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Andrew Eppler Jr. Patents
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US 240.307 Christian Dancel & Andrew Eppler Jr.
Sole-Sewing Machine
The machine herein described is designed chiefly to stitch outsoles to welts in the manufacture of what are known as welted’ boots and shoes and is an improvement upon the machine described in Patent US 96.944, granted November 16, 1869. The herein-described machine, as well as the one described in that patent, employs a curved awl and needle, each held by segmental carriers and the fair side of the chain-stitch is laid upon the welt, the chain or loop part being embedded in the channel at the bottom of the outer sole.
Assignors to The Goodyear and McKay Sewing Machine Company
(of Boston, Massachusetts)
April 19, 1881
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Lawrence, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts)
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US 256.659 Andrew Eppler Jr.
Machine for Setting Buttons
This invention relates chiefly to machines for upsetting the tubular shanks of certain kinds of buttons and thus securing them to the article or material on which they are to be used and it has for its object mainly to provide improved means for feeding the buttons from a roadway or guide to the setter or device for upsetting the tubular shanks. The invention also has for its object to provide improved means for operating the setter and the feeding device. To these ends the invention consists in the improved feed mechanism and operating devices which I will now proceed to describe and claim.
Assignor to David Whittemore
April 18, 1882
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Quincy, Massachusetts)
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US 269.840
Andrew Eppler Jr.
Pegging Machine
This invention has for its object to provide a pegging-machine adapted to drive pegs into the sole of a boot or shoe which is held in the hands of the operator instead of being jacked. The machine is intended for use in temporarily securing the outer sole by pegs preparatory to the permanent attachment of the outer sole by stitching or nailing. The invention consists, as a whole, in a pegging-machine composed of a fixed frame having a tubular projection through which the pegs are driven into the sole, a frame or head carrying the driver and awl bars pivoted to fixed flame, so that when oscillated on its pivot the driver and awl are caused to coincicle alternately with the fixed tubular projection and mechanism for operating said driver and awl bars and for oscillating the pivoted frame and peg-wood holding and feeding mechanism, all combined and operating as described hereinafter.
Assignor to The Eppler Manufacturing Company
(Portland, Maine)
January 2, 1883
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Quincy, Massachusetts)
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US 271.049 Andrew Eppler Jr. & Edward C. Ray
Eyeleting Machine
This invention has for its chief object to enable the work or material to which eyelets are applied by an eyeleting-machine to be perforated for the reception of the eyelets by the co-operation of the work-supporting bed or table and a fixed punch, which is the finger of the eye let-setting anvil. To this end the invention consists mainly in the provision, in an eyeleting machine, of a fixed work perforator or punch and a vertically-movable work-supporting table adapted to press the work against the punch and devices for preventing displacement of the work during the upward movement of the bed. The invention also consists in certain details of construction, all of which we will now proceed to describe and claim.
January 23, 1883
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Quincy, Massachusetts)
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US 283.228 Andrew Eppler Jr.
Nailing Machine
This invention relates to that class of sole-nailing machines in which a continuous wire is fed into the machine and cut up into nails or fastenings, which are pointed at one end and driven into the boot or shoe as fast as formed. An example of this class of machines to which my invention relates is found in Letters Patent to Lamphear, dated August 23, 1859. The present invention has for its object to enable a machine of this class to deal with wire composed of a metallic shell, or tube and a core or filling of waxed thread or other fibrous material and convert the same into nails or fastenings, each pointed at one end. This invention also has for its object to provide improved means for regulating the length of each feed movement of the wire, so as to regulate the length of the nails and also to prevent the nail from tipping from a vertical position after it is severed and formed and while it is being moved forward to position under the driver. To these ends my invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim...
... the nails or fastenings formed there from embodying the invention described in Patent US 190.670 to Henry S. Cushman, granted May 15, 1877 ...
Assignor to The Union Fastening Company
(of Jersey City, New Jersey)
August 14, 1883
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 284.086 Albert E. Stirckler
Rotary Cutter
This invention relates to rotary cutters particularly designed for trimming the edges of boot or shoe soles and composed of a series of molded cutting-teeth secured to or formed on a rotary hub or center. The invention has for its object to provide certain improvements in the construction of this class of cutters, whereby they are enabled to operate to better advantage than heretofore.
Assignor to himself and John D. Stirckler and Andrew Eppler Jr.
