Shoe support for heel attaching machine

A shoe support for supporting a shoe to have a heel attached thereto in a heel attaching machine, the support comprising:

• a generally planar support surface against which the heel seat region of a shoe can be located so that a nail can be driven through the heel seat region into a heel positioned thereon to attach the heel to the shoe;
• a pusher member movable within the support normally to the support surface;
• a nail guide formed in the support and opening through the support surface, the nail guide being inclined to the normal to the support surface so that a nail can be located in the guide to be driven into the heel seat region and the heel at an inclination to the normal to the heel seat region;
• a driver movable in the nail guide, one end portion of the driver resting on the pusher member and an opposite end portion of the driver being engageable with a nail positioned in the nail guide so that movement of the driver in the nail guide causes the nail to be driven as aforesaid, wherein movement of the pusher member causes said movement of the driver along the nail guide, the arrangement being such that during movement of the pusher member, relative sliding movement takes place normally to the direction of movement of the pusher member, between the pusher member and the driver;
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• wherein each pusher member is arranged to be moved normally to the support surface by an individual moving arrangement therefor and the moving arrangements are arranged to operate one-after-the-other so that in the operation of the support, nails are driven into the heel seat region and the heel one or two at a time.