US1020138A - Adjustable heel for footwear. - Google Patents

Description

H. E. FRY. ADJUSTABLE HEEL FOB FOOTWEAR. APPLICATION FILED APR.20, 1011.

1,020,1 38', Patented Mar. 12, 1912.

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IN VE N T 0/? v Harry E. Pr

v BY

HARRY E. FRY, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

ADJUSTABLE HEEL FOR FOOTWEAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 20, 1911. Serial No. 622,321.

Patented Mar.. 12, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY E. FRY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Heels for Footwear, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates more particularly to adjustable heels or devices which may be readily applied to shoes or boots and which may be held against movement when once adjusted.

One of the principal objects of the invention is to provide a simple and eflicient device of rubber or other material which may be held to the heel of a shoe or similar article in such a way that it may be adjusted to allow the device to be moved just the distance wanted or required as it wears, and at the same time provide simple means whereby the device may be permanently held in its adjusted position in order to insure a firm footing, thus overcoming many of the objections to devices of this kind as ordinarily constructed.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simple and efiicient fastening device for the heel or device by which the device may be rotated or shifted any desired distance in case of Wear and by said means tightened and held against further movement until it is again adjusted.

A further object of the invention is to provide a simple device which is so constructed that the device and the fastening means will not pull apart, and to provide'a device which may be readily applied by the purchaser.

WVith these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinafter more particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and will then be pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a fragmentary elevation, partly 1n section, of a shoe showing one form of my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an inverted detail plan view of the heel or device detached from the shoe; and Fig. 3 is a plan view looking at the reverse side to Fig. 1, showing the means -for holding the heel to permit adjustment,

and at the same time hold the heel against movement after being once adjusted.

While I shall show and describe the invention as applied to a shoe, it will be understood that the invention can be applied to other forms of foot wear and that the term shoe where used is intended to be broad enough to include such articles.

The shoe 10 is provided with the usual heel ll of any desired height, and adapted to be fastened to the heel 11 is a detachable heel or device 12. This device 12 may be clrcular or of any other desired form and may be made of rubber or other suitable material. As shown the device has the body portion 13 and vulcanized or otherwise formed as a part thereof is a fabric 14 which is embedded within the device, said fabric serving better to hold the parts t0- gether and to prevent the fastening means from. pulling out or readily separating as might otherwise be the case.

A fastening device 15 of metal is adapted to be arranged within a recess 16 on the wearing face of the device. The wearing face of the heel may be roughened or otherwise made to prevent slipping. The fastenlng device 15 has a body portion 17 from which project arms 18 and central. of said device is a depressed portion 18 forming an aperture and a seat for the head 19 of a screw 20. The screw 20 is adapted to en.- gage the heel 11 of the shoe and serves as a pivot whereby the heel or device 12 may be moved or adjusted the required distance in case of Wear. Each of the arlns'18 has an angular part, 21 which is suitably sharpened and is adapted to be forced throu h the body of the device 12 and to enter t e heel 11 of the shoe when the said device 12 is held in its proper position and the screw 20 is forced home. The number of arms and the number of fastening parts 21 may vary and the purpose of these parts is to permit the heel to be quickly adjusted by releasing the screw so that the wear will occur just where it is wanted and to the extent. it is wanted, and that the heel when thus held will insure a firm footing which is not the case with heels constructed to rotate or move freely'upon a pivot as has been proposed.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that a simple and eflicient device is provided as a detachable heel which may be readily attached to the heel of a shoe or other article; that simple and eflicient fastening means is provided for the device whereby said device may be readily adjusted andheld against wearing portion-to the heel and as a pivot rotation in such adjusted position; and that to permit adjustment thereof j 25 said device is simple in construction and 3. An adjustable heel having its body may be readily applied to the shoe or other formed of rubber with a fabric portion article by the purchaser. forming a part thereof and having a sub- Having thus described my invention, I stantlally central recess on the wearing face claimas new and desire to secure by Letters thereof, a fastening element having a body 30 Patent I portion provided with acentral depressed 1. A heel, a detachable wearing portion, part and with arms having angularly formed a fastening element having arms provided ends adapted to pass through the body of with sharpened parts projecting through the heel and to enter the heel of the article the wearin portion to the heel.

said wearing portlon and entering the heel to which the adjustable heel is fastened, 35 anda screw passing through the element and and a screw seated in the depressed central serving as a means for adjustably holding portion of the fastening element and adapt- 4 ed to engage the heel of the article to which 2. A hee a rubber wearing portion, prothe adjustable heel is secured and to serve 'vided with a fabric portion,'a'fastening eleas a pivot for said adjustable heel. 4

ment having a body provided with a de- This specification signed andwitnessed pressed part forming a central opening and this 19th day of April A. D. 1911. arms projecting through said wearing por- HARRY E. FRY. tion and entering the heel and a screw pass- Witnesses: ing through the central openin and serv- W. A. TOWNER, Jr., ing as a means for adjustably olding the ,L. I. MAYER.

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