Improvements in and connected with Machinery Employed in Lasting or Stretching parts of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left. 5th Jan. 1899-Accepted. 1st Apr.. 1899
Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left. 5th Jan. 1899-Accented. 1st Apr.. 1899
Improvements in and connected with Machinery Employed in Lasting
or Stretching parts of Boots and Shoes.
A communication from abroad by CONSOLIDATED AND MCKAY LASTING MACHINE
COMPANY, of Portland, in the State of Maine, one of the United States of
America, Machinists.
I, ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES, of 55 and 56, Chancery Lane, in the County of
London, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention.
to be as follows: --
The present invention has reference to machines employed in lasting or stretching
the uppers of boots and shoes over and upon the lasts, and commonly known as
lasting machines.
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This invention has especial reference to machines of the type wherein the last is
mounted upon and carried by a suitable support forming a part of the machine
with the lasting devices so arranged as to act upon the material on the last so held,
as distinguished from machines of the type wherein the last with the upper
thereupon is held in the hand of the operator and presented to a constantly
operating lasting device usually in the form of a nipper or nippers which engage
the material step by step around the last, pulling the material over and upon the
last much after the manner of hand lasting.
In many styles of last, such for example as the well known Waukenphast style
of last, the alignment at the toe end of the last does not correspond with the align-
ment at the heel end of the last; in other words the last is crooked, each end
presenting a swing of greater or less degree when compared with the opposite end,
the principal curvature being presented usually in the vicinity of the shank of the
last.
When employing such lasts in connection with lasting machines, it is apparent
that heel and toe lasting devices if turned in such directions as will enable them
properly to act upon the opposite ends of a right last of considerable swing would
not be properly positioned to act upon the corresponding left last; they must of
necessity, be shifted into opposite angular positions in order to meet the curvature
or swing of the left last.
The prime object of this invention is to provide improved means, preferably auto-
matic, by which to effect the right and left adjustment of the heel and toe lasting
mechanisms, or either of them, to adapt such mechanisms to the variations in swing
presented by and at the ends of lasts of varying types, whether rights or lefts.
This invention contemplates the mounting of the end lasting devices either at the
toe or heel, or both, and whether in the form of lasting plates or otherwise, so that
said lasting devices when brought up to the last will be capable of freely swinging
to the right or to the left according to the difference in resistance offered by the
material to the advance of the respective plates or devices, thereby enabling the
latter to be adjusted properly to meet the adjacent end of the last in connection with

page_text: which they are to operate. And for the most expeditious manipulation of the
machine tue lasting devices at the toe and heel ends of the last may be connected
whereby automatic adjustment or positioning of the devices at one end of the last
operates to cause simultaneous and like adjustment of the lasting devices at the
opposite end of the last, suitable means being provided whereby the direction of
movement of the lasting device at one end of the last by or from the action of the
mechanism at the opposite end may be varied at will or as required to adapt the
two sets of devices to act upon opposite ends of lasts of varying configuration or
swing.
By making the lasting device freely laterally movable, as referred to, the
provision is made for lasting stock which presents much inequality in thickness,
so that if one of the plates encounters a hard spot in the material instead of
being forced over that hard spot and shearing or ruining the material, it will be
stopped, the remaining advance being performed by the remaining plate or plates
'or devices.
In lieu of an arrangement as above described, the lasting devices at either end of
the last may be connected with the end clasp or pad, usually provided to engage
and embrace the end of the last, so that as the said clasp or pad meets and adapts
itself to the swing of the end of the last it will act correspondingly to adjust and
shift the connected wiper plates or lasting devices.
Again, all the parts may be mounted upon a swinging head or other suitable
support arranged to swing about a pivot vertically beneath the centre of the end of
the last. For example, the clasp or pad and the lasting devices may be mounted
upon such a head, the entire head swinging as the pad or clasp meets the end of the
last; and if desired manual means may be employed supplementing the automatic,
or to be used in lieu of the automatic means for effecting this right and left adjust-
ment to meet the variations in swing of lasts according to the preference of the
manufacturer or user of the. machine..
Lasts of different sizes even when of the same type or style vary as to their
width, and this is particularly noticeable in the vicinity of the heel and is
particularly important in connection with what is known as the Goodyear shoe,
which latter presents an upturned flap or lip beyond which the lasting devices in
their inward movement must not proceed. To provide for such work this invention
contemplates positioning devices operating in connection with the last and the
lasting devices whereby the inward movement of the lasting devices, or either of
them, is fixed by the position devices, it may be predeterminately, so that said
lasting devices never move inwardly beyond a certain predetermined distance
from the periphery or outside of the last determined by the positioning devices in
connection with the last, whatever be the shape or width of the last, thus ensuring
uniformity in the driving of nails, which are usually driven with reference to the
inner edges of the lasting devices as a guide and ensuring uniformity in other
respects.
The positioning devices referred to are suitably shaped devices adapted to be
closed towards and against the sides of the last or the material thereupon, they
being connected with the lasting devices in such a manner that the degree of
separation of the lasting. devices when closed against the last shall determine the
separation of the lasting devices when in their starting positions and preparatory to
the lasting movement, so that the width of the last, which fixes the final separation
of the positioning devices, when moved against it determines the separation of the
lasting devices when in their starting positions. Thus the inward movement of the
lasting devices, which is always through a uniform distance, carries the lasting
devices more or less inwardly, or to inward positions less or more separated from
each other according to the separation of the starting positions of those devices as
determined by the positioning devices described.
These positioning devices may be pivotted to open or close like a pair of shears
or tongs, or in other equivalent fashion."
When the full automatic is not desired, the invention contemplates using

page_text: convenient manual means for effecting this left and right adjustment; for example
the operating handle for controlling or causing the operation of the lasting devices
at either end of the last may be provided with a suitable finger piece to be engaged
and moved by a finger of the hand moving the handle, and other suitable mechanism
connected therewith to cause manual adjustment of the plates for rights and lefts
with almost the same facility as when the full automatic means are employed.
In some of these arrangements, particularly the latter, it is convenient to have
the end lasting devices normally positioned for operating upon lasts of one swing,
such for instance as a right swing requiring the operator to move such lasting
devices only when a last of opposite swing is presented for use in connection with
the machine.
Although of course when this reduction in the number of steps or movements
is not necessary the lasting devices may normally be positioned centrally and moved
therefrom, first in one and then in an opposite direction according as left or right
lasts are presented to the machine.
The manual operations of the various kinds may, of course, be produced by hand
or by the foot or knee of the operator or in any other convenient manner.
This invention also contemplates mounting the end clasp which engages the end
of the last and constitutes one form of end engaging or embracing member upon
a horizontally extended support, which support is pivotted to swing to the right or
to the left, the clasp or engaging member swinging only as its support swings, this
construction offering certain advantages over other constructions wherein the clasp
is swivelled upon a relatively fixed support.
Improvements in and connected with Machinery Employed in Lasting
or Stretching parts of Boots and Shoes.
A communication from abroad by CONSOLIDATED AND MCKAY LASTING MACHINE
COMPANY, of Portland, in the State of Maine, one of the United States of
America, Machinists.
I, ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES, of 55 and 56, Chancery Lane, in the County of
London, 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:
My invention has reference to machines employed in lasting or stretching the
uppers of boots and shoes over and upon the lasts, and commonly known as lasting
machines.
My invention has especial reference to machines of the type wherein the last is
mounted upon and carried by a suitable support forming a part of the machine with
the lasting devices so arranged as to act upon the material on the last so held as
distinguished from machines of the type wherein the last with the upper thereupon
is held in the hand of the operator and presented to a constantly operating lasting
device usually in the form of a nipper or nippers which engage the material step
by step around the last, pulling the material over and upon the last much after
the manner of hand lasting.
In many styles of last, such for example as the well known Waukenphast style of
last, the alignment at the toe end of the last does not correspond with the alignment

page_text: at the heel end of the last; in other words the last is crooked, each end presenting
a swing of greater or less degree when compared with the opposite end, the
principal curvature being presented usually in the vicinity of the shank of the
last
When employing such lasts in connection with lasting machines, it is apparent
that heel and toe lasting devices if turned in such direction as will enable them
properly to act upon the opposite ends of a right last of considerable swing would
not be properly positioned to act upon the corresponding left last; they must,
of necessity, be shifted. into opposite angular positions in order to meet the
curvature or swing of the left last.
The prime object of my invention is to provide improved means, preferably
automatic, by which to effect the right and left adjustment of the heel and toe
lasting mechanism, or either of them, with reference to the adjacent end or ends
of the last or shoe, to adapt such mechanisms to the variations in swing presented by
and at the ends of lasts of varying types, whether rights or lefts.
The above, with other features of my invention, will be hereinafter fully
described, and set forth in the claims.
In the drawings, Fig. 1, in side elevation, illustrates a machine containing one
embodiment of my invention, the position of the last for holding the shoe during
the process of lasting being indicated in dotted lines;
Fig. 2, a top or plan view of the machine shown in Fig. 1;
Fig. 3, a vertical cross-section on the dotted line, Fig. 2;
Fig. 4, a detail showing the cam-disk 35, which is secured to or forms a part of
the cam-wheel 32, Fig. 1.
Fig. 5, on an enlarged scale, shows the heel-lasting devices with the
to expose the parts beneath;
cap removed
Fig. 6, a vertical longitudinal section on the dotted line a¹¹, Fig. 5, with the
cap in position;
Fig. 7, a view similar to Fig. 5, with the wiper-plates and actuating-bar removed
to expose parts beneath;
Fig. 8, a cross-section taken on the dotted line ²², Fig. 7;
Fig. 9, a view like Fig. 7, with the parts in different positions;
Fig. 10, a detail, looking at the under side of the cap.
Fig. 11, on an enlarged scale, is a top or plan view of the toe-lasting devices,
Fig. 1;
Fig. 12, a vertical longitudinal section thereof on the dotted line y―y;
Fig. 13, a sectional detail showing the toe part and some of its connections;
Fig. 14, a diagrammatic view, looking down upon the machine, showing the
relative positions of the heel and toe lasting devices and last when operating upon
the left last;
Fig. 15, a similar view with the heel and toe lasting devices and last in the
relative positions they will occupy when operating upon a right last.
Fig. 16, a detail in top view, of the toe lasting mechanism; so modified in
construction as to permit the lasting devices or plates to be freely movable by
contact with the material of the upper without connection with the toe clasps.
Fig. 17, a vertical section on the dotted line y-y, Fig. 16;
Figs. 18 and 19, diagrammatic views illustrating the action of the toe and heel
mechanisms constructed on the principle illustrated in Figs. 16 and 17:
Figs. 20-23 inclusive illustrate in top or plan view, in side elevation, and in
detail, an arrangement whereby the lasting devices are mounted upon swinging
heads which may or may not be connected to swing in unison to effect the right
and left adjustment at the ends of the last.
Fig. 24 a detail top view of the toe mechanism of a machine wherein the toe and
heel mechanisms are connected to be operated one by the other.
Figs. 25 and 26, details to be referred to.
Fig. 27 a top view of the heel mechanism designed to co-operate with the toe
mechanism, Fig. 24.

