The shoe industry . sses completelyup and down each side of the shoe, canting firstto the right and then to the left and removingevery unevenness on the bottom. Welt Finishing. The edge of the fore part of theshoe was left in a slightly rough condition after theprocess of rough rounding. This roughness is nowsmoothed away upon the trimming machine, whichhas a set of rapidly revolving cutters. The edgeand welt of the shoe receive a coat of blacking,and the stitches showing on the upper side of thewelt are separated upon a machine so as to presentan even appearance. The indentations thus madeare
The shoe industry . sses completelyup and down each side of the shoe, canting firstto the right and then to the left and removingevery unevenness on the bottom. Welt Finishing. The edge of the fore part of theshoe was left in a slightly rough condition after theprocess of rough rounding. This roughness is nowsmoothed away upon the trimming machine, whichhas a set of rapidly revolving cutters. The edgeand welt of the shoe receive a coat of blacking,and the stitches showing on the upper side of thewelt are separated upon a machine so as to presentan even appearance. The indentations thus madeare burnished upon a machine. The edge of theshoe is burnished upon the edge setting machineby means of two rapidly vibrating hot irons. Thesurface of the top lift of the heel is leveled upon thetop lift sanding machine, and the breast is scouredon a rapidly revolving disk. Other Finishing Processes. From this point onthere are various processes of finishing the heel andthe bottom of the shoe, which may be performed in. Operating the Goodyear Welt Sewing Machine 211 The Making Department 213 the bottoming department or in a separate finishingdepartment. Some of these, such as tip repair-ing, are quite separate from the work of thebottoming department. The more important ofthe finishing processes may be presented here. The heel and the edges of the shoe are blacked orcovered with the dressing suitable to the leatherused on shoes other than black, and finished onburnishing machines. The bottom of the shoe isbuffed upon revolving rollers covered with sand-paper, to remove the marks of handling in variousprocesses. It is then buffed to a finer degree on theNaumkeag buffing machine upon a pad of rubbercovered with fine emery paper, revolving still morerapidly than the first buffing machine. The bottomof the shoe is now hard finished by receiving coatsof stain or other material, and by polishing. Insome cases the bottoms are blacked in whole or inpart, and some receive a dull finish on
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