US744620A - Shoe-creasing device. - Google Patents

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PATENTEDNOV'. 17, 1903.

E. RORABAGK. SHOE CREASING DEVICE. APPLIOATION FILED JULY 23 1903.

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in 744,628. I NITED STATES Patented. November 17, 1903 PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST RORABAOK, on SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

- SHOE-CREASING DEVICE.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,620, dated November 17, 1903. Application filed July 23,1903. Serial No. 166,739. KNO ode To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST RORABAOK, a

citizen of the United States of America, re'sid.-.

ing at Springfield, in the county of Hainpden and State of Massachusetts, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Shoe-Greasing Devices, of which the following is a speci'- fication.

This invention relates to devices for-creasin g the Vamps of shoes. Heretofore this creasing has been done at the factory, machines being provided for that purpose whereby the vamps may be pressed between dies to efiect it. All purchasers, however, do not desire creased Vamps; and the object of this invention is to provide a hand-operated device for use in shoe-stores for creasing the vamps of the shoes after they are made; and theinvention consists in a grooved or fluted plate secured to one jaw of a pair of short tongs, to the other jaw of which is secured a framelike structure fitting over two sides of said plate to stretch the leather m'ore'or less over the grooved surface thereof. The creasing may then be done wi'thabutton-hook or other smooth round-ended instrument.

In the drawings forming part of this application, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a shoe, showing the creasing device, partlyin section, in operative position therein. Fig. 2

' is a perspective view of the forward end of the device. Fig. 3 is a cross-section through the end of the device and the shoe, taken in the plane of line 3 3, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a fluted roll.

Referring now to the drawings, aindicates the vamp of a shoe, and b one of the jaws of the tongs, 0 indicating the other. These jaws are united at d and provided with suitable handles e andf.

On the end of the jaw 79 is a grooved or fluted plate g, the flutes hbeingtransversely located therein.- These flutes have rounded contours when seen in cross-section, as in Fig. 1. Preferablythis plate is made integral with the jaws b; but this is not essential. On the under side of the plate 9 is a boss i, which is tapped and threaded to receive a threade knobj.

On the jaw 0 there is formed a rectangular three-sided frame-like structure 7c, the opposite sides of which, parallel with the jaw c,

fit over the two like sides of the plate g, the inner surfaces of these sides of the frame being more or less beveled, as shown in crosssec'tion and in Fig. 3 and also shown in Fig. 2. The efiect of thus beveling the sides of the frame is is to stretch the vamp a, more or less tightly over the plate 9 and in the direction of the lengthwise dimensions of the flutes h. This tends naturally to draw the vamp down into the grooves, and the frame 0/, fitting well down over the'plate, as shown in Fig. 3, will leave that portion of the vampto be creased above the top of the frame It, thereby permitting the use of a button-hook or some similar instrument which will not scratch the leather to force the leather by rapid reoiprocatory movements into the flutes. convenient way, though, if desired, a fluted roll, mounted in a frame with a suitable handle, may be used, such as is shown in Fig. 4. By holding the leather along each side of the block in the manner describedall of the slack which is necessary to form the creases in the vamp will be supplied by the drawing in of the leather over either end of the plate g.

Preferably between the handles e and f of the tongs the ratcheted post m-is located, being pivoted to one of the handles and passing through a slot in the other, one lip n of said slot being formed to engage the ratchet-teeth o in the edge of the post. This particular method of securing the handles together, however, does not constitute an essential feature of the invention. Some other device may, if desired, be substituted for it. During the crease-forming process it is of course necessary that the plateg should be supported firmly againstthe sole of the shoe, and as this creasing device must be used on shoes of different sizes the knob j is provided, which may be screwed in or out to provide a proper support for the plate.

The frame It may be provided with notches p or other suitable marks to denote the location of the flutes in the plate g.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by 'Letters Patent of the United States, is-

- 1. Oreasing-tongs having two jaws, a plate on one of the jaws having flutes therein-ex- This is the more 7 too tending transversely of a shoe, a frame-like structure located on the other jaw and arranged to fit over the sides of said plate at which the flutes terminate; said plate and frame being arranged to grasp the vamp of the shoe.

2. Greasing-tongs having twojaws arranged to grasp the vamp of the shoe between them, a plate on one of the jaws having a transversely-fluted upper, surface, a frame-like structure on the other jaw, arranged to fit [0 over opposite sides of said plate, and an adjustable abutment for the latter.

3. Oreasing-tongs having twojaws arranged to grasp the vamp of the shoe between them, a plate on one of the jaws having transverse flutes in the upper surface thereof; a framelike structure located on the other jaw arranged to fit over opposite sides of said plate to draw the vamp more or less into said flutes, and means to lock the jaws together.

ERNEST RORABACK.

Witnesses:

VVM. H. CHAPIN, K. I. GLEMoNs.

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