The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-26
The Wonderful Improvements In Boot
and Shoe Machinery.

AnH O"Oe U"U Learner Hep0Tter thus
sums up the labor-saving appliances
which have been introduced into the
boot and shoe manufacture within a
few years: To enter into detailed de-
scription. remarks the editor, of these
labor-saving devices woulI be an al
most endless task, but a general idea
can be gained from the following:
Among the latest inventions is the hy-
draulic shoe press, with which an OPP
orator can sole 700 pairs of shoes per
day. Next comes the beating-out ma
chine, which is a most necessary adj
junct to a large shoe factory. Then
comes several designs in power ma
chimes for trimming and planning the
edges of soles of shoes. each doing the
work of three met1, and better than by
hand. Next comes the sewing welt or
turn machine, making shoe as pliable
and comfortable as one hand .sewed,
and it is hard to detect any difference,
one machine being capable of making
12O pairs day. Again, there is pro-
duced lasting machine, whose work IS
simply perfect and wonderful. Then
we have a new welt shoe machine, or
aid to hand sewing, which pricks the
holes and trims the sole. ready for the
workmen to simply put in the stitches.
making the boot or shoe a hand-sewed
shoe in every essential particular. Then
the numerous wax and dry-thread sew
ing machines come in, adapted for every
variety of work, from the finest French
kid Or velvet embroidered slipper to the
closing up of the seams of the heaviest
stoga boot or brogan. Again, we have
a patent manipulating machine, which
neatly and rapidly tu.ns the edge of the
vamp, leaving q neat and finished ap.
pearance, instead of raw edge; heel
securing and sand-papcring machines
are made in every variety; stamping ma
chimes for monograms on the so!es, heel
trimmers, and an endless variety of
small but useful machines; peg-cutting
and nail-rasping machines, that will
clean the pegs and nails out of shoe
from heel to toe, from a childs shoe to
heavy boot, leaving the inside per-
fectly smooth, which do not disturb the
crimp or injure the upper in the least.
Then We have the boot and shoe crimp-
ing machine. two entirely separate in
ventions, the boot crimper being Ca
pab!e of perfectly crimping twelve to
sixteen cases of boots daily, and better
than can be crimped by hand, and the
shoe crimper, that can finish in q per-
feet manner over 400 pairs per hour.
In leather machinery We have CHASING,
stoning, pebbling and polishing jacks.
tanning and stuffing mills; hide-un-
hairing machines that will do the work
of four to eight men, taking out the
lime, doing away with the objections
bic batting or drenching, and doing 800
sides daily with ease. Then we have
the wonderful securing or hide ma
chine, that marvel of skill and ingenu-
ity, union and belt knife splitting ma
chimes; bark mills, capable of grinding
matiy cords of bark, wet or dry, daily;
tan presses that will press perfectly
one cord of bark per honr, and leave
it so free of water that it can be imme-
diately used for fuel; the wonderful
leather-measuring machine, for giving
positive and instantaneous measure
ment of skins or leather. Then there
is new machine for softening leather,
by which every fiber is loosened and
softened without injury, leaving the
leather strong, soft and flexible, besides
hundreds of other machines which are
now being perfected. Our boot and
shoe manufacturers are entcrprising,
and are always ready to adopt any new
thing that has actual merit, and the
shoe factories of to-day present a
marked contrast with those of former
wears.