What is this machine for? Leather Edge Bending / Folding?

[Constabulary]

What is this machine for? Is it for leather edge bending / folding? And how is it called exactly?

[Constabulary]

No one?

[alpha2]

Are you sure it's for leather? Looks like a sheet metal bending device.

[480volt]

I don’t know what it is, but it is the wrong shape for a sheet metal bead roller as I have seen them.

[billybopp]

I'm not sure what that is, but is that a flux capacitor on the right side?

Maybe Doc Brown will chime in and help us identify it.

Bill

[Constabulary]

Yes, I´m sure it is for leather. The machine is labeled DVSG  which is (or was) the German equivalent to the British BUSMC or US USM shoe machinery companies.

[Constabulary]

Just now, billybopp said:

I'm not sure what that is, but is that a flux capacitor on the right side?

Maybe Doc Brown will chime in and help us identify it.

Bill

Bill - you smoked too many Ewok hairs, I think

[jimi]

Try sending a picture to Seick, i am sure they will know. 

i would think some kind of edge beater??

or maybe ask this guy??

https://www.ebay.com/itm/FRANKFURT-M-Katalog-1960-USM-Schuhmaschinen-DVSG-GmbH-Nah-Umbug-Maschinen-/311961326590

Edited October 20, 2017 by jimi

[billybopp]

Lets see if we can figure this out.

1. Given the makers identity it's some sort of shoe machine, so most likely is for some sort of leather work. 
2. Looking at the picture, it's motor driven - there's a drive belt and pulley at the right and no handcrank in sight. 
3. The center post part tells us that it's meant to either operate inside something or with some bulk on either side, and the top is a 90deg. angle.    
4. The drive pulley on the right looks like it's in line with the back roller arm, and probably designed to pull something through.
5. Just in from the main drive pulley there looks to be a transfer pulley or gear to what looks like an upper shaft.  
6. On the left side there looks to be a gearbox, I'd guess to transfer drive down to the front roller arm.
7. The levers on the front look to control pressure or thickness for the two roller arms.
8. The profile of the cams/levers at the top probably release tension on the roller arms to allow insertion/removal of material.
9. The front roller looks to conform to the post / anvil, so probably meant to bend something at 90 deg.
10. The back roller looks to be ridged as though meant to pull material through.
11. It looks like the upper part of the post / anvil might be replaceable, as does the front roller at least.  Wonder if there are other profiles available?

So, in short - it's a motorized shoe machine that pulls material through (probably leather but maybe not!) with two types of tension-able rollers which might be used together or individually (we don't know for sure).  The post/anvil may be changeable.  Given that, it may be a single purpose machine or possibly multi-purpose.  

What other clues are we missing??   

Constabulary's first stab at a folder/bender seems right, but I don't know enough about shoe making to have any idea where that would be needed.  It's obviously a pretty expensive piece of equipment, so it would be needed for something that is either difficult or time consuming by hand in order to justify the price of a machine.  

 

[RockyAussie]

I dont know but I think it may be for rolling down the back stitch line on shoe uppers. After they are stitched the need to be pressed out very flat but still maintain the curve to fit the last. A picture taken side on I think would show the post is a curved anvil shape.

[MarcellMrsan]

This is a reverse seam rubbing machine for shoes or boots. I use one daily. 

[toxo]

Wow! All questions answered even if it does take 7 years.