August 28, 1883
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 285.314 Daniel S. Smith & Andrew Eppler Jr.
Sole Leveling or Molding Machine
This invention has for its object to provide all improved machine for leveling or molding boot or shoe soles, or in other words, causing them to conform to the contour of the bottom of the last on which the boot or shoe is made and giving them smooth and even surfaces. The invention consists in the improved leveling-tool and the means employed for supporting the same, hereinafter described and also if the combination of a jack with said tool, an improved channel-closing tool and in an improved toe-rest for the jack, all of which we will now proceed to describe and claim...
... When a sole is held against said acting face with the line of the flap substantially at right angles with the portion of the face against which it is pressed, the diagonal protuberances G, moving across the flap, press the latter down more effectually than a series of rubbers arranged in a circular series, as shown in Letters Patent US 109.077 or No. 248.839 (?), which describe devices for effecting a similar result.
Said Daniel S. Smith assignor to said Andrew Eppler Jr.
September 18, 1883
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 294.979 Andrew Eppler Jr.
Rivet
This invention has for its object to provide an improved rivet adapted for use as a means for securing two superposed bodies or articles to each other, as the ends of a belt, or to form a part of a lacing-hook or other device and serve as a means for securing said device to the article on which it is to be used. The invention consists in the improved rivet and method of making the same, hereinafter described and claimed.
March 11, 1884
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 304.415 Andrew Eppler Jr.
Sole-Laying Machine
This invention consists in certain improvements in sole-laying machines, whereby an operator is enabled to press an outer sole against a lasted upper by means of a flexible or yielding presser adapted to conform to any size and shape of last and sole that may be employed ...
... After a continuance of the pressure for a few seconds or minutes, the sole is se cured with sufficient firmness to hold it until it can be permanently secured by nails or other fastenings, as described in my application for Letters Patent of the United States, filed March 17, 1884.
Assignor to The Boot and Shoe Laying Company
(Portland, Maine)
September 2, 1884
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 304.416 Andrew Eppler Jr.
Sole-Laying Machine
This invention has for its object to provide improved means for pressing an outer sole against a lasted upper, to cause the sole to bear closely against all parts of the portions or edges of the upper that are turned inwardly under the last, so that cement applied to the sole or to the upper, or both, will cause the sole to adhere properly to the upper until it can be permanently attached by nailing, stitching, or otherwise. My invention consists, as a whole, in an organized machine comprising a series of swiveled pads or sectional supports adapted collectively to support the sole and means for pressing the lasted upper against said supports. The invention also consists in certain details of construction, all of which I will now proceed to describe and claim ...
... Heretofore a continuous flexible diaphragm backed by a water space has been employed for the same purpose, as shown in my pending application for Letters Patent filed April 17, 1884, Serial No. 128.224; but it is found that the flexible support thus afforded does not act equally on all parts of a sole pressed against it, some portions receiving insufficient pressure. This defect is entirely obviated by the present improvement ...
Assignor to The Boot and Shoe Laying Company
(Portland, Maine)
September 2, 1884
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 315.922 Andrew Eppler Jr.
Sole-Laying Machine
This invention relates to that class of sole laying machines in which a series of pivoted pads are employed to press a cement-coated sole against a lasted upper and hold it while the cement is setting or hardening, as shown in Letters Patent US 304.415 granted to me September 2, 1884. The invention has for its object, first, to enable the pads to be inclined crosswise as well as lengthwise of the sole, so that they can fit the bottom of the boot or shoe more perfectly than heretofore.
Assignor to The Boot and Shoe Laying Company
(Portland, Maine)
April 14, 1885
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 315.923 Andrew Eppler Jr.
Sole-Laying Machine
This invention relates to that class of sole laying machines in which a series of independently-yielding pads or sole-supporting sections are employed to press a cement-coated sole against a lasted upper and hold it while the cement is setting or hardening, as shown in Letters Patent US 304.416 granted to me September 2, 1884. The,invention has for its object, first, to provide certain improvements in the sectional thereof are made yielding in any desired direction; secondly, to provide means whereby the pressure of the sole-support against the sole may be commenced at the toe and caused to progress gradually to the heel and, thirdly, to provide improved means for operating the sole support.
Assignor to The Boot and Shoe Laying Company
(Portland, Maine)
April 14, 1885
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 315.924 Andrew Eppler Jr.
