US139577A - Improvement in sole-pressing machines - Google Patents

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Sole Prssing Machines. N0. 139,577. Patentedlu`n`e3r1873.

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CHARLES M. HAYDEN, OF HANOVER, ASSIGNOR `'IO HIMSELF AND ZENAS M. LANE, OF EAS'I ABINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SOLE-PRESSING MACHlNES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,577, dated June 3, 1873; application tiled May 6, 1873.

' of my invention sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to practice it.

`The invention relates particularly to an or` ganization ofthe machine by which the operator, in placing soles to be formed by the pressure mechanism, is not brought into such proximit-y to the press as to endanger the hands. For this purpose I use, in connection with a vertically-operating mold or dieplate, a llorizontal wheel, upon which are placed four, or any other suitable number, of bedplates, against or toward each of which, in turn, the die plate or platen moves to compress and shape th-e sole laid upon it. This wheel has an automatic intermittent rotative movement in conjunction with the automatic' intermittent downward movement of the platen, and while the wheelis at rest for the descent of theplaten the outer plate of the wheel is in position for the attendant to place thereon a sole.

It is in the organization thus generally described that the invention primarily consists.

The drawing represents a machine embodying the invention.

Figure l shows the machine in side elevation. Figif is a plan ot' it. Fig. 3 is an end view.

a denotes a stand or frame having side bearings b, in which slide vertical rods c, said rods having tixed to their tops a cross-head, d. to which the die plate or blockeis fixed, acrossbar, f, connecting the lower ends of the rods. To the bar f and to the `bottom 'of the top beam g of the frame a the outer ends ot' toggles h are jointed, the inner ends of said toggies being jointed together and to a link, i, that connects them with a crank, lo, on a shaft,

l, which shaft may be driven by any suitable means, the rotation of the crank effecting the just above this Wheel is a collar having au arm, 1', to which is jointed a pawl, s, the arm being connected by a link, t, with a crankarm, u, on the end of the shaftl. As the dieblock e descends the shaft throws 'back the arm r and the wheel is held stationary while the die-block presses into form the sole laid upon the plate p beneath the die-block, and asA the die-block rises the arm r is driven forward and turns the wheel sufficiently to bring the next platebeneath the die-block.

By the movements of the wheel "the attendant has always before him the outermost plate for placing the sole thereon, and has no occasion ever to introduce the hand under the platen, and by the position of the solereceiving plate he is enabled t0 place the sole more accurately for the action of the die-block than when he has to guard his hands from being taken by the descending platen. For this reason the machine may be run much more rapidly and efficiently than when made in the ordinary manner.

In a machine for pressing the soles of boots and shoes, I claim- In combination with the vertically-reciprocating pattern or die-block e the intermittentlyrotating wheel o with its die-plates p, operating substantially as shown and described.

Executed this 12th day of April, A D i373.

CHARLES M. HAYDEN.

Witnesses: A i

EaAsrUs G. HAYDEN, MARCUS P. RUSSELL.

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