US585272A

US585272A - Sewing-machine for lasting boots or shoes

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Publication number: US585272A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-06-29
Anticipated expiration: 1914-06-29

Description

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Patented June 29,1897.

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JAMES J. JORDAN AND JOHN A. KELLY, OF SYRACUSE, NElV YORK.

SEWING-MACHINE FOR LASTING BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 585,272, dated June 29, 1897. Application filed October 26, 1896. Serial No. 610,052. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JAMES J. JORDAN and JOHN A. KELLY, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga,in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sewing-Machines for Lasting Boots or Shoes, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in sewing-machines for lasting boots and shoes, and more particularly to the device which feeds or forces the upper down over the last to the sole,while a needle stitches it thereto.

Our object is to improve the construction of the feeder so that it will feed the upper to the sole during the process of stitching and thereby obviate the necessity of first lasting the shoe before it goes to the stitcher or sewer.

Our object therefore is primarily to avoid the necessity and expense of lasting the shoe; and to that end our invention consists in the several new and novel features of construction and operation hereinafter described, and which are specifically set forth in the claims hereunto annexed. It is constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view of the shoe in the process of sewing in the hands of the sewer, showing the position of the upper and the feeder as the needle is about to penetrate them, the machine operating the needle and feeder being omitted, as they form no part of the invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the upper, sole, last, and channel of the feeder after it has fed the upper to the sole and the needle having pierced the upper and sole. Fig. 3 is a similar View of the parts described in Fig. 2 before the needle starts upon its course. Fig. 4 is a bottom View of the feeder complete, detached. Fig. 5 shows the feeder attached to a sewing-machine and showing the feeder and needle withdrawn just before it takes the forward movement to engage with the upper. Fig. 6 is a similar view showing the feeder in engagement with the upper and the needle piercing the upper and sole.

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a represents the body of the feeder, which is preferably constructed as here shown and is provided with means at one end for securing it to the machine by which it feeds the upper a to the sole 6 simultaneously with the action of the needle, the opposite end of which is provided upon one side with an arm I), in

which is a groove or channel a, in which the needle travels and sole.

Upon the front end of the feeder and at one side of the groove 0 is one or more teeth d, adapted to grip the upper near its edge and force it down over the last and hold it there while the needle makes the stitch, as shown in Fig. 2.

It will thus be observed that when the upper has been placed over'the last it may be at once taken to the sewer, who holds it up to the machine, as indicated in the drawings, and the upper is sewed to the sole directly without the necessity of lasting the shoe.

Having described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

The combination, with the stitch-forming mechanism of a sewing-machine, of an upperstretching device, provided with a grooved portion which serves as a guide for the neodle, and a series of teeth for catching in the edge of the upper and forcing it over the sole of the shoe and means for reciprocating said device, substantially as shown.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 20th day of October, 1896.

JAMES J. JORDAN. JOHN A. KELLY.

just before piercing the upper In presence of'- MARY A. FRANKLIN, HOWARD P. DENISON.