US1043058A - Arch-support. - Google Patents

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' E. BLOCK. ARCH SUPPORT. APPLIOATI(\)N FILED SEPT. 25, 1911.

1,043,058. Patented Nov. 5, 1912.

therein.

Beneath the strip'll the strip 14;is secured UNITED STATES FFICE.

ALEXANDER E. BLOCK, on ST; Louis; msso'uiu, assreivon 'ro ALBERT KERN, or sr.

' LOUIS, MISSOURI. I

ARCH-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent. I

Pat ented Nov. 5-, 1912.

Application filed September 25, 1911. Serial No. 651,030.

dent of St. Louis, .Mi'ssohri, have invented certain new and useful-Improvements in Arch- Supports, of which the "following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in arch supports and has for its object to provide an arch support whose'thickness may be regulated to' conform with the requirements of the wearer, and whose thickness is adjustable forwardly and rearwardly, as well as vertically.

In the drawings: Figure l is .a perspective View ofan arch support embodying my invention. Fig.2 is a bottom 'plan'viewiof the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical view of the samein section. Fig.4 is a perspective view of the insert employ'ed n the drawings, I employLan As shown i insole 10, adapted to fit within a shoe and at the rear thereof,- and of such a length 25 as to =fitbeneath the heel'and arch of the foot of the wearer. "Upon the lower face of the insole 1O I-pro'vide a. flexible strip 11, which is sewed, or'otherwise secured to the insole 10 along the line-indicated by the numeral. 12, thus; forming the pocket 13.

in like ;-manner to form the pocket 15. Be-- the strip 16 is. similarly securedthe' strip 18to form. the pocket 19." These pockets 13,15,17 and19 are so formed as to be lo.-.

cated beneath the arch of the foot of the wearer, theuear 'wall' or edge of thev pocket 19 being somewhat "to the rear of the-corresponding'edge of the pocket 17 :aiid j the rearedge of the pocket'17 b'eingslightlyto the rear of the-rear edge of thepo'cket 1a. The uppermost pocket'13 isof greater length order to buildjup the support I, employ one desired length,.bre'adth and thickness which pockets 13, 1 5,-'17'or-'19;-theinsert being made of a thicknesstoconform with the arch of the foot of the wearer, and the in,-

heel of the 'wearer to'meet the requirements of his footfwhether such requirements are to an unnatural andv abnormal. condition of the' arch due to ac'cident 'or' disease. The

portion, therefore when it is desiredto 20in-1di erent'pockets orthe same. pocket, and the total thickness of the" support may modate theteet' of difierent wearer's.

Having thus described my invention, fwhat I'claim-as new,and desire to have secured to meby-"thegrant of Letters Patent, is

face'of the insole, the-highest points of the creme tof'the length of the .insole. .3

. name to this specification,- in presence of i' WO' Subscribing witnesses.

. Witnesses;

.N'.1 E.'- BRooKMaN, f Bum.

than either of the pockets 15,17 and 19. In

due to the natural formation of the foot, or"

support the anterior arch of the wearers- :foot, and the entire support 'may be built, up by em loying two or more of the inserts or more "of the inserts-20,- which .are of any can be accommodated by either of the sert being located toward. or away from the i insert 20 will beI-made thickest at its rear I 6'5" be varied at will'to accommodatedifierent conditions' of .the same foot, or to accom In an a'rchsupport; the combination of an insole an insert anda plurality of overlapping. pockets formed upon ,the lower 5 pockets, beingat various positions with relf- In testimony whereof, I have signed my ALEXANDER mecca.

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