Roughing machine for footwear upper assemblies and a system that includes the roughing machine and other machines ahead of and following.

摘要

An automatic rougher (1.1) to rough the cement margin (108A) of a footwear upper assembly (108) having a roughing tool (5) and including a turret means (101), in which the footwear assembly (108) is mounted, having a mechanism (2) to apply rocking, translational and rotational motion to the upper assembly (108) to position the upper assembly (108) relative to the roughing tool (5), and further including means (23) to sense the position of the cement margin (108A) relative to the roughing tool (5) during the roughing cycle and to provide electrical feedback signals including tracing data representative of the roughing part traversed by the roughing tool (5), and means to feed said data to another machine (102, 103) to perform further operations on the footwear assembly (108).