SCHUHSCHAFTUEBERHOL- UND AUFZWICKMASCHINE

A machine for pulling and lasting a shoe upper has a knurled insole engaging surface on a plate for applying cement to an insole which rocks into insole engagement from a toe-down position after initially engaging a heelward portion of a forepart of the insole. The machine also has grippers adjacent the heelward portion of the insole forepart which grip the upper and then move downwardly to tension the gripped upper over a last, inwardly of the last to draw the upper toward edges of an insole on the last and pivotally of the last to twist and further draw the upper toward the edges of the insole.