Roughing machine

Claim 1

A machine for roughing the margin of an upper of a shoe assembly, said shoe assembly comprising a last having an insole located on its bottom and the upper mounted thereon with the upper margin lying against and being secured to the periphery of the insole, comprising: a shoe assembly support for supporting the shoe assembly bottom-up; a slide mounted for forward-rearward movement toward and away from the shoe assembly; a first motor connected to the slide for effecting said forward-rearward movement; a tool mount mounted to the slide for heightwise movement; a second yieldable motor connected to the tool mount for effecting said heightwise movement; a tine mounted to the tool mount; a sensing member mounted to the tool mount below the tine; actuable operating means so connecting the sensing member and the first motor as to cause the first motor to move the slide from a rearward idle position wherein the sensing member is spaced from the shoe assembly forwardly until the sensing member engages a particular portion of the side of the shoe assembly and to enable the first motor to retain the sensing member in engagement with successive portions of the side of the shoe assembly with a consequent forward or rearward movement of the tool mount as the successive portions of the side of the shoe assembly move past the sensing member; means for initially deactuating the operating means so that the first motor retains the slide in said idle position; means for initially causing the second motor to retain the tool mount in an upper position spaced above the shoe assembly; means for causing the second motor to yieldably lower the tool mount so as to bring the tine into engagement with the bottom of the shoe assembly; triggering means responsive to the engagement of the tine with the bottom of the shoe assembly to actuate said operating means; means operative to thereafter so move the shoe assembly support as to move successive portions of the shoe assembly past the tool mount thereby moving successive portions of the side of the shoe assembly past the sensing member and thereby moving successive portions of the bottom of the shoe assembly past the tine; and a roughing tool so mounted to the tool mount as to be in engagement with successive portions of the upper margin as said successive portions of the shoe assembly move past the tool mount.