US1191655A - Combined heel and arch support. - Google Patents

Description

ALE. BLOCK.

COMBINED HEEL AND ARCH SUPPORT. APPLIACATION FILED NOV-25, 1914. Y

15,191,655. Patented July 18 1916.

ALEXANDEP E. BLOCK.

RomusFLuM \npummwnmmwn n c I of the-flap-covered portion of said struc STATES, PATENT OFFICE ALEX'AWDE'BIEJLOGK, on T. ouis, iiissoimrf COMBINED HEEL AND 'ARCH svrron'r.

To all whom itmaycm'cern: 1 V 7 Be it known that I, ALEXANDER ,E. BLOCK,

a citizen of the United'States, and a resi-n dent of St. Louis, Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Heel and .Arch, Supports,.- of:

which the following is a specificationi My invention relatesto a combined heeland arch-support, and has for its object to provide an adjustable support for the treatment of the .human foot in cases where both the heel and the arch are in abnormal condition as the result of mail-formation,

accident or disease, and is intended'for insertion and use 1n a boot or shoe of ordinary construction.

In the drawings Figure l is an inverted-1f plan view of a structure embodying myIni-J vention, showing a portion of the flap? broken away. Fig. 2 is aperspective V ew ture. Fig; 3 is a' transverse sectional vie of the structure, not inverted, taken on view of the device in section,- taken on the line 44 of Fig. 1. As shown 'in the drawings, I employ an insole 4, beneath which flaps 5, 6 and 7 are; secured as shown in Fig. 3, said flaps being.

secured to the lower face of the'insole-A,

and flaps 6 and being superimposed upon each other and secured along their inner .edges to each other andto the flap 5, their inner edges being in the form of an irregular curve (see Fig. 1) and extending from a point onlthe heel of the insole 4 at or near the median'lineof the insole, toa' point atv the side of the insole 4 which is in front of. the location of'the longitudinal arch of the 40'- .footof the wearer, {and t the rear of the lineoff .word:

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Specification of getter-s Patent.

'entis 1;; In a heeLandarch-support an insole, a

Pateiited Jul'y-18,1916, 'Aiiplicat'ion filed November 2511914, serial lll'of 873gll i 'a's 'used throughout this description refers to' i the longitudinalarch of t e human foot.

f The space between the flaps 5 and 6 con-j jstitutes a cavity for thereception of the ir regularly+curved insert 10,- and the space between the flaps '6 and 7 forins a like cavity venience in manufacture; it'ma bef omitted, and the flaps 6 and7 secureddlrectly to the insole 4' without departing from my iilf ,vention. I

what I claim as new and desire to'have se= cured to. meby the grant of Letters Pat 6.15.

flap secured to'the lower face of the insole point on .the rear edge of the insole ator near the median line thereof to a pointtat isiiigly or Having "thus (described *my invention,

nd forming a .po'clg'et extendingfrom a the side ofytheinsole beneath the'longitudinal arch of the" wearer agid an insert arranged tofillsaid pocket.

2. In a--* a plurah Io v cured to the lower faceofthe insole and to each other-to yfor cavitiesof variousv 'lengths, each cavitylextending from a point at'the rear edge. ofthe insole near the media'nfline of-saidinsoleand extending. toa point beneath the longitudinal arch -of .-the foot ofthe wearerland an insert arranged to be seated i1 ilch'of said cavities.

Commissioner of Patents,

and arch support i a f ap 20f various lengths see?

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