Sole-Laying Machine
This invention relates to machines for pressing cement-coated outer soles to lasted boot or shoe upper and holding the soles in contact with the upper while the cement is hardening. The object of the invention is, first, to provide certain improvements in the construction of the bed or support which bears against the sole when the latter is pressed against the upper and, secondly, to provide certain improvements in the jack or holder for the last ed boot or shoe, whereby the latter may be adjusted so as to vary its longitudinal inclination...
... I do not limit myself to the employment of the above-described sectional sole-support in connection with a jack which is movable to ward and from the sole-support, for, if desired, said support may be movable toward and from the jack, the latter being fixed, as shown, for example, in my pending application for Letters Patent for sole-laying machine filed December 18, 1884, Serial No. 150.638...
Assignor to The Boot and Shoe Laying Company
(Portland, Maine)
April 14, 1885
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 325.063 Andrew Eppler Jr.
Boot & Shoe Sewing Machine
This invention has for its object to provide an improved machine for stitching together the upper and channeled sole of a turned boot or shoe and it consists in the several improvements hereinafter described and claimed.
Assignor to one half to Edwin Adams
August 25, 1885
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 334.361 Andrew Eppler Jr.
Boot and Shoe Nails
This invention relates to boot and shoe nails which are made by cutting a tubular blank into sections or headless nails, such nails being usually made and driven by an organized nailing-machine, which is provided with cutters for severing the wire into nail lengths and a driver for forcing the nails as fast as they are formed into the boot or shoe sole and turning or clinching their points or inner ends against a metal horn or last within the boot or shoe. Heretofore, as far as I am aware, the outer ends of the nails of this class have been flat and the driven nails have received no enlargements or heads at their outer ends by the action of the driver. My invention consists in making the nails with notches or slots in their outer ends and thus forming separable points, which are up set or turned outwardly by the driver and when turned constitute enlargements or heads, which greatly increase the holding power of the nails, as I will now proceed to describe...
... This improvement is particularly applicable to nails made by inclosing a core of fibrous cord, 2, in a metallic tube or sheath, 3, as shown in Letters Patent US 169.894, granted to Cushman, dated November 16, 1875, ...
January 12, 1886
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 334.362 Andrew Eppler Jr.
Wire Burring Machine
This invention has for its object to provide a simple and durable machine for forming in dependent burrs or slight barbs on wire in tended to be converted into boot and shoe mails. To this end the invention consists in the combination of two burr-forming tools, a positively rotated holder, on which said tools are set obliquely and mechanism for feeding the wire between said tools, each tool being adapted to rotate loosely and being set at a pitch opposite to that of the other, so that when the wire to be treated is passed between said tools and they are revolved about the wire by the rotation of the holder each tool will swage or indent the wire and thus make a spiral series of burrs or barbs.
January 12, 1886
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 337.291 Edwin Adams
Boot & Shoe Sewing Machine
This invention relates to machines for sewing turned boots and shoes, in which a curved needle is employed which is oscillated in the direction of its length and thus caused to alternately enter the work and draw a loop of thread through the "between substance" or the upper and that part of the sole between the bottom of the channel formed for the reception of the stitches and the upper, the latter being placed against the outer edge of the sole. In this class of machines the work is held by a channel-gage, which enters the channel and a back-gage or work-rest, which bears against the upper where the latter bears against the margin of the sole. A lateral motion is given to the needle while it is in the work, whereby the work is fed between each stitch, the work-rest and channel-gage being arranged to grasp and hold the between substance while the needle is advancing to penetrate the same and moving laterally to feed the work. An example of the class of machines to which my invention relates is shown in the patent to A. Eppler, Jr., US 325.063, granted August 25, 1885. My invention consists in the several improvements hereinafter described and claimed, relating to the channel-gage, the pull-off, the means for operating the cast-off and means for supporting the operator's right hand during the stitching operation.
Assignor to Eppler & Adams Sewing Machine Company
(Saco, Maine)
Application filed August 24, 1885
March 2, 1886
(Edwin Adams of Newburyport, Massachusetts)
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US 354.051 Andrew Eppler Jr. & Adam E. Cole
Method of uniting Shoe-soles to Uppers
Our invention relates to an improved method of inserting boot and shoe fastenings and it consists in employing, in connection with a tubular-shaped nail having its lower end V shaped to form parallel spurs, a horn or support placed beneath the point at which said nail is driven and a driver having a projection adapted to enter said tubular nail and a driving shoulder, as hereinafter set forth.