page_text: Fig. 28 a skeleton of some of the parts shown in Fig. 27.
Figs. 29 and 30, details to be described.
Fig. 31, a partial view of the column of the machine, viewing the connections
between the toe and heel lasting mechanisms in side elevation.
Fig. 32, an enlarged detail of the means for coupling the two mechanisms.
Fig. 33, a right hand face view of Fig. 32.
Fig. 34, a top view of a lasting machine with convenient manual means for
effecting a right and left adjustment.
Fig. 35, an enlarged detail view of the toe lasting devices.
Fig. 36, an enlarged sectional detail through the operating handle, showing the
thumb piece.
Figs. 37 and 38, plan views of the said mechanism showing the parts in different
positions.
Fig. 39, a detail to be referred to.
Figs. 40 and 41, top view and vertical section of the heel mechanism of the
machine shown in Fig. 34.
Fig. 42, a view similar to Fig. 40, with the parts in different position, and
Fig. 43, a vertical section taken on the dotted line y-y', Fig. 42.
Fig. 44, a view similar to Fig. 32 with the parts in different position, and
Figs. 45 and 46, sectional details to be referred to.
For assistance in disclosing my invention I have selected for an illustration of
the same the machine shown in the drawings above referred to, although it should
be understood that my invention is not thereby restricted to the embodiment
therein shown.
Referring to the drawings, wherein like reference characters in the several figures
indicate like parts, the base 1, Figs. 1 and 2, of suitable shape and construction
to sustain the working parts, has mounted upon it at the rear side thereof suitable
bearings 2, 2, in which is journaled the main or driving shaft 3, upon which are
loosely mounted the continuously and oppositely rotating pulleys 4,5, provided at
their inner adjacent faces with suitable friction-surfaces adapted for engagement
with the opposite friction-disks 6, 7, on the sliding sleeve 8, splined upon said
shaft between said pulleys.
The sliding sleeve 8 is grooved circumferentially for the reception of the loose
ring 9, provided with diametrically opposite trunnions 10, which rest in the forked
arms of a yoke 11, fast on the treadle-shaft 12, mounted upon the base and fitted
with a suitable treadle 13, by which said sleeve 8 may be moved into frictional
engagement with one or the other of the pulleys 4, 5, to thereby cause rotation of
said sleeve and the shaft 3, to which it is splined, in one or the other direction,
as desired.
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The treadle 13 is shown as counterbalanced by a weight 13", and may conveniently
be raised by a lifting-treadle 14, mounted in a bracket 15.
To stop rotation of the shaft 3 when the treadle 13 is released, I have provided
said shaft with a friction or brake wheel 16, co-operating with which is a brake
shoe 17, carried by an arm of a hub 18, fast on a shaft 19, mounted in suitable
bearings in a post 20 on its base, said hub also being provided with an oppositely-
extended arm 21, to which is connected a spring. 22, acting normally to maintain
said brake-shoe in braking contact, with said brake-wheel.
The brake-shaft 19 referred to is herein provided with a pair of radially extended
arms 23, 24, Fig. 2, provided at their ends, respectively, with set-screws 25, which
lie directly over the ends of two laterally extended arms 26, 27, on the treadle-
shaft 12 referred to.
Rocking of the treadle shaft in either direction to start the shaft 3 will cause
one or the other of the arms 26, 27, to act upon its set-screw 25 and through the
arm to which said set-screw is attached rock the brake shaft in the direction of
the arrow, Fig. 2, to release the brake.
Release of the treadle and return of the same to its normal intermediate position

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to stop the shaft 3 permits the spring 22 to apply the. brake and stop the said
shaft 3.
Fast on the left-hand end of the main shaft 3 (see Figs. 2 and 3) is a pinion 28,
which meshes with and drives a larger toothed wheel 29, fast on a shaft, 30,
journaled in bearings also in the post 20 referred to, said shaft also having mounted
upon it a pinion 31, Fig. 3, in mesh with and driving the large toothed cam-
wheel 32, fast on a shaft 33, journaled in suitable stands 34 on the base. (See
Fig. 1.)
The toothed cam-wheel 32 has formed on its left-hand face Figs. 1 and 3, a spiral
cam-groove 34, and secured to the opposite face of said wheel, or it may be forming
a part thereof, is a cam disk 35, also provided with a spiral cam groove 36, (Fig. 4).
The use of these cam grooves 34 and 36 will be hereinafter fully explained.
Upon the base 1 is erected the central column 37, carrying at its top the table 38,
and within said column 37 is arranged in suitable guides the vertically sliding
cross head 39, having a depending adjustable actuating rod 40, Fig. 1, forked at its
lower end to straddle and be guided by the bearing or stand 34, and provided at its
side with a roller or other stud 41, Fig. 3, which travels in the spiral cam groove 34
in the cam wheel 32, and whereby rotation of said cam wheel causes said cross head
to be raised and lowered, as necessary.
Upon the top or crown of the cross head 39 are arranged the transversely movable
slides 42, grooved longitudinally of the machine (see Fig. 3) to receive and
adjustably hold the several finger carriers 43, to which are respectively pivoted
at 44 the girth fingers 45, to the inner free ends of which are attached one of the
ends of the girth straps 46. The several girth straps 46 extend from the rear
ends of the fingers, to which they are secured, across to the opposite side of the
machine (see Fig. 3) through loops 47 on the under sides of the girth fingers there
located, thence over rollers 48 in the finger carriers and down and attached at their
lower ends to suitable tension springs 49, secured to brackets 50, fast on and
movable with the cross head 39 referred to. As the cross head is raised by the cam
groove 34 in the rotating cam wheel 32 the finger carriers 42, mounted thereon, will
be likewise raised to cause their fingers to draw the girth tightly about the body
of the last to stretch the material of the shoe thereupon.
Within the cross-head 39 and arranged to reciprocate vertically in guideways
therein is the slide plate 51, (see Fig. 3.) provided with a depending adjustable
actuating rod 52, forked at its lower end to straddle and be guided by the adjacent
bearing stand 34* and provided with the roller or other stud 53, which travels in
the spiral cam groove 36 in the face of the cam disk 35 referred to, so that said
cam groove gives to said slide plate a rising-and-falling movement together with
and also independent of the cross head. This slide plate 51 is shown provided with
two oppositely inclined cam slots 54, which receive the studs 55 on the lower ends
of the levers 56 (shown in dotted lines, Fig. 3) and pivotally mounted at 57 on the
cross head with their upper ends in engagement with the transversely movable
slides 42 referred to.
The spiral cams 34 and 36 referred to are so shaped and timed that during the
first part of the rotation of the shaft 33 both the cross head carrying the fingers
and the slide plate 51 will rise together until the shoe upper has been tightly drawn
about the body of the last, as described; at which time the fingers 45 have risen
above the level of the last. Further rotation of said shaft 33 now causes the
drop in the cam groove 34 to slightly drop the cross head and its fingers 45 while
the slide plate still further rises, this relative movement between said cross head
and slide plate causing the inclined cam grooves 54 in the slide plate to separate
the lower ends of the levers 56 and throw the upper ends and the connected carrier
slides inwardly to cause the fingers and their attached girth straps to fold over
and lay the material upon the bottom of the last in a manner well understood by
those skilled in the art.
A cam 58, (see Fig. 1,) loose on the shaft 33, is arranged to be acted upon by an
arm 59, fast on said shaft, and moved to swing a yoke 60, embracing said cam in

page_text: one or the other direction, according to the direction of rotation of said cam, to
thereby cause said yoke, which is notched, to embrace the treadle 13 to release or
return said treadle from one or the other of its extreme positions to its intermediate
normal position to disengage the driving-clutch and stop the machine.
To prevent accident, which might otherwise arise if the driving shaft 3 did not
stop promptly, I have herein mounted the pinion 31, Fig..3, upon a sleeve 31",
loosely engaged about the shaft 30 and clutched to the latter by a suitable clutch,
shown as composed of a disk 61, fast ou the end of the said sleeve and grooved to
receive a lug on the face of a sliding collar 62, splined upon said shaft 30.
The sliding collar 62 is grooved circumferentially to receive the forked end of a
lever 63, Fig. 2, fulcrumed at 64, and provided at its opposite end with a stud
When the
running in contact with the face of a cam disk 65, fast on the shaft 33.
shaft 33 has rotated its proper distance, if the driving shaft is not stopped in
season the cam 65 will by its further rotation act to disengage the clutch 61
and stop the rotation of the shaft 33 in season to prevent damage.
The last, carrying the shoe to be lasted and indicated at in the several figures,
is or may be provided with any suitable supporting or holding device--such, for
instance, as the usual heel-socket-for the reception of the supporting pin 66,
Fig. 1, forming a part of the block 67, pivoted upon the upper end of the jack or
supporting post 68, mounted to move vertically in suitable bearings
between its ends
in the column, said post being preferably divided
and provided with suitable means for example, the 'threaded adjusting
nut 68 by which to vary the effective length of the last-carrying post.
This supporting post at its lower end rests upon the cam-shaped edge of the foot
treadle 69, (shown principally in dotted lines, Fig. 3,) said treadle being fulcrumed
at 70 and projecting outwardly at the front of the machine in convenient position
for movement by the operator. Depression of the treadle 69 acts through the last
supporting or jack post to raise the last into working position and also furnishes
means for compressing the lasted material between the bottom of the last and the
heel-lasting wipers when the latter outlie the end of the last.
To drop the last supporting post to release the lasts when the lasting operation is
completed, I have herein provided the shaft 33 with a dog 70', which at the proper
time engages one arm of a bell-crank lever 71 on the treadle 69 and through said
lever raises said treadle to its normal position.
Passing now to the toe and heel lasting devices, the former will be first described,
referring particularly to Figs. 1, 11, 12, and 13.
The table 38 has suitable guideways, in which is mounted the longitudinally
sliding carriage 72, provided with suitable standards 73 between which is mounted
to rotate upon short longitudinally adjustable studs 74 (shown only in dotted lines,
Fig. 12) the yoke-shaped tipping plate holder 75, provided at its rear end with a
swivel nut 76, in which is threaded the adjusting screw 77, acting upon the carriage
and furnishing means to vary the tip of said plate holder about its transverse
axis on the studs 74 to accommodate the toe lasting devices to the varying springs
or longitudinal curvatures at the bottoms of the toe portions of the lasts. Pivotally
mounted on studs 78, in the arms of the yoke-like tipping plate holder, is the
tipping plate 79, resting at opposite sides of its longitudinal axis upon springs
which act to normally hold said tipping plate yieldingly in a central or horizontal
position. A stud 81 on the tipping plate 79 furnishes a suitable axial bearing for
the operating cam 82, shown as disk-like in form, and provided with an operating
handle 83, by which the operator can rotate said cam at will in either direction.
At its under side the cam 82 is provided with a suitably shaped cam groove for the
reception of the roller stud 84 on the longitudinally sliding block 85, slotted at its
right hand end, Fig. 12, to receive the vertical arm of a bell crank lever 86, pivoted
at 87 in a longitudinally adjustable plate 88, secured to the under side of the
tipping plate 79. The horizontal arm of said bell crank lever 86 (see Fig. 12), is
jointed to the lower end of the end wiper holder 89, shown as socketed at its upper
end to receive therein the cylindrical shank 90 of the end wiper 91. This end

page_text: wiper 91 herein consists of a U-shaped metallic plate or back 92 with a leather or
other covering or face 93. The wiper shank 90 is shown as circumferentially
grooved at 94 to receive the pin 95, which prevents said shank and its wiper rising
from the holding socket therefor without in any way interfering with the free
rotation of said wiper and shank in said socket. A spring 96, secured to the
wiper holder 89, acts upon the horizontal arm of the bell crank lever 86 and
thereby holds the end wiper back in its proper position against its back support on
the tipping plate.
The operating cam 82 at its top side is provided with two cam grooves 97, 98,
the groove 97 receiving the roller stud 99 on the under side of the abutment
slide 100, the outer end of which at the right, Fig. 12, is shaped and adapted to
constitute an abutment against which the toe of the shoe is placed when positioning
the said shoe preparatory to lasting. As the operating cam is rotated for actuating
the toe lasting devices this abutment slide is withdrawn by said cam groove 97,
so as not to interfere with the working parts operating about or in the vicinity
of the toe.
The inner cam groove 98 referred to receives the roller stud 101 on the under side
of the wiper slide 102, arranged in suitable guideways in the under side of the
cap 103. To the outer end of this wiper slide, at the right, Fig. 12, are pivoted
at 103 (see Fig. 11) the toe wiper carriers 104 and toe wipers 105, adjustably
secured to said carrier.
The wiper carriers 104 referred to have respectively secured to their upper sides
the cam plates 106, crossing each other like a pair of sleeves and diagonally slotted
at 107 to receive the roller studs 108, depending from the transversely sliding
bar 109, also arranged in suitable guideways in the cap referred to:
Rotation of the operating cam 82 acts, through its cam groove 98, to move the
wiper slide 102 forward, carrying therewith the wipers, which are pivoted thereto.
This forward movement of the wipers carries them over the toe end of the last and
at the same time causes their attached cam plates to be acted upon by the depending
roller studs 108 referred to and moved one laterally toward the other to thereby
close the advancing wipers over the end of the last to lay or wipe the material over
and upon the bottom of the last.
As herein shown, one end of the transversely sliding bar 109 is connected with
the slotted end of one arm of a bell crank lever 110, pivoted at 111 to a
bracket 112 on the tipping plate 79. The other arm of this bell crank lever 110
is slotted to receive a pin 113, fast on one arm of a lever 114, fulcrumed at 115
on the end wiper carrier 89, Figs. 12 and 13, the opposite short arm of said
lever entering a vertical recess 116 in one side of the cylindrical wiper shank 90
referred to.
When in the rotation of the operating cam 82 the slide 85 at the under side
thereof is moved back or to the left, Fig. 12, it acts through the bell crank
lever 86 to raise the end wiper 91 to cause it to wipe the material of the upper
smoothly about the sides of the toe of the last. If, however, the toe of the last
be an extreme right or left or be otherwise so shaped or formed that its outline
or contour does not happen to correspond in its alignment with the alignment
of the end wiper 91 and the wiper plates 105, then said end wiper, as it rises
to wipe the material about the sides of the toe end of the last, will, on contact
with the last or the material thereupon, swing to the right or to the left to
adapt itself to the lateral inclination or alignment of the end of the last or to
any variation in the thickness of the material at the sides of the last and by so
doing acts through the levers 114 and 110 to move the slide bar 109 in the
direction of its length but transversely of the machine to cause its roller studs 108,
acting in the inclined cam slots 107, to shift the wiper carriers and their wipers
also to the right or to the left into such positions that the opening presented
between said wipers will correspond as to its alignment or as to the inclination
of the working edges of said wipers with the alignment of the sides of the toe
end of the last as determined by the rising end wiper. It is thus clear that

