US1049271A - Shoe-heel. - Google Patents

Description

B. ROSENBERG.

SHOE HEEL.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 5, 1912.

1,049,271 Patented Dec. 31, 1912.-

WITNESSES IZ mmvion;

/ g/ z I Be rpamin Rosenbqg W' nrronmsrs UNITED I STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN nosnnnnne, of NEW Yonx, N. Y.

SHOE-HEEL Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed il'uly 5, 1912. Serial No. 707,708.

and Improved Shoe-Heel, of which the following is a full, clear, and enact description. Among the principal ob e cts which the present invention has in view are: to pro vide a cushion section for a shoe heel and a.

wearing surface therefor rigidly secured thereto; ,to provide a heel of the character set forth with a felt section, leather-covered to harmonize the appearance of said section with the shoe upper and the wearing lifts with which the heel is provided; and to provide eilicient means for uniting said felt section and the body of the shoe.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of thls specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the.

views and in which-- Figure 1 is a detail view in perspective, showing the felt cushion section with which the present heel is provided; Fig. 2 is a detail view in perspective, showing the intermediate leather heel lift, together with an angle-plate for joining said cushion section and intermediate lift; Fig. 3 is a detail-view in perspective, showing the bottom or wearing heel lifthaving a fastening heel-connecting plate; Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal sectionof a heel and rt-fragment of the shank and sole of a shoe to which the heel is attached; and Fig. 5 is a detailviewin plan, looking from beneath the felt section, to show the recessed bores therein.

As seen bestin Fig. 4 of the drawings, the heel, when constructed in accordance with the present invention, primarily consists in a thickened felt cushion section 10, a soft leather attaching-lift 11, and a hard leather wearing lift 12; The cushion section 10 is preferablv constructed from mediumly dense felt, shaped as a solid block, substantially shown in the drawings to conform with the shape of the body portion of the usual ,shoe heel. i

Adjacent the outer edge of the section 10, it .is'vertically bored to form tubular pockets 13. The pockets 13 extendpart-i'ally through the section 10. The remaining portion of said section from the bottom of the pockets 13 is provided with perforations 14, smaller in diameter than the bore of the pockets 13, to form at the bottom of saidpockets a shoulder, upon which. rests the head 15 of a clenching tubular eyelet'fas tener 16.

To protect the section 10,- and to harmon-,

Patented Dec. 31, 1912.

ize the a pearance 'of'the same with the I leather 1i ts 11 and 12 andthe sole 17 of the shoe, I cover the verg'cal o'r exposed edge of the section 10 by a thin flexible leather covering 18.- The edge of the'covering 18, as shown best in .Fig. 4 of thefdraw ings, is turned over'the to and bottom of the section .10 to avoid eing rubbed; or, scuffed from the section 10. Any suitable means for uniting the covering 18 and the section 10 may be employed.

Prior to applying the covering 18,;2the

section 10 is equipped'with a reinforcing corner plate 19. The corner plate 19 is. provided with spurs 20 extended from the w vertical wall thereof, to engagingly sink into the body of the section 10.-f Vertically dis posed spurs 21 on said plate engage the ma terial of the section 10 from beneath. .The

plate 19 is also provided with means similar to the spurs 21 extendedfrom" the under side" surface to adhere to the somewhat similar of the horizontal flange of saidplate, to fas ten upon the lift 11. The lift 11jis formed surface of the section 10; Theli'ftj12is constructed from hard sole leather;'and is pref erablyprovided with a connectin' plate 22,

The plate 22 has extended from 0th sides I.

thereof spurs 23. Certain .of said spurs are driven into and engage the lift 12,. while others engage the lift 11 when thetwo lifts v are joined. I .To furnish a shoe with a heel; constructed in accordance with the present invention,

the shank of the fastener 16. The borings the following method is adopted Th e'=s0le- 17 is provided with perforations to receive formed in the sole 17 register with the perforations 14 in the-sectionlO; The section" 10 is spread with a suitable 'cement,'and

thenad usted to the sole 17. The fasteners. I 16 are, entered throu h'the pockets. 13','and

theshanks are exten ed through-the perforations 14 in the section 10'and therco'rre spondi'ng borings referred to-as ibeing prosection "10 may he'united'hy driving in suitable-brads or pegs, care being exercised to:

vided in the sole 17. The heads 15 of the fusteners lti rest firmly on the shoulder formed in the pockets 13, and the ends of the shanks of the fasteners 16 are'bent over to clench upon the sole 17. -W' hen all the fasteners are in place, it will found that the section 1.0 is held rigidly secured to the sole 17* The lift 11 is now set, the contacting surfaces of :said lift being liberal? -a'void'the plates 19 and 22.1

"Whhjia, shoe is provided with a, cushio section similar to the section 10, it will -be 'fou'n'd that'the action clue to the-Strikingof the h'eelnpon the hard plaivement is avoided.

It'als -"will be found that the pockets 13 operate by"the contraction and expansion of the felt farming the section .10 to expel the air normally contziined in said pockets through the tubular center of the shank of lt- Wlxll-CibE- understp layer of-leather the-fastener 16 into the body of the shoe. When, in the operation 'ofwalking, the heel isl'if-ted, the felt of "the section. 10 expands, the pockets 13 causing the same to draw in air from the bOdY-o'f-the shoe through the tuhu'lar shanks of the fastenersigifi' By 'means of-"th-i's acti'on,-. it will bespen thzut" vthere is maintained within'theslipeja circu lution of air veryiegreeable to-the rtyezircr.

5 Where, in the present spccifich ion and eleims'f'the termt lift, has been"mployed, d'. to' 'indicate a single lly'employedin ben claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentt- 1.- A shoe heel comprising a resilient body section having formed therein a series of vertically-disposed pockets extending from the lower face of said section part way therethrough; perforations ext-ending from the upper ends of said pockets to the upper face of said section, said perforations being of smaller diameter than said pockets, whereby a shoulder is formed at the upper end of each pocket; a plurality of fasteners for uniting the sole of a shoe and said body section, said fasteners ha'vingheads adapted to engage said shoulders and open-ended tu bular shanks adapted to extend through said Y perforations, the ends of said shanks remote from said heads being adapted to be overturned upon 'thefupper surface 10f said sole'ye plurality of leather liftscove-rin the under side of said section, the inner. 1i being constructed froni'relatively softleather, and-the outer lift being constructed from relatively hard leather; and 'a le'ather casing for said section. r

2. Ashoe heel comprising a resilient body section havingformedtherein a series of vei-tieally-disposed pockets extending from the lower fzice' of said section partway therethreugh; perforations extending from the upper ends of said pockets to the upper face of said section, saidperforntions being of smaller diameter than said pockets, whereby a shoulder is formed :itthe upper end of each pocket; 0, piurnlity of fasteners for uniting the sole of ztshoe and said body vsect ion, said. fasteners having: heads adapted to engage said'sho'uhlers end a. leather cusin; for said lmrlysecliion A r In testimony whereof have-signed my name to this spccificationfin two subscribing witnesses.

BENJAMIN.nosENBERo.

lVitnesses: V Josnrrr GOLDSMITH,

Q Jumps J. KAUDER.

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