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US 4,078,274 AGranted
Shoe lasting apparatus
AssigneeUSM Corporation
InventorRudi Fichtner
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Abstract
An apparatus for lasting footwear, including a rotatable roll that is articulated on a spherical joint to permit the roll to adapt to and last any curvature it encounters on the insole of any shoe assembly it is operating upon.
Claims3
A machine for lasting a margin of shoe upper mounted on last, said machine including:
- a rotatable lasting roll for drawing said margin inwardly and pressing it against the bottom of a shoe;
- said lasting roll being mounted on a spherical joint permitting angular axial movement in conformance with varying contours of the shoe bottom;
- said joint including a ball head upon which said lasting roll is mounted, said lasting and said ball head having a movable relationship therebetween;
- said ball head being fixedly attached to the distal end of a rotatable driving shaft received in a complementary socket in the roll wherein said ball head effects the rotation of said lasting roll through a keying member connected therebetween.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.