page_text: when the operating handle 83 is moved to manipulate the toe lasting devices
the latter, in the machine herein illustrated, are automatically and laterally
shifted into such position that they will properly and uniformly meet the sides
of the last however much the inclination of the sides thereof may vary. This,
therefore, is one means for effecting a relative adjustment between toe lasting
devices and the adjacent end of the last to meet varying inclination of the sides
of a last, either a right or a left.
During the action of the toe lasting devices the toe end of the last is firmly
supported upon the padded upper end of a toe post 117 (Fig. 12), arranged to
slide in vertical guideways in the inner face of the carriage, said toe post having
at one side an adjustable block 118, arranged immediately above a cam
plate 119, fast on a short shaft 120, Fig. 1, journaled in a suitable bearing on
and depending from the sliding carriage 72. On this short shaft 120 is a for-
wardly extended arm 121, to which is connected a wire 122, reaching down-
wardly to the treadle 123, fulcrumed on the base of the machine. To this
treadle is attached a tension spring 124, which tends constantly to raise the
treadle and its connected toe post, the raising of said treadle and post being nor-
mally resisted by a pin 125 on a bracket 126, secured to and vertically movable
with the cross head within the column and heretofore described.
"When the machine is at rest, the cross head within the column is in its lower-
most position, and consequently the treadle 123 is held in its depressed position,
the toe post 117 being then held tightly in elevated position above the cam
plate 119 by a light bow-spring 127, Fig. 12. When, however, the cross head
referred to rises, as described, for lasting the sides of the shoe, it carries with
it the bracket 126 and pin 125 and perinits the spring 124 to correspondingly.
raise the treadle 123 and thereby turn the shaft 120 and cause its attached cam
plate 119 to act from beneath upon and to press the toe post and the toe end
of the last firmly upward against the usual holddown 128,-pivoted to and to
swing back upon the top of the cap 103.
The holddown 128 is locked in its holding position by sliding it on its pivot
to carry a holding lug 128" (Fig. 2) thereon beneath the holding dog 129,
pivoted at 130 on the cap 103 and held in adjusted position by a set screw 131.
(See Fig. 12.) By means of this set screw 131 the height of the holding
dog 129 may be varied at will to thereby vary the level at which the end of the
holddown 128 will lie to thus accommodate said holddown to materials of vary:
ing thicknesses. A spring 132, attached to the holddown and to a collar on
its pivot, acts to draw the said holddown normally against its said pivot, away
from which it may be slid or withdrawn by the operator in carrying the locking
surface 128" on said holddown past the locking dog 129 during locking and
unlocking. Since the toe post is raised by the spring 124, it is free to stop at
any point determined by the last and the thickness of the material thereupon.
Should the bottom of the last in the vicinity of the toe present a pronounced
roll, due to an imperfectly positioned socket or holding pin or otherwise,
or should the material at one side of the last be thicker than at the opposite side,
the lasting devices described are free to automatically adjust themselves to such
roll or unevenness of material whatever be its direction or extent, the tipping
plate at such times, together with the parts carried thereby, rolling upon its
trunnions 78, described, and compressing one or the other of the side springs 80,
which latter returns said tipping plate and its parts to their normal central posi-
tion after one lasting operation and preparatory to the next.
To move the carriage 72 longitudinally to carry the toe lasting devices into
proper position relatively to the side lasting devices, I have herein provided
the said carriage with a rack 132, (see Fig. 12,) which is meshed with a
pinion 133 on the shaft 134, carried by table 38 and provided with a suitable
hand wheel 135. This hand wheel (see Fig. 2) is provided at its rear face with
a series of ratchet holding teeth 136, which are engaged by the spring con-
trolled pawl 137 to hold said wheel and its carriage in adjusted position.

page_text: Passing now to the heel lasting devices particularly illustrated in Figs. 5 to 10
inclusive, the table 38 is provided with suitable guideways for the siding heel
carriage 138, made longitudinally adjustable in said guideways by a suitable
adjusting screw 139, (see Fig. 6,) held against longitudinal movement at one
end, as there shown, and provided with a beveled pinion 140 in mesh with "a
bevel wheel, 141, Fig. 1, iast on the hand wheel shaft 142, journaled in bear-
ings carried by the table and provided with a suitable hand wheel 143, rotation
of which will thus cause longitudinal adjustment of the heel carriage to adapt
the heel lasting devices carried thereby to the side lasting devices described.
The heel carriage 138 (see Figs. 6 and 8) is provided with two vertically
extended arms or stands 144, slotted horizontally at their upper ends to receive
a horizontally adjustable pivot bolt 145, on which is pivoted the tipping plate
holder 146, shown as bifurcated at its rear end to receive the curved slotted
arm 147, rising from the carriage 138, a guide pin 148 passing through the
plate holder and the slot in said arm. The tipping plate holder 146 at its rear
end carries a swivel nut 149, in which is threaded the adjusting screw 150,
connected at its lower end, preferably by a universal joint, with a lug on the
slotted arm 147 of the carriage. Rotation of the adjusting screw 150 swings
the plate holder and parts carried thereby about the pivot 145 to vary the tip
or vertical inclination of the plate holder to adapt the parts carried thereby to
the varying springs of lasts. The plate holder 146 at its opposite ends is pro-
vided with vertically extended ears 151, to which is hung on the longitudinal
trunnions 152 the tipping plate 153, adapted to swing transversely about the
longitudinal axis of the trunnions 152 to automatically adapt its parts to the
roll of the heel end of the last, substantially as described with reference to the
toe mechanism, springs 154 at the sides of the said plate serving to maintain
the latter normally in an intermediate or central position. To the front of the
tipping plate 153 is secured, as by a set screw 155, the middle portion of the
clasp chain 156, within which is arranged the flexible clasp 157, adapted to
embrace the heel end of the last with the material thereupon. The ends of the
clasp chain 156, and therefore the ends of the clasp, are connected in suitable
manner, as by pins 158, (see Fig. 7,) with the sliding pins 159, longitudinally
movable in sockets in the ends of positioning devices 160, springs (shown in
dotted lines in Fig. 9) being interposed between the ends of said pins 159 and
the bottoms of said sockets to press said pins and the ends of the clasp normally
outward.
The positioning devices 160 are fulcrumed at 161 on the tipping plate 153
and have jointed to them at 162 one of the ends of the actuating levers 163,
provided, respectively, with the angular slots 164, each of said slots extending
longitudinally for a distance near its end adjacent the joint 162, and a rear
angular portion, as shown, the angular portions of the two slots being extended
in opposite directions. (See Fig. 7.) Springs 165 are interposed between the
actuating levers 163 and the tail portions 166 of the positioning devices, said
springs being limited in their movements by nuts 167, threaded on the ends of
the limiting bolts 168, carried by the actuating levers and passing through the
tail portions of the positioning devices.
The pivot pins 162 are vertically extended and provided with rollers which enter
the cam slots 169 in the wiper carriers 170, (see Fig. 5,) said wiper carriers being
pivotally connected at 171 to the end of the common actuator 172, shown as a slide
bar, said carriers having secured to their under sides the adjustable wipers 173,
although said wipers and their carriers may be made integral, if desired. The
sliding actuator bar 172 is arranged to slide in suitable guideways in the under
side of the top plate 174, said bar at its rear end (see Fig. 5) having a longitudinal
slot 175, which receives the pin 176 on the hand lever 177, fulcrumed at 178 to
the free end of a lever 179, pivotally connected at 180 to the tipping plate.
Jointed to the under side of the said hand lever 177 is a short link 181, Figs. 1
and 6, carrying at its free end a roller stud 182, which drops into the angular

page_text: slots 164 in the actuators referred to and at its upper end is guided in the slot 175
in the under-side of the actuator bar 172.
Having placed the last and shoe upon the last support preparatory to lasting,
the operator by means of the hand wheel 143 moves the heel carriage to the left,
in the drawings, to cause the heel clasp to tightly embrace the heel end of the last
with the material thereupon.
The operator now grasps the handle 177 and draws the latter toward him in
the direction of the arrow, Fig. 5, causing its pin 176, Fig. 5, to travel for a short
distance in the slot 175 in the actuator bar without moving the latter or the
wipers.
During the time of this lost motion, however, the roller stud 182 on the short
link 181, connected with the hand lever, moves to the left in the opposite angular
portion of the slots 164 and causes the latter to be thrown outwardly, and thereby
through the springs 165 moves the inner or free ends of the positioning devices
and clasp inwardly toward the heel end of the last to cause said clasp to tightly
embrace said heel end. If the end of the last, by reason of its being a right or
left of extreme form, happens to be in a position with its median line at a con-
siderable angular position—that is, if the converging side lines at the heel of the
last stand in different angular or inclined positions with relation to the sides of
the opening formed between and by the edges of the wipers--then one end of the
heel clasp connected with one of the positioning devices will meet the side of the
last in advance of the other, and when one positioning device thus meets and is
stopped by the last in advance of the other its actuator 163 will also be stopped in
its sidewise movement, causing the roller stud 182 to follow the line of its curved
or angular slot 164, and by so doing impart an excessive transverse movement to
the other slotted actuator to throw the latter's positioning device through a greater
distance inward to meet the opposite side of the last. The positioning devices act
like equalizers, the one first meeting the last being stopped, and thereby through
its cam slot operating to give an excessive movement to the other positioning device
that the latter may be moved through the greater distance necessary to meet its
side of the last. Thus it matters not what be the inclined line or alignment of the
heel end of the last, due to its being a right or left or otherwise, the positioning
device which first meets the last will be stopped and the other will continue its
movement until it also meets the last, the two positioning devices thus acting to
place their roller studs 162 in transverse positions, which bear the same unequal
relation to the median line of the head as do the sides of the heel end of the last
to the median line of the head.
Any movement of the hand lever after both positioning devices meet the last
act equally upon and to press them both tightly against the surface of the last
at both sides thereof, and any excessive movement of the operating lever and
actuating levers 163 after the positioning devices have met the last will be taken
up in compressing the springs 165. This shifting of the positioning devices acts
through their roller studs 162 and the slots 169 in the wiper carriers to auto-
matically throw the latter and their wipers to one or the other side of the median
line of the head, so that their line of movement when subsequently moved forward
and closed will substantially coincide or be in alignment with the median line of
the heel end of the last, which line of course may vary, according as the said last
is a right or left or according to the contour of the last.
The movement of the operating lever to accomplish what has just been described
takes place before the pin 176 reaches the end of its lost motion in the slot 175 of
the actuator bar, and having thus properly positioned the wipers to advance uni-
formly upon the last from opposite sides thereof further movement of the said
operating handle causes its pin 176, acting against the end of the slot 175, to act
through the said actuator 172 to carry bodily forward the wiper carriers and their
wipers to move the latter over and upon the bottom of the last, the angular slots 169
in the carriers at the same time operating upon the studs 162 to close the wipers
one toward the other to thereby lay the material tightly over and upon the bottom

