US1139417A - Shoe-heel. - Google Patents

Description

L. F. HERING.

' SHOE HEEL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 6, 1914.

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LOUIS FRANK HERING, 0F POMONA, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALFRED KONJETZKY, OF POIVIONA, CALIFORNIA.

SHOE-HEEL.

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Application filed May 6, 1914.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LOUIS F. HERING, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Pomona, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe- Heels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cushion heels for boots and shoes, and more particularly to that class of cushion heels employing metallic springs, as resilient members.

One of the principal objects of the invention is to provide a cushion heel including a pair of telescoping members having a coil spring interposed between them, one of the members being adapted to engage the ground in walking and telescope within the other against the action of the spring, said members being so formed as to prevent displacement one from the other.

Another object of the invention is to provide a spring heel including a pair of telescoping members having respectively inwardly and outwardly turned portions for engaging each other and preventing displacement of the members relatively to each other, said outwardly turned portions being disposed so as to allow oscillatory movement of one member relatively to the other.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a heel of the class described which will be extremely simple in construction, durable, efficient in operation and inexpensive to manufacture.

With these and other objects in View which will become apparent as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several figures, of which,

Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal sectional view taken through the heel portion of a shoe showing my improved heel attached thereto, Fig. 2 represents a vertical transverse sectional View taken through the heel of the shoe, Fig. 3, represents a perspective view of the metallic heel plate, and Fig. 4 represents a perspective view of the casing forming one member of the heel.

Referring more particularly to the draw- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 1915..

Serial No. 836,648.

ing, 5 represents the sole and 6 the upper of a shoe, to the heel portion of which sole my improved spring heel is adapted to be secured.

The heel includes an upper member A and a lower member B, the latter of which is slidable within the former. The member A comprises a casing having a flat top 7 provided with a number of openings 8 whereby the casing may be secured to the sole of the shoe by means of suitable screws 9 extending through said sole and into the openings 8 which are threaded; side walls 10; a rear wall 11; and front wall 12, which side walls, rear and front walls are continuous, and are in the form of a flange de pending from top 7. The front wall 12 is concaved and the rear wall 11 convexed, so as to render the configuration of the heel similar to that of the ordinary leather heel.

The lower or ground engaging member B includes a block 13 of wood, leather, composition, or any other suitable and desirable material, the outside perimeter of the block being slightly smaller than the inside perimeter of the depending walls of the upper section, so that the block may slide therein, and secured to the upper face of the block is a metallic plate 14: of an area equal to the area of the upper face of the block, and which is provided at the front portion of its side edges with an outwardly turned portion 15 having a beveled inner face 16 disposed at an acute angle to the plane of the plate, said turned portions adapted to engage the edges of block 13 in the manner indicated in Fig. 2 for attaching the plate upon the block, and the outwardly turned portions overhang the sides of the block at the front portions thereof, as shown.

The lower edge of side walls 10 of the upper member at their forward portions, are inwardly turned or beaded, as at 17, and the inwardly turned portions 17 coact with the outwardly turned portions 15 to prevent displacement of the heel sections from each other, at the same time allowing the lower section to slide up and down within the upper.

A helical spring 18 is disposed between the top 7 of the upper section and the heel plate 14, centrally thereof, and is adapted to normally hold block B in extended position relative to the upper section, and in position to engage'the ground in walking,

said spring forming the resilient member against whose tension the block works while the heel is in operation. The spring is substantially frusto-conical in shape, being of greater diameter at its upper end, and the spring is secured in any desirable manner to the top 7 of the upper heel sections.

The outwardly and inwardly turned portions of the sections are situated as described at the forward part of the heel, instead of extending entirely around the perimeter of the heel, and thus a slight oscillatory movement of the block relative to the upper section is allowed, which tends to add to the proficiency of the heel, this oscillatory 'movement being incident to the engagement of the rear portion of the block with the ground before the front portion thereof.

Although I have described the preferred embodiment of my invention I may desire 7 heel section.

the invention and the scope of the appended laim.

I claim A heel comprising a hollow sectionand a block adapted to slide within the hollow section, a plate positioned on the block, means on the plate engaging the block for securing the plate, and overhanging the block for serving as a stop, means on the hollow section arranged to co-act with first said means for preventing displacement of the block from the heel section, and resilient means disposed between said block and LOUIS FRANK HE RING.

W. H. RIGKERIOH.

C'opies of this patent may be obtained. for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. v

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