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Class Number: 12 Class Title: BOOT AND SHOE MAKING Subclass Subclass Number Title 1 R MISCELLANEOUS 1 A .Conveyors 1 B .Platform cover turners 1 F .Rubber shoe assembly 1 G .Arch support forming and inserting 1 W .Assembly machines 1 M .Moccasin machines 4.1 COMBINED SOLE AND UPPER MACHINES 4.2 .Lasting with laying and/or leveling 4.3 .Inseam trimming 4.4 ..With welt beating 4.5 ..With horn-carried knife 4.6 .Shoe turning 7 LASTING MACHINES 7.1 .With vamp cutting 7.2 ..Slitting or notching 7.3 .Prewelted upper 7.4 ..End lasting only 7.5 .Outturned upper, e.g., stitchdown 7.6 ..With nailing 7.7 ..With sewing 7.8 ..End lasting only 7.9 .Draw wire type, e.g., wire lasting 8.1 .With flexible conforming means 8.2 ..With wiper folder 8.3 .Rotated nipper or wiper 8.4 .Pronged wiper folder 8.5 .Nipper wiper 8.6 ..With nailing 8.7 ...End lasting only 8.71 ....With binder applying 8.8 ..End lasting only 8.81 ...With binder applying 9 .Nipper stretcher 9.1 ..With sewing 10 ..Wiper folder 10.1 ...Multiple nippers 10.2 ....With nailing 10.21 .....With binder applying 10.3 .....Fed work 10.4 .....Downward pull 10.5 ....End lasting only 10.6 ...With nailing 10.7 ....With parallel horizontally disposed camshaft and gripper operating overdraw rod, i.e., continental type 10.71 .....With binder applying 10.8 ...End lasting only 11.2 ..With nailing 11.3 ..End lasting only 12 .Wiper folder 12.1 ..With nailing 12.2 ...Toe lasting onlyy 12.21 ....With binder applying 12.3 ...Heel lasting only 12.4 ..Toe lasting only 12.41 ...With binder applying 12.5 ..Heel lasting only 13.1 .With nailing 13.2 .With sewing 14.2 .Sole hold-downs 14.3 .Upper clamps 14.4 ..End bands 14.5 .Nippers 15 LAST INSERTING MACHINES 15.1 DELASTING MACHINES 16 LASTING-FASTENER REMOVING MACHINES 16.1 SOLE-FLAP HEEL-BREAST COVERING MACHINES 16.2 .Combined and/or plural operations 16.3 ..Flap laying and heel tread clamping 16.4 .Laying flap on breast 16.5 .Splitting sole 16.6 .Trimming flap to breast outline 16.7 ..Heel-guided trimmer 70 SOLE AND/OR HEEL BURNISHING MACHINES 70.5 .Combined or plural diverse 73.5 ..With coating application 74.5 ..With indenting 75.5 ...Heel only 76.5 ..With edge trimming 77 .Rotary tool 78 .Reciprocating tool 78.5 ..Heel traverse 79 ..Hand guided 79.3 .Fixed tool 79.2 .Tools and/or tool heads 77.5 ..Rotary 79.5 SOLE AND/OR HEEL WAX POLISHING MACHINES 85 SOLE AND/OR HEEL EDGE TRIMMING MACHINES 85.1 .Combined or plural diverse 85.2 ..With sole peripheral channeling 85.3 ...Clamped work 85.4 ..With fastener inserting 85.5 ...Heel only 85.9 .Shank trimming only 86 .Clamped work 86.5 ..Sole edge only 86.6 ...Traveling cutter 86.65 ....Rotary table supported 86.7 ...Rotary cutter 87 ..Rotary cutter 88 .Rotary cutter 89 ..Multiple cutter head 90 ..With adjustable rand guide and/or guard 91 .Rotary cutter heads 92 ..Axially adjustable 93 ..With supplemental cutter 94 ..Inserted cutters 95 ...Angularly adjustable 17 R SOLE MACHINES 17.2 .Peripheral operation and automatically bodily moved shoee support 33 .Laying and/or leveling 33.1 ..With fastener inserting 33.2 ..With heating means 33.4 ..With welt pressing means 33.6 ..With sole positioning means 33.7 ..Configured oscillating former indexed with sole 33.8 ...Oscillating jack 34 ..With rotatable leveling pressure roll 34.5 ...With power-operated transverse roll tilting 35.5 ..Hammering and/or slicking 36 ..Multiple work supports 36.5 ...Traveling work support carrying fluid pressure applying means 36.8 ....Rotary work support carrier 37 ...Rotary work support carrier 38 ..Pads or formers 18.1 .Assembling 18.2 ..Bulk shoe fillers 18.3 ..Shank pieces and/or stiffeners 18.5 .With diverse operations 18.7 ..With peripheral channeling 18.9 ..With slitting 20 .Applying or reinforcing separate rib 20.2 ..Full gemming 21 .Blank molding 22 ..Edge 24.5 .Edge covering 27 .Peripheral channeling 28 ..Clamped work 29 .Channel-flap layers 30 .Channel-flap turners 31.5 .Heel-seal forming 31.6 ..Spring heel 32 .Peripheral indenting 32.1 ..With stitch finder 39 .Sock-liner applying 39.3 .Stitch picking and/or cutting 39.5 .Splicing half soles to outsoles 40 .Slitting 40.5 .Shank pieces or stiffeners 41.05 .Grooving 41.1 .Pliabilizing soles in a shoe 41.2 .Pliabilizing soles 41.3 ..With