page_text: of the heel end of the last. It will thus be seen that movement of the operating
lever or handle 177, for carrying the wipers over the heel end of the last in the
present machine herein described acts also and automatically to swing the said
wipers to one or the other side of the median line of the head and to correspondingly
change their line of closing movement to properly act upon the heel ends of the
lasts, either rights or lefts or otherwise formed, to present varying side inclinations
or alignment at the heel end of the last.
The positioning devices described by positioning the heel wipers accurately with
relation to the sides of the heel end of the last preparatory to the closing movement
of the wipers renders it certain that said wipers when subsequently closed will
move inwardly over the sides of the last through uniform distances and to points
uniformly distant from the sides of the last, thereby rendering more uniform the
.quality of the work.
A latch 183, pivoted at 184 to the under side of the actuator 172, has a hooked
end, which during the forward movement of the actuator, while the pin 176 is at
the forward end of its slot, is forced by a suitable projection 185 (see Fig. 10) on
the cap into position behind said pin 176, so that during the first part of the
return movement of the hand lever to the right, Fig. 5, said pin 176 will act
through the latch 183 to also return the actuator and the wipers, thus eliminating
that lost motion between the operating lever and actuator which takes place at the
beginning of the first movement of the operating lever to the left. Further move
ment of the operating lever however, carries the said latch beyond the projec-
tion 185 and releases the said latch, permitting it, under the pressure of the pin
on the lever, to be pushed to one side, leaving the actuator and its wipers at a
standstill, while during its further movement the positioning devices and clasp
are returned to their original positions.
The top of the pivot pin 182 referred to travels in the enlarged portion 175" of
the slot 175, (see Figs. 5 and 6) which is of sufficient width to permit said pin
moved thereinto to move to the right or to the left as the positioning devices
are shifted to meet the alignment of the end of the last. When, however, the
actuator is returned to its normal position, this pin 182 is drawn back from the
enlarged portion 175" of said slot into the narrower slot proper, 175, which acts to
center said pin and return the positioning devices and the wipers automatically to
their original or central position preparatory to another lasting operation.
Referring particularly to Fig. 9, by screwing up the nuts 167 the heel clasp
may be opened or varied to meet varving widths or shapes of heel ends of lasts,
and the nuts 186, threaded on the bolts 168 and furnishing abutments for the
springs 165, may be turned to compensate for the adjustment of the nut 167 to
maintain the tension of the springs substantially uniform. This capacity for right
and left adjustment of the lasting devices for opposite ends of the last perhaps will
be more clearly understood by reference to Figs. 14 and 15, which illustrate
diagrammatically, this full adjustment for rights and lefts at both ends of a last
possessed by a machine embodying my invention.
For example, referring to Fig. 14, a common outline of a left last is there shown
at 7, the view of course looking down upon the bottom or tread of the last, as must
always be the case in a lasting machine of this type, where during lasting the last
is turned bottom up. The median line of the machine is indicated by the dotted
line oo, and if the last were a perfectly straight last or nearly straight the median
lines of the toe portion and heel portion of the last would coincide with the median
line of the machine, as would also the line of movement of the toe and heel lasting
mechanisms. With the last shown, however, it will be seen that the median
line oo of the toe portion of the last and the median line 02-02 of the heel
portion of the last both lie at considerable angles to the median line of the machine
and out of alignment therewith, and by my invention the toe and heel lasting
mechanisms automatically adjust their respective lines of movement and their
respective positions to correspond with the lines o'-o' and o³-0³, so that they will

page_text: act upon the ends of this extremely crooked last with the same accuracy and uni-
formity as they would act upon a straight last.
In Fig. 15 is shown the corresponding right last, and the different angles of
the lines oo and 02-02, as compared with the corresponding lines in Fig. 14,
indicate the extent to which the toe and heel mechanisms will automatically move
or shift in acting upon first a left and then a right shoe of this style, and it will
be further noticed that it matters not how crooked may be the last or what the
angles at the ends thereof my invention enables the heel and toe mechanisms to
automatically and properly meet the varying ends of the last without requiring any
peculiar positioning of the last, or any necessary change in the position of the
last, or any difference, so far as the operator is concerned, in the manipulating of.
the operating handles for lasting the toes and the heels.
It is of course apparent that should the contour of the last so require the toe
mechanism might adjust itself along the line o¹¹, Fig. 14, and the heel
mechanism along the line o²-02, Fig. 15, or the toe mechanism along the
line oo, Fig. 15, and the heel mechanism along the line 02-02, Fig. 14.
From the foregoing description it will be understood how in the machine herein
described and shown the toe lasting devices and the heel lasting devices arè each
automatically adjustable to meet the varying ends of lasts, either rights or lefts.
It is obvious that my broad invention may be embodied in mechanism differing
in detail from that herein specifically shown and described, it being essential only
that the mechanism should be such as automatically to effect the said relative
adjustment between the last or shoe thereupon and the end lasting mechanisms.
By my invention I am the first to automatically adjust the heel and toe lasting
mechanisms relatively to the heel and toe portions of the last, so that the said
mechanisms will properly and uniformly, or substantially so, meet the varying
ends of lasts, either rights or lefts or otherwise made in contour and angularity.
In Figs. 16 and 17 the rollers 108 which control the opening and closing of the
wiper plates or lasting devices are mounted upon a slide bar 109 as in Figs. 11
and 14, but in Figs. 16 and 17 the said slide bar 109 is disconnected from the toe
clasp so that the toe clasp is free to attach itself to the toe of the last or the material
thereupon, without in any manner affecting the lasting plates or devices, and
vice versa, the lasting plates or devices on meeting the leather upon the last, will
adjust themselves freely thereto without in any manner affecting the position of
the toe clasp. Obviously, while forward movement of the wiper plates will cause
them to be closed by the rollers 108, yet since the slide bar 109 carrying the rollers
is freely movable in the direction of its length, the said wiper plates may shift to
the right or to the left according to the resistance offered to one or the other, the
slide bar correspondingly shifting in the direction of its length.
This construction is of advantage in this particular, viz., when the lasting plates
advance towards a left last, as in Fig. 18, the plate first striking the outer side of
the toe.e. at the outer side of the foot-will encounter thereby a resistance to
its forward movement, causing the slide bar 109 to shift until the other plate, by
meeting the material at the inner side of the toe and inner side of the foot,
encounters a like resistance, when the two plates will move therefrom uniformly
and in perfect adjustment to the angularity of the toe end of the last.
If at any time after such adjustment has been effected, and during the subse-
quent forward or closing-in movement of the plates, one plate encounters an
exceptionally stiff or hard place in the material, the resistance thereby offered
to the advance of such plate being so much greater than the resistance offered
to its companion plate, the former will stop or be retarded in its movement, while
the latter will advance more rapidly with reference to it. This prevents the plate
which encountered the hard spot in the leather from being forced forward and
shearing off or cutting or otherwise damaging the leather where the hard spot is
located, as might be the case with the construction of Figs. 1-15 inclusive, where
the angular adjustment of the plates having been fixed by the toe clasp, the closing-
in movement of the toe wipers takes place uniformly whether or not either plate

page_text: encounters a resistance or obstruction which the other plate does not encounter.
Of course, in the latter case, if there is a lump in the leather, it is sheared off or
compressed, or otherwise gotten out of the way, whereas in the construction,
Figs. 16 and 17, the plate meeting the resistance stops, and the other plate per-
forms the rest of the movement.
Fig. 19 illustrates in diagram the action of the same parts when meeting a right
shoe, and Figs. 18 and 19 illustrate the action of the devices at the heel end of the
last which are constructed as in Figs. 5 and 7, except that the rollers 162, which
cause the wipers to close, are taken off the members 166, and are mounted upon
a slide bar similar to the slide bar 109, Figs. 18 and 19, so as to permit the heel
plates to respond freely to the resistance, offered, the same as the toe plates,
as described.
In the construction thus far described the lasting machine heads are stationary
so far as any swinging movement is concerned, and the lasting devices and clasps
'swing on and with reference to such heads.
In Figs. 20-23, however, I have illustrated a construction wherein the said
parts can adjust themselves to the swing at the ends of the lasts only by swinging
the heads upon which they are mounted.
Referring to Figs. 20-22, the base 1, the driving shaft 3, mounted thereon,
the column 37, the table 38, the jack post 68 and its last supporting pin 1573, the
vertically movable tipping plate holder 146, mounted on pivots 145, the
rolling or tipping plate 153, the heel clasp 157, the heel lasting devices,
shown as plates 173, the operating handle 177, and the side lasting devices 45, 46,
and the parts co-operating therewith and actuating the same are and may be the
same as the correspondingly numbered parts of the machine shown in Figs. 1, 2
and 3 respectively.
The construction and operation of such parts will, however, so far as their
application to the present invention is concerned, be in the main understood by
those conversant with the art without particular reference to said application.
The tipping plate holder 75, mounted upon pivots 74 and carrying the tipping
and rolling plate 79, the toe pad 93, the toe post 117, the toe lasting devices, shown
as wipers 105, and the actuating cam 82, are substantially the same as the corre-
sponding parts, similarly lettered, shown, and described in Figs. 11 and 12,
although they too, so far as concerns my present invention, will in the main be
understood by those conversant with the art without reference to such application.
In accordance with that embodiment of my invention herein illustrated I have
pivotally mounted the stand 73, which carries the trunnions 74 for the toe lasting
devices, upon its sliding carriage 72, a pivot being indicated at 200 and being
preferably vertically beneath the center of the toe of the last when in position in
the machine, and I have also pivotally mounted the stand 144, carrying the
pivots 145 for the heel lasting devices, upon its sliding carriage 138, the pivots
referred to being shown at 201 and being preferably located vertically beneath
the center of the heel of the last when the latter is in working position in the
machine. In this connection it should be stated that for the best results these
pivots 200 and 201 for the stand for the toe and heel lasting devices should be so
positioned beneath their respective ends of the last that when the said heads are
swung about said pivots the lasting devices carried thereby will swing so as to
approximately or perfectly follow the swing in the adjacent end of the last to
enable said lasting devices to properly act upon the material upon and in the
vicinity of such end of the last.
Referring now particularly to Figs. 20 and 23, the column 37 at its rear side
is shown provided with bearings 202, in which is journaled the horizontal shaft 203,
restrained against endwise movement herein by a collar 204, fast on the said shaft
between its bearings 202. The ends of this shaft 203 are further supported in
bearings 205 on the sliding carriage D and 206 on the sliding carriage 138, so that
such ends of the said shaft are rotatably supported in said bearings, although the
said bearings are free to slide along the said shaft, as their respective carriages D

page_text: and 138 are made to slide in the adjustment of the machine to meet lasts of varying
lengths.
Between the bearings 205 the shaft 203 has splined upon it a vertically-arranged
lever 207, to the lower end of which is jointed at 208 one end of a link 209,. (see
Fig. 22,) jointed at its opposite end to the vertically-arranged lever 210, fulcrumed
at its lower end at 211 in the depending arm 212 on the sliding carriage D).
The upper end of the lever 210 is slotted at 213 to receive the pivot 214 in the
rear end of a link 215, in turn jointed to one end of the link 216, which latter
is pivotally connected at 217 with the swinging stand 73 referred to. It is clear
that rotation of the shaft 203-for instance, in the direction of the arrow 2%,
Fig. 20 will operate through the parts described to swing the stand 73 into its
full line position, Fig. 20.
The upper end of the lever 207 referred to is also slotted, as at 218, and the
link 215 is extended beyond the lever 210 and provided at its extreme end with a
perforation 219, through which and the said slot 218 the bolt 214 referred to may be
passed and to which the said bolt may be secured to thereby connect the said link
with the said lever 207, in which event rotation of the shaft 203 in the same direc-
tion-viz. as indicated by the arrow 2-will, when so connected, move the same
stand 73 in an opposite direction-that is, into a position such, for instance, as
indicated in full lines, Fig. 21, and dotted lines, Fig. 20. At its opposite end-
that is, adjacent the heel end of the machine-the shaft 203 is connected with the
heel-stand 144 through similar connections similarly lettered, whereby rotation
of the said shaft in the direction of the arrow 2 will in one instance move the
heel-stand 144 into the full-line positions indicated in Figs. 20 and 21, and in the
other instance into an opposite position, as indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 20
and 21.
Assuming now that the last for the time being to be used in the machine is an
extreme Waukenphast last having a considerable swing from its toe to its heel,
the links 215, connected with the toe and heel stands 73 and 144, would be con-
nected with the levers 210, as indicated in Figs. 22 and 20, and when so con-
nected the shaft 203 would be rotated in the direction of the arrow 2 to position
the said stands, as indicated in Fig. 20-that is, standing in opposite angular
positions for a left last-and for a right last said shaft would be rotated in an
opposite direction to swing the said stands into their dotted positions, Fig. 20. If,
however, a last should be of such model or shape that the toe and heel ends stand
in the same angular positions, as is occasionally the case, one or the other of the
links 215-for instance, that at the toe end of the machine-would be connected,
as described, with the other lever 207, as shown in Fig. 21, and when so connected
rotation of the said shaft, as before, will swing the said stands 73 and 144 always
into positions having corresponding angles, first to one side of the median line for
a right shoe and then to the opposite side of the median line for a left shoe.
To operate the shaft 203 manually, I have provided the same with a crank 220,
which (see Figs. 22 and 23) is connected by a rod 221 with a crank 222 on one end
of an operating-shaft 223, journaled in bearings on the side of the column and
provided at its front, in a position convenient to the operator, with a suitable
operating lever or handle for instance, the knee-lever 224. (Shown best in
Fig. 22). By means of this knee-lever the operator can conveniently rotate the
shaft 203 in one or the other direction when necessary and as necessary to impart
desired swinging movements to the stands 73 and 144, the parts being connected as
shown in Fig. 20 when the said stands for any particular line of lasts are to be
swung into opposite angular positions, and connected as indicated in Fig. 21, when
the said stands are to be swung into corresponding angular positions, the direction
of swing depending always upon the direction of rotation of the shaft 203.
To vary the extent of swing of the stands and to enable the swing, of one
stand to exceed that of the other stand with the same rotation of the shaft 203, I
have slotted the ends of the operating-levers 207 and 210, as shown, at 213 and 218,
in order that the position of the connecting-bolt 214 therein may be shifted into

