US444388A - Heel-burnishing machine - Google Patents

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NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

VINSLOW F. SAMPSON, OF GOFFSTOYN, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE SAMPSON AUTOMATIC HEEL BURNISHING MA- CHINE COMPANY, OF MANCHESTER, NEYV HAMPSHIRE.

HEEL-BURNISHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,388, dated January 6, 1891.

i Application filed March Z4, 1890. Serial No. 345,178. (No model.)

To all whom, if may conceive:

Be it known that LWINSLOW F. SAMPsoN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the town of Goffstown, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in I'leel-Burnishing Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exa-ct description.

The improvements of this invention are particularly adapted to heel-burnishing machines, such as described in my application for Letters Patent of the United States, Serial No. 320,524.

The improvements, in substance, consist, first, of a jack for securing a boot or shoe with its heel edge exposed and the inner surface of its sole against a rest therefor at one end of a reciprocatingly-rotated or otherwise suitablyoperated shaft, composed of a toggle-lever, which by one of its arms is jointed on said shaft and has a rest for the treading-face of the heel that is opposite to the heel-rest of said shaft, and is swiveled on the toggle-lever at the joint of its arms, in combination with a spring which is held on said shaft and at rest and pressing on the toggle-lever at the outer side of its joint and also preferably with a handle, which is hinged to the arm of the toggle-lever opposite to that jointed to said shaft, and is adapted to be swung inward toward the shaft and there held against accidental movement and outward from the shaft and to be brought to an abutment on the toggle-lever and all otherwise in its outer position to serve as a handle through which to operate the toggle-lever, and thereby to place its swiveled rest against or to remove it from contact with the treading-face of the heel, in the first instance fastening and holding the boot or shoe by its heel on the shaft, and in the second instance releasing it for its removal and the placing and holding of another; second, of an arm or frame carrying the burnisher, which is constructed and arranged and operated to move the burnisher over the edge of the boot or shoe, suitably located in the machine therefor, and from the treading-face of the heel to the upper, and

vice versa, and to secure elastic pressure of 5o the burnisher on the edge of the heel in its movement, as aforesaid, and which is transversely vertically divided in a parallel line with that of the heel into two parts, connected together by a swivel-joint, and otherwise adapted the part carrying the burnisher to swing on the other part, in one direction against and in the other direction by the tension of a spring suitably applied to the two parts therefor; third, of mechanism composed, 6o in substance, of a horizontal shaft adapted to be rocked to and fro in suitable stationary bearings, a vertical ratchet-wheel and concentric gear-wheel held on it, and both adapted to rotate as one on said rocker-shaft, a vertical arm,which is fulcru med and thus is adapted to swing on said shaft, and which carries a pawlthat in one direction of the swing of the arm and against the tension of a spring engages and thereby turns said ratchet and 7o gear-wheel, and in the other direction of the swing of the arm and by the reaction of said spring passes freely over and without effect on said ratchet-wheel, an arm held on said rocker-shaft and in one direction of the rock v7 5 of the shaft to abut against and thereby to swing said arm-carrying pawl in a direction to secure, by its pawl, a rotation of said ratchet and gear-wheel on said shaft, in combination with mechanism which is constructed and ar- 8o ranged and is in suitable connection with said rotating gear-wheel, and a frame or arm carrying a burnisher to move said burnisher forward and backward across the edge of a heel suitably presented and held' to it and 8: from the treading-face of the heel to the upu 4per of the boot or shoe; Ifourth, of a horizon-V tal rocker-shaft held on suitable stationary bearings, arms which are fixed and radially project. in opposite directions from said shaft, 9o and each at its outer end is provided with an abutment, both projected toward each other, in combination with a frame or arm, which is suitably supported and carries a` burnisher held on it, and has a pulleywheel for rotating the burnisher', two drivingpulley wheels held and each capable of separate and independent rotation on said arm or frame, a belt to drive said driving-pulley wheels and the burnisher, and a belt-shipper device which isheld on and is arranged to be moved on said burnisher-earrying frame and has a block presenting two abutment faces, one on opposite sides thereof and both in the vertical plane of and between said abutmen ts of said rocker-shaft and to be worked first by one and then by the other of said shaft-abutments, and thereby to secure a movement of said belt-shipper in opposite directions on said burnisher-earrying frame or arm, and a placing of said driving-belt in operative position on either one or the other of said pulley-wheels, driven in opposite directions and a rotation ofthe burnisher in either one or the other direction, as the case may be.

