US722018A - Handling-horse for shoe-uppers. - Google Patents

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No. 722,018. PATBNTBD MAR. 3, 190s, M. A. HAYWARD. HANDLING HORSE POR SHOE UPPERS.

APPLICATION FILED APB.. 15. 1902.

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irren rares Artt MARTIN A. HAYWARD,YOF ELMVVOOD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF 'IO ALVA P. POOLE, OF-BROOKTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

l-lANDLlNG-HORSE FOR SHOEf-UPPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,018, dated March 3, 1903.

Application filed April 15 1902.

To ctZZ when@ it may concern;

Beit known that I, MARTIN A. HAYWARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elmwood, in the county of Plymouth and State of lVIassachusetts,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Handling-Horses for Shoe-Uppers, of which the tollowingisaspeciu ication.

This invention relates to boot and shoe making, and has special reference to the means for handling the tops and vamps,constituting the complete uppers, during the process of manufacture.

To this end the invention primarily contemplates a handling-horse for shoe-uppers comprising means for conveniently and rapidly handling in pairs the separate parts of the uppers, as well as the complete uppers, so as to greatly facilitate carrying out the different steps pursued in the manufacture of boots and shoes and dispensing with a large amount of the labor involved in maintaining the uppers and the parts thereof properly paired while the articles in different stages of completion are carried from one department to another of the manufacturing establishment.

The present invention is intended to be essentially a labor-saving device by entirely dispensing with the necessity of tying the uppers or parts of uppers together by'strings or cords, While at the same time providing for always maintaining the different parts in a properly-paired relationI and facilitating the convenient handling or removing of a case of uppers or upper parts from one department to another without the objectionable hauling about of boxes in which the cases of twentyfour pairs are usually made up.

With these and many other objects in view, which will more readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

The essential features of the invention are necessarily susceptible to a wide range of modication without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention; but a pre- Serial No. 103,062. (No model.)

ferred embodiment thereof is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of an upper- `horse shown in its operative position upon the bench of the workman adjacent to the shoemaking machine and shown partially iilled with paired shoe-tops, the latter being indicated in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the horse, indicating the position of its members when fastened together after being completely illed and ready to be transferred from one department or room to another.

Like reference-numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the figures of the drawings.

In carrying out the invention the device as an entirety essentially consists of a springwire body l. rlhis spring-wire body is preferably formed of a single length of springwire of sufficient stoutness for the purpose intended and bent upon itself to provide the separate side standards 2, which constitute what may be properly termed upper-car-v riers, said standards being designed to respectively receive thereon the rights and lefts of the uppers or upper parts. The said side standards or upper-carriers 2 are arranged in suflicient spaced relation to permit of the uppers or upper parts being readily slipped over the same, and the standards are also preferably in their normal condition arranged in substantial parallelism,so that each of the same is equally available to the operator for placing on or removing a right or left upper or upper part. At the lowerv end or base the spring-wire body l of the device is preferably twisted upon itself to provide a combined supporting stem and handle 3, adapted to detachably tit within the socket 4 of a socket member 5, which is designed to be seated flush within the operators bench adjacent to the stitching or shoe-making machine, so that the entire device is within convenient reach of the operator.

The side standards or upper-carriers 2 are normally disconnected at their free ends, over which the uppers or upper parts are passed both in filling and emptying the horse; but when both standards or carriers 2 of the horse are entirely filled with uppers or upper parts the free ends of the latter are adapted to be sprung together and detachably interlocked. This may be provided for in a number of ways, but preferably by forming the standards or carriers at their upper or free ends with reversely-disposed catch hooks or loops 6, which may be readily engaged and disengaged during the manipulation of the horse.

It will here be noted that one of the hooks 6 forms a substantially vertical keeper, while the other forms a substantially horizontal catch for detachable engagement with theA keeper. This arrangement is a very important feature of the present invention, as it materially facilitates the engagement and disengagement of the hooks.