page_text: positions at a greater or less distance from the fulcrum of the said levers to thereby
vary the throw of the links 215 and the corresponding swinging movements im-
parted to the connected stands.
For more conveniently varying the rotation of the shaft 203, as required, or
according to the preference of the operator for maintaining the throw of the said
shaft always constant, when the variation in swing is had by shifting the bolt 214
in the slotted ends of the levers, I have provided, the lever 225, centrally and
rigidly mounted upon the operating-shaft 223, and in the ends of said lever have
provided the readily-adjustable stop-screws 226, which, co-operating with suitable
stop-surfaces on the column, furnish ready and convenient means by which the
operator can regulate the extent of movement of the knee-lever and rotation of
the shaft 203.
With the toe-pad 93 rigidly connected to the tipping-plate holder 79, when the
said pad is raised to smooth the upper about the toe of the last, the said pad in
turning to accommodate itself to the toe of the last will automatically swing the
toe-stand 73 about its center 200, and through the shaft 203 likewise swing the
heel-stand 144 about its center 201, thereby automatically and simultaneously
positioning the two stands, with their respective lasting devices, in proper position
to act upon the last for the time being in the machine.
"
This manually operable means is useful conjointly with and supplementally to
the automatic simultaneous adjustment referred to, if such automatic adjustment
be present in the machine--as, for instance, in the machine here illustrated. When,
however, such automatic capacity or capability is not present in the machine, then
the manually-operable means referred to constitutes the only means for simul-
taneously adjusting the toe and heel lasting devices for lasts, either rights or lefts,
having different degrees of swing, it being intended to cover, broadly, in this
present application manually-operable means for simultaneously or by one opera-
tion swinging or moving the heel and toe lasting devices into proper position to
act upon lasts, either rights or lefts, or having different degrees of swing.
It is of course immaterial whether the heel and toe lasting devices be shifted by
the swinging of the supporting-stands therefor, as in the embodiment of my inven-
tion here illustrated, or be otherwise shifted or adjusted so long as they are brought
into proper position to act upon or over the ends of the last."
It is of course evident that by proper designing and adjustment of the parts
either one of the stands or either one of the sets of lasting devices, either the heel
or the toe, may be permitted to remain stationary while the other is moved, this
being sometimes desirable with certain models or shapes of lasts.
In the machine shown the tipping and rolling plate gives to the end lasting
devices the capacity of tipping to adapt themselves to the spring of a last and of
rolling to accommodate the roll of a last, and of course as the stands swing the toe
and heel pads or clasps likewise swing.
While it is not in all cases essential that the end lasting devices at both ends
of the last be properly aligned with their adjacent ends of the last before any part
of the operation of lasting is performed, yet in some instances it is desirable that
such alignment of both the toe and heel lasting devices be had before any effective
lasting is accomplished.
My invention comprehends such normal positioning of the lasting devices to
meet a last of one swing, and also comprehends means for automatically and
simultaneously shifting the lasting devices at both ends of the last to adapt the
same to crooked ends of lasts whether rights or lefts having a difference in degree
of crookedness or swing.
Referring to the drawings, Figs. 24--33 inclusive, the slide bar 109 is supported
at its outer end in a suitable bracket 109*, secured to the tipping plate 79 of the
toe head, the said slide bar at its outer end being provided at its upper side with
teeth, constituting a rack, which mesh with the pinion 400, journaled in the
yoke 401, swiveled for rotatable movement in the bracket or arm 109* referred to.
This pinion 400 is splined upon a shaft 402, which is made to slide freely through

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the hub of said pinion and is supported by the yoke 401. At its end adjacent the
middle of the machine the shaft 402 is connected by a universal joint 403 with a
short shaft 404, journaled in one of the arms of the yoke-like support 405*, mounted
on the standard of the machine. At its inner end this short shaft 404 is provided
with a gear wheel 405, normally in mesh with the gear 406, rigidly secured to a
companion gear 407, which with the gear 406 are freely journaled in one arm
of a yoke 408, fast on a lever 409, pivotally mounted at 410 in the said arm or
support 405. The gear 407 is in turn in. mesh with a mating gear 408, fast on a
second short shaft 411, journaled in the other arm of the forked support 405
and connected by universal joint 412 with the shaft 413, similar to the shaft 402
referred to. This shaft 413 is supported in the two arms of a yoke-like bearing 414,
swiveled in the end of an arm 1620* on the cap 174 (Fig. 1) of the heel head.
pinion 415, arranged between the arms of the yoke like bearing 414, is splined
upon the shaft 413 and meshes with the rack 416, connected with the slide bar 1620,
carrying the roller studs 162 that cause closing and opening of the heel wipers
as they are advanced and withdrawn.
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The swiveling of the yokes 401 and 414 permits the tipping plates of the two
heads of the machine to be rolled and tipped, as necessary, to meet the roll and
spring of the last and still maintain proper bearings for the shafts 402 and 413,
and the teeth of the pinions 400 and 415 are rounded somewhat at their crowns
to maintain proper engagement with their respective racks when the said tipping
plates are rolled or tipped.
Referring now to Figs. 29 and 30, the end of the rack 416 is provided with a
preferably rectangular aperture 417 to receive the flattened head 418 of the short
shaft 419, mounted in the forked end of the slide bar 1620 referred to, the short
shaft 419 having a preferably resilient crank arm 421, with a projection at its
end adapted to engage one or another of the recesses 421* in said slide bar and
by means of which the flattened head 418 may be turned into one or another
adjusted position to vary the amount of lost motion between its ends and the
opposite walls of the aperture 417, thereby providing means by which to vary the
movement of the bar 1620 and rack 416 one by the other. as will be described.
Referring now again to Figs. 32-33, the lower arm of the yoke 408* on the
levers 409 carries a short shaft, on which are fixed the toothed wheels 422 and 423,
the former being in mesh with a smaller pinion 424, also journaled in the said
arm on said yoke and arranged opposite but normally out of engagement with
a pinion 425, fast on the short shaft 404, to which the gear 405 is affixed.
The operation of the apparatus as thus far described is as follows: Assuming a
crooked last to be placed in position in the machine and supported upon the
usual heel-pin 157, if by reason of the swing of the last the toe end thereof does
not correspond in its alignment with the alignment of the toe pad and the toe
lasting devices, the operator when he moves the handle lever 83 to actuate the toe
lasting devices first raises the toe pad 93, and as the latter meets the toe end
of the last it will swing, as described, to adapt itself in alignment to the align-
ment of the end of the last, and by so doing will slide the bar 109 in the direc-
tion of its length to automatically position the toe lasting devices or wipers, also
in proper position, to act upon the end of the last, whatever be its swing. This
automatic adjustment of the toe lasting devices to meet the swing of the last also
acts through the rack on the outer end of the slide bar 109, pinion 400, shaft 402,
gears. 404, 406, 407, and 408, the shaft 413, pinion 415, rack 416. and slide
bar 1620 to also move the heel lasting devices or plates and the heel hand into
proper position to act upon the adjacent end of the last. Crooked lasts usually
present a gradual swing from toe to heel, the toe standing in one angular direc-
tion and the heel in an opposite angular direction, and as the proportional swing
of the heel as compared with the toe is usually about the same in different styles
of lasts it is perfectly clear that by proper adjustment of the parts the automatic
positioning of the toe lasting devices, as described, may be caused to simul-
taneously and automatically properly position the heel lasting devices for the heel.

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end of the same last. If, however, a last should be encountered wherein the
direction of swing at the heel is the same as the direction of swing at the toe,
the operator will throw the lever 409 in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 32,
and thereby disengage the gears 406, 407 from the gears 405, 408, and by the
same movement throw the pinion 424 and the gear 423 into engagement, respec-
tively, with the pinion 425 and the gear 408, so that thereafter any adjustment
of the toe lasting devices to meet the swing of the last will in rotating the
shaft 402 in the same direction as before now operate to rotate the shaft 413 in an
opposite direction from before to swing the heel lasting devices into position
having the same angular direction as the swing of the toe lasting devices:
Whatever be the direction of movement of the heel lasting devices by the toe
lasting devices, the extent of such movement is readily variable by means of the
crank arm 421, which varies the lost motion between the rack 416 and slide
bar 1620, as described. The mechanism described is also capable of automati-
cally moving or adjusting the toe lasting devices by or from the heel lasting
devices if it be the practice to operate the latter in advance of the former. In
other words, my invention comprehends the simultaneous and automatic shifting
of both the toe lasting devices and the heel lasting devices to meet the swing of
the last on operation of the machine for lasting. This shifting of the plates when
the mechanism is properly adjusted is necessarily accurate, or substantially so,
and requires no attention on the part of the operator when lasting.
When the toe lasting plates are withdrawn at the end of the lasting operation
and after the last has been released from the side lasting devices, stop pins 426
Fig. 24 act to center the toe lasting devices and through the mechanism described
also center the heel lasting devices, so that should the next last operated upon
chance to have an opposite swing the automatic movement will be simply from
the central position to one side instead of from the opposite side to that side.
The lever 409, by which the change in the direction of swing may be effected,
is preferably provided with suitable well known locking mechanism, such as indi-
cated at 427, co-operating with the toothed sector 428, by which to lock the said
sector and the parts in either one of the adjusted positions.
The gears 406, 407, and 422, 423, are preferably so far separated by the
yoke 408 as to enable the lever 409 when centrally positioned to hold all the said
gears from engaging the gears on the shafts 404, 411, thereby disconnecting the
shafts 402, 413, and leaving the toe and heel lasting devices independently
adjustable wherever it becomes desirable to so do.
So far as known to me I am the first so to connect or actuate the toe and heel
lasting devices that they will be automatically laterally adjustable to meet the
swings of different lasts substantially together or simultaneously instead of inde-
pendently, as heretofore, whatever mechanism may be employed in doing it.
Where as strictly automatic mechanism is not desired, but a manually onerable
mechanism that may be operated conveniently and without careful attention on
the part of the operator, I have provided a structure one form of which is illus-
trated in Figs. 34-46, inclusive, to which reference may now be had.
The toe wipers 105 (see Figs. 37 and 38) are shown as shaped to evenly meet
the sides of the toe end of a perfectly straight last when the latter is in position in
the machine. Hence for crooked.lasts presenting a swing of a greater or less
extent at their toe ends the said wipers must be shifted to the right, as in Fig. 37,
or to the left, as in Fig. 38, in order that they may still evenly meet the sides of
the toe end of a last which by reason of its swing stands in the alignment indi-
cated by the angular dotted lines, Figs. 37 and 38. To accomplish this trans-
verse shifting of the end wipers or lasting devices to meet lasts, either rights or
lefts, having a difference of swing, I have provided the end of the slide bar 109
(see Figs 35 and 37) with a rotatable stud 300, to the upper end of which is
attached a short crank arm 301, provided at its free end with a knob 302, adapted
to engage one or another of the series of recesses 303 in the end of the slide bar,
the said crank arm 301 being preferably resilient to enable the knob 302 to be

