US1747553A

US1747553A - Welt butting and tacking machine

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Publication number: US1747553A
Application number: US265704A
Authority: US
Inventors: Fred L Mackenzie
Original assignee: United Shoe Machinery Corp
Current assignee: United Shoe Machinery Corp
Priority date: 1928-03-29
Filing date: 1928-03-29
Publication date: 1930-02-18
Anticipated expiration: 1947-02-18

Description

. Feb. 18, 1930.

F. L. MACKENZIE 1,747,553

WELT BUTTING AND TACKING MACHINE Fig. 2.

Filed Maron 29. 1928 vPatented Feb. `18, 1930 intatta@ FRED L. MACKENZIE, OF BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED SHOE MACHNERY CORPORATEON, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY WELT BUTTING AND TACKING MACHINE Application filed March 29, 1928.

This invention relates to welt butting and tacking machines and is illustrated as embodied in a welt butting and tacking machine which is adapted to operate on shoes having storm welts attached thereto.

The term storm welt refers to a welt which has a main portion similar to a usual welt and a bead portion which lies between the upper and the welt and serves to esclude moisture from the welt crease and to give an attractiveappearance to the shoe.

As affecting the operation of welt butting and tacking machines, storm welts are of two kinds. In one kind the bead is either integral with the welt or is permanently attached to the welt prior to its being sewed to the upper and insole. In the other kind of storm welt the bead portion is separate from the main portion of the welt, which may be a usual form of welt, the main portion and the bead portion of the welt, without previous attachment to each other, being fed through a Suitable welt guide and both being attached to the shoe in the welting operation. In this case, the ends of the welt and bead which extend beyond the ends of the inseam and with which the welt butting and tacking machine has to deal are therefore separate and unattached to each other. For handling storm welts of the first kind above mentioned, the machine disclosed in United States Letters PatentNo. 1,614,836 granted January 18, 1927, on application of George Goddu, is well adapted. Y Y

Objects of this invention are to provide an improved machine for performing the welt butting and tacking operation on shoes to which storm welts have been attached and particularly for operating on shoes having storm welts of the second kind above mentioned attached thereto. A welt of this kind will, for the sake of brevity, be herein referred to by the term two-piece storm welt to indicate that the main portion and the bead portion of the welt are not secured to each other prior to the welting operation.

Features of the invention consist in an organization comprising a welt-support and an anvil plate for supporting the vmain portion of a storm welt, a ledge on the welt sup- Serial No. 265,704.

port to sustain the bead portion of the welt, and static means, that is, means which has no movement relatively to the welt support, for deflecting inwardly the end of the bead portion of the welt. Preferably, the deflection of the bead is effected as a result of longitudinal rearward movement ofthe shoe incident to the positioning of the shoe Vin the machine. The illustrated machine is also provided with means for butting the main portion of the welt and with means for tacking the inwardly bent bead portion of the welt, the machine being organized to operate upon Vbot-h ends of the welt simultaneously.

It is desirable, in some instances, that the end of the main portion-of two-piece storm welting extend rearwardly beyondthe bend of the bead portion and serve to close any crevice between the upper and outsole produced by the inwardly bent bead portion. Accordingly, in the illustrated machine the welt deflecting means comprises an inwardly directed portion on the welt support located forwardly of the guard or anvil plate which determines the line on which the main portion of the welt will be cut. The main portion of the welt will therefore extend rearwardly beyond the bend of the bead. K Preferably, the inwardly directed portion of the welt support is grooved to receive the bead' portion and cause it to be bent inwardly as the shoe is pushed rearwardly with respect to it.

In other instances it is desirable that the main portion of the welt be cut forwardly of the bend of the bead,v and .accordingly a construction is illustrated which may be used in place of that above referred to and in which the vdeflecting means is at the rear of the welt support and beneath the anvil plate so that the main part of the welt will be cut forwardlyof the bend of the bead. In this construction provision is made for adjustment of the deflecting 'means transverselyjof the shoe to vary its bending effect.

