US1102101A - Art of making boots and shoes. - Google Patents

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F. 0. STALKER.

ART OF MAKING BOOTS AND SHOES. APPLICATION FILED FEB.18,1910.

; 1, 1 2, 1 1, Patented June 30, 1914.

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FRED 0. STALKER, or nnooxron, massacnusn'rrs, hssiouon 'ro UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, or IATEBSON, NEW JERSEY; afloonrona'rron or NEW JERSEY. i;

ART or MAKING Booms Ann shoals.

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' citizen of the United States, residing at Brockton, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in the Art of Making Boots and Shoes, of which the following description, in connection with the acconipanying drawings, is a specification, .like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to methods of ornamenting soles and also to improvements in heels used in the practice of the method set forth.

In attaching heels to shoes the heels are commonly forced upon the sole with such pressure that a defacing mark which is exposed to view after the heelis breasted is frequently formed in the sole by the breast edge of the heel. Numerous expedients have been devised to prevent the ,roduction of this disfigurement. It has aso been proposed to conceal or disguise the mark by applying to the sole adjacent to the breast edge of the breasted-heel an ornamental design. This has been done in a separate operation by means of a; tool adapted to indent in the sole a suitable design.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide 1 novel method of forming a design upon this part of a sole without the employment of a separate machine or tool for this purpose.

According to the present invention an ornamental design is formed upon the sole adjacent to the breast edge of the breasted heel by means of the heel itself. To this end the heel seat surface of that portion of the heel which is removed in breasting is provided with means for producing an ornamental design in that portion of the sole with which it has contact. Preferably the surface of the heel referred to is provided with indenting projections which are molded thereon in the operation of molding the heel. When the heel is pressed upon the sole in the heel attaching operation, these indenting projections are forced into the sole and pro duce a design which is exposed to view when the heel is breasted.

' In the drawings, which illustrate one method of practising the invention, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of parts of a heel Compressing mold adapted to produce a heel Application flied February 18,1910. Serial No;

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embodying the present invention; Fig. 2 is a. view in perspective of a heel embodying the present invention; Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the heel of Fig. 2 attached and breasted; Fig. 4 isa view in perspective illustrating a heel having amodified design formed therein.

Referring to the drawings, the reference numeral 1 indicates the follower and the reference'numeral 2 the side dies of a heel compressing machine. The follower 1 is provided with a series of indentations adjacent to its breast edge into which the material of the heel is forced int-he molding operation, producing upon the heel i the inde endent projections 6 along its breast edge s own in Fig. 2. When the heel is pressed upon' the sole the indenti' .g projections are forced into the sole by the great pressure which is commonly employed in that operation. Ornamental indentations 8'are thus produced in the sole, which are entirely or partially exposed to view when a portion of the heel is removed in breasting. 'If a portion of the design falls to the rear of the breast line so that it is not exposed by breasting, such portion forms an interlocking connection between the heel and out sole. If the sole is in temper during the heel attaching operation the production of the indentations in the sole will be facilitated on account of the greater plastic quality of the sole. It will be understood that the heel itself is dry and hard so that the projections thereon have suflicient rigidity to indent the sole.

In the modified form of heel shown in Fig. 1, the indenting projections at the breast are longitudinally continuous and are not formed in a series of rows as in the heel shown in Fig. 2.

It is of course within the scope of the present invention to provide indenting projections of any particular shape or arrangement desired. The form shown in Fig. 4 may he preferred for the reason that the nature of the design produced thereby and ex posed to view upon the sole is independent of'the location of the cut produced by the breasting knife. I

It may be observed that the invention is not limited to the particular embodiment herein illustrated. While the present invention has been described as applied to an or-' namental design alone, it will be obvious that, if desired, a trade mark, stock number or other designation may be impressed in the sole by the me hod above set forth;

I believe that ham the first to produce upon a sole in the heel attaching operation a design ornamental or otherwise which is exposed to View after the heel is breasted.

Having described 1 my invention, what I claim as new and de ire to secure by Letters Patent of the Unite States is 1. A device for use in producing an ornamental design upon a sole, comprising a heel having upon the heel seat surface of the entire portion which is removed in breasting means for producing upon the sole an ornamental design.

2. A device for use in producing an ornamental design upon a sole, comprising a heel having molded upon the heel seat surface of the entire portion which is removed in breasting projections adapted to be forced into the sole during the attaching operation to produce a series of indentations which will be exposed to view after the heel is breasted.

3. That improvement in the art of making boots or shoes which consists in providing the heel seat surface-of the heel for substantially the entire width of the breast with means for impressing an ornamental design, pressing the heel upon the heel-seat of the shoe and attaching the heel to the shoe, and thereafter breasting the heel and bringing into view an ornamental impression formed in the sole by the heel.

4. That improvement in the art of making boots or shoes which consists in molding 11 on the heel seat surface of the heel a series 0 indenting rojections extending across substantially the entire width of the breast, pressing the heel upon the heel seat of the shoe and attaching the heel to the shoe, and thereafter breasting the heel and bringing into view an ornamental impression formed the part of the sole so pressed, and then removing a portion of the heel to expose the ornamentation on the sole.

6. That improvement in the art of making boots and shoes which consists in pressing against the sole a heel having formed in its heel seat surface a series of V-shaped projecting ribs arranged in parallel relation ex tending across substantially the entire width of the heel, and intersecting the breast edge of the heel at substantially right angles, and then breasting away a portion of the heel to expose the ornamentation formed by the ribs on the sole.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses:

HERBERT W. KENWAY, JAMIES RILEY Honnnn.

FRED C. STALKER.

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