page_text: withdrawn from any one of said recesses and afterward be permitted to spring
into any other, as may be necessary for the adjustment of the stud 300, for a
purpose to be described. On the under side of the stud 300 is a flattened head 304,
arranged between the arms of the forked end of a lever 305, fulcrumed on a
stud 306, carried by the cap 103*, the tail end of the said lever being likewise
forked to present a curved or cam-shaped pathway 307. (Shown best in Fig. 39).
This camway 307 is designed to receive the roller stud 308, (see Fig. 36) carried
at the under side of the lever 309, pivoted at 310 on the operating handle 83, said
lever 309 being actuated to raise the said roller stud from and drop it into the
camway 307 by means of a sliding finger rod 311, arranged within the operating
handle and attached at 312 to the said lever 309 above its fulcrum. A spring 313
acts to press the finger rod 311 always to the right, Fig. 36, to hold the roller
stud 308 normally in the camway 307, said rod being provided with a depending
finger piece 314, adapted to be engaged by the thumb of the hand of the operator
when moving the handle lever 83, and by means of which finger piece the said
rod 311 may be moved to the left, Fig. 36, against the action of said spring to
lift the roller stud out from the said camway. With the handle lever 83 in its
normal position, Fig. 37, the roller stud 308 stands at the inner end of the cam-
way 307 and holds the lever 305 in its position Fig. 37, with the slide bar 109
also in its position Fig. 38, its depending roller studs 108 holding the toe wipers
in position to act upon a left last when in lasting position in the machine, the
alignment of said toe wipers being then normally in the position indicated by
the dotted line 316, Fig. 37, that is, the alignment of the toe wipers is nor
mally such as to adapt said wipers to a last of a certain swing, herein shown as
a left last. If it is desired to shift the alignment of the said wipers so as to
adapt the latter for a right last having an opposite swing, the operator will swing
the operating handle 83 in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 37, to actuate the
lasting devices, as before, and will not disturb the position of the finger piece 314
at the under side of said handle lever, permitting the spring to hold the said
finger piece in position with the roller stud 308 in the camway 307, so that said
roller stud in the rotation of the lever will shift the lever 305 in the direction of
the arrow 315, and thereby move the slide bar 109 in the direction of the arrow
thereon into its position Fig. 38, and through the roller studs 108 shifting the
toe wiper plates into position with their alignment, as indicated by dotted
lines 317, Fig. 38. On return of the handle lever 83 at the completion of the
lasting operation the roller stud 308 will return the said lever 305 and the wiper
plates again to their normal positions, Fig. 37, in readiness to act upon a left
last. When, however, it is desired to last on a left last, the alignment of the toe
wipers should of course be permitted to remain at that side of the center line of
the machine, (indicated by the dotted line 316, Fig. 37,) and in such case the
operator in swinging the handle lever 83 to actuate the lasting devices will by
.his thumb press the finger piece 314 to the left, Fig. 36, and thereby lift the
roller stud 308 out from the camway 307, so that in the swinging of the said
handle lever the lever 305, its connected slide bar 109, and the toe wipers will
remain in their normal positions, as in Fig. 37.
From the foregoing description it will be seen that the toe wipers are normally
in position to act upon a last having a certain swing-for instance, the swing of
a right or it may be of a left last--and that when a last having a swing adapted
to the normal position of the toe wipers is employed the mechanism is so inani-
pulated as to permit the said wipers to remain in their normal positions. When,
however, a last having an opposite swing is to be acted upon, the operator mani-
pulates the mechanism to shift the said lasting devices into opposite angular align-
ment for said other last, the mechanism, if left to itself automatically returning
said plates to their original position as to alignment after each lasting operation.
To lock the lasting devices in their proper positions for lasting, whatever be
'the swing, I have herein serrated the edge of the slide bar 109, as at 317, Fig. 39,
and have arranged to co-operate with the serrated edge of the said bar the ser-

page_text: rated end of a locking slide 318, jointed to the lever 319, pivoted about the
fulcrum stud 306 and having a tail portion 320 extended in the path of the
roller stud 308, so that whether said stud is maintained in the camway 307 or
be raised therefrom it will in each instance on the initial swinging movement of
the handle lever 83 move the locking lever 320 to first unlock the slide bar 109
to permit the latter to be moved, if any movement is to take place, and afterward
by clearing the end of the said tail portion 320 permit the said locking lever,
under the action of a spring 321, Fig, 37, to spring into position, holding the
locking slide 318 in engagement with the serrated edge 317 of the slide bar to
lock the same and the plates in the position in which they have been set for opera-
tion.
To vary the shift of the toe lasting devices, the resilient crank arm 301 may be
swung into one or another position to vary the angular position of the flattened
head 304 in the forked end of the lever 305, the amount of lost motion between
said head and the arms of the forked end of the said lever, according to the
particular angular position of the said head, determining the extent to which the
slide bar and the toe wipers will be moved or shifted upon movement of the
lever 305, which is always constant.
The forked end of the lever 305 is shown as provided with an inclined face 322
to enable the roller stud 308, when necessary, to move the said lever in order that
it may enter the camway 307. After having raised the roller stud 308, as
described, the operator may during the subsequent and usual movements of the
handle 83 permit the said roller stud to roll upon the tail 320 as a support, ren-
dering it unnecessary to keep the thumb constantly against the finger piece 314.
By reason of the serrated engagement of the locking device for holding the
plates in operative position said plates may be locked in any position or at any
angle, as desired.
The toe carriage may be longitudinally adjusted, as described with reference
to the machine Fig. 1, by means of the hand wheel 135, fast on the shaft 134,
carried by the table, and to which is attached the spur wheel 133, meshing with a
rack on the carriage.
Referring now particularly to Figs. 40 to 46 inclusive, a table such as is
marked 38 in Fig. 1 is provided, with suitable guideways for the sliding heel
carriage 138, made adjustable by means of a screw 139, (shown best in Fig. 41,)
held against longitudinal movement at one of its ends and provided with a
beveled pinion 140, which is adapted to be in mesh with a bevel wheel 141, fast
on a hand wheel shaft 142 journaled, on the table, and provided with a hand
wheel 143, in the manner indicated in Fig. 1, rotation of which causes longi-
tudinal adjustment of the carriage, as may be necessary. The heel carriage 138
is provided with two vertically extended arms or stands 144, slotted horizontally
at their upper ends to receive the adjustable pivot bolt 145, on which is pivoted
the tipping plate holder 146, shown as bifurcated at its rear end to receive the
curved slotted arm 147 on the carriage 138, a guide pin 148 passing through the
plate holder and the slotted arm. The tipping plate holder 146 at its rear end
carries a swivel nut 149, in which is threaded the adjusting screw 150, connected
at its lower end, preferably by a universal joint, with a lug on the slotted
arm 147 of the carriage. Rotation of the adjusting screw 150 swings the plate
holder and the parts carried thereby about the pivot 145 to vary the tip or vertical
inclination of the plate holder to adapt the parts carried thereby to the different
swings of different lasts.
The plate holder 146 at its opposite ends is provided with vertically extended
ears 151, to which is hung on the longitudinal trunnions 152 the tipping plate 153,
adapted to swing transversely about the longitudinal axes of the said trunnions
to adapt its parts to the roll of the heel end of the last, springs 154 at the sides
of the said plate maintaining the latter normally in central or horizontal position.
To the front of the tipping plate 153 is secured, as by a screw 155, the middle

page_text: portion of the clasp chain 156, within which is arranged the flexible clasp 157,
adapted to embrace the heel end of a last with the material thereupon.
The positioning devices 160 (see Fig. 44) are fulcrumed at 161 on the tipping
plate and have jointed to them at 102 (see Fig. 42) one of the ends of the
actuating levers 103, provided, respectively, with the angular slots 164, each of
said slots extending fongitudinally for a distance near its end adjacent the
joint 162 and then angularly, as shown, the angular portions of the two slots
extending at opposite angles and crossing each other like shears. Springs 165
are interposed between the actuating levers 163 and the tail portions 166 of the
positioning devices referred to, said springs being limited in their movements
by nuts 167 on the ends of the limiting bolts 168.
The wiper carriers are pivotally connected at 171, Fig. 40, to the end of a
common actuator 172, shown as a slide bar, said carriers having secured to their
upper sides adjustable wipers 173, although said wipers and carriers may be made
integral, if desired.
The sliding actuator bar 172 is arranged to slide in guideways in the under
side of the top plate 174, said bar at its rear end (see Fig. 40) having a longitu-
dinal slot 175, which receives the pin 176 on a hand lever 177, fulcrumed at 178
to the free end of a short pivot carrying lever, (not shown, it being immaterial
to this invention.)
Jointed to the under side of the hand lever 177 is a link 181, (shown best in
Fig. 42,) carrying at its free end a roller stud 182. dropping into the angular
slots 164 of the actuators referred to, said stud at its upper end being guided in
the slot 175 in the under side of the actuator bar, as shown in Fig. 41.
Having placed the last, with its shoe, upon the last support, shown as the usual
jack or heel pin 157, the operator, by means of the hand wheel 143, see Fig..1
moves the heel carriage to the left in the drawings to cause the heel clasp to
embrace the heel end of the last with the material thereupon. The operator now
draws the handle 177 toward him, in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 40, causing
its pin 176 to travel for a short distance in the slot 175 in the actuator bar without
moving the latter or the wipers. During the time of this last motion, however,
the roller stud 182 on the short link 181, connected with the said hand lever,.
moves to the left in the opposite angular portions of the slots 164 and causes the
latter to be thrown outwardly and thereby, through the springs 165, move the
inner or free ends of the positioning devices and clasp inwardly toward the heel.
end of the last to cause said clasp to tightly embrace the heel end of said last.
The pivots 162, connecting the positioning devices with their actuators, are
vertically extended to form bearings for rollers which enter the cam slots 169
Fig. 40 in the heel wiper carriers and cause the latter, with the heelwipers or
lasting devices carried thereby, to be opened and closed over the heel end of
the last as they are withdrawn or advanced by movement of the actuator bar 172
after the pin 176 reaches the end of its slot 175 in the actuator bar. The for-
ward end of the slot 175 is enlarged, as at 175*, to enable the pin of the roller
stud 182 to have considerable lateral movement therein for shifting of the wiper
plates, as hereinafter described, the rear and narrower portion of said slot acting
always to center the said pin with relation to its tipping plate whenever the
operating handle is returned to its original position.
The positioning devices, as shown, operate to stop the inward movement of
the heel plates always at substantially the same distance in from the outside
of the last whatever be the width of the latter.
To positively shift the heel wipers to the right or to the left, as may be
required, to adapt the same to heel ends of lasts, either rights or lefts, having
opposite inclinations, I have herein provided the under side of the handle
lever 177 with a sliding finger piece 330, which is jointed at its end
one arm
of a bell crank lever 331, (see Fig. 46) pivoted at 332 in the said lever and
having its horizontal arm engaging a circumferential groove in a roller 333,
depending from the said handle lever and mounted upon the lower end of a

page_text: pin 334, acted upon by a spring 335, which normally presses the said roller into
its lowermost position. When in such position, the said roller 333 enters a
cam groove 334 in a lever 335, pivoted at 336 (see Figs. 40 and 44) to an arm 337
of the tipping plate. The free end of the lever 335 is provided with a rotatable
stud 338, provided at its upper end with an arm 339, preferably resilient and
carrying a head 340, adapted to enter one or another of a series of recesses 341
in the said lever, the lower end of the said stud carrying a flattened head 342, which
enters a preferably rectangular aperture 343 in the transversely sliding bar 344,
mounted on the said plate. This transversely sliding bar is horizontally slotted
at 345 at its inner end to receive the depending end of the pivot pin carrying
the rollers 182 referred to, and shown best in Fig. 41. By transversely sliding
this bar 344 the pin referred to carrying the rollers 182 is carried to one or
to the other side of the longitudinal center line of the heel head, and thereby
through the carrier actuators, in the slots of which the rollers 182 are arranged,
acts to swing the carriers and the heel wipers thereon to one and then to the
opposite side of the said center line to cause the said wipers and the positioning
devices co-operating therewith to face first in one angular direction and then
in an opposite to thereby adapt the alignment of the same and the line of motion
of the wipers to the alignment of the heel end of the last whether it be a right
or a left or whatever be its degree of swing.
The heel wipers and clasp are normally in the position shown in Fig. 42,
wherein they face in the direction of the dotted line 346, which is so inclined
with relation to the median line of the head as to adapt said wipers and clasp
for the heel end of a left last. When now the operator swings the operating
handle to actuate the lasting devices, the depending roller stud 333 thereon
will engage the walls of the cam groove 334 in the lever 335 and swing the
latter into its position Fig. 44, shifting the slide bar 344 to thereby swing the
wiper carriers, wipers, and clasp, so that their alignment will be as indicated
by the dotted line 347 on Fig. 44, adapting the same to the heel end of a right
last. By turning the flattened head 342 into different positions the amount
of lost motion between its opposite edges and the walls of the aperture in the
slide bar in which it is located will be varied thereby to vary the movement of
the said wiper plates as desired.
It will be evident, of course, that with the roller 333 always in action the
wipers or lasting devices will be positioned, as indicated at 347, at each move-
ment of the operating handle. When, however, it is desired to have the plates
in the position indicated at 346 to operate upon the end of a last having an
opposite swing, the operator by his thumb will press the finger piece 330 to
the right, Fig. 46, and thereby lift the roller 333 out of engagement with the
walls of the cam groove 334, movement of the said operating handle then taking
place without moving the lever 335, thereby leaving the lasting plates in their
normal position.
To lock the heel lasting plates or devices and clasp in desired working posi-
tion, I have serrated a portion of the upper surface of the slide bar 344, as in
Fig. 40, and co-operating with this surface is the appropriately shaped end of a
locking lever 347, (see Fig. 45) pivoted at 348 to the tipping plate and having
its inclined upper end arranged adjacent to the handle lever 177, a spring 349
holding the said lever 347 against the said handle lever. Initial movement
of the handle lever depresses the raised end of the locking lever 347 and unlocks
the slide bar, permitting the latter to be moved or not, according to the posi-
tion of the roller 333, and by the time said roller shall have completed any
movement of the slide bar the moving handle lever 177 releases the locking
lever and permits it to spring into locking engagement with the sliding bar
to hold the latter against movement.
From the foregoing description, it will be clear that the end lasting devices
when lasting on crooked lasts are normally in such position or alignment as
will adapt the same to a last end having a certain swing or inclination-for-