In the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of welt supporting, welt butting and tacking means pro-k vided at the left side of the machine illustrated as embodying the present invention;

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` been operated upon;

' 2 is a plan view of welt supports Vand VYsidera-rms. by which they are carried and means. Y v

showing a shoe in the machine after it has Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of one of the welt supports, bead deflectors'and anvil plates with which the machine is provided F 4 vis a View, partlyy in section of onev of the welt supports showing its relation to a shoe,the 'shoe being shown in section;

Figy is va view similar to Fig. 3 showing a shoe, partly broken away Vand in section, in its relation to the welt support, bead de flector, butting knife and tacking mechanism,the view being taken-after'the operation of the knife and priorA to the tacking operation; 'and Y F ig. .Gis a yview similartoiFig. .3,showing a modified construction of; the welt support,

the -deflector ,and-the anvil plate.

The illustrated machine, which is especially l designedforebutting and tacking two-piece Storm welting, is organizedin general in the manner disclosed yin application SeriakNo.

v628,234,filed-ldarch 28,1923, by Goddu and Mackenzie, ,to which reference may Vbe had for explanation ofvparts not herein-described Yin detail; A s illustratedherein, the numeral 1 0 indicates agweltsupport at the left-hand side ,of-.the.machine, .and 12oneat the righthand sideofthe machine. Fachwelt support/.has awelt engaging surfacev 14 which is inclined downwardly and inwardly ywith respect to afshoe being loperated upon to cause the'A cut portion of the welt to receive the, proper ,tmsverse taper. The welt support 10l (Fig. .3) .is ldovetailed into a supporting member 16 having a substantially horizontal surface 1 8uporiy which aweltbutting knife 2Qtravelsin then/eilt butt-ing operation, The

` surface 18 extends 'rearward-ly of the welt "support 10 toformawguard Aand anvil .plate 2 2, the'forwardedge 24 .of which determi-nes the :line .onfwhichthe ,welt end Awill be out,

theqbevel of .the wel-t `vend being determined by the inclination, longitudinally and transverselyof the shoe, fofthewelt supporting l te' `surface 14 :with respect to the su-rfaces18 and ,'22fwhich are substantially inv a horizontal pla-ne. The inner Aedge face of the welt 'support-1 0,isprovidedfwith a .groove 25 to rlve-th .bead `portiongof-"the welt.- The thev welt support 10 has a portion' 32 with an 'inwardly rand. rearwardly .directed edge ,'65v fa'c'efin;whichisolmed agroove which, as

lower side 28 of the groove constitutesa ledge for supporting Y the ,bead portion .ofV the welt.

ever, this [lib is notessential yand the/welt support may be provided simply with the bead supporting ledge 28. Atv its 'rear'end groove' 26 to constitute ahead deflecting" 'e similar support 38 is attached 'to a side arm 40 at the opposite side of the machine, the support 38 carrying theV welt support 1 2 i which, of course,'is providedv with bead supi Aporting and bead dellecting means, with a guard and anvilplate, and with abutting knife Vand tacking means similar to those'described for the left-hand side ofthe machine f i and illustrated in.F igs. 1, 3 and 5.

The side arms are connected for equal' and opposite movement but are normally held apartV by a spring 42 in such positionsthat` a shoe Amay be introduced, shown in Fig.

.2, withk the ends-of the main portion of the Y welt lying upon the welt supporting surfaces Y `14 and with 'the bead 'portion supported byv Athe ledges 28. As the shoe is moved rear..

' wardly into the machine, the bead ,portions of the welt move along the grooves 26 `and are deflected inwardly bytheportions of the grooves inthe inwardly extended portions 32 of the welt supports'into the positions shown. ln the operation ofthe

machinevthe side arms

36, 40 are moved inwardly to hold u the shoe tightly between V*the welt supports, the butting knives 2O acting inthe plane of the

surfaces

18 and 22 to butt ther welt, and f tackers'44 descend to force downwardly the deflected ends of the bead portion againstV the'shoe-bottom and to insert tacks46 through Y the vends of the bead portion and into the .knife 20 yrst lmoves downwardly and thenlongitudinallyand rearwardly 4ofthe shoe with its edge .in the plane 'of the surfaces'18, 22 `to butt the' endof the ymain portions! of Vthe welt, and that thetacker 44' then descends f to press the inwardly bentfendof the bead portion 4o of the welt and toinsert ,a tack at the point indicated vby the vdotted numeral '3746,' the `knife 20at that time 4being `located rearwardly'beyond the ,tacker 44, of .course rises prior 'to' the return ymovement of the knife, which first risesand then moves .forwardlyo'f the shoe in a plane parallel .to

