Improvements in Heeling Lasts for Heeling Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: ate of Application, 11th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 12th Feb., 1898
COMIUMIE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Heeling Lasts for Heeling Machines.
(A communication by EDWIN LYFORD GODING, of Sanford, in the County of York,
in the State of Maine, United States of America, Manufacturer.)
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in
the County of Lancaster, 118, New Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
and 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
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The invention relates to improvements in heeling lasts for heeling machines. It
is designed to be used with lasts which have the heel part removable or capable of
being turned upward and forward so as to admit the heeling last to the shoe without
the removal of the fore part of the shoe last.
The improved heeling last and the use of the same have been illustrated in the
drawings herewith accompanying and making a part of this application, in which
Fig. 1 is a central longitudinal sectional view of a shoe last and heeling last; Fig. 2
is a side elevation of the heeling last, and Fig. 3 is a vertical section of Fig. 2 taken
on line X-X.
Same letters of reference refer to like parts.
In said drawings A represents the spindle of a heeling machine to which is
secured the heeling last which consists of a spindle B adapted to be secured to the
end of the spindle of a heeling machine and terminating in a heel adapted to
engage the rear wall of the fore part of a divided last. The heel C may, if desired,
be pivotally secured to the lower extremity of the spindle in any convenient manner
so that the forward end may be turned down into the position shown in dotted
lines in Fig. 2 to enable the heeling last to be more readily inserted in the shoe.
The heel may have a socket D therein, and the end of the spindle B may terminate
in a tongue E adapted to extend into said socket, a pivot bar F extending through
the walls of the socket and said tongue.
Again, if desired, a spring latch G may be secured to the spindle B and adapted
to engage a shoulder H in the top of the heeling last.
So far as applicant is aware it has never been possible to use a heeling last
without removing the follower or other last from the shoe. This is objectionable
because either the follower cannot be inserted in the shoe until after the shoe has
been heeled, or if inserted prior to the heeling, it must be removed to admit the
heeling last, and afterwards re-inserted to allow the shoe to set to the last.
In the one case the shoe has to be handled from the time of the beating out until
it passes the heeling machine without a last thereby rendering it subject to be
broken down or injured. In the latter case, it necessitates the removal and re-
insertion of the last for the purpose of heeling.
In the present case, it is only necessary to remove the heel portion of the last or,
In jointed lasts, to turn the heel part upward and forward out of the way of the
heeling last.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is: -
1. A heeling last composed of a spindle adapted to be secured in the spindle
of a heeling machine and a heel pivotally secured to the end thereof, substantially
as and for the purposes set forth.
2. A heeling last composed of a spindle adapted to be secured to the spindle of a
heeling machine and terminating in a heel pivotally secured thereto, its forward
end being adapted to be turned down to a position nearly parallel with said spindle,
substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
3. A heeling last composed of a spindle adapted to be secured to the spindle of a
heeling machine and terminating in a heel pivotally secured thereto, and means for
locking said spindle and heel, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
1000
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.