page_text: instance, a right or a left-instead of being normally in an intermediate or cen-
tral position, adapted neither for a right nor a left crooked last, and that no
transverse shifting of the end lasting devices from this normal position or
inclination to an opposite position or inclination is necessary until a last end
of opposite swing is presented to the lasting devices and this regardless of the
manner in which the said plates are moved when they are to be shifted.
Of course by means of the flattened heads herein shown the end lasting
devices may be made to operate in the line of the head when straight lasts are
to be worked upon.
.
Another feature of this branch of my invention will now be understood,
which is a machine wherein the end lasting devices, if not already shifted for
a right or a left, may be so shifted manually by a means-e.g., the finger piece
and its connections auxiliary to the actuating means for said end lasting
devices, yet dependent for its operation upon the operation of said actuating
means. As an example of this, the right and left shifting of the end lasting
devices by the finger piece 330 is independent of the actuating means for and
to close the end lasting devices over the last, yet said finger piece is dependent
for its operation upon the handle lever which actuates the end lasting devices
in lasting.
The finger piece is herein shown as a convenient auxiliary means for varying
or eliminating the automatic shifting of the end lasting devices, as hereinafter
referred to, but my invention is not to be restricted to the use of a finger piece
as such auxiliary means.
Yet another feature of my invention is the automatic locking of the end
lasting devices in their right and left positions by operation of the actuating
means for closing said lasting devices over the last.
In the mechanism herein before described it will be noted that the wipers or
end lasting devices are automatically shifted into position to meet the swing
of the end of a last-for example, a right last-whenever the operating handle
is moved to actuate the lasting devices, but that the operator by moving the
finger piece on the operating handle may disconnect the automatic means for
shifting the lasting devices, so that said lasting devices will not be shifted on
movement of the operating handle.
As far as known to me I am the first to provide means for automatically
shifting the end lasting devices to meet the swing of a last in connection with
means for disconnecting said automatic shifting means at the will of the
operator.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A machine for lasting boots and shoes, containing toe, heel and side
lasting mechanisms, and a support for the last carrying the shoe to be lasted,
all constructed and arranged to permit said last and said toe and heel lasting
mechanisms to be relatively and automatically moved to bring the respective
lines of action of said toe and heel lasting mechanisms into substantial cor-
respondence with the line of direction in which the toe and heel portions of the
last respectively face, substantially as described.
2. A machine for lasting boots and shoes containing toe and heel lasting mecha-
nisms, and a support for the last carrying the shoe to be lasted, all constructed
and arranged to permit said last and said toe and heel lasting mechanisms to
be relatively and automatically moved to bring the respective lines of action of
said toe and heel lasting mechanisms into substantial corespondence with the
line of direction in which the toe and heel portions of the last respectively face,
substantially as described.
3. A lasting machine for use in lasting boots and shoes, containing a support
for the last and end lasting mechanism, constructed and arranged to permit

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relative and automatic movement of said last and end lasting mechanism to
enable the latter to act in a direction corresponding to the direction in which
the end of the last faces, substantially as described.
4. A machine for lasting boots and shoes, containing manually operated end
lasting mechanisms, an operating handle for the said end lasting mechanism,
a support for the last and the shoe thereupon, and means whereby movement of
the said operating handle acts first and automatically to align said end lasting
mechanism and the end of the last, and thereafter to lay the material of the
shoe over and upon said last.
5. A machine for lasting boots and shoes, containing a support for the last
with the shoe thereupon, and end lasting mechanism with a clasp adapted to
embrace the end of the last and the material thereupon, and means whereby
said clasp on meeting and adapting itself to the alignment of the end of the
last, acts automatically to move said end lasting mechanism also into alignment
with said end of the last.
6. A machine, for lasting boots and shoes containing end lasting mechanisms,
and a support for the last carrying the shoe to be lasted all constructed and
arranged to permit said last and said end lasting mechanism to be relatively
and automatically moved by said last to bring the alignment of said end lasting
mechanisms and the end of said last into substantial correspondence.
7. A machine for lasting boots and shoes, containing a support for the last
carrying the shoe to be lasted, toe, heel and side lasting mechanisms, means to
move said toe and heel lasting mechanisms one toward and from the other and
with relation to said side lasting mechanisms, said last-support and said toe
and heel lasting mechanisms being constructed and arranged to relatively and
automatically move to bring said toe and heel lasting mechanisms into substan-
tial alignment with the ends of said last.
8. A machine for lasting boots and shoes containing a support for the last
carrying the shoe to be lasted, toe, heel, and side lasting mechanisms, said
last-support and said toe and heel lasting mechanisms being constructed and
arranged to permit a relative and automatic movement to bring the alignment of
the ends of said last and the alignment of said toe and heel lasting mecha-
nisms into correspondence, said toe and heel lasting mechanisms also having
the capacity of rolling to accommodate the roll of said last and the capacity of
tipping to accommodate the spring of said last, substantially as described.
9. In a machine for lasting boots and shoes, a support for the last, toe and
heel lasting mechanisms, means to actuate said toe and heel lasting mechanisms,
said last-support and said toe and heel lasting mechanisms being constructed
and arranged automatically to permit alignment of the last relatively to the toe
and heel lasting mechanisms as an incident to the operation of the latter, sub-
stantially as described.
10. A machine for lasting boots and shoes, containing a support for the
last, with a shoe thereon, and end lasting mechanism with a member adapted
to engage the end of the last and the material thereupon, and means whereby
said member on meeting the end of the last or the material thereupon acts
automatically to move said end lasting mechanism into position in correspond-.
ence with the end of said last, as indicated by said positioning member.
11. In a lasting machine, end lasting plates, actuating means to move and
close the same, a member to bear against the side of the boot or shoe prior to
closure of the wiper-plates, and connections between said member and said last-
ing plates whereby the latter will be adjusted automatically by movement of
said member to act properly upon last ends whether rights or lefts presenting
difference of swing.
12. In a machine for lasting boots and shoes, end lasting plates mounted to
swing about a common center, a transverse slide-bar connected with said end
lasting plates to govern the relative movement of the latter about their common

page_text: center and thereby to adapt the same to the swing of the end of the boot or
shoe being lasted, whether a night or a left, combined with a swinging member
in the form of an end clasp, and connections between the same and said trans-
verse sliding bar for moving the latter and thereby automatically adjusting said,
end wiper plates to act properly upon the upper of the boot or shoe being lasted.'
13. in a lasting machine, the combination with the lasting devices and means
for actuating the same, of means automatically to cause relative movement of
said lasting devices and the last laterally to adapt the same for the swing of
lasts either rights or lefts.
14. In a lasting-machine, the combination with lasting devices and actuating
means therefor, of means acting automatically to cause said lasting devices in
their lasting movement to stop always at substantially the same distance in-
wardly from the sides of the last, whatever be the size or width of the latter,
substantially as described.
15. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices and actuating
means therefor, of means to place said lasting devices in starting positions sub-
stantially the same distance from the outside of said last, whatever the size or
width of the latter, substantially as described.
16. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices and actuating
means therefor, of means co-operating with the last or material thereupon for
automatically placing said lasting devices in starting positions at substantially
the same distance from the outside of said last, whatever the size or width of
the latter, substantially as described.
17. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices, and actuating
means therefor, of means co-operating with the last or with the material there-
upon to vary the inward limit of lasting movement of said lasting devices,
substantially as described.
18. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices and actuating
means therefor, of means to predeterminately vary the inward limit of lasting
movement of said lasting devices to meet varying sizes or widths of lasts, sub-
stantially as described.
19. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices and position-
ing devices to vary the inward limit of lasting movement of said lasting devices,
of means to successively operate said positioning devices and lasting devices,
substantially as described.
20. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices and predeter-
minate positioning devices therefor, of a single operating member connected with
and to successively operate said positioning and lasting devices, substantially
as described.
21. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices and predeter-
minate positioning devices therefor, of a single operating member connected
with and to, operate both said positioning and lasting devices, and furnishing a
lost motion between the beginning of movement of said operating member and
the beginning of the movement of said lasting devices during which period said
positioning devices are operated, substantially as described.
22. In a lasting machine, the combination with swinging wipers, means to
reciprocate the same and cam surfaces thereon to open and close said wipers, of
positioning means co-operating with said cam surfaces to change the position of
said wipers or either of them in addition to the change in position imparted
thereto by said actuating means, substantially as described.
23. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices and an operat-
ing member therefor, of a positioning device connected with and to be moved by
said operating member against the last, and a spring interposed between said
operating member and positioning device to enable the latter to be moved after
the former contacts with the last or the material thereupon, substantially, as
described.
24. In a lasting machine the combination with lasting devices and actuating

page_text: means therefor, of means for predeterminately varying the movement of said
lasting devices by said actuating means to cause said lasting devices to uniformly
operate on lasts of varying width, substantially as described.
25. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices, of means for
actuating the same, said means also acting to automatically vary the lasting
'movement of said lasting devices according to the width of the particular last
used, substantially as described. .
26. In a lasting machine the combination with lasting devices, a clasp and
means to open and close the same; both said lasting devices and clasp having
the capacity of lateral shifting or adjustment to meet the varying swings of right
or left lasts, of connecting devices between said lasting devices and said clasp
whereby lateral shifting of one causes lateral shifting of the other, substantially
as described.
27. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices, and a yielding
clasp capable of adapting itself to different shapes of lasts at the end thereof; of
means to shift said yielding clasp laterally to meet right and left lasts, means
'to vertically adjust said clasp to meet different springs of lasts and to roll it to
meet the angle due to the roll of the last, substantially as described.
.
28. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices, of a clasp
and positioning devices co-operating therewith to predeterminately position said
lasting devices at substantially the same distance inwardly from the outside of
said last, whatever the size or width of the latter substantially as described.
29. In a lasting-machine, the combination with end lasting devices, the posi-
tioning devices co-operating therewith to predeterminately position said lasting
devices at substantially the same distance inwardly from the outside of the last
whatever be the size or width of the latter, the chain yieldingly connected there-
with and the clasp arranged on said chain, substantially as described.
30. In a lasting machine, the combination with the swinging wipers, the
reciprocating slotted actuator therefor, an operating lever and a pin moving in
said slot and operated by said lever, combined with a latch adapted to hold said
lever in position with said pin at one end of the slot in said actuator, and means
to release said latch, substantially as described.
31. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices, an operating
"member therefor, connections between said operating member and lasting
devices, whereby initial movement of said operating member in one direction
takes place without corresponding movement of said lasting devices, and initial
movement of said operating member in an opposite direction causes corresponding
movement of said lasting devices.
32. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices, and positioning
means therefor, an operating member, operating connections between the same
and said lasting devices and positioning means, said operating connections auto-
matically causing movement of said positioning means prior to lasting movement
of said lasting devices on movement of said operating member in one direction,
but not in an opposite direction.
33. In a machine for lasting boots and shoes, a head mounted to swing laterally
about a relatively fixed center, a longitudinally movable slide-bar supported in
the head, and wiper plates mounted to swing about a common center on said
slide bar, combined with actuating means to move the wiper plates forward and
to close them over the toe of the last, substantially as described.
34. In a machine for lasting boots and shoes, a sliding carriage, a head
mounted thereon to swing laterally about a pivot beneath the center of the end
of the last, and means to retain said head in lateral adjustment on the carriage,
combined with wiper plates carried by the head, and actuating means to move
the said wiper plates forward and to close them over the toe of the last, substan-
tially as described.
35. In a machine for lasting boots and shoes, a head mounted to swing laterally
about a relatively fixed center, the wipers mounted upon the said head, means
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page_text: on said head to actuate the said wipers to wipe the material over and upon the
last or the inner' sole thereupon, and means to swing said head laterally to adapt
the said wipers to lasts, either rights or lefts, having different inclinations;
substantially as described.
36. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices having a
capacity for automatically shifting into one or another position to meet ends of
right or left shoes presenting differences of swing, of means for manually shift:
ing said lasting devices also into position for meeting ends of right or left shoes
presenting differences of swing, substantially as described.
37. In a lasting machine, the combination of toe-lasting devices and a last
supporting jack, capable of a relative movement about a center substantially in
vertical alignment with the central point of a toe of a last on the jack, mechanism
for relatively laterally. moving the toe-lasting devices and jack to change' the
longitudinal inclination of the toe-lasting devices and jack to adjust the toe-
lasting devices for right and left shoes.
38. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices to last the end
of a shoe and means independent of the last to actuate said lasting devices; of a
swinging support for said lasting devices, sa'd swinging support enabling said
lasting devices to be adjusted to meet the varying swings of last ends whether
rights or lefts.
39. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices to last the end
of a shoe, of a swinging support for said lasting devices, means indépendent of a
lást to actuate said lasting devices, and means automatically to swing said sup-
port with its said lasting devices to adapt the latter to act upon last ends
whether rights or lefts presenting a difference of swing.
40. In a lasting machine, the combination with lasting devices to last the
end of a shoe, of a swinging support for said lasting devices, means independent
of the last to actuate said lasting devices, means automatically to swing said
support with its said lasting devices to adapt the latter to act upon the last ends
whether rights or lefts presenting a difference of swing, and locking means to
lock said 'swinging support in position.
41! A lasting machine constructed and arranged' to operate' in the manner
described with reference to Figs. 16 to 19 inclusive.
42. In a lasting machine, lasting devices to lay the upper over the bottom of
the last at an end thereof, and means actuating both lasting devices to 'i
'impart
to one movement in excess of movement of another' when the latter' meets with
undue resistance as compared with resistance to the former.
43: An organized lasting machine containing a set of toe lasting devices, and
a set of heel lasting devices to lay the upper over the bottom of a last, and
means to impart to one of each set of said lasting devices movement in excess
of movement of another lasting device of the same set when the latter meets
with undue resistance as compared with the resistance to the former:
י.
44. An organized lasting machine, containing lasting devices for the toe and
for the heel which act to lay the upper over the bottom of a last; said lasting
devices at each end of the last 'being mounted at all times to freely swing trans-
versely to accommodate lasts of varying swing, and means independent of said
last to advance said lasting devices over the edges of the bottom of the last.
45. An organized lasting machine containing a set of toe lasting devices and
a set of heel lasting devices to lav the upper over the bottom of the last. and
means to impart to the lasting devices of each set, lasting movements; the align-
ment of which is varied and determined by the relative resistances opposed to
the movement of the devices of each set: whereby said lasting devices auto-
matically and freely adant themselves to the ends of a last, whether a right or
a left. whatever be its swing.
46: In a lasting machines, lasting devices to act upon the material at the end
of the last, and means to impart to one of said lasting devices inward-movement
in excess of another' of said 'lasting devices; said lasting devices at all times being