In addition to the above, the invention consists of other improvements in detail hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, a machine for burnishing the heels of boots or shoes and of the class to which the improvements of this invention are particularly applicable is illustrated.

Figure l is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a front elevation. Figs. 2 and 2" are sectional views in detail, as will hereinafter appear. Fig. 3 `is an end elevation of the left-hand side of the machine. Fig. i is a plan view in detail and enlarged of the mechanism or jack (turned over) to secure a boot or shoe in position in the machinefor burnishing its heel.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation in detail and enlarged of the jack mechanism in its proper position. Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view in detail and enlarged, line ti 6, Fig. l. Fig. 7 is a plan view in detail, enlarged, and detached of the under side of the frame which carries the burnisher-tool, all as hereinafter appears. Fig. Sis an elevation of a part of the mechanism of Fig. 7, and detached therefrom.

In the drawings, A represents the horizontal bed of the machine, supported on legs Al" at each corner, two partially shown, or in any other suitable manner.

B is the driving-shaft. This shaft is horizontal, andit is underthe rear portion, and it is supported and turns in suitable fixed depending bearing-blocks A2 A2 of the bed A.

13 B2 are fixed and loose pulley-wheels held on the shaft B at its end projecting beyond the right hand of the bed, and B3 is a vertical pinion gear-wheel xed on the projecting end portion of the shaft which is opposite to the pulley B. The pinion B3 is at the rear and meshes a vertical gear-wheel B", held and turning on a fixed horizontal stud B5 of the block A20 at the left hand of the bed. The gear wheel B* has a radial slot B, at which, by headed screw-bolt and screw-nut BT, pivot-connection is made of one end of a pitman-rod Bl", which at its other end is pivoted and connected to the lower end of a vertical arm B", intermediately fulcrumed and hung on a fixed horizontal stud An of a post A4 at the front side and left hand of the bed, and at its upper end portion it has a segmental gear B1", concentric with the axis of stud A.

C is a vertical pinion gear-wheel at upper si'de of and meshing segmental gear Bw and held on the left-hand end portion of a horizontal shaft C2, that. turns in bearings of the upper end of a post A* and extends therefrom, and its end portion C3 at the right hand of the bed A is enlarged and presents an end and vertical flat face C4 in a plane crossing the axial line of the shaft C2 and on this face C the boot or shoe (not shown) the heel of which is to be burnished is secured by a jack mechanism, hereinafter described, and which constitutes one feature of this invention. 'lhe axis of shaft (L2 is in the vertical plane of the axis of ful'crum-stud A and pivotal connection of lever-arm ll and pitman-rod B8 when said arm and rod are in the position shown in Fig. l.

All parts of the jack mechanism are carried by and they rotate in common with the shaft 2, and the mechanism consists of an arm Cf, a toggle-lever C"l C1, a bent spring C11, and, preferably, a handle C2 for the toggle-lever for convenience of working it to place the jack out of its holding position against the treading-face of the boot or shoe, otherwise at the inner side of the sole at its heel portion at rest against the heel-face Gl of the shaft C2, upon and over which the boot 0r shoe is entered. The several parts referred to are in a common horizontal plane below the shaft (J2, and the arm (l8 is rigidly7 but adjustably held on and projects angularly from and toward lthe heel-holding face CL of said shaft, and at its outer end it is pivoted or hinged to the outer end of one arm C9 of the toggle-lever CJ C1", the pintle-joint C1 of which is in a vertical plane forward of the licei-face (Ll of the shaft C2, and its arm C10 at its outer end is in front of the shaft C2. The pintle of thepintlejoint C13 of the toggle-lever extends upward and into a position opposite to the heel-face Cl ofthe shaft Cwhere it has a flat face C to bear onthetreading-faceoftheheelofabootorshoe, otherwise entered onto the shaft and resting at the inner heel portion of the sole against the heel-face of said shaft C2, all as described. The bent spring C11 is made of a strip of heavy sheet metal. This spring at one end is rigidly held on and extends from the rear side of the shaft (l2 in a curvilinear direction around the outside of both arms of the toggie-lever, and its outer free end rests upon the toggle-lever joint C13, all so as to exert pressure on the'toggle-lever and with its arms straightened out to press thereon and therethrough, and thus to firmly confine a heel to and upon the heel-face C4 of the shaft C2.

