Hand Tools and Machines for Assembly PDF
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This document describes hand tools and machines used in shoe assembly. It covers tools like hammers, knives, and awls, as well as various machines for different stages of the process, such as cutting, stitching, and shaping.
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HAND TOOLS FOR ASSEMBLY HAMMER Hammers for shoe making are essentials. Tools tailored fir constructing footwear. They help in lasting, shaping, and securing parts, ensuring a firm bond and precise assembly of various shoe components. Hammers handle is used to secure the sole firmly to the bottom of...
HAND TOOLS FOR ASSEMBLY HAMMER Hammers for shoe making are essentials. Tools tailored fir constructing footwear. They help in lasting, shaping, and securing parts, ensuring a firm bond and precise assembly of various shoe components. Hammers handle is used to secure the sole firmly to the bottom of the lasted upper. KNIVES (BETA) Shoe knives are generally used for cutting leather, soles, cardboard but can used for many other tasks. AWL (DITCHOY) Shoemakers rely on various awl shapes and sizes to stitch leather components together and craft beautiful footwear. PUNCHER Puncher are essential tools in the shoemaker's toolkit. They serve multiple purposes, ensuring both functionality and aesthetic appeal in the shoe crafting process. BIG NEEDLE Several types of needle play an important role in crafting footwear. Shoemakers differentiate between needles designed for meticulous hand stitching. LASTING PLIERS Mainly used for tightening and tightening leather or faux upper. This durable plier's products features a polished steel toe cap for versatility and practicality. SCISSORS Scissors for shoe making are specially designed sharp tools for precisely cutting leather and other materials, ensuring clean edges aiding in accurate shoe assembly and detailing. NEEDLE CUTTER Usually used for cutting threads on a comfortable way. TACKS REMOVER Usually used for removing pinned tacks from lasted upper by pushing the tool upward. MACHINES FOR ASSEMBLY CLICKER CUTTING The factory uses cutting presses, also called clicker cutting machines. The clicker press is one of the standard pieces you will see in every shoe factory, and they require cutting dies for each shoe pattern part. New technology for cutting is the computer - controlled drag knife cutter. SEWING A machine that is use for joining together pieces of cloth or leather, with a needle that is operated either by turning a hand or by electricity. SPLITTING Splitting machines accurately splits materials to thinner dimensions and can split a thick material into many thinner pieces. These specialized machine are commonly used by the automotive, rubber, plastic and leather goods industries and are predominantly featured in laboratories for rubber, plastic and leather industries. LASTING Shoe lasting machines are used to pull the upper section of the shoe over the last, and then nail it place. This is much faster than being done by hands. SKIVING A leather skiving machines works by shaving off the back part of the leather to reduce the overall thickness. Although the leather is thinner, it remains strong and maintain the original surface finished SCOURING Is a machine use to roughen the surface of the part of materials to be attached for better adhesiveness, to trim down edges of materials and to smoothens the surface of the finished products. STAMPING A stamping machine is a machine that uses dies to make stamped shapes out of flat shoe metal. The kind of stamping machine used will depend on the complexity if the shapes being made and the size of the production run. Further Questions and Clarification Questions regarding the topic discussed.