US76216A - muephy - Google Patents

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Letters Patent No. 76,216, dated ,Marck 31, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN LINING BOOTS AND SHOES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY GONCEBN:

Be it known that we, TIMOTHY LucnY and JAMES E. MURPHY, both of Salem, in the county ot Essex, and State of Massachusetts, havefinvented' an Improvement in Applying Linings to Boots and Shoes; and we do- -bereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification, is a description of our inventionsnihcient to enable those skilled in the art' to practise it.

In the manufacture of boots and shoes, especially those for womens wear, the linings for covering the inner solesare generally applied by hand, and asthe under surface of a lining is .covered'with cement, it is dillicult, in introducing it by hand, to bring its whole surface into properposition with 'relation to the corresponding surface of the inner soleii p l The object of our invention is tosubstitute (in effecting the introduction and application of the lining) a device for holding the lining :tt-length, and for introducing it into the shoe in such manner'as to keep its cementapplied surface clear from the' sole until it is brought into position in which the wholc'surface of the lining is opposite to the surface of the sole to which it is to be attached; and our invention consists, primarily, in av lining-holder or table, combined with a jack or `device having a. salient end for enteringtheshoeg` thisjack having lips or points for supporting the shoe and keeping the cement-applied surface out of contact with the sole, and the lining-carrier having a mechanism for forcing it up into contact with the sole at the proper time.

The drawing represents a machine embodying our invention.

A shows a plan of the same; B, a rear elevation thereof; C, a" section on the line u; .t.

adenot-es a base, supporting a post or standard, b, fixed upon the top of which is a jack,.c, the heel part of which rests upon the pest, leaving the main portion projecting laterally from the post, as seen at C. This l jack is made in boxform, or has lips or flanges, el, as seen at A, and in the bottom thereoi` is a plate,e, fixed to the-end of a-rod,f, running through the post b. The lower end of this rod is connected to a lever, g, which may be a hand-lever, as seen at B, or a treadle-lever, to be operated by foot, a suitable spring being applied to hold the plate e, normally, at the bottom of the jack. This plate e is to hold the lining to be applied; and for the purpose of 'bringing the liningl against the irregular surface of the inner sole, the top of the plate is sur; faced with some elastic material, which will yield when the plate is pressed up to the surface of the sole.

The manner of using the machine will be readily understood. The lining is laid upon the elastic bed t", and its upper surface iscovered with the paste or cement which is to attach it to the inner sole. The shoe,

' turned bottom side up, is then drawn upon the jack, the sides of the inner sole, adjacent to theftoe, resting on the toe-end of the flanges d, and the edges of the sole, at the heel of the shoe, upon the flange at the heel-end of the jack. The shoe being thus supported, (the anges d keeping the surface of the lining from contact with i the solo while thc shoe is being drawnover thvcrjaclg) when the shoe is brought to correct position, the plate e is' raised by lifting the rod f, thus carrying the lining against the inner sole, into all parts ofthe surface of which t to be covered by the lining it is brought into contact' and adheres. When the upward pressure upon the redis withdrawn, the spring carries the plate c down into the jack, leaving the lining attached to the inner sole by its cement. By these means linings can be very' much more rapidly and evenly applied than by hand,thus effect- Ying an important-saving, both in time and expense, and making a better shoe.'

A second lever may be employed in connection with the lever g, such lever being fulcrumed in the side b of the standard or post Z1, and instead of the ilanges'cZ,'tlic jack may have pins or projections for supporting the shoe, and the construction may be otherwise variously modied without departure from the essence of our inveni tion. The stationary jack-plate may itself have an elastic bed, without the movable plate e, the lining vbeing placed on said elastic bed, and the shoe drawn over it; but as care would have to be taken to keep the lining away from the inner sole, in drawing the shoe upon vthe jack, such arrangementwould not be as practical as that shown. Or the plate e may be stationary with the flanges d, arranged to be drawn down when the shoe is brought into posit-ion; but such construction would be less simple than that described.

. We claim, in combination with a jack or plate supported at its heel on a post or standard, an elastic or yielding surface for holding a cement-applied lining, tobe applied to a shoe, substantielly as set forth.

We also claim combining thelinng-plate'e with the jack c and its flanges d, oi the equivalents thereof, the plate e vbeing su'pported upon a rod, and being raised and lowered substantially as described.

TIMOTHY LUOEY, JAMES E. MURPHY.

Witnesses:

` J. B. CROSBY,

FRANCIS GOUL-D.

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