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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6923310 | Footwear article conveyer A footwear article conveyer includes an article-conveying line for receiving carriers thereon, a first driving unit for driving the carriers to move simultaneously along the article-conveying line, a carrier-returning line separate from the article-conveying line, a... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6438780 | Assembly for processing blanks An assembly for processing blanks comprises a first endless conveyor (1) with locations for holders for the blanks and at least one stationary processing station as well as optionally a second conveyor (6) arranged next to said first conveyor (1). The fir... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6345148 | Cylindrical denaturation steaming, heating, and freezing footwear fabrication machine A cylindrical footwear fabrication machine having a disk-shaped conveyance unit, enabling an effective increase of the steam moisturization and shaping period of footwear without occupying inordinate space and saving manpower expenditures. A pneumatic pre... | 02/05/2002 |
| 5781951 | Method for applying glue to a surface of pieces of footwear and device that carries out this method A method for applying glue to the upper surface of soles for footwear includes the steps of transferring a sole to a first station with the upper surface turned upward, picking up the outline of the sole, transferring the sole from the first station to a ... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5768732 | Device for assembling the upper and sole of a shoe Device comprising a conveyor designed to transport trays some of which have lasts covered with uppers and soles. The claimed device comprises: a table having several tracks perpendicular to the conveyor and each track is provided with a device for transfe... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5613596 | Shoe conveyer device A conveyer device includes a number of shafts coupled to a chain, and a number of platforms and beams rotatably coupled to the shafts. A number of springs are engaged on the shafts and are secured to the platforms and the beams for resiliently supporting ... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5263216 | Machine for lasting side and heel seat portions of shoes The machine comprises a shoe support (20), two side lasting assemblies (230) and a heel seat wiper mechansim (170), the shoe support comprising a last pin (24), a toe support (30) and a heel band mechanism (150). The heel band mechanism is mounted for rot... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5205009 | Shoe Support A shoe support for supporting lasts of a wide range of sizes comprises two support members in the form of spaced-apart bars (38) each of which can pivot at an axis (36) extending adjacent an elongated edge of its associated bar so that the distance betwee... | 04/27/1993 |
| 4876434 | Curing coatings of a moisture-curable composition An apparatus is provided with a chamber (20) into which a plurality of jets of moisture-laden air is directed through apertures (nozzles) 18. Through the chamber lasted shoes S, on the bottoms of which a coating of a moisture-curable adhesive composition ... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4866802 | Roughing machine for footware upper assemblies and a system that includes the roughing machine but typically includes as well other machines ahead of and following In an integrated system to achieve a number of operations on a footwear upper assembly, an automatic rougher that includes a roughing tool adapted to remove material--and hence rough--the cement margin (or bonding surface) of the footwear upper assembly t... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4769866 | Multi-station system to act upon footwear upper assemblies with transfer between stations thereof For use in a system that includes first and second machines to perform operations on a footwear upper assembly, a transfer machine that includes an activator arm assembly, and a gripper assembly rotatably and pivotally connected to one end of the activato... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4765011 | Mechanism to transfer a footwear upper assembly between stations of a multi-station system A transfer machine to move a footwear upper assembly (or the like) between stations in a footwear (or the like) processing system which transfer machine includes an end effector having a mechanism to grasp the footwear upper assembly. A base serves as a r... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4741062 | Last for automated shoe manufacture A last has an insert shaped to fit within a shoe during its manufacture and a stem fixed on the insert, projecting along an axis from the insert, and formed with radially oppositely projecting front and rear protrusions. A gripper has front and rear jaws ... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4644602 | Machine for automatically carding soles of footwear The machine carries out the operations of roughening, reducing, straightening and the like on soles for footwear. The sole is automatically transferred under a processing unit by a carrier moving stepwise and provided with a plurality of driving blocks. A... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4639963 | Shoe manufacturing system Shoe manufacturing system to rough and cement lasted uppers and outsoles including subsequent operations to load shank and bottom filler, dry, spot and sole lay, scour, and ink "cement construction" shoes. The system combines non-synchronous carrousel tra... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4610042 | Method and apparatus for making disposable shoe covers An apparatus for the continuous, automatic manufacture of individual shoe covers includes a supply of two continuous webs of material, a device for advancing each of the two webs through the apparatus, an adhesive applicator for applying an adhesive at lo... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4599759 | Transfer apparatus The transfer apparatus comprises a transfer arm (16) and a distributor (18). The transfer arm has two axes of movement (22,26) and is non-extendable so that it moves between a take-off station and an intermediate station (I) through a fixed distance. The ... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4553341 | Apparatus for the heat treatment of lasted shoe uppers Apparatus for the heat treatment of lasted shoe uppers, e.g. for use in the curing of moisture-curable adhesive applied to the periphery of a shoe bottom. The apparatus comprises a treatment station (2), a conveyor belt (4) and drive means therefor, the b... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4423530 | Shoe upper heat setting machine The heat setting machine comprises a channel along which a lasted shoe upper is conveyed to be subjected to heat. The apparatus comprises a resiliently deformable member extending along and secured to one side of the channel. The resiliently deformable me... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4422197 | Workpiece transporting mechanism A mechanism for so transporting an insole (118) rearwardly between a pair of molds (122,124) that regardless of the length of the insole the ball portion of the insole is in registry with the ball portions of the molds. This is accomplished by a mechanism... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4369536 | Apparatus for use in heat setting a lasted shoe upper The machine comprises a plurality of substantially enclosed channels in which a lasted shoe upper is subjected to hot air blown from both sides of the channel. Conveyors carry the uppers along the channels past inlets located at a distance of from 6 to 20... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4304021 | Method and apparatus for making disposable shoe covers In a method and apparatus for making disposable shoe covers from a substantially continuous supply of material, the material is moved continuously through a plurality of operating stations wherein two parallel sheets of the material are joined to form a s... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4304020 | Installation for shoe production Shoes with bonded type soles may be made at a higher rate of speed on a line with continuous travel of the lasts, at a predetermined and variable rate, where the series of automatic machines come, in most cases, to work on the last. Either a complete inst... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4296514 | Method for continuous processing of flexible workpieces A method for the continuous processing of laminar flexible workpieces, especially in the production of leather, shoes or clothing is disclosed. The method involves the pressing, especially hot-press gluing of workpieces wherein the workpieces are conveyed... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4202066 | Method of heat setting footwear A method of rapidly heat setting a shoe on a last wherein the shoe is subjected to dry air at elevated temperature, the air moving at a velocity at the shoe exterior of not less than five (5) meters per second for not more than three and one-half minutes.... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4181994 | Apparatus for manufacturing shoes An apparatus for manufacturing shoes characterized by shoe lasts arranged on a conveyor with a paired alternating arrangement with the shoe toes alternately pointing in opposite directions, and by a template adapted to be moved parallel to the conveyor ba... | 01/08/1980 |
| 3971087 | Apparatus for applying a sole to an upper in the manufacture of shoes An apparatus for applying a sole to an upper in the manufacture of shoes, comprising in combination: a seat for a sole, a shoe last destined to receive an upper completed with insole, a means for lifting and for transporting the sole, said means being cap... | 07/27/1976 |
| 3961390 | Processes and devices for buffing the soles of shoe uppers A process for carrying out the buffing of the upper sole of shoes wherein said buffing is effected by a sequence of passages of a buffing tool, wherein each buffing passage effects the machining of an elemental area of the sole of the upper, said sequence... | 06/08/1976 |
