Apparatus for operating progressively along selected portions of shoe uppers.

摘要

An apparatus for roughing and subsequently applying adhesive to selected portions of a shoe upper, e.g. marginal portions of the bottom of a lasted shoe, has a camera (C) by which the roughed region is scanned and, from such scanning, the extent and also degree of rough are determined and stored as digitised information. From this information firstly the acceptability of the roughing operation is determined, by comparison with a stored model, and secondly the path along which adhesive is to be applied is established so as to ensure that adhesive is applied only to the roughed region. <IMAGE>