The handle Cl2 for the toggle-lever is hung by a butt-hinge CH on the outer end of the arm C10 of the toggle-lever, so as to be swung and placed either inward toward the shaft C2 or outward and in extension of said arm C1 of the toggle-lever and placed inward. It is conveniently stowed away, 'as it were, and there retained against accidental displacement by a bent spring C16, attached to arm C10 and arranged to bear on the butt-hinge of the handle and placed outward against the end of the toggle-arm C10. It serves as a rest against which the operator can press his leg, and thereby work the toggle-lever in a direction against its bent spring C11 to release the jack from its hold on and confinement of the boot or shoe at its heel against the heel-face C1 of the shaft C2 when desired to remove the boot or shoe and replace it with another.

The boot or shoe jacked as explained has the edge of its heel which is to be burnished exposed at all parts and from one end of the breast of the heel to the other thereof and from the treading-face of the heel to the upper of the boot or shoe.

Again, the boot or shoe jacked, as described, is reciprocated in a circle about the axis of the shaft C2 by the action of the driving-shaf t 3, pitman-rod B8, arm B11, and its segmental gear B111 and pinion-gear C on the shaft C2, it being understood that the drivin g-shaftis under continuous rotation. By adjusting the pivot-connection of pitman-rod B2 with the driving gear-wheel B1 at a greater or less distance from the center of rotation of said wheel, the length of the arc of reciprocation of boot or shoe heel can be made more or less, as may be required or desired, to suit heels of greater or less length of edge to be burnished.

C17 is an arc-shaped shield held on the post A1 and in position to cover and guard the pinion and segmental gear-wheels C B10 at and around their upper portions.

D2 is a horizontal shaft carrying the burnisher D. (Shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1.) The burnisher D is of circular shape with a convex or rounded edge, and is confined on and between collars D10 at one end portion of the shaft, and all so that the burnisher-wheel is in the vertical plane of the heel of the boot or shoe jacked on the shaft C2, and the axis of the burnisher-shaft D2 is in a vertical plane coincident with that of said shaft C2, and the shaft D2 extends toward the right hand of the machine. The burnisher-shaft at its opposite end portions turns in bearings D5 of one end of a frame or arm D1 D11, which isin two transverse sections or parts butted end to end and jointed by a swivel-pin D12, and also arranged and applied together, as hereinafter explained, and the part D1 at its end opposite to that swiveled to part D11is of fork shape, and is fastened to a horizontal bar or rod D, suspended at its opposite endl portions and extending across and between and free to be moved, as hereinafter appears, lengthwise, and to rotate in bearings at the upper ends of upright forked arms A5 of a fixed post A7 at the rear portion of the machine-bed A. The vertical plane of the axis of the rod D6 is parallel to the vertical plane of that of the shaft C2, having the boot or shoe jacked to it, as stated, and also of that of the shaft D2, carrying the burnisher D.

The burnisher D in operation is at the upper side of the boot or shoe heel, jacked and reciprocated as described. The carrier or frame D1 D11 for the burnisher D, with the burnisher out. of operative position, inolines more or less upward from its end hung on the rod D5.

M is a lever which extends more or less horizontally from front to rear, and at the front of the machine has a handle M2, at the rear a counterbalancing-weight M1, and intermediate of its ends it is hung on a fulcrum M1 of the post A1, supporting, as explained, the'burnisher-carrier D1 D11.

