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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6932330 | Method for generating and circulating a foam in an installation and system for application of this method The invention relates to a method for generating a foam from a liquid phase and a gas phase, a method for placing a foam in circulation in an installation, and a method for cleaning an installation by placing a foam in circulation. Generation of the foam is m... | 08/23/2005 |
| 5560062 | Method and device for machining the bottom of footwear A method for removing material from a portion of an edge of a shoe upper folded over the bottom of a shoe, comprises the steps of moving the bottom of the shoe in relation to lateral roughing wheels (15) for roughing the edges according to two different p... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5309589 | Automatic carding machine for footwear uppers and the like Automatic carding machine for uppers including a carriage upholding the upper to be scraped and travelling longitudinally along guides constrained to the top of the machine. The upper sector of the carriage runs on similar guides transversely. The movemen... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5101528 | Machine for roughing side walls portions of a shoe The speed of rotation of a side wall roughing tool (250) can be varied in accordances with the speed of relative movement between the tool (250) and side wall portions of the shoe being roughed (the traverse speed of the tool). To this end, a flow control... | 04/07/1992 |
| 4970745 | Operating on side wall portions of a lasted shoe A shoe support (18) for use in a machine for operating progressively onside wall portions of a lasted shoe upper comprises a last pin (722) and a toe support (792) both of which are movable heightwise to bring a shoe supported thereby to a heel seat heigh... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4951338 | Machine for performing a progressive operation on marginal portions of a shoe in the manufacture thereof Two embodiments of the invention are described, namely a machine for performing an adhesive-applying operation progressively along marginal portions of the bottoms of lasted shoes and a machine for performing a roughing operation progressively along side ... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4756038 | Machine for automatically roughing the cement margin of a footwear upper assembly Apparatus (and method) for automatically roughing the cement margin of a shoe or other footwear assembly, which footwear upper assembly includes an upper mounted on a last and an inner sole disposed upon the bottom of the last and connected to the upper. ... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4724562 | Device for controlling the position of a semi-product of a treated shoe A device for controlling the position of a semi-product of treated shoes comprises a holder, which is provided with a heel support and a toe cap support, the mutual distance of which is adjustable by means of a displacement chain according to the size of ... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4709434 | Device for controlling movement of a copying roller A device for improving the control of the correction movement of the copying roller of a machine for roughening a margin of a tightened shoe upper comprises a holder of the copying roller which is slidably seated in the basic body of a treating head and c... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4691398 | Shoe making machine A shoe making machine is disclosed. It comprises a base; a slide table movably mounted on the base; a supporting member fixedly mounted on the slide table and having a clamping device for clamping the heel portion of a shoe body; a pair of guide shafts br... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4649585 | Apparatus for roughening the margin of lasted footwear An apparatus for roughening the margin of lasted footwear uppers, comprising a body of a roughening head which is adapted for moving toward an article of semi-finished footwear, the holder of which article is supported by a table board rotatable about a v... | 03/17/1987 |
| 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 |
| 4555823 | Machine for the automatic carding of uppers for footwear A machine for the automatic carding of uppers for footwear, having a locking unit of the last formed by two parts, one for locking the last in the heel-zone and the other to support the toe, and positioned on a carriage movable on a bedplate; a template p... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4134278 | Machine for performing an operation along a non-rectilinear workpiece periphery A machine for roughing the margin of a shoe upper a desired distance inwardly of the non-rectilinear margin periphery during the rectilinear movement of a shoe assembly, comprising the upper mounted on a last, past a roughing tool. A sensing member, movab... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4126020 | Low inertia shoe machine tool support An automatic shoe bottom roughing machine has tool supports mounted on movable carrier arms to permit movement of the arms widthwise across the shoe bottom, the tool support being pivotable heightwise, both the tool supports and the arms being light in we... | 11/21/1978 |
| 4020660 | Roughing machine having tool position adjusting mechanism A roughing machine for roughing the margin of an upper of a shoe assembly comprised of a last having an insole on its bottom and the upper mounted thereon with the upper margin lying against and being secured to the insole periphery. The machine is so con... | 05/03/1977 |
| 3975932 | Roughing machine having tool position adjusting mechanism A roughing machine for roughing the margin of an upper of a shoe assembly comprised of a last having an insole on its bottom and the upper mounted thereon with the margin lying against and being secured to the insole periphery. The machine incorporates a ... | 08/24/1976 |
| 3932907 | Roughing machine A roughing machine for operating on a shoe assembly, comprised of a last having an insole located on its bottom and an upper mounted thereon with the upper margin lying against and being secured to the periphery of the insole, by roughing the upper margin... | 01/20/1976 |
