US443162A - dowrie - Google Patents

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HEEL MACHINE. y No. 443,162. Patented Dec. 23,1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

THOMAS lV. DOlVRIE, OF PONTIAC, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES NV. ST. JOHN, OF SAME PLAGE.

SPEGIFXCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,162, dated December 23, 1890.

Application iiled August 5, 1890. Serial No. 361,043, (No model.)

.T0 all whom it may concern: presser-plate The rear end of the plate 9 Be it known that I, THOMAS WV. DOWRIE, a is provided with a square shank 10, which 5o citizen of the United States, residing at Ponloosely fits between the Ways 3. The inner tiac, in the county of Livingston and State of edge of the plate 9 is preferably beveled, as

5 Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful l-Ieelshown, and the general contour of the plate Y Building Machine, of which the following is is such as when lowered upon a heel in the a specification. course of construction of the same to have 5 5 This invention has relation to aheel-buildcontact with said heel near the edges thereof.

ingmachine foruse by shoe-makers and manu- Above the presser-plate 9 there is secure-d to Io facturers. the end of the rod avertical indicating-stand- The objects in view are to provide a maard 11, the upper end of which carries an inchine into which a series of lifts or portions dicating-iinger l2, which moves over-a gradu- 6o of -lifts may be inserted for the purpose of atedscale of inches 13, displayed upon the building up aheel, which machine is adapted front face of one of the edges of the guide 3.-

15 to maintain the straps or lifts in snug pos- The coiled spring which encircles the rod 5 tion while being fastened and to indicate the is designed to normally elevate said rod until height of the heel. the indicatiing-nger is opposite the zero- 65 Other objects and advantages of the invenpoint. tion will hereinafter appear, and the novel In employing the apparatus l prefer to 2c features thereof will be 1 articularly pointed mount the same upon an ordinary bench 1l, out in the claims. astride which a Work man may sit, and through Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perthe bench depends the rod 5, which has its 7c spective of a machine constructed in accordlower end bent to form a hook. A pair of ance with my invention, the same being apbearingears 15 is secured to the floor under 2 5 plied to a bench and shown in operation or the bench, and in the same is pivoted a footin the act of building up a heel. Fig. 2 is a lever 1G, connected to the bent end of the rod perspective in detail of the casting. Fig. 3 is 5 by means of a link 17. The lifts are placed 7 5 a vertical longitudinal section of the machine or piled under the presser-plate 9 upon the removed from the bench. base, and when a sufficient number of lifts 3o Like numerals indicate like parts in all the have been assembled or thought to be so asfigures of the drawings. sembled by the Workman t-he foot-lever is de- 1 designates the anvil or base of my mapressed, so as to bring the plate 9 upon the 8o chine, which is preferably of cube shape and lifts and the pointed arm or nger 12 will informed of cast metal. At the rear side of the dicate upon the scale the height of the heel.

3 5 anvil there is formedintegral therewith or self the height is too great, a lift is removed or cured thereto avertical standard 2,bifurcated a portion thereof, and if too small a lift or a from its upper edge to a point on a level with portion of a lift is added. Vhen the thick 85 the upper surface of the base 1, and thereby ness has been accurately obtained,the presserforming a vertical guide 3. Below the base plate is held snugly down upon the pile of 4o the standard is thickened and the vertical lifts and two or three nails driven through guide is continued to the bottom of the standsaid pile, whereby they are secured together ard in the form of a cylindrical opening 4c. and are ready for application to the shoe, 9o

Mounted for reciprocation in the opening 'after which they are shaped.

is a rod 5, and encircling the sameis a coiled Frein the above. description it will be apspring 6, the lower end of which rests upon a parent that heels of a uniform predetermined shoulder 7, located near the lower end of said thickness may be rapidly formed and securely opening. The upper end of the rod is proheld along their edges while connected, and 95 vided with a horizontally-disposed U-shaped that heels may be built up of scraps or small pieces of leather, thereby effecting' a saving, and at the same time producing a verysecure heel.

Having described my invention, what l claim isl.. The combination, with the anvil having a rear vertically-slotted standard, oi' the U- shaped presser-plate extending over the anvil and provided at its rear end with a head or Shank mounted for vertical movement in the slot, a support for the anvil, a foot-lever, a rod connecting the same with the shank or head of the presser-plate, and a spring for normally raising the same, substantially as specified.

2. The combination,with the anvil provided with a vertical standard at the rear side thereof, which standard is provided with a guide, and at one side thereof with a scale,of a rod mounted for movement in the guide, having a spring for normally elevating the Same, a presser-plate extendin g from the rod, and an indicating-linger also extending from Said rod, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the bench, of the anvil mounted thereon, the vertical standard having the partially slotted and perforated guide, the rod mounted therein for reciprocaltion, a foot-lever located under the bench and THOMAS W. DOWRIE.

Witnesses:

C. W. STERRY, JOHN S. MURPHY.

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