M5 is a verticalV spiral spring, at its lower end hung on the handle-lever M and at its upper end on the front swiveled part D11 of the burnisher-carrier D1 D11, and by pressing this lever downward said carrier is lowered and the burnisher is placed in operative position on the heel edge of the jacked boot or shoe, and is there held (see Fig. 25) by means of side pin MG at the front end portion of the handle-lever M, then in engagement with a hook-shaped end M7 of a vertical arm M8, rigidly held on one end of ahorizontal rod M9, which is contained and turns in a horizontal tubular bearing M10, secured to the bed A, Fig. 2b, and at its opposite end has a rigidlyattached and upwardly-projecting arm M11, on which is hung one end of a spiral spring M12, that at its opposite end is hung on a stationary post M15, and all so that the tension of the spiral spring M12, working on the arm M11 and thence through the shaft M9 and its catch-hook M7, holds said catch in engagement with the pin MG of the handle-lever M until otherwise it is released of engagement in the operation of the machine, as will hereinafter appear. The spiral spring M5 allows the burnisher to yield upwardly and downwardly, so that the burnisher can conform to the varying distances of the heel edge from the axis of its oscillating rotation; and again as the part D11 of the burnisher-carrier D1 D11, and to which said spring M5 is hung and on which it acts, is swiveled on the part D1, as described, the burnisher can further automatically adjust itself to the heel edge, for the reason that the burnisher is thus made capable of a rocking movement on the heeledge, secured from the tension of said spring, limited, however, in an upward direction by an adjustable stop-pin M11, held on the part D1 and bearing on the upper face of the part D11 of the burnisher-carrier and at the side IOO IIO

of the axis of the swivel-connection of said parts opposite to that at which said spring is hung.

M15 is an upright rod,-which is secured to the handle-lever M, preferably, so as to be vertically adjustable thereon, and extends upward toward and against the under side of the part D1 of the burnishercarrier D1 D11, and downward loosely through and below the bed A, where it is provided with a stop-block M16, preferably adjustable on it. This rod M15 moves up and down with the handle-lever M, and in the operation of the machine its upper end limits the downward movement of the burnisher-carrier D1 D11, as also of the burnisher in relation to the heel edge being burnished, and its stop-block M1G by abutment against the underside of the bed A limits the upward movement of the handle-lever M, and also the burnisher-carrier D1 D11, when the holding-catch Mz MS is freed from the pin M6 of the handle-lever, as will hereinafter appear and be explained in the operation of the machine.

M111 M11 is a vertical bell-crank lever, which is fulcrumed at its angle M12 on a fixed support H111 of the bed-plate A and so that its upper arm M111 lies across the vertical plane of movement of the handle-lever M and its lower arm M11, having a slotted guide M2O for the passage of the driving-belt, (not shown,) is at one side of the fixed and loose pulley-wheels B B2 of the driving-shaft.

The crank-lever M1G M1T and the slotted guide M211 constitute a Shipper to ship the driving-belt from the loose to the fixed pulley, and vice versa.

Forcing the handle-lever M downward to place the burnisher into operative position on the edge of the heel of the jacked boot or shoe and to engage it with the catch-arm MT therefor,all as deseribed,brings thatleverin to abutment against the upper edge of the upper arm of the crank-lever and swings the cranklever on its fulcrnm in a direction to move the driving-belt engaged with, as stated, from off the loose pulley onto the fixed pulley, and thereby the machine is put into operation. Freeing the handle-lever and allowing it to move upward by the action of its spring M5, all as described, releases the crank-lever M111 M11 to the reaction of a spiral spring M21, at one end secured to the lower arm M1T of the crank-lever and at the other end to the fixed support M12, whereby the crank-lever is moved in a direct-ion carrying the driving-belt from off the fixed pulley onto the loose pulley securing a stopping of the running of the inachine.

F is a vertical pulley-wheel held on and located between the opposite end bearings of the burnisher-shaft D2, which is thereby or otherwise suitably confined against lengthwise movement through its bearings D3. F2 F2 are two similar pulley-wheels arranged side by side and each carrying, respectively', a similar and smaller pulley-wheel F1 F5. These pulley-wheels are severally arranged to turn in pairs on the rod D6; but each pair F2 F1 and F3 F5 turns independently and separately from the other pair and all confined against endwise movement on said rod by the fork ends D5 of the burnisher-carrying frame D4 D11, or otherwise suitably. Each smaller pulley-wheel F4 F5 of the two pairs of pulley-wheels isconnected by a belt, (not showin) so as to be driven in opposite directions, and the larger pulley-wheels F2 F3 have a belt F, Fig. 3, to connect them, either one or the other, according as the belt is placed on one or the other, with the pulley-wheel F of the burnisher-shaft D2, and thereby to rotate the burnisher in one direction when the belt F is on the pulley-wheel F2 and in the other and opposite direction when said belt is on the other pulley-wheel F2, and the belt is automatically shifted from one pulleywheel F2 to the other F11, and vice versa, as will hereinafter appeal'.

