Improvements in or relating to Lasting Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1896-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1836
Improvements in or relating to Lasting Machines.
A communication from THE CONSOLIDATED HAND METHOD LASTING
MACHINE Co., of Nashua, N.H., United States of America.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 111 Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to that class of lasting machines wherein the last with the
upper material suitably arranged thereupon, is presented to the lasting devices of
the machine and there held and shifted about by the workman, during the
operation of the machine to stretch and secure the upper over the last and inner-
sole, and this invention has for its object to provide means for relieving the
workman against the labour of and the consequent tiresomeness and strain which
results from continuously holding and presenting the heavy lasts now commonly
employed in carrying out the lasting process.
Of the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 shows this invention in side elevation.
A lasting machine is also represented to show the manner of arrangement and use
of this invention therewith. Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, represent the invention and
details thereof to be described.
As shown, the sleeve, 2, Fig. 6, is arranged for movement end wise on the rod, 3,
which has ball and socket connection with a bracket on the machine column, to
permit swinging of the rod and sleeve universally. Spring, 4, lifts the sleeve, 2,
yieldingly upward and may be adjusted by suitably operating the screw, 5, and
plunger, 6, to give the lifting tension as required for holding the last at about the
altitude required for presenting the upper to the pincers of the machine, as in
Fig. 1.
The yoke, 10, Fig. 4, has its tang end socketed to turn in the top end of sleeve 2
and has its yoke ends projected outwardly and upwardly and provided each with a
recess 12 and therein are set the trunion arms of a curved frame 14 whereby is
given support thereto and swinging movement thereof allowed as required.
Frame 14 has the tongue 16 adapted to enter a groove suitably formed therefor in
the frame 18 Fig. 2, which frame 18. has on its rearmost extension the pin 20
adapted to enter a socket in the last to steady and give support thereto.
The support is positioned for receiving the last and is supported, while not in
use, by the bracket, 22, Figs. 1, 8. The last, having the upper materials suitably
placed thereupon, is supported on the pin, 20, and the workman has only to sustain
such portion of the weight thereof as is not sustained by the spring, 4. It may be
lifted with, or depressed against the spring. It may be turned with the yoke, 10,
in sleeve, 2, and is moved longitudinally with the swinging frame 14, and may be
moved laterally with the frame 18, sliding on frame, 14. All these movements
allow of being caused to take place simultaneously, and in extent and manner are
limited and governed by the workman, and thereby is allowed the resultant motion
necessary to give the free action and movement required for shifting and
presenting the shoe. The weight of the last is sustained inechanically for the
workman in whole or in part as desired.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In combination with the upper stretching devices of a lasting machine a last
rest having provision as stated to permit free movement in different directions and
the movable supporting connections therefor substantially as described.
2. In combination with an upwardly and downwardly swinging standard con-
nection the last rest composed of yoke 10, arranged for movement rotatively in the
standard-sleeve, 2 the frame, 14, supported to swing in the yoke, 10, and the
frame, 18, supported for movement on the frame, 14, substantially as described.
3. In a last rest the yoke, 10, and frame, 14, supported to swing in the yoke, 10,
combined with the frame 18, having tongue and groove connection with frame, 14,
substantially as described.
Dated this 23rd day of July 1896.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.