US760529A - Burnishing-machine. - Google Patents

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No. 760,529.- PATENTED MAY '24, 1904.

VP. DUPLESSIS. BURNISHING MACHINE.

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APPLICATION FILED DBO. 26.1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 24, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL DUPLESSIS, OF MARLBORQ, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE S H. HOWE SHOE COMPANY, OF MARLBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

BURNISHlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming of Letters Patent No. 760,529, dated May 24, 1904.

Application filed December 26,1903. Serial No. 186,551. (No model.)

To 0. whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL DUPLEssIs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marlboro, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Burnishing-Machines,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for burnishing the edges of the heels of boots and shoes, the object of the invention being to supply a strong, simple, and durable machine which will burnish the edge of the heels of boots and shoes and will also automatically supply wax to a rotary burnishing-tool whenever the heel of the shoe is brought to bear by the operator against said rotary tool.

The invention consists, in a machine of the character described, of a rotary burnishingtool, an inclined guideway formed upon the frame of said machine, and a wax-holder constructed to slide in said guideway by gravity toward said tool.

The invention again consists in the combination of elements hereinbefore set forth combined with a shoe-support arranged to engage said wax-holder and move it toward and away from said rotary tool.

The invention further consists in the combination and arrangement of parts 'set forth in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the claims thereof.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a planviewof my improved burnishing-machine, a shoe being represented in dotted lines in connection therewith in the proper. position for the burnishing of the heel. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of my improved burnishingmachine as viewed from the left of Fig. 1 broken to save space. Fig.3 is an enlarged detail section, partly in elevation, taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 2, illustrating the construction of the edge-guide and bottom-gage. Fig. 4 is an enlarged section, partly in elevation, taken on line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an enlarged section, partly in elevation, takenon line 5 5 of Fig. 2 looking toward the left in said figure. Fig. 6 is a detail section taken on line 66 of Fig. 5.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

In the drawings, 8 is a base, and 9 a column upon which the frame 10 of my improved burnishing-machine is supported. The main driving-shaft 11 has a pulley 12 fast thereto and connected by a belt 13 to a pulley 14, fast to the rotary tool-shaft 15, said rotary tool-shaft journaled to rotate in bearings 16 16 in the frame 10. A pulley 17, fast to the shaft 15, is connected by a belt 18 to a pulley 19, fast to the auxiliary shaft 20, also journaled to rotate in bearings in the frame 10. The shaft 20 has a bead-wheel 21 and a polishing-wheel 22 fast thereto.

The main driving-shaft 11 has a hand-wheel 23 fast thereto for convenience in fotating the same by hand and a cambric-wheel 2 1 used in polishing the edge of the wheel, as iswell known to those skilled in this art.

- Upon the outer end of the shaft 15, at the left-hand endthereof, Fig. 1, is fastened a rotary heel-burnishing tool 25 of any desirable construction. It is customary in burnishing the heels of boots and shoes for the operator to constantly apply wax to the periphery of a rotaryheel-burnishing tool by pressing a lump of wax against said tool. To do this, he is obliged to take one hand away from the shoe the edge of the heel of which he is burnishing. Inmy improved .machine a lump of wax 26 is clamped in a wax-holder 27 consisting of a slide 28, provided with two vertical flanges 29 and 30. The flange 29 is integral with the slide 28 and the flange 3O adjustable toward and away from said flange 29 for the purpose of holding pieces of wax of diflereut sizes firmly clamped therebetween. The flange 30 is adjustably fastened to the slide 28 by screws 31, each of which projects through a slot 31, formed in the horizontal portion of the flange 30, said screws having screw-threaded engagement with the slide 28. A clamp-screw 32 serves todraw the flange 30 toward the fixed flange 29, and when the screws 31 are loosened and after having adjusted the flange 30 to the desired position said flange is fastened in position by tightening the screws 31,

and thus the wax 26 is held firmlybetween said flanges 29 and 30.