' but abovegthatofits .operative movement. In

Figs. 4 and 5 the upper of the shoeiisindicated by the character c, rtheinsolel by CZ, the last i by e, andvby f the stitches which the main ortiona of thewelt, th'beadportion o' of Vthe ,welt and the 'upper c ,are secured toV the rib of the insole d, y

In the.C011S11"uGtio11v shown n Fiss. Yand it will be4 observed. habthe bendlof ,the p inwardly directed bead portionb -of thewelt, is located forwardlyof. the shoewith vrespect tothe end of the main portion a of the welt which, after it is butted, is coincident with the edge 24 of the plate 22. The end of the main portion of the welt therefore extends rearwardly beyond the bend of the bead portion of the welt and helps to fill any crevice produced by the location of the inwardly bent bead portions of the welt between the upper and the outsole.

In some instances, however, it may be desirable to have the end of the main portion of the welt terminate forwardly of the bend of the bead portion of the welt, and accordingly the construction shown in Fig. 6 is provided. In this construction a welt support 50 has at the lower corner of its edge face a ledge 52 for supporting the bead portion of the welt. At the rear of the welt support 50 a member 54 is provided which is arranged for adjustment transversely of the shoe and is provided at its inner end with a rearwardly and inwardly directed edge face 56 which is grooved to receive and deflect the bead portion of the welt inwardly of the shoe. The edge 58 of an anvil plate GO, which determines the line at which the butted end of the welt would terminate, is located, in this construction, at the rear end of the welt support 50, and since the bead deflecting means 56 is located at the rear of the edge 58, the bend of the bead portion will extend rearwardly of the shoe beyond the butted end of the main portion of the welt.

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

l. In a welt butting machine, a welt support having means to support the bead portion of a two-piece storm welt,.and means for turning the end of the bead inwardly of the shoe as a result of longitudinal movement of the shoe relatively to said means.

2. In a welt butting machine for handling shoes having two-piece storm welting attached thereto, welt supports, and bead deflecting means constructed and arranged to cause the ends of the bead portion of the welt of a shoe to be bent inwardly of the shoe as a result of movement of the shoe longitudinally into the machine.

3. In a welt butting machine, a welt support having a ledge Ato support the bead portion of a two-piece storm welt, and means having a groove extending inwardly of the shoe to cause the end of the bead to be turned inwardly of the shoe by longitudinal movement of the shoe relatively to the welt support.

4. In a machine for operating on welt shoes having two-piece storm welting attached thereto, the combination of means for supporting one portion of the end of the welt, and static means for bending inwardly of the shoe the other portion of the welt end as a result of longitudinal rearward move# Y ment of the shoe into the machine.

5. In a welt butting machine, welt supports having grooves to receive the bead portion of a two-piece storm welt, the rear portions of said supports extending inwardly of the shoe to cause the ends of the bead to be turned inwardly of the shoe by longitudinal movement of the shoe relatively to the welt supports.

6. In a welt butting machine for operating upon shoes having two-piece storm welting attached thereto, the combination of welt supports and bead supporting and guiding members constructed and arranged to cause the ends of the bead portion of the welt to be bent inwardly of the shoe as a result of movement of the shoe longitudinally into the machine.

7. In a welt butting machine for handling storm welting which comprises a main portion and a bead portion, the combination of welt supports to receive the main portion of the welt for the butting operation, said supn ports having ledges on their inner edge faces to support the bead portion of the welt, and static deflectors to bend inwardly of the shoe the ends of the bead portion of the welt.

