Leather skiving machine

A leather skiving machine comprising:

• a table upon which a piece of leather is placed;
• a roller for moving the leather;
• a presser foot for pressing down the leather;
• a flat blade for skiving the leather;
• and
• a drive mechanism for moving each of the roller and the flat blade, and being an independent drive mechanism for each of the roller and the flat blade oscillating;
• wherein:
• the leather is sandwiched from top and bottom by the roller and the presser foot at a pressing point on the table while being moved, the flat blade is provided at a position 0-5 mm in the movement direction from the pressing point and skives while oscillating the leather, the roller and the roller motor for driving the roller are a unit, the unit can move in a vertical direction by an action of a spring, and the leather skiving machine skives the leather while oscillating the flat blade with fixed horizontal and vertical directions parallel to a blade of the flat blade by a slider crank mechanism.