December 7, 1886
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 354.052 Andrew Eppler Jr.
Nailing Machine
This invention relates to that class of boot and shoe nailing machines in which the nails are cut from a continuous wire and driven by the same machine and in which the work is supported by a vertically-movable horn during the driving operation and the length of the nails is automatically regulated by the vertical position of the horn. The invention has for its object to provide certain improvements, first, in the means for feeding the work after each nail is driven; secondly, in the means for automatically varying the length of the nails by variations in the thickness of the sole and, thirdly, in the means for locating the nails in the throat, through which they are driven into the sole.
Assignor to The Union Metallic Fastening Company
(of Jersey City, N.J.)
December 7, 1886
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 387.058 Andrew Eppler Jr.
Machine for Feather Edging and Channeling Boot or Shoe Soles
This invention has for its object to provide an improved machine for feather-edging and channeling soles to adapt such soles to be se cured to the uppers of turned or welted boots or shoes.
July 31, 1888
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 387.059 Andrew Eppler Jr.
Sole-Edge-Molding Machine
This invention has for its object to provide improved means for turning or bending the edges of soles to enable them to be attached to uppers in the manufacture of turned shoes, or those in which the upper and sole are turned inside out while they are being stitched together.
July 31, 1888
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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November 29, 1892
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US 533.639 Andrew Eppler
Sewing Machine
This invention has for its object to provide a simple and effective curved-needle double thread sewing machine, adapted for stitching outer-soles to welts of welted boots and shoes, which shall operate to interlock the needle and shuttle threads at points close to the bottom surface of the outer-sole and at a uniform distance from said bottom-surface, whether the thickness of the work be greater or less, without the employment of a special automatic thread-measuring device to proportion the amount of thread drawn from the wax-pot to the thickness of the work, the chief aim of my invention being to simplify the construction of a machine of this class by eliminating said automatic thread-measuring device therefrom and to cause the shuttle and take-up and work support to accomplish all that has heretofore been accomplished by said device.
February 5, 1895
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Newton, Massachusetts)
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US 1.108.560 Andrew Eppler
Shoe-Sewing Machine
The present invention relates to inseam shoe sewing machines and is intended primarily as an improvement on inseam shoe sewing machines of that class which form a chain-stitch and which are provided with a curved hook needle entering the shoe from the outside and with a stitch-setting take up operating to pull the last-formed loop tightly around the shank of the needle while the needle is in the work. An example of this class of machine is the well-known Goodyear welt and turn shoe sewing machine the construction and mode of operation of which is disclosed with substantial accuracy in the patent to French and Meyer, US 412.704. As will be obvious to those skilled in the art, however, certain features of the present invention are equally applicable to other types of inseam shoe sewing machines and it is to be understood that except as defined in the claims the several features of the present invention are not limited to use in any particular type of inseam shoe sewing machine.
Assignor to United Shoe Machinery Company of Paterson, a corporation of New Jersey
August 25, 1914
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts)
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US 2.362.059 Andrew Eppler Jr.
Lasting Mechanism
In lasting machines generally and particularly in machines for lasting prewelt shoes, it is considered necessary to have on hand and conveniently located for use in the machine, a considerable number of wipers for use on different sizes and styles of shoes and separate sets must be provided for right and left shoes, The maintenance and repair of the full complement of wipers required for a given machine is an item of considerable expense to manufacturers and the time required to change wipers. Whenever a different size or type of shoe comes to the machine appreciably reduces the productive capacity of the machine, particularly in the smaller factories where only one or two lasting machines are provided for all of the lasting of the entire factory output of a given type of shoe. It is an object of the present invention to provide a universal wiper mechanism which will substantially reduce the number of wipers required for a given machine and increase the productive capacity of the machine by reducing the time spent in changing wipers. It is a further object of the invention to provide a wiper which by reason of its inherent ability to conform itself to the shape of the shoe will accurately fit any and all shoes on which it operates.
Assignor to United Shoe Machinery Corporation, Flemington, N.J., a corporation of New Jersey
November 7, 1944
(Andrew Eppler Jr. of Lynn, Massachusetts)
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