the osition represented by solid lines, and whi e in that position the tab 17 is secured by one or more stitches. 13, after which the toe box is swung upwardly over upon the sole to the position represented by dotted lines. The initial position of the toe box is such as to leave ample space for the usual instrumentalities of a sewing or stitching machine to sew the stitches, and the toe box may therefore be secured by the stitches sewn by such machine. However, it would be ossible to insert one or more additional stitches with 2 uann?! A Mud needle to reirrForce the connection Sole near the margin 04' the latter. "The between u. in i7 McHhe ooleaml m Rue-h poi-w oi uch would pAsis th ou h he time the AddlhOnHl ghtcher wool-I extend things 16' oi the '(DG box. mod. on n mhiru, utto the channel I in P 'QCIIEly the SAM? "the metal Harlin/3 rack would be towed I'YlO'ilOfi amthcwe sewn b the mmcnme. b RcK And lmdwd 149 shown by CV8. The

Although I have stated flwt the {09 box use '0? such tacks woold be optional 49 .Qhfi-T the term "96??" IS not synonymous l clillmf w th rigid" o "br ttle" l m tl'left is soil? ii In he n t 04 making; tom sheer: the clean; resilience and flexibility t onuble the me hod compri ing the maps lasting the U to bend without crmckm when HM upper Aflol role Wu ou'LA i106, box. urM'Li {or box I! movec1l-Pmm its imifiq position o e bone And sole. .oocorv 4 "fl-Fl? mold? thqt indicmied by clotted lines". ox di ccHy {o om o the lasted ele instead oifisl m -md b [T b 4 hied, menu on the exterior of the lasted shoe. and fl may be fiummg the S in, thcrcb lllClUblllg the toe obi-tithes as clo by l, fast-curd by onc or morc taxis 18 as rcprescnted in Fig. 3, and in such case the L k or tacks would be ill-iron into the solo after thc stitches 1-3 ha {(E lwcn sown. The toe box may, however; li .w'wurod ilirccfly 1,1 pullcil-ovcr umrginal portion of tho uppcr insfcnrl of' being scrurcil iliroctlv to the solo, and Fig. 4 stitch 19 extending through tho toe portion of the through the pullcilorcr nuirginal porfion of the upper. modc of fusion ing is employed the tab 17 may be cut oil'.

In ouch of the three examples illustrated and described the toe portion of the iining is initially turncd back as shown, so that the upper will lie in contact with the toe box when thc shoe is turned. The turn iug operation ma be performed as soon as the toe portion of the toe box has been socured by any of the methods described, and the too box is held firmly in the desired position during the turning operation. After the shoc has been turned and stretched or othcrwisl i smoothed to removc the WrinlilQb', the turnoiHmck toc-portion of the lining may be tucked into the foe box as represented by dotted lines in Fig. 5 and by solid lines in Fig. 7. In order, however, to keep the toe portion of the l' the rear portion the shoe may be placed u on a metal nailin -jack, and tacks be driven from the bottom of the 2. 1n the art of making [urn liiofhoil comprising the stops of upper and solo without u 100 box, uniting sin-l1 rclntion as to vnublc the [oc box to lie right side up on [he ullimute inncr fin-c of the sole, and turning the shoe, thereby inclosmg the toc box.

3. In the art of making turn shoes, the method comprising the steps of lasting the upper, 21 lining, and a sole, without a toe box, uniting the upper, the sole, and the lining, excepting the toe portion of the latter, caring the said toe portion turned back from tho toe and of the shoe, scciu'ing the toe end of a stiff molded too box to one of the lasted elements in such relation as to enable the too box to be right side up on the ultimate inner face of the the shoe, th'crcby inclosing tho tucking said turnmhbzu-k portion of the lining into the toe box.

4. In the art of making a, turn shoe, the method comprising the stops of lasting the upper and sole without 21- toe box, unitin the upper and sole, stiff molded toe-b lasted elements,

king :1 turn shoe, the method comprising the steps oflasting the without a toe box, uniting the upper and sole fastening a portion of a. stiff molded toe lJox dir ctly to the sole, and then turning the shoe.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature.

MILTON L. DODGE:

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