8. In a welt butting machine for handling shoes having two-piece storm welting 'attached thereto, welt supports having upper faces to support the ends of the main part of the welt, ledges to support the ends of the bead portion, and members having inwardly and rearwardly inclined faces to turn inwardly the ends of the bead portion relatively to the shoe as a result of longitudinal movement of the shoe relatively to the welt supports. i

9. In a welt butting machine for operating upon shoes having two-piece storm welt-- ing attached thereto, the combination of welt supports having upper faces to support the mainv portion of the welt ends and ledges to support the ends of the bead portion, and members having inwardly and rearwardly'inclined faces which are grooved to receive the bead and which act to turn inwardly the ends Y of the bead portion relatively to the shoe as a result of longitudinal movement of the shoe relatively to the welt supports.

l0. In a welt butting machineVv for operat ing upon shoes having storm welts attached thereto, the combination of a welt support, an anvil plate on which the welt end lies to be butted, welt butting means arranged to operate in the plane of the upper face of the anvil plate to butt the welt, and a static deector located below the anvil plate for turning inwardly the bead portion of the welt.

11. In a welt butting machine for operating on shoes having two-piece storm welting attached thereto, the combination of a welt support having a grooved edge to receive the bead portion of the welt, an anvil plate on Y .which the Weit enaiiesto be ibuaea, and@ static delector located in a plane below the upper face of the -ranvil plate for turning inwardly the bead portion' of the welt.

f l2. In a welt butting machine for operating upon shoes having storm welts attached thereto, the combination of a welt support having a grooved edge to receive the bead portion of rthe Welt of a shoe, an anvil plate welt for the` butting operation, welt butting means, means for supporting an end of `the bead portion of theiwelt, and a static deflector to bend inwardly of the shoe the end of the bead portion of the welt.

14. In a weltebuttingmachine for operat# 1 ing on shoes havingV attached thereto storm welting which comprises a main portion and a bead portion, the combination oi' means -or i name to this specification.

supporting an end of the main portion of the f welt for the butting operation, welt butting means, means Vfor supporting an vend of lthe f bead portion of the welt, and static means y V constructed and Varranged to bend inwardly Y of the shoe theend ofthe bead portion 'ofthe welt, the bend ofithe'bead being located forwardlyv rwithrespect to ythe shoe oftheV line onrwhich the ,main portion ofthe weltfis butted. i y Y l5., In a, welt bu'ttingfmachine for operat ing on. s hoes having two-piece storm welting f comprising a main portion and a bead portion, the combination of welt supports to re- Y ceive the ends of thefmain portion offthe welt for the butting operation, said supports having grooved inner edges VYto receivefthe for operating on shoes having stormy welting Y attached thereto .comprising :a main portion anda bead portion, .the combination ofaV c welt support constructed and 'arranged to sustain the main :portion of the weltV for the butting operation, means for butting the Y main portionof the welt, said supports havingl ledges to support the bead portion of the welt, means fixed with `respect' to lthe welt f supports and located forwardly ofthe line on which the main portion Yofft-he welt .is butted Vfor bending inwardly of the shoe the `end of 'the bead :portion of the welt, and

means for tacking the'vbead'v portion of the welt to the shoe bottom.

l18. In a welt lbutting and'tacking rmachine for operating on 'shoes 'having Atwo-,piece storm welting comprising a main portion Vand va bead portion, the combination of welt supports to sustain the Iinainfpoi'rtion ofl the welt for the butting operation, said support-s having ledges to support Ithe `bead portion of the welt, means acting as a result-of introd-ucf tion of ashoe into the machine 'for bending inwardly the ends of the beadportionof ItheV welt, means for buttinggthemainv portion of the welt,.and means for :tacking the beadportion ofthe Welt-to the insole. Y' In testimony whereof `I yhave signed my f lFRED L. l MAQKENZIE. 'y

bead portion of the welt, and static deflectors v toV bend inwardly of theshoe =the* ends of theV bead portion of the welt. i

I 1.6. In a welt butting and tacking machine Y for operating on shoes having 'two-piece storm welting comprising a main portion i and a bead portion, the'combination of a welt support constructed andarranged to sustain the main portion of the welt for vthe butting operation and having a ledge to support the bead portion of the welt, means fixed with respect to the welt support lfor bending in wardly of the shoe the'end of the bead Yportion of the Welt which ext-ends beyond the inseam, means for butting-the main portion of the'welt, andmeans for tacking the bead portion to the shoe bottom.

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