US1043762A - Shoe-display form. - Google Patents

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SHOE DISPLAY FORM.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 16. 1911.

Patented Nov. 5, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH K. GAINES, OF GLEN ECH O HEIGHTS, MARYLAND; ALIdE W. GAINES AND HOWARD W. GAINES EXECUTORS OF SAID JOSEPH K. .GAINES, DECEASED.

SHOE-DISPLAY FORM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1912.

Application filed November 16, 1911. Serial No. 660,577.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Josnrrr K. GAINES,

hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to the class of display forms, and more particularly to such a form for shoes and is an improvement on the form of like character shown and described in my former Patent No. 550,498 dated Nov. 26, 1895. In the said patent several constructions of forms for keeping the Vamps of shoes expanded, are shown and described. In the construction shown as the preferred form, wooden blocks are secured to the inner sides of the form and two springs are interposed between them. This has been found in a measure, defective, as the construction will admit of only a comparatively small degree of compression to vary the width of form to adapt it to shoes of the very narrow types. The form illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings of said patent shows the employment of but a single spring of plate metal. This was found to be defective for the reason that this spring could not be compressed for the very narrow styles or goods. It will be seen that as the toe portion of the form was compressed the curved or rounded portion of the spring became less yielding and prevented the further compression of the form. The display form here shown, is designed to remedy these defects and adapt it for use with a much larger number of varying sizes and types of shoes.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side perspective view of my improved display form. Fig. 9. is a view of the bottom of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view showing the rear spring of the form expanded. Fig. 4 is a like view showing a simpler spring partially compressed. Fig. 5 is a top or plan view. v

In these drawings, A is the body of the display form, composed of felt, cloth, paper or like material, sized and molded to the proper shape while moist and permitted to dry as thus formed.

The material is made of such extent at the instep that the two edges on the bottom meet or slightly overlap, leaving a considerable space between the edges forward of this point. The upper or top portion is joined or integral at the instep and is divided for- .ward of this point by a cut Z), forming a triangular opening of the greatest width at the toe. The cut I) terminates at its instep end in an aperture Z). This aperture or opening varies in size, according to the degree of compressibility desired, the larger size of opening making the form capable of yielding more readily and to a greater extent to compression. The walls or edges of this out are not straight but are curved outwardly, as shown in the drawings.

Adjacent to the toe a spring C is placed between the two parts of the form and the ends of the spring are bent backward and secured directly to the sides. The spring shown in the drawing is my preferred form. One or two coils may be employed and give a greater capability to the spring as the coil makes the spring active throughout a greater degree of movement than a spring of the character shown in Fig. 4. Rearwardly of this spring, I employ another spring C which is of simple arched construction, the lower ends of the same being directly secured to the sides of the form. Inward pressure upon the sides of the form will cause these springs to yield to adapt the formrto a shoe narrower than the normal size of the form. The spring with one or more coils, as shown in Fig. 8, is my preferred form of spring. This arrangement of the cut and springs enables me to get an outward spring pressure at the toe and from that backwardvso far as the form engages the interior of the shoe. The outwardly curving sides of the cut in the top of the form also act to permit a greater degree of compression, and thereby enable it to be used with much narrower shoes than if the edges of the out were straight, as in my former patent. This will be readily apparent when attention is called to the fact that in the form shown in Fig; 2 of the drawing of the former patent of the applicant, pressure upon the sides of the form near the toe portion of the same will close the triangular opening 6 and that pressure on r the sides near the opposite end of the form will only cause the rear portion of the sides to swing inward until the blocks 0 come in contact. In the form shown in Fig. 5 of the said patent, the opening in the top can be closed only to a like extent.

In the construct-ion shown in this case, pressure on the sides near the toe will bring the sides of the cut I) together at the toe, while pressure on the sides near therear of the form will cause such sides to swing inwardly and as the upper side of the form is of an inverted curved shape, the outwardly curved sides of the cut I) enable the form sides to swing inwardly much closer together than in the forms shown in the earlier patent and enable it to be used with very narrow shoes.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A shoe display form consisting of a hollow main body open at the bottom and divided upon the top by a triangular opening extending from the instep to the toe, the wider part of the opening separating the two toe portions, the edges of the opening being of outwardly curving shape, a spring interposed between the toe portions operatively in a horizontal plane and an upwardly arching spring near the rear portion of the form.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in the presence of two Witnesses.

J. K. GAINES.

Witnesses:

J. H. WHITAKER, WM. F. DOYLE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C.

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