Cement applying machine and method

A method, operable on a shoe assembly formed of a last having an insole located on its bottom and an upper having a margin mounted thereon with a portion of the upper margin being wiped against and secured to the insole and with an unwiped portion of the upper margin having a boundary with said wiped margin portion, extending rearwardly of said wiped margin portion, projecting away from the insole periphery so as to form a corner between said unwiped margin portion and the corresponding portion of the insole periphery and with a segment of the upper margin at said boundary overhanging the insole, for applying cement in said corner comprising:

• supporting the shoe assembly bottom-up with said wiped margin portion being forward of said unwiped margin portion;
• locating above the shoe assembly a heightwise extending nozzle having a laterally projecting tip through which cement may be extruded, the nozzle being swingable about its heightwise extending axis;
• initially locating the nozzle in a lower nozzle position in engagement with the shoe assembly bottom and in a rearward nozzle position that is rearward of said boundary;
• thereafter moving the nozzle in a cement applying stroke to a forward nozzle position that is located at said boundary;
• so constraining the nozzle during the cement applying stroke that the nozzle tip is in said corner with the nozzle tip projecting outwardly of the nozzle and being beneath said margin segment at the end of the cement applying stroke;
• extruding cement through the nozzle tip into said corner during the cement applying strokes;
• swinging the nozzle rearwardly and inwardly about said axis, subsequent to the completion of the cement applying stroke, so as to move the nozzle tip out from under said margin segment;
• and thereafter raising the nozzle upwardly of the shoe assembly bottom.

A machine, operable on a shoe assembly formed of a last having an insole located on its bottom and an upper having a margin mounted thereon between the toe and heel end extremities of the last with a portion of the upper margin from its heel end extremity extending toewardly thereof projecting away from the insole so as to form a corner between said margin portion and the corresponding portion of the insole periphery, for applying cement in said corner comprising:

• a shoe assembly support for supporting the shoe assembly bottom-up with the toe end of the shoe assembly facing forwardly;
• a nozzle, located above the shoe assembly, through which cement may be extruded;
• forward-rearward moving means for effecting forward-rearward movements of the nozzle between a rearward nozzle position wherein the nozzle is proximate to and forward of the heel end of said margin portion and a forward nozzle position wherein the nozzle is at a forward end of said margin portion;
• heightwise moving means for effecting heightwise movements of the nozzle between an upper nozzle position wherein the nozzle is spaced above the insole and a lower nozzle position wherein the nozzle is in engagement with the insole;
• a post mounted for forward-rearward movement in unison with the nozzle;
• a rod, mounted for forward-rearward movement between a front rod position and a back-rod position, located rearwardly of an in intersecting relationship with the post;
• means for initially causing the heightwise moving means to retain the nozzle in the upper nozzle position;
• means for initially causing the rod to be in the front rod position;
• means for initially causing the forward-rearward moving means to yieldably move the nozzle, together with the post, rearwardly with the post engaging the rod in a location wherein the nozzle is in an intermediate nozzle position that is between the rearward nozzle position and the forward nozzle position and is relatively close to the rearward nozzle position;
• means for thereafter causing the heightwise moving means to lower the nozzle to the lower nozzle position;
• means for thereafter causing the rod to be moved to the back rod position thereby enabling the forward-rearward moving means to move the post, together with the nozzle, rearwardly an amount corresponding to the amount of rearward movement of the rod from the front rod position to the back rod position to thereby place the nozzle in the rearward nozzle position;
• means for thereafter causing the forward-rearward moving means to effect forward movement of the nozzle to said forward nozzle position in a cement applying stroke;
• means effective during the cement applying stroke to retain the nozzle in said corner;
• and means effective during the cement applying stroke to extrude cement through the nozzle into said corner.