US86590A - Improved machine for uniting the soles and uppers of boots and shoes - Google Patents

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i "tai/st 'atwt l @time T0 K. REED, or EAST BRTDGEWATEE, MASSACHUSETTS. Leners Patent No. 86,590, dated February 2, 1869.

IMPR'ovED MACHINE PGR ',UNITINGTHE sones AND UPPERS or BooTs AND SHOES.

i The Scledule referred to in these Letters Patent and making of the same.

To all whom 'it `may concern Be it known that I, 'I. K. REED, of4 East Bridgewater, in the county of Plymouth', and State ofMassachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Machines for Uniting the Soles and Uppers of Boots 4and Shoes; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken' in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification, is a description of my invention,.suiiicient to enable those skilled in the art to practise it. In that part of the manufacture of bootsand shoes which relates to machine-soling, two classes of machines are principally used, one known as the McKay sewingmachine, in which. the sole and upperof the boot or shoe are united by acontinuous series of stitches passing through both sole and'upper, the boot or shoe being supported upon a horn, and the other known as a pegging-machine, in which the sole is fastened to the upperby a series of nails or pegs. Wooden-pegs are mostly used in these machines, each peg to be driven being in turn cut from the end of a band or strip o`f peg-wood.

Pegs or nails cut from a continuous wire or pegforming mateiialhave been used, however, as may be seen by the Greenough patent, of January 17, 1854, and the Day patent, of J une 28, 1864, Greenough using metal pegs, or fastenings, cut from a coilA of wire, and

Day using thread pegs, or fastenings, out from a coil of Iigidiiied thread.

L. R. Blake, (the inventor of the horn sole-sewing machine,) has also invented, in connection with A. S. Libby, a sole-nailing machine, for which patent No. 76,150 was granted, March 31, 1868. f

In the Greenough nailing-machine there was no provision for cutting the-wire into nails of variable lengths, in accordance with the varying thickness of a sole o f a shoe in the toe, ball, shank, and heel.

In the Blake nailing-machine, awork-supportin g horn is used, and in his machine such provision is made, the

' wire being automatically cut to a length corresponding to the thickness of the sole and upper atv the-point at which it is to be driven.

In my machine I use a horn for supporting the machine,ldesigned for peggingwith fastenings cutfrom a continuous wire-like material.

But instead of automatically cutting the eg-forming material into lengths corresponding to t evarying thickness of the sole and upper, I cut all the fastenings to a uniform length, and after each is driven, I cut off the end which protrudes, beyond the surface of the inner sole into the boot or shoe, by a cutting-mechanism, combined with the horn, thus eventually bringing each fastening to a length corresponding to the thickness ofthe sole, but effecting this after each nail is cut from the coil, and after driving it, instead of before it is driven.

- invention consists, particularly, in combining, with -a mechanism for pegging or nailing soles to boots and shoes, upon a boot or shoe-supporting horn or arm, al mechanism for cutting off the ends of nails or pegs protruding through the inner solo. y

The drawings'represent a pegging-machne embodyl ing my invention` A shows a front View.

B is a side elevation, (but showing the horn in ver-V tical section.) C, a plan of the top ofthe horn.

a denotes the head, and b, the standard of a common pegging-machine, for cutting pegs from a coil of lof my invention thereto 'to be readily understood.

In these former pegging-machines, the shoe .to be soled is generally fastened upon a last, which last 'is mounted upon a suitable jack-mechanism, instead of lwhich I support the shoe upon the top ofan arm, simf ilar to what is known in the Blake or McKay sewingmachine, and the Blake nailing-maehine,as a horn, theinner surface of the shoe resting .upon the horn c, and the shoe being fed upon this horn by the feed-foot or awl-point of .the pegging-mechanism.

Through the top of this horn, in vertical line with the peg-driver, I make a vertical hole, d, into which hole the end of the peg, which may project beyond the inner sole, extends when driven.

In the top of the horn I set a reciprocating cutter, e, the cutting-edge of which is iiush with or slightly below the top surface of the horn.

This cutter is preferably so arranged as to receive its motion from the driving-shaft j, which actua-tes the peg-cutting and driving and shoe-feeding mechanism, for which purpose it may be fixed to the end of a rod, g,connected by a rocker-lever, h, to one end of another rod, t', whose opposite end is jointed to a crank-arm, k, on a vertical shaft, l, having at its lower end a ratchet, m, intermittently driven by a pawl, x, fixed to a rockerarm,.n, connected by a link, o, with the lower end of a rocker-lever, p, from whose upper end a pin, g, projects into the groove of a cam, fr, on the driving-shaft, the cam Vand the connections from it to the cutter being so timed in their action that after each peg is driven, the cutter is thrown forward, to sever the end of the peg projecting into the hole in the horn, (if such peg protrudes beyond the inner sole,) after which the cutter is drawn back, so as to permit the next peg to be driven.

The horn is fixed upon thetop of a post, s, snpported upon thefront end of a 'weighted lever, t, simi ilar to that upon which the jack-meehnism is uslally I claim the combination, with the mechanism for supported, the lever being fulerumed in the post b, the uniting. the soles to the uppers of boots and shoes upon post s sliding 1vertically in suitable bearings, to permit e shoe-supporting horn, of the mechanism for cutting the horn to yield, and to keep the sole pressed up oi the -end of eachfastening projecting beyond the snragainst thedriving and feeding-mechanism, es the a1,- faee of the inner sole, substantially as described. ternating thick and thin portions of the sole pass over l T. K. REED.y thehorn, he Vertical movement of the horn also per- Witnesses:

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