US964273A - Sole-rounding machine. - Google Patents

Description

W. B. KEIGHLEY.

SOLE ROUNDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 29, 1909.

94,2?3; Patented July 12, 1910.

SOLE-IROUNDING- MACHINE.

Application filed October 29, Serial 1,, Specification of Letter" Patent.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, llILLn-Jr Karon LEY, a citizen of the United States, residing in Vineland, New Jersey, have invented certain improvements in Sole-Rounding Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of in; chines particularly designed for shaping or rounding a sole after it has been applied to a welted shoe; one object being to provide a machine whereby it shall be possible to more rapidly trim or round the sole of a shoe than has hitherto been possible with machines formerly used for this purpose; it being also desired that the machine shall be capable of making a clean cut and. producing a finished article of a high grade. 1' also desire to provide a sole rounding machine having the above characteristics in which novel means shall be provided for feeding the work to the knife and regulating the cut thereof, as well as for indenting the welt when this shall be c esirable. Taese objects and otheradvantageous ends it cure as hereinafter noted, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in

' which Fi ure l, is a side elevation partly in sec tion illustrating my invention; Fig. 2, is a front elevation of the device shown in Fig. l, and Fig. 3, is a side elevation, to some extent diagrammatic and partly in section, showing another form of rotary feeding and regulating device.

In the above drawings, 1 represents an endless band knife mounted in any suitable manner, usually upon pulley Wheels (not shown) which may be driven in the Way well known in the art. In the present instance this machine is provided with a work supporting post Qso placed as to project immediately adjacent to the front run of the band knife. A suitable member projects from the frame of themachine above the post 2 and serves to support two plates 3 and 4. immediately adjacent to and on opposite sides of the upper portions of the band knife so to constitute rear and front guards whose lower ends extend to within a short distance of the top of said post 2. This post has hearings in its upper portion for the reception of a shaft 5 driven from any suitable sourceof power and extendin rearwardlyfroro the band knife. a conical too-shed feed wheel 6 Whose base It carries 1 the rear face 0 thereof is made at th immediately to r i" said l-Z l'l sired it may be short it the cutting edge of the 5 and is is such that iof the knife Y work support which, in the shown in Figs. 1 and consists ot a co gated or toothed wheel 9 which is prei'icrahly of a conical form and c rried n in a bracket 8 detachabiy monnted upon the plate 7. 7c While this wheel maybe at"iched to any source of powen I preferably rive it at the same speed as that of" the wheel (3 by means of a worm l0, worni wh ll, shaft L. and worm wheel 13 which engages directly with this wheel; the woru'i 10 being; driven from any suitable source of power.

Under operating conditioina shoe whose its cons nd i sole 1 is to be trimmed or roll ed is presented to the machine in the pa. ion shown in Figs. 1 and 3. the cut starting- .t the heelv portion and eat idin g aro t ie shank, ball, toe and back to the heel )und which it may also pass it tlQ-Sil't The front guard disthus interposed bet on the upper 8 of the shoe and the knife, so th regulates the amountto be trimmed oh ol' the sole or the depth of the out. The todhed feed roll 8 is rotated through the nd serves to feed th sole to he trinnncd at. a prede- 96 termined rate past the knife. such case the shoe to be trin'une'd is fed past the band knife by the combined action ot the two teed wheels 6 and't which, as shown. in Fig. 1, are mounted with their bases respectively adjacent to, orvis shown in l i if, immedi ately in frontof theband knii In order to properlyregulate the cut, may, as shown in lci 3 i'nount on the lower end of the front guard a a conical rotary 0 Wheel 15 driven positively or not as desired and Wl1lf3l1,l1l6 a wheel 10 (l i i} will hold the body of the shoe at the p oper distance away from the band knife so t the out o proper 5. 5% of the G5 sole. It said wheel 15 was power 11 rivem it would serve both. as cuard and also as a feed wheel in that Ill ot the tfievicc 3, the two whee and t)- acl. to mo 5 strongly press to nther thev welt and sole or a shoe operated on and if either or both wheels are toothed, the device may act as an indenting machine. The machine thus performs the functions of a sole rounder, a. welt and sole COIIIPIQSSOIgtlQd an indentor. In this case the wheel 15 is positively turned by power from a shaft 17 connected to it through a universal joint 18.

From the above figures, it will be seen that the machine may be operated with a rear, front, or top feed, or with any desired combination thereof; the preferred construction however being one in which one or more toothed feed wheels are mounted immediately adjacent to the cutter, and to one side of its cutting edge, with a suitable guard or feed wheel spaced away from said first wheel or wheels so that the sole and welt may ass between them as shown.

1. A sole trimming machine consisting of a bandknife; a gage adjacent said knife for limiting the approach of the body of a shoe toward the same; a feed wheel adjacent said knife; both the gage and the feed wheel abutting on the sameside of the operative run of said knife, and means for driving said wheel.

2. A sole trimming maclnne consisting of a band knife; a gage mounted adjacent to said knife; and placed to limit the approach of a shoe thereto; and a feeding device, also adj acent tosaid knife, but spaced away from said gage so as to permitof the introduction of a sole to be trimmed between itself and the gage; both the: feeding device and the gage abutting against. a straight run of said band knife.

3. The combination of a band knife; a work support on one side of the knife; a work feeding device; and a gage for limiting the approach of a shoe to the said knife; there being a straight run of the knife extending between said gage and one of the two other devices.

4. The combination of a band knife; a work support on one side of the same, a feeding device on the .other side of the knife; and a gage also adjacent to the knife but spaced away from the work support and feeding device as permit of the introduction of a sole to be trimmed; the work support, the feeding device, and the gage all abutting upon a straight run of said knife.

' '5. The combination of a band knife, with a rotary work support on one sideof the plane of the knife; a rotary feeding device on the otherside of said plane; said support and feeding device abutting on a straight run of said knife; and a gage adjacent to the knife; but s aced away from the supporting device and ceding means, to permlt of the tween them.

passage of a sole; the operating run of the band knife being substantially at right angles to the axes of rotation of the work plane and having their flat faces immediately adjacent to and parallel with the knife, said wheels being arranged to compress between them the sole and welt of a shoe and one of the wheels being placed to serve as a gage to maintain the body of a shoe ata predetermined distance from the knife.

8. A sole rounding machine consisting of a band knife; with two rotary wheels mounted adjacent to said knife and arranged to compress between them the sole and welt of a shoe; one of said wheels being placed to serve as a gage to maintain the body of a shoe at a predetermined distance from the knife and being provided with teeth for indenting the welt; 7

9. The combination in a sole rounding machine of a band knife; a rotary wheel on one side of the plane of said knife; and two rotary wheels on the other side of said plane, one of said wheels being spaced apart from the others so as to be capable of compressing the sole and welt of a shoe passing be- 10. The combination in a sole rounding machine of a band knife; a rotary wheel on one side of the plane of said knife; and two rotary wheels on the other side of said plane; one of said wheels being spaced apart from the others so as to be capable of compressing the sole and welt of a shoe passing between them; with means for drivmg one or more of said wheels. 7

11. A sole rounding machine consisting of a band knife; with t\ *o rotary wheels mounted adjacent to said knife so as to abut upon the straight run of the same and spaced to compress between them the sole and welt of a shoe; one of said wheels being provided with teeth for indenting the welt.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing'witnesses.

- WILLIAM aorromnrr KEIGHLEY.

' l/Vitnesses:

WILLIAM E, BRADLE I lVM. A. BARR.

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