fluid treatment 41.5 .Tempering 41.7 .Inside fastener end trimmers 17 A .Sbicca-type sole 42 R HEEL MACHINES 50 .Assembling 50.1 ..With die cutting 50.2 ...With fastener inserting 50.3 ..With cement applying 50.4 ..Heel logs 42.5 .With diverse operations 43 ..Fastener inserting and breasting 43.5 ..Fastener inserting and molding 46 .Seal cuttingg 46.5 .Spring heel beveling 47 .Breasting 47.1 ..Uni-directionally moving cutting edge 48 .Molding 49 .Beading 49.1 .Covering 50.5 .Removers 42 B .Heel affixing 51 UPPER MACHINES 52 .Assembling 52.5 .With diverse operations 53.1 .Assembled shoe shaping 53.2 ..By expanding and conforming 53.3 ..By conforming roller 53.4 ..By conforming impactor 53.5 ..By conforming press action 53.6 ..By expander only 53.7 ...Wall-supported 53.8 ...Reciprocating expander 54.1 .Loose upper shaping 54.2 ..Toe only 54.3 ..Heel only 54.4 ..Crimping with former and wiper 54.5 ...Belt-carried former 54.6 ...Pivoted former 55 ..Folding 55.1 ...With slitting or notching 57 .Turning 57.1 ..With seam pressing 57.5 .Trimming 57.6 ..Sole-attaching edge 58 ..Skiving 58.3 .Buttoning or unbuttoning 58.5 .Lacing or unlacing 59 .Strap covering 59.5 .Tape appliers 59.7 .Tempering 61 R TOE AND HEEL STIFFENER MACHINES 62 .Skiving 63 ..Recessed carrier 64 .Molding 65 ..Roll 66 ..Separable 61 A .Assembling 61 B .With diverse operations 67 R WELT AND RAND MACHINES 67.1 .Welt and rand formers 67.2 .Welt beaters 67 A .Welt guides 67 B .Combined welt preparing 67 C .Welt attaching to loose sole and heel 67 D .Plural diverse operations 67 E .Welt beating and slitting 67 F .Welt butting and attaching 67 G .Beaters 67 H .Butting 67 J .Forming 67 K .Welt attachingg 67 L .Welt tempering 103 TOOLS 104 .Sole and/or heel burnishing 104.5 .Inside fastener end trimmers 107 R .Lasting 108 ..Fastener holding and inserting and upper stretching 109 ..Upper tensioners and hammers 110 ..Upper tensioners 111 ...Multiple transversely positioned grippers 112 ...Toe 107 A ..Over-lasted upper retainers 113 .Fly holders 114.2 .Interiorly stretching assembled shoes 114.4 ..Fluid expander 114.6 ..Top stretchers 114.8 ...With top holder 115.2 ..Spot stretchers 115.4 ...With cooperating exterior former 115.6 ..Variable expander 115.8 ...Longitudinal and lateral 116.2 ....Longitudinal and lateral lock 116.4 ....Lateral lock 116.6 ....Longitudinal lock 116.8 ...Lateral 117.2 ....Lock 117.4 ...Longitudinal lock 119.5 .Upper crimping and stretching 120.5 .Sole straightening 122 SHOEMAKERS' BENCHES 123 WORK SUPPORT 123.3 .For loose heels 123.5 .For boot trees 124 .Expansible holder 125 .Heel clamping 126 .Last jacks 127 ..With saddle 128 R FORMS 129.4 .Heated 133 R .Lasts 134 ..Preliminarily adjustable 135 R ..Separate heel block 136 R ...Hinged 136 A ....With movable instep block 136 B ....With single link 136 C ....With double link 135 A ...With sliding movement 137 ..Instep-block fasteners 138 ...Sliding bolt 139 ..Heel plates and sockets 140 ..Peg receivers 141 ..Shoe retainers 133 A ..With fillers 133 B ..With altered surfaces 133 C ..With heel fastener receiving means 133 M ..Material 128 B .With deodorant, etc. 128 H .For open-heel shoe 128 V .Expanding verticall 128 C .With upper retaining means 128 D .With sole retaining means 128 E .Heel plates 128 F .With fastener receiving means 142 R PROCESSES 145 .Lasting 146 R .Miscellaneous parts 146 B ..Soles 146 BP ...Prepared 146 BC ....Channeling 146 BR ..Rubber soles 146 C ..Uppers 146 CK ...Edge finishing 146 D ..Toe and heel stiffeners 146 L ..Last making 146 M ..Orthopedic parts 146 S ..Shank stiffener making and attaching 146 W ..Welts and rands 147 R .Heel 147 A ..Rubber 147 B ..Covering 148 .Filling shoes 142 A .Evaginated shoe 142 B .Thru-and-thru shoe 142 C .Stitch-down shoe 142 D .Welt-type shoe 142 E .Rubber shoe 142 EV .Rubber overshoe 142 F .Cemented shoe 142 G .Felt and fabric 142 J .Interfitted sole and heel 142 K .Protection of shoes 142 LC .Lacing and closing 142 MC .Moccasins 142 N .Orthopedic 142 P .Athletic 142 Q .Repairing 142 RS .Rubber sole attaching 142 S .Sandals 142 T .Sole-attaching 142 V .Ventilated 142 W .Leggings and gaiters * ****************************** * DIGESTS * ****************************** DIG 1 Lasting machines, fluid-actuated DIG 2 Lasting machines, dash pots DIG 3 Jigging