Abstract: A machine for finishing the sides of the bottoms of footwear has an endless abrasive belt carried by a pair of rollers, including a driving roller and an idler or drive roller. The driving roller is connected to a power-driven oscillating head on the machine, and the driven roller has an articulated connection to the machine.

Abstract: Automatic carding machine for uppers including a carriage upholding the upper to be scraped and travelling longitudinally along guides constrained to the top of the machine. The upper sector of the carriage runs on similar guides transversely. The movements can be performed simultaneously by means of independent activation members and the carriage translation speed as well as the upper sector are programmable so that the card can intervene in variable measure on the different peripheral parts of the upper arranged on the carriage. The tool or card automatically reverses its direction of rotation so as to roughen the back of the shoe from the outside toward the inside.

Abstract: A shoe making machine is disclosed. It comprises a base; a slide table movably mounted on the base; a supporting member fixedly mounted on the slide table and having a clamping device for clamping the heel portion of a shoe body; a pair of guide shafts bridged in parallel each other above the slide table; a tiptoe portion carrying member having the tiptoe accommodating member mounted on its top and a pair of guide members connected to its lower end; locking device for locking and unlocking the tiptoe portion carrying member relative to the slide table, a processing tool table for processing the under-surface of the shoe body and having a constant original position to return slightly away from the tiptoe portion in the set state; and a device for controlling the movement of the tool table in the back and forth direction and up and down direction and of the slide table carrying the shoe body in the right and left direction.

Abstract: An apparatus for roughening the margin of lasted footwear uppers, comprising a body of a roughening head which is adapted for moving toward an article of semi-finished footwear, the holder of which article is supported by a table board rotatable about a vertical axis. The body of the roughening head is mounted in a carrier fork which is mounted in the machine frame and the table board of the holder is provided on a tiltable support platform which is journalled in a bracket of the machine frame.