US 4,442,563 AGranted

Shoe lasting machine

AssigneeUSM Corporation

InventorsGerhard Lauckhardt, Rudi Fichtner, Manfred Broning

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Abstract

In a machine for cement lasting side portions and the heel seat of shoes, the side portions are lasted by lasting rolls and the heel seat by wiper plates. For applying adhesive, each lasting roll has an associated nozzle which applies adhesive progressively in advance of its associated lasting roll. Furthermore, when the lasting rolls reach the point of termination of side lasting, they remain in pressing engagement with the shoe bottom, but their rotation is terminated, and in this condition the nozzles continue to apply adhesive in the heel seat region. This may be achieved by merely discharging adhesive from the stationary nozzles and allowing it to run into the heel seat, or alternatively the nozzles may track bodily into the heel seat. Thereafter, the lasting rolls and nozzles are retracted and heel seat wiping can take place. The invention may also be incorporated in a machine in which the whole of the shoe bottom is lasted.

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Dependent claims

Method of lasting shoes comprising the steps of applying adhesive between lasting marginal portions of the shoe upper and corresponding marginal portions of an insole along the side portions and in the heel seat region of the shoe, and lasting said side portions and the heel seat, wherein the side portions are lasted progressively, using lasting rolls starting from the ball region of the shoe bottom and terminating at the heel seat region thereof, adhesive being applied progressively, in advance of the lasting rolls, along the side portions of the shoe, and the heel seat is lasted using wiper plates which overlap the area previously lasted by the lasting rolls, and further wherein, when the lasting of the side portions is completed, the lasting rolls are maintained in contact with the shoe bottom, and thus pressure is applied thereby to the shoe bottom, at the point of termination of the side lasting, while adhesive continues to be applied progressively in the heel seat region, whereafter the applied pressure is removed by retraction of the lasting rolls and the heel seat region is lasted.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.