page_text: free to shift to the right or to the left when the advance movement of one duly
exceeds that offered to the advance movement of another during the lasting
operation.
47. A lasting machine containing a support for a last, and end lasting devices
consisting of wiper plates, means to open and close the same for lasting, and
means to enable said plates to freely and laterally move when opening and closing
to meet varying lasts, either rights or lefts, or having different side inclinations.
48. In an organized lasting-machine, a support for a last, end lasting devices
to act upon the material at the end of a last on said support, and means to effect
a relative movement between one of said lasting devices and said last in excess
of the relative movement between another of said lasting devices and last when
the last mentioned lasting device is opposed by an undue resistance as compared
with the resistance of the first mentioned last.
49. In a lasting machine, lasting devices to act upon the material at the end
of a last, means to impart to one of said lasting devices a movement at variance
with the movement imparted to another of said lasting devices, and means to
return the said lasting devices always to substantially the same starting positions.
50. In a lasting machine, lasting devices to lay the upper over the bottom of
the last at an end thereof, and means connected with a plurality of said lasting
devices to, move one of the same after a co-operating lasting device at the same
end of the loom has been stopped.
51. In a lasting machine, suitable means for causing simultaneous lateral
adjustment of the lasting devices at the toe and heel of said lasting devices, one
by or from the other to adapt said lasting devices to the swing presented by the
respective ends of the last or shoe.
52. A lasting-machine containing automatically laterally adjustable toe-lasting
devices, and automatically laterally adjustable heel-lasting devices, and connec-
tions between the two, whereby automatic lateral adjustment of the toe-lasting
devices causes corresponding lateral adjustment of the heel-lasting devices, and
vice versa.
53. A lasting-machine containing automatically laterally adjustable toe-lasting
devices, and automatically laterally adjustable heel-lasting devices, and connec-
tions between the two, whereby automatic lateral adjustment of the toe-lasting
devices causes corresponding lateral adjustment of the heel-lasting devices.
54. A lasting-machine, containing laterally-adjustable toe-lasting devices, and
laterally-adjustable heel-lasting devices, and means simultaneously and auto-
matically to adjust said heel and toe lasting devices.
55. In a lasting-machine, the combination with automatically laterally adjust-
able toe-lasting devices, and automatically laterally adjustable heel-lasting
devices, of devices connecting said toe and heel lasting devices. whereby one is
automatically actuated by the other, and means whereby the direction of auto-
matic movement of one by the other may be changed as necessary.
56. In a lasting-machine, the combination with the tipping and rolling toe-
lasting devices, and tipping and rolling heel-lasting devices, of means for simul-
taneously automatically and laterally adjusting the said toe-lasting devices and
heel-lasting, devices to meet the swing of a last.
57. In a lasting machine, the combination with the toc-lasting plates and the
heel-lasting plates, and actuating means therefor, of means to adjust laterally
the said toe and heel lasting plates automatically and simultaneously to meet
varying swings of lasts.
58. In a lasting-machine, the combination with the automatically laterally
adjustable toe-lasting devices, and the automatically laterally adjustable heel-
lasting devices, of connections between the two for operating the one by or with
the other, and means to vary the extent of movement of one by or with the other.
59. In a lasting-machine, the combination with the laterally-adjustable toe-
lasting devices, and laterally-adjustable heel-lasting devices, of means including
two shafts connecting the said toe and heel lasting devices for movement of one

page_text: by or with the other, and means to vary the direction of movement of one of said
shafts by or from the other.
60. A lasting-machine, containing laterally-adjustable toe-lasting devices, and
laterally-adjustable heel-lasting devices, means for simultaneously and automati-
cally adjusting the said toe and heel lasting devices laterally to meet varying
swings of lasts, and means to disconnect said toe and heel lasting devices to
enable them to be independently operated when desired.
61. In a lasting-machine containing a support for a last, and toe-lasting
devices and heel-lasting devices, combined. with means for automatically and
simultaneously adjusting said toe and heel lasting devices laterally into positions
automatically determined by a last on said support.
62. In a lasting-machine, the combination with toe and heel lasting devices,
of means co-operating with one end of the last to laterally shift the lasting devices
at the opposite end of the last.
63. In a lasting-machine, the combination with a support for a last, and toe
and heel lasting devices, of a rising-and falling toe-clasp, and connections between
the same and the said toe and heel lasting devices for laterally adjusting the
latter by the former.
64. In a lasting-machine, the combination with heel and toe lasting devices,
of manually-operable means to change by one operation the positions of the heel
and toe lasting devices to meet lasts, either rights or lefts, or lasts having a
difference of swing.
65. In a lasting-machine, the combination with toe and heel lasting devices,
of manually-operable means to simultaneously shift the said toe and heel lasting
devices to adapt the same to lasts, either rights or lefts, having a difference of
swing.
66. In a lasting-machine, the combination with toe and heel lasting devices,
of manually-operable means for simultaneously shifting the same to meet lasts,
either rights or lefts, having a difference of swing, of means for varying the
shifting movement of the said lasting devices by the said manually-operable
means.
67. In a lasting-machine, the combination with toe and heel lasting devices,
of manually-operable means for simultaneously shifting the same to accommo-
date lasts, either rights or lefts, having a difference of swing, and means whereby
the shifting of the said lasting devices by the said manually-operable means may
be in the same or in opposite directions as necessary.
68. In a lasting-machine, the combination with toe and heel lasting devices,
of the swinging stands upon which the said lasting devices are respectively
mounted, and manually-operable means for simultaneously swinging the said
stands to thereby shift the said lasting devices to meet lasts, either rights or
lefts, having a difference of swing.
69. In a lasting-machine, end lasting devices to act upon and in connection
with an end last, of manually-operable means for shifting the said end lasting
devices to accommodate an end of a last, either a right or left, having a
difference of swing, and adjustable means for varying the relative movement of
said lasting devices and manually-operable means, substantially as described.
70. In a lasting-machine, toe and heel lasting devices, and supports therefor
made movable to adapt said lasting devices to lasts, either rights, or lefts, having
a difference of swing, and connections between the said movable supports whereby
movement of one causes movement of the other.
71. In a lasting-machine, the combination with heel and toe lasting devices,
and means whereby said lasting devices automatically shift for lasts having a
difference of swing, of means for manually shifting the said lasting devices to
adapt the same for lasts having a difference of swing, said means for manually
shifting the said plates being used alone or supplementary to the automatic means
as desired.
72. In a lasting-machine, the combination with toe-lasting devices, and actua-

page_text: ting means therefor, and supporting means for the same, and-heel-lasting devices,
actuating means therefor, and supporting means for the same, of means co-opera-
ting with and for shifting both the said supporting means to adapt their said
lasting devices to the opposite ends of lasts having a difference of swing..
73. A lasting machine constructed and arranged to enable the lasting, devices
thereof to be adjusted to the right or to the left according to the swing of the
end of the last by means of the character shown in and described with reference
to Figs. 34-46, whereby the manual operation thereof requires practically no
attention on the part of the operator but becomes incidental to the usual opera-
tion of lasting.
74. A lasting machine containing end lasting. devices to act upon the material
at an end of a last, said lasting devices automatically and normally assuming a
position for a last of one swing, and means to shift the said-lasting devices into
position for a last of opposite swing when necessary.
75. A lasting machine containing end lasting devices to act upon the material
at an end of a last, said lasting devices normally assuming a position for a lást of
one swing, means to shift said lasting devices into position for a last-of-opposite
swing, and means to vary said normal position and the said position into which
the said lasting devices may be swung.
76. A lasting machine containing end lasting devices to act upon and last. the
material at an end' of a last, actuating means for said end-lasting devices, and
auxiliary means to shift said lasting devices for right and left lasts having a
difference of swing, said auxiliary means being- dependent for its operation upon
the operation of said actuating means.
77. A lasting machine containing end lasting. devices to act upon and last
material at an end of a last, actuating means for said end lasting devices, and
means auxiliary to said actuating means to shift said lasting devices for right
and left lasts, said níeans being operable by the hand of the operator operating
said actuating means in substantially one and the same operation.
78. In a lasting machine containing end lasting devices to last the material
at an end of a last, an operating handle controlling the lasting operation of said
devices, and means operable by a hand engaging said operating handle- to shift
said lasting devices for right and left lasts.
79. A lasting machine containing end lasting devices to last the material at
an end of a last, an operating handle controlling- the lasting movements of the
said lasting devices, and a movable member mounted on said operating handle.
movement of which relatively to said handle operates to cause said lasting devices
to be shifted for right and left lasts.
80. A lasting machine containing end lasting devices, an operating handle for
imparting lasting movement thereto, a movable member arranged close to said
operating handle, connections intermediate said movable member and said last-
ing devices for transversely shifting said end lasting devices to change the align-
ment thereof by movement of the said movable member, and means to render
said connections inoperative.
81. In a lasting machine, the combination with end lasting devices, and means
to transversely shift the same for rights and lefts, of means automatically to lock
said lasting devices in the positions into which they are shifted during the last-
ing operation.
82. In a lasting machine, end lasting devices to last the material at the end
of a shoe, actuating means therefor, means automatically to shift said lasting
devices into position to meet the swing of the end of a last, and means under
the control of the operator for disconnecting said automatic shifting means at
will.
83. The construction and use in machines for lasting boots and shoes, of means
whereby the lasting devices as they advance to perform the lasting operation
are automatically caused to act similarly upon the ends of lasts having different
degrees or directions of swing whether rights or lefts,

page_text: 84. The construction and use in machines for lasting boots and shoes, of means
such as herein shown and described for lasting the shoe upon the last whatever
be the degree or direction of swing of that last.
1000
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.