The rod D11, having the burnisher-carrying frame D1 D11 held on it, as explained, extends from its said supports A5 toward the left of the bed, and its outer end portion D`7 is screwthreaded and receives a screw-threaded and milled collar G, adjustable lengthwise on said rod. This collar G has a peripheral groove Gr1 at opposite horizontal diametrical points engaged by the upper fork-shaped ends of a vertical lever-arm G4, hung on a fixed horizontal fulcrum-pin A1 of an upright A111 and carrying a vertical bevel gear-wheel G11. The bevel gear-wheel G11 engages a larger vertical bevel gear-Wheel H, integral with or attached to and turning as one with a vertical ratchet-wheel J2 on a horizontal shaft H2, su pported and turning at its opposite end portions in suitable bearings of the post M12 and the upward extension of the bearing-block A211, hereinbefore referred to, of the bed A.

J 1 is a gravity-pawl located at the upper side and by its toe engaging the teeth of the ratchet-wheel J 8 and by its heel fulcrurned on the upper end of a vertical arm J, hung and swinging on and projecting downward below the shaft lf2 and at its lower end portion presenting a flat and vertical face J 1, that is on the same side of it as the engagement of the pawl JT with the ratchet-wheel J2.

J1" is a spiral spring at one end4 hung on Vthe upper end portion of the pawl-carrying arln Jj and at the other end on the upright A11), before referred to, of the bed. By a swing of the arm J1 in one direction and the then engagement of the pawl with the ratchetwheel J8 the ratchet-wheel .T11 and its companion bevel gear-wheel ll are turned in a corresponding direction, and on a swing of the arm J11 in the opposite direction the pawl moves backward over the ratchet-wheel without effect thereon to turn it. The swing of the arm JG to turn the ratchet-wheel, as described, is against the tension and its swing in the opposite direction is by the reactionof the spring J1".

J11 is an arm fixed on the shaft H2 and having a side friction-roller projection J 12 at its outer and lower end for abutment against the fiat face J 1 of' the l pawl-carrying arm J 1, and also that by rotating the shaft H2 in the proper direction to place the projection J 12 of its arm J11 in abutment with the fiat face J1 of said arm .l 11 theratchet-Wheel J 8 and its companion bevel gear-wheel H are turned, as

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above explained, and thereby the bevel gearwheel G14, in mesh with said gear-wheel H and its shaft G1, are also turned, causing, through the crank connection of fork-shaped lever G1 with said shaft G7 and grooved collar G of rod D6, a lengthwise movement of said rod D'i forward and backward through the bearings of its support., and also of the arm or framerDt D11 and of the burnisher, across the edge and from the treading-face of the heel toward the upper of the boot or shoe, and vice versa. l

The above-d escribed movement of the shaft H2 is a rocking one, and the movement described of the ratchet-wheel J S and its companion bevel gear-wheel H and the bevel gearwheel G11 and its shaft G7 are severally an intermittent rotary one, but always in one and the same direction.

The rocking movement of the shaft H2, as above stated, is secured from the connection of the crank-arm H10 of the shaft through the pitman-rod H'1 with the vertical arm B9 for vibrating the edge of the heel of the jacked boot or shoe under and in contact with the burnisher, and said arm B9 is vibrated by the rotation of the gear-wheel B1 in connection with it by pitman-rod BS.

O is a collar fixed on the end portion of the shaft H2 opposite to that having the crankarm H10, and OO3 are two (more or less) radial arms held on and projecting in opposite directions from the collar O and having a Each radial arm O2 O3 carries an adjustable, but otherwise stationary, abutment-block 01,'projecting toward each other and within the V- opening of the arms. The abutment-blocks O1 are in a common vertical plane, and that of an abutment-block O5 for both of them, and which is held on the lower end portion of a vertical rod O, preferably adj ustably fixed in one end of a horizontal lever-arm O1, that is fulcrumed on and lies across the under side of the part D4 of the burnisher-carrying frame D1 D11, and has a horizontal segmental gear O8 in mesh with a horizontal segmental gear O9 of a vertical shaft O10, turning and suit-ably confined in bearings of and also proj ected upward and downward from the part D4 of said frame D1 D11, and at each of its opposite end portions provided with an arm O11, each of which has an eye-guide O12, which are otherwise arranged to engage the upper and lower lengths of the driving-belt F11, connecting loose pulley-wheels F2 F3 of the rod or shaft D, reciprocated as before described, with the pulley-wheel F of the burnisher D.

