Shoe machine air blast mechanism and air blast safety device
AssigneeUSM Corporation
InventorsAlphonse C. Kulik, Josef J. Walter
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Abstract
A device for cement applying mechanisms in shoe lasting machines, wherein a safety valve is caused to prevent air from entering an air feed line in the cement feed when there is no shoe in the shoe machine and the shoe machine has been actuated, thereby preventing the machine operator from being injured by hot cement, and where nozzles may be effectively used with an air blast to controllably project hot cement onto portions of insoles some of which may not be immediately thereadjacent.
Claims7
A machine for lasting shoes in which the margin of a shoe upper is secured to the bottom of an insole by cement applied along the margin of the forepart of the insole bottom including:
- a nozzle engageable generally along at least portions of the bottom margin of said insole, for applying molten cement to said insole;
- a cement feed apparatus for supplying molten cement to said nozzle;
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- a safety apparatus for preventing any molten cement from being discharged from said nozzle when an insole and an upper are absent nozzle, said safety apparatus comprising a reciprocably movable pincer having a set of jaws with which to grab and tension said upper, and which senses any absence of an insole and upper therewith to effect the shutting off said cement feed apparatus.
A method of preventing a shoe machine operator from being inadvertently sprayed with molten cement from a nozzle of a shoe machine during the absence of any shoe to be lasted on said nozzle, wherein said nozzle has molten cement therein which is normally supplied with pressurized fluid from a pressurized fluid supply line, said method comprising:
- gripping a set of jaws together on a pincer;
- retracting said jaws of said pincer so as to tension an upper registered therebetween;
- withdrawing said pincer to a retractedmost position in the absence of an upper which would otherwise maintain the position of the pincer and upper relative thereto;
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- activating a shut-off valve in said pressurized fluid supply line by the interaction of said retracted pincer striking a trip mechanism on said valve to shut down any pressurized fluid supplied to said nozzle, thereby preventing molten cement from being ejected therefrom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.