The slide 28 is constructed to slide in ways 33 33, formed upon a bracket 34, fast to the frame 10. Said ways are inclined downwardly toward the rotary tool 25, so that the natural tendency of the holder 27, together with the wax 26, fast thereto, is to slide downwardly toward the burnishing-tool 25. An arm 35 is fast to the under side of the slide 28 and is curved downwardly to engage an arm 36 integral with a shoe-support 37, pivoted at 38 to a bracket 39, fast to the column 9 and serving as a support for the outer'end of the bracket 34, to which it is rigidly fastened. The arm 36 is provided with a counterweight 40. The shoe-support 37 terminates at its upper end in an edge-guide 41 and has a bottom-gage 42, adjustably fastened thereto by a set-screw 43.

' The rotary burnishing-tool 25 is heated by any desirable method,'preferably by a block of wood 44, fast to a sheet-metal arm 45, which in turn is fastened to the bracket 34, Fig. 1.

The general operation of the machine hercinbefore specifically described is as follows: The heel 46 of a shoe is placed with the edge thereof resting upon the edge-guide 41 and the bottom resting against the bottom-gage 42, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The operator now presses the shoe toward and against the periphery of the rotary tool 25'and at the same time presses downwardly upon the shoe-support 37, rocking said shoe-support slightly upon its pivot 38, raising the'arm 36 and counterweight 40, and thus releasing the arm 35 and, slide 28, so that the wax-holder 27 slides downtheways 33 until the wax- 26 presses against the periphery of the rotary tool 25, which in its rotation removes suflicient wax to apply'the same to the heel 46 as said heel is rocked backward and forward by the operator in a manner well known" to those skilled in this art. When the operator removes the shoe from the support 37, the counterweight 4O depresses the arm 36 until the outer end of said arm engages'the curved inner edge of the arm 35 and draws said arm toward the left,

Fig. 2. withdrawing the waxholder 27 and removing the wax from contact with the rotary tool 25. It will thus be seen that as the operator pushes the heel of the shoe against the rotarytool and pushes downwardly upon the work-support wax will be automatically supplied to the periphery of said burnishingtool. hen the wax is removed from contact with the tool, as hereinbefore described, a setscrew 47, fast to the shoe-support 37, Fig. 2, contacts with the under side of the bracket 39 and forms a stop to limit the extent to which the shoe-support may be rocked upon its pivot by the action of the counterweight 40.

The shoe support 37 is supplied with an edge-guide 41 and with a bottom-gage 42, as hereinbefore described,'the bottom-gage 42 being adjustable toward the right and left, Fig. 3, to regulate the position of the heel laterally with relation to the burnishing-tool.

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

gage said wax-holder and move the same with relation to said tool.

4. A burnishing-machine comprisingin its construction a rotary burnishing-tool, ways fast to the frame of said machine, awax-holder constructed to slide in said ways, and a shoe support constructed to engage said wax-holder and move the same with relation to said tool.

5. A burnishing-machine comprising in its construction a rotary burnishing-tool, an inclined guideway, a wax-holder constructed to slide in said guideway toward said tool by gravity, and a shoe-support constructed to engage said wax-holder and move the same away from said burnishing-tool.

6. A burnishing-machine comprising in its construction a rotary burnishing-tool, an inclined guideway fast to the frame of said machine, a wax-holder constructed to slide toward said tool by gravity in said guideway, and a pivotally-supported shoe-support constructed to engage said waxholder and move the sam away from said burnishing-tool.

7 A burnishing-machine comprising in its constructiona rotary burnishing-tool, an inclined guideway formed upon'the frame of said machine, a wax-holder constructed to slide in said guideway toward said tool by gravity, and a shoe-support constructed to engage said wax-holder and move the same away from said burnishing-tool, said shoe-support constructed with an edge-guide and a bottom-gage fast thereto.

8. A burnishing-machine comprising in its construction a rotary burnishing-tool, an inclined guideway formed upon the frame of said machine, a Wax-holder constructed to slide in said guideway toward said tool by gravity, and a shoe-support constructed to engage said wax-holder and move the same away from said burnishing-tool, said shoe-support constructed with an edge-guide and a bottomgage adjustably fastened thereto and adapted to bear against the bottom of the heel of a shoe supported upon said edge-guide.

9. A burnishing-machine comprising in its construction a rotary burnishing-tool and a shoe-support constructed with an edge-guide and a bottom-gage ad justably fastened thereto and adapted to bear against the bottom of the heel of a shoe supported upon said edge-guide.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto-set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PAUL DUPLESSIS. Witnesses:

D H. FLETCHER, E. IRVING SAWYER.

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