Fecha de publicación: 20/01/1954 Fuente: WIPO "bee" 702,486. Conveyers; rope railways. BEE BEE SHOE CO. Aug. 28, 1951, No. 20209/51. Classes 78 (1) and 104 (2) [Also in Group VII] An apparatus for a continuous boot making process has a number of work stations arranged round a conveyer system for last, and/or shoe component carriers. The conveyer runs continuously and means are provided for arresting the carriers as desired. The last carriers comprise a plate 13, Fig. 7, running in grooves of track rails 10, 11 and a spindle 14 mounting a last pin 15. Driving devices comprising plates 27 attached to conveyer belts 23 have spring loaded balls 29 which engage nuts 20 on the last carriers but which allow the belts to slip if the carrier is stopped. The lasts are stopped by releasing a spring loaded pin 42, by a treadle connection 45 to allow them to extend into the path of spindles 14. To avoid overloading the belts 23, the driving plates are spaced by a distance which is not a multiple of the distance between successive nuts 20. In order to space the carriers correctly for some operations plates 46, 47, Fig. 8, pivoted at 48, 49, are spring urged to contact at their notched end 52. A spindle 14 parts the plates as it approaches their converging sides and thus closes the entrance end to stop following carriers until the notch 52 is reached. In use, work stations are provided on either side of outward and return conveyer runs and last carriers 13 are fed in by hand, preferably alternately, with similar component carriers 33, Fig. 8, and at the end of the outward run the last carriers contact; each other until engaged by rotating arms for transfer to the inward conveyer. The plates 13 of the last carriers are rectangular, while those of the component carriers 33 are square so that at the end of outward conveyer the latter can be pushed off at right angles on to a, return conveyer. The working stations for the manufacture of a conventional, slip lasted platform shoe are described in detail and include cement spraying booths, and also stations at which drying is carried out by infra-red lamps.