' By the rock of the shaft H2 as described, said abutment-blocks 02 O3, held on the shaft, as explained, are brought, the one in the one direction of the rock of the shaft and the other in the other direction of the rock of the shaft into bearing and action on the abutmentblock O5, making part of the mechanism engaged with the driving-belt FG, as described,

and thereby through the operation of said Vmechanism the belt is shifted from one to the its heel to the headed end C3 of the shaft,-as

explained, on which by depressing the handle-lever M theburnisher D is brought to bear and held at a hearing on the exposed edge of the jacked heel, and the driving-beltis shipped onto the fixed driving-pulley wheel B2 of the driving-shaft, thus putting the machine into and continuing it in operation until by the rotation of the ratchet-wheel J 11, the pin M2'2 thereof bein brought to a bearing on the vertical arm M11, connected to the catch-lever M" MS, holding the handle-lever M in its depressed position, said catch is released from said lever, on which and by the upward movement of said lever the driving-belt is shipped from the fixed driving-pulley to the loose pulley of the shaft, which secures a stop of the running of the machine, as also alifting of the burnisher from the heel edge it had been burnishing, freeing the boot or shoe for removal from the machine by releasing the hold of the jack thereon, as explained, and placing the machine in readiness for another boot or shoe to be inserted and jacked or secured and set into motion, all as above described.

Vith the machine in operation, as eX- plained, the jacked boot or shoe is vibrated forward and backward with its heel edge in contact with the burnisher, which at the same time is rotated in one and then in an opposite direction, is moved across the edge of the heel from the treading-face thereof to the upper of the boot or shoe, and vice versa, and, further, is exerting an elastic or yielding pressure on and is adjusting itself inward to and outward from and otherwise, owing to the two-part construction of its carryingframe D'1 D11, and swivel-connection of said parts to the varying curves and outlines of the heel edge. The movement of the burnisher over and across the edge of the heel from the treading-face ot' the heel to the upper and the change in the direction of rotation of the bu rnisher and the stopping of the running of the machine are severally and all primarily secured bythe rock of a single shaft H2, which of itself is adapted and carries mechanism in part fixed to and in another part turning on it and all otherwise in combination with mechanisms interposed between the parts carried by and the parts turning on it, and the devices to be operated thereby as to secure the said several operations specied.

For the better illustration and description IOO of this invention, all as above, itwas thought advisable to illustrate and describe ma ny parts in no manner belonging to the j ircseiit invention, but to that forming the snbjectmatter ot' the application referred to, and all such parts ai'e hereby.separately and severally disclaimed, except in so far as they are in their combinations with the new elements of the machine of thisinvention distinct silliject-matters of invention, all as fully appears in the several clauses of claims hereof.

Having thus described my in vei'ition,wliat l .claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1S-

l. In a. machine for burnishing the edges of heels of boots or shoes, in combination, a shaft suitably supported and adapted to be reciprocatingly rotated and at one end to secure the rest of a boot or shoe at its inner heel portion, the combination of a jack composed of a toggle-lever jointed by one ol. its arms to said shaft and having the joint of its arms opposite to said end rest of said shaft for the heel, a rest held and swiveled on it and presenting a face toward the lieel-face of said shaft, and a spring held on said shaft and arranged to press against and on the outer side of and against the joint of said toggle-lever, a burnislier, and means to operate said burnisher and to move it across the edge and from the treading-face to the sole face of the heel held between the heel-rests of said jack and said reciproeatingly-rotated shaft carrying said jack, all substantially described, for t-lie purpose specified.