In the first instance the side standards or carriers 2 of a horse are illed, respectively, with the rights and lefts of the shoe-tops. After being thus filled with tops the horse is closed by the locking of the catch-hooks 6 and is removed to the bench where the vam ps are to be stitched to the tops. The tops are then removed one pair at a time and the Vamps stitched on, after which the complete uppers are placed on another adjacent horse. The latter horse when filled is likewise closed and removed to the bottoming-room, where the uppers are removed a pair at a time and the bottoms or soles attached. It will thus be seen that the herein-described horse provides simple and convenient means for always maintaining the uppers or upper parts properly paired without resorting to the use of the usual strings, While at the same time permitting the uppers or upper parts being handled in the most convenient and expeditious manner.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction, use, and many advantages of the herein-described horse will be readily apparent to those familiar with the art, and it will also be understood that various changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

Having thus described the invention', what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

l. An upper-horse, havinga pair of spaced upright upper-carriers, the space between the same being unobstructed from top to bottom to permit of uppers being placed astraddle of the respective carriers, and means for detachably connecting the tops of the carriers to permit displacement of the uppers.

2. An upper-horse, having a pair of spaced upright upper-carriers, the space between the carriers being unobstructed from top to bottom to permit of uppers being placed astraddle of the respective carriers, and the upper end of one of the carriers having a catch for detachable engagement with the other member to prevent displacement of the uppers.

3. An upper-horse of the class described comprising a spring-wire body having separate carriers respectively for rights and lefts, said carriers having free ends adapted to be detachably interlocked.

4. An upper-horse of the class described comprising a spring-wire body having at one end a pendent combined supporting-stem and handle, and a pair of side standards rising at opposite sides of the stem and constituting carriersrespectively for the rights and lefts of the uppers or upper parts.

5. An upper-horse of the class described comprising a spring-wire body having at its base a combined handle and supporting-stem and also provided with opposite side standards constituting carriers respectively for the rights and lefts of the uppers or upper parts, said standards being provided at their free ends with catch members adapted to be detachably sprung into interlocked engagement.

6. In 'a device of the class described, the combination with a socket member, of an upper-horse comprising means for separately holding the rights and lefts of the uppers or upper parts and provided at its base with a stem adapted to be detachably engaged in said socket member.

7. An upper-horse, embodying a pair of upright spaced standards forming upper-carriers, the space between the standards being unobstructed from top to bottom, the upper end of one of the standards being formed into a keeper, and the upper end of the other standard being formed into a hook-shaped catch for detachable engagement with the keeper to prevent displacement of the uppers, one of the standards being elastic to permit of the catch being engaged with the keeper and to return said standard to its normal position when the catch is disengaged from the keeper.

8. An upper-horse, comprisinga substantially V-shaped Wire body, the upstanding members of which form elastic upper-carriers and are separated by an unobstructed space to permit of uppers being spaced astraddle of the carriers, the upper ends of the carrier members being. bent into hooks for mutual detachable engagement, and a stem pendent from an intermediate point of the transverse base portion of the body.

9. An upper-horse formed from a single length of wire which is bent intermediate of its ends with its opposite portions adjacent to the bend intertwisted to form a stem, the wire members being extended outwardly in opposite directions from the upper end of the stem and thence bent upwardly to form spaced standards, the upper end of one of the standards being bent into a substantially vertical hook-shaped keeper, and the upper end of the other standard being bent into a substantially horizontal hook-shaped catch for detachable engagement with the keeper.

10. An upper-horse, embodying a pair of ICC IIO

spaced upright exble standards forming upper-carriers, the upper end of one standard being bent into a substantially Vertical hook-shaped keeper, and the corresponding end of the other standard being bent into a substantially horizontal hook-shaped catch for detachable engagement with the keeper.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARTIN A. HAY WARD.

Witnesses:

FRANK C. WOODWARD, G. S. ROY.

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