US1259917A - Heel for shoes. - Google Patents

Description

E. L. SHARPNECK.

. HEEL FOR' SHOE rrucmon mm A'u ans.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-.

mmr. L. SH ABPN EOK, OI WINTHROP, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOF OFONE-H ALI '10 HIMSELF, ONE-HALF '10 FREDERICK MILLAY,-OF HAVERHILB, KASSAOHU- HEEL FOB snons. 4

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIEL L. SHARPNECK,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Winthrop, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Heels for Shoes, of which the following is a specification,

- reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

This invention has reference to improvements in heels for shoes and particularly to such heels having seats to receive the heel portions of the shoe'soles.

One object of the invention is to provide a shoe heel having a seat to receive the sole in which the wall of said seatis constituted by a casing member coextensive with the heel and adapted to be enameled or coated with finishing or coloring material.

Another object of he invention is to 'provide a heel constituted by a casing and a filler in which the shape of said casing and filler tends to retain the casing on the filler.-

Other objects of the invention will appear from the'following description.

The invention consists in the heel comprising the filler member and the casing member extending as a wall above the filler member to provide a seat for the sole, which wall is adapted to meet the upper to afford a neat and inconspicuous finish.

The invention also consists in the-complemental shape of the casing and the filler whereby the tendency of the casing is to hug the filler.

The invention also consists in such other novel features of construction and combinat-ion of parts as shall hereinafter be more 4 the improved heel.

line H Fig. 2.

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Fig. 5, represents a plan view of Fig. 2.

Fig. 6, represents a vertical sectionalview taken on line 6l3 Fig. 5, the heel lift-being omitted.

Fig. 7 represents a bottom'p'lan view of Specification of Lettersratent. Application filed August 8, 1916. Serial No. 113,813.

taken Patented Mar. 19, 1918.

Similar characters of reference designate corres onding parts, throughout.

As shown in the drawings the casing members A and B are in all cases approximately of similar shape having the upper curved wall or edge 7 and tapering downward from said wall or edge 7 following a proximately the inward back curve *8 and rent curve 9 to the bottom of the heel or to the point adapted to receive the'heel lift 10.- These inward opposed curves 8 and 9 contract the diameter of the casing from front to back, as on line- 6.-6 Fig. 5 and the sides 11, 11 of the casing are curved slightly inward all of said curves resisting outward pressure.

The casing members A and B preferably are made of sheet metal or sheet material and their curved elements 9,9 are inturned from the sides 11, 11 and are furnished with bent edges which are adapted to be received in suitable recesses of the filler block or substance C or D as the case may be. In the form shown in Figs. and 2, the inturned curved elements 9, 9 ave their edges bent inward and folded together to form the rib 12 which follows the curve of the elements '9, 9 and the filler block C has the groove 0 to receive said rib 12.

In the form shown in Figs. 2, 4, 5 and 6 of the drawings the curved casing elements 9, 9 have their edges 13, 13 turned inward without being folded together or engaged and the upper and lower portions of said elements 9, 9 are furnished with the bent lips 14, 14 and 15, 15 which overlap the corresponding ends of the filler block D while said edges 13, 13 are received by the groove 0! of said block D.

The filler blocks C and D preferabl are made of wood or other suitable materia and should preferably be of a size and shape approximately to be received by'their respective casings A or B and to be secured therein by suitable cement. In some cases I may however prefer to construct the filler blocks 0 or D of plastic material molded into shape prior to their insertion in said casings or molded in said casings.

The casingsA and B may be of metal or material adapted readily to receive and retain a finish of enamel or color which is unbroken by any joint or seam on the exposed surface of the heel. The upper surfaces of the filler blocks are adapted to receive the heel portions of the shoe soles to which these improved heels are apphed and such heel portionsof the soles are embraced by the walls} 7j f the casings which walls 7 fitsnugly against the adjacent portions of the shoe.

iv Heving thus described my invention 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A heel comprising a casing and a filler forisaid casin said casing being coextensive with sai filler and having meeting edgesbent inwardto constitute a rib which rib is received by the filler.

2. A heel comprising a. casing and a filler for said casing,rsaid' casing being coextensive with said filler and having meeting edges bent inward and engaged with said filler.

3. A. heel comprising a casing and a, filler for said casing, said casing being coextensive with said filler and having a vertically curved front constituted by elements having meeting edges inturned from said elements and following the curves thereof, said filler having a groove to receive said meeting

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