2. In a machine for burnishing the edges of heels of boots or shoes, in combination, a shaft suitably supported and adapted to be rcciprocatingly rotated and at one end to secure the rest of a boot or shoe at. its inner heel portion, the combination of a jack composed of a toggle-lever jointed by one of its arms to said shaft and having the joint ot its arms opposite to said end rest of said shaft for the heel, a rest held and swiveled on it and picsenting a face toward the heel-face of said shaft, a sprin g held on said shaft and arranged to press against and on the outer side of and against the joint of said toggle-lever, and a handle to the outerend of the arm of the toggle-lever opposite to that arm jointed to said shaft and adapted otherwise to be swungT toward and outward from said shaft into line and butted against the end of the arm to which it is jointed, a burnisher, and means to operate said buriiislier and to move it across the edge and from the treading-face to the sole-face of the heel held between the heelrests of said jack and said reciprocatinglyrotated shaft carrying said jack, all substantially as described, for the purposes speci fied.

3. Iii a inachinejor burnishing the edges of heels of boots or shoes, the combination, with the franie or arin D4 D, which is n'iade in two parts connected together' by a swiveljoint D12 and has its part D4 at its outer end suspended for the frame to be moved laterally and horizontally and to swing|` vertically, and its part D at its outer end provided with the buriiisher,ot` a springapplied tothe parl; D of said frame and otherwise adapted to exert yielding pi'essurc thereon in its swivel movement, and au abutment M, held on the part D and adapted for contactl with the part D, substantially as described, for the purposes specified.

Ji. In a machine for burnisliing the edges of heels ot' boots or shoes, substantially as described, a horizontal rocker-shaft Il?, having suitable bearings, means to rock said shaft, a ratchet-wheel J8 and a gear'wheel ll', held thereon and adapted to rotate as one, a vertical arm J", fulcrumcd and to swing on said shaft and at its upper end having a pawl .l to en gage the rateliet-wheel, and thereby to rotate it and its said gear-wheel in one direction of the swing of the vertical arm and in the other direction thereof to pass freely over the ratchet, a radial arm held on and in one direction only of the rock of said shaft to work on said pawl-carrying arm, and a spring at one end held on said arin and at the other on a fixed support, in combination with meehaiiisin connected with the burnisher of the machine and with and to be operated by the rotation of said gear-wheel Il, whereby the burnislier is made to travel to and fro over the edge and freni the treading-face of the heel to the upper, and vice versa, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

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5. In a machine for burnishing the edges of heels of boots or shoes, in combination, appliances for holding the boot or shoe with the edge of its heel exposed, means for reciprocatingly rotating said boot or shoe holding appliances, a burnisher, means for rotating said burnislier, consisting of a pulley-wheel held on said burnislier and together turning in suitable bearings, two loose pulley-wheels held and turning and located side by side on a common shaft and separately adapted to be driven, and a belt connecting said loose pul ley-wheels and said burnisher pulley-wlieel, a horizontal rocker-shaft H2, having suitable bearings, means to rock said shaft H2, arms O2 O3, held on and radially projected from said shaft H2 and both in a common vertical plane and each at its outer end having an abutment-block O4, an abutment-block O5, havin g an abutmen t-face on its opposite sides and in the vertical plane of the abutmentblocks 'O4 of said shaft 112 and adapted to swing to and fro on a suitable support, a beltshipper device iii suitable connection with said driving-belt for the burnislier and adapted to rotate on a suitable support, and means connecting said belt-shipper and said swinging abutment-block and adapted to rotate the former from the swing of the latter, substa1itially as described, for the purposes specified.

6. In a machine for burnishing the edges ot heels of boots or slices, substantially as described, a horizontal rockershaft H2, turning in suitable bearings, a pin M22, eccentric- IIO ally held on said shaft, a lever-catch M MS, arranged to be rocked on a suitable support in one direction by said pin and against and in the opposite direction with a spring M12,

a vertical rod M15, carried by said lever and 5 applied to said catch,and a lever M, adapted adapted at its opposite ends to act as a stop to the up-and-down swing of said frame, substantially as described, for the purpose speciied.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto setl my hand in the presence of two subscribing and arranged for said lever-catch MTMS to be engaged and disengaged from it, in combination With an arm or frame D4 D, at one end Witnesses. swinging on a suitable horizontal support and VINSLOV F. SAMPSON. io at its other end carrying the burnisher, a ver- Witnesses:

tical spring M5, at one end hung on said car- ALBERT W. BROWN, rier and at the other end on said lever, and

FRANCES M. BROWN.

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