Patent GB-1105969-A (GB)
Title: Machine for pulling over, heel forming, and lasting of shoes
IPC: A43D21/12
Filed: 1965-05-19
Abstract: 1,105,969. Boots &c. SCHUHMASCHINEN-GESELLSCHAFT HANKE & CO. m.b.H. 19 May, 1965 [21 May, 1964], No. 21248/65. Heading A3B. In a lasting machine for lasting the heel, shank and ball regions of a shoe, the shoe is clamped to a carriage 5 which can be tilted in an arcuate guideway 4 between a loading position and an operative position as shown in Fig. 4 in which the carriage 5 is inclined, in a plane in which a second carriage 3, carrying lasting tools, is located, the carriage 3 being movable towards and away from the shoe in this plane. The carriage 5 is tilted by hydropneumatic drive unit 51 via a connecting rod 50, the drive unit 51 consisting of a pneumatic cylinder 53 which tilts carriage 5 and a hydraulic piston and cylinder 52 which locks the carriage in position when the check valve 55 is closed. The shoe is clamped in the carriage 5 between a fixed support 40 and a plate 41 which is connected to the piston rod 47 of cylinder 48 by a cross-bar 42 and connecting rods 43, 44. The carriage 5 also includes a heel band 18 (Fig. 5) which is, clamped around the heel by a piston and cylinder 7 and a pair of wipers 26 which are closed by a piston and cylinder 25 and are urged upwardly against the shoe bottom by the piston rod 39 of a cylinder 38 (Fig. 4). The carriage 5 also carries a shank lasting unit (Fig. 10) which is mounted on a plate 114 which is raised by piston and cylinder 120 until shank support 119 engages the shoe bottom. The lasting margin is gripped between jaws 115, 116 which are closed by the initial movement of piston and cylinder 121, further movement of the piston rod causing the lasting margin to be laid across the insole. The carriage 5 also includes a heater 108 which can be raised by a piston and cylinder 112 to activate the adhesive on the insole. The second carriage 3 is movable along a guide 2 (Fig. 6) by a hydro-pneumatic drive unit 62 and carries a toe gripper 66 operated by piston and cylinder 71, a pair of side grippers operated by piston and cylinders 67, 68, a toe stop 60, a toe rest 65, a clamp 105 operated by piston and cylinder 102 and two ball lasting units. Each ball lasting unit (Fig. 9) is mounted on a sliding plate 129 and is moved inwardly by a piston and cylinder 132 until an abutment 142 engages a stop 143 when further movement of the piston rod 133 causes the toggle link 135, 136 to raise the lasting unit against the shoe bottom. The lasting margin is gripped between a jaw 147 and a wiper 148 operated by piston and cylinder 150, continued movement of which causes the lasting margin to be laid across the insole. Bedding pressure is applied by piston and cylinder 154. The machine has a hydraulic-pneumatic control circuit which is operated by cams on a cam shaft which is rotated in step-by-step fashion by a hydro-pneumatic drive unit and operates as follows:-the last is placed on the support 40 and is clamped in position by the plate 41 and the carriage 5 is tilted until the shoe engages a stop 56 (Fig. 4) when the carriage 5 is locked in position. The front carriage 3 is then moved towards the shoe until the toe stop 60 engages the shoe and the carriage 3 is locked in position. The toe gripper 66 and the side grippers are then operated to stretch the upper over the last and the upper is clamped by the toe clamp 105. The shank lasting unit is operated and then the heel band 18 is brought into engagement with the shoe. The ball lasting unit is then operated and the grippers release the upper. The heel wipers then perform two wiping actions to complete the work cycle and the various parts return to their initial positions.