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MACHINE FOR MARKING LEATHER.

PatentedSept. 10, 1895.

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No. 545,919. Patented Sept. 10,1895.

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No.545,919. Patented Sept 10, 1895.

WVINFIELD S. SOULE, OF BROOKTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF'TO EDXVARD E. GOODWIN, OF SAME PLACE.

MACHINE FO R MARKING LEATHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 545,919, dated September 10,1895.

Application filed \Tune 10, 1895. Serial No. 552,200. (No model.) A

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

.- Be it known that I, WINFIELD S. SOULE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brockton, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and use ful Improvements in Machines for Marking Leather, of which the following is a specification.

This is a machine for marking or stamping an impression in form of a line on the fronts of quarters for balmoral shoes, such line being for the purpose of indicating the location of the line of stitching. This machine is termed in the trade a marking-machine or second-row marking-machine. The impression or indentation made by the machine upon the leather is in the form of a curved line and the stitching is intended to follow this line from beginning to end accurately.

The invention is largely an improvement on the machine illustrated and described in Letters Patent of the United States No. 537,943, and granted to me April 23, 1895; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, hereinafterdescribed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 represents a plan view of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view. of one of the markers removed. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a quarter with a mark upon it made by the machine. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the machine, with portions broken out, illustrating the method of operating the guides. Fig. 6 is a section taken on line y, Fig. 5.

Similar letters and numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a table or bed supported by suitable legs a on the bench at. Hinged at b to the rear portion of the table A are a pair of arms B, adapted to swing vertically, as shown.

These arms are exactly similar in construction, and each is provided at its forward end with two rearwardly-extending horizontal bores B. (See Fig. 2.) Furthermore, each arm is the bed A. Ascrew D extends from the under side of each arm B, near its forward end, downward, as shown in Fig. 2, and is provided with a suitable adjusting-nut d. A rod h connects the lower hooked end of the screw D with a suitable handle I. A stop fis secured adj ustably as to height to thescrew D by means of the set-screwf.

H H are the markers-that is, the devices for producing the impressions upon the quarter for the purpose mentioned above. These markers are bent into a suitable shape to produce the desired curvatures in the line indicated at V in Fig. 4 on the quarter V. Thus far the invention is substantially similar to that illustrated in the Letters Patent No. 537,943, mentioned above. H is provided with perforations H, Fig. 3, surrounded by bosses f by means of which the outer small ends J of the horizontal pins J extend into said perforations and support the marker, said pins J lying in the horizontal bores B and being adjustable horizontally by means of set-screws e. The forward portion of each arm B is bored horizontally centrally between and above the bores B at K, to receive'the horizontal pin L, adjustable horizontally by means of the set-screw e, and having swiveled on its outer end an arm or gage-button L, provided with a handle L. This gage-button can thus be swung down over the marker, to keep it in position upon the pins J, as shown in Fig. 2, and when the marker is to be removed it can be swung up and another marker substituted which will reproduce the original mark.

N is a dial, made in the segment shape shown in Fig. 5, and provided with a hub N, by means of which it is swiveled on the vertical shaft P. This hub N fits into, and has its hearings in the table or bed A. (See Fig. 6.) Pinned to the shaft P, between the lower end of the hub N and a nut n, is the segmentgear R. This gageNhas a series of suitable marks m, indicating widths, and a series of marks an, indicating sizes. pinned to the shaft P above the dial N, said pointer having on its outer end a spring-catch S, (not new, in itself considered,) adapted to engage with the outer edge of the dial N at :"suitable points. This pointer S, therefore,

Each marker A pointer S is constitutes the size-indicator, as it points directly to the mark m. A pointer T is loose on a pin T, which extends from the dial N downward into a suitable slot in the bed A, said slot being long enough to allow of the horizontal play of the pin. This pointer T is a width-indicator, as it points directly to the series of marks m. The segment-gear R engages with the horizontal rack B, Fig. 5, said rack being integral or rigid with the slidewaysU U, connected by the bar U and mounted on a frame U, which slides on the horizontal rods W, which are connected by the frames W W, secured to and beneath the bed A. Suitable thumb screws 1 extend through slides 2 in the Ways U, said thumbscrews extending through the slides and also through the slots 3 in the table A, and, furthermore, through the gage 4:, which regulates the positions of the quarters V which are to be marked.

By moving the indicators S and T with relation to the dial N the shaftPand segmentgear R are rotated, with the effect of sliding the rack R and frame'U' Uon the horizontal rods W, thus causing the slides 2 in the ways U to be spread apart or drawn toward each other, as the case may be, by the thumbscrews 1 moving in the slots 3, which are at right angles with the ways U.

In order that the gages, each set of which is connected with the mechanism U, U, U, W, 1, and 2, above described, may operate simultaneously, I have provided a connection between one of the thumbscrews 2 connected with one gage and one of the thumb-screws 2 connected with the next gage, said connection consisting of an elbow-lever 5, pivoted at 6 to the frame or bed, and links 7 and 8, whose opposite ends are pivoted to the opposite ends of the elbow-lever and to the thumb-screws l, as shown in Fig. 5. By means of such connections a series of gages may be moved simultaneously and with exact similarity of movement by the use of a single dial N and one set of gears R R.

In operation the quartersV are laid on the bed A, their position being determined by the gages 4. The marker is adjusted by moving the pins J in the head of the arm B, which can be lifted as far as the stop f will allow. The pressure upon the treadle I pulls the arm B down against the power of the spring 0' by means of the rod h and screw or actuating rod D, and causes the mark or crease to be produced on the quarter.

While treadle-power is illustrated in the drawings for the sake of convenience, any suitable power may be employed.

Preferably two arms are shown in a single machine in order that the two quarters of a shoe may be marked from the same machine and by means of the connection 7 5 6. 8 simultaneously.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a machine of the character described, a bed or table, the vertically swinging arm B supported by said bed and provided with the rearwardly extending horizontal bores B, said bores containing the adjustable pins J which extend forward therefrom, the marker H hung on said pins, the horizontal pin L secured to the arm between and above the pins J and adj ustable horizontally with relation to said arm, and the gage-button L swlveled on the outer end of said pin Land adapted to swing down in front of the marker, substantially as set forth.

2. In a machine of the character described, a bed or table provided with the slots 3, the arm B swinging vertically with relation to said bed, the marker H adjustably secured to said arm, the gage 4 lying on said bed, the horizontally sliding frame U, U provided with the slideways or slots U, the screws or pins extending through the slots U and 3 and the gage, the guide-rods V for directing the movement of said frame, the rack R rigid with said frame, the vertical shaft P supported by the bed and provided with a segment gear R engaging with said rack, a gage or dial N swinging from said shaft and marked to indicate sizes and widths, a size-indicating pointer S fast on said shaft, and a width-indicating pointer T pivotally connected with the gage or dial, substantially as described.

3. In a machine of the character described, a bed or table provided with the pairs of slots 3, the slots in each pair extending toward each other at forward angles as described, the gages 4 lying on the bed, the frame U U sliding horizontally forward and back with relation to the machine and provided with the slideways or slots U converging at a forward angle as described, the screws or pinsl each extending through and playing in the slotsU and 3,

and the link 7, elbow-lever 5 pivoted to the frame and link 8, said links pivotally connecting the opposite ends of said elbow-lever with V the pins 1 which slide in the two slots 3 constituting a pair, substantially as set forth.

WINFIELD S. SOULE. Witnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, E. A. WOODBURY.

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