US1277135A

US1277135A - Ice-creeper.

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Publication number: US1277135A
Application number: US23447118A
Authority: US
Inventors: Abraham Schemel
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1918-05-14
Filing date: 1918-05-14
Publication date: 1918-08-27
Anticipated expiration: 1935-08-27

Description

A. SCHEMEL.

ICE CREEPER. APPLICATION FILED MAYI4. I918.

Patented Aug. 27, 1918.

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To all whom it may concern: 1

,Be it known that I, ABRAHAM SGHEMEL,

a citizenof the United States, and a resident of Yonkers, the county of Westchester State of New York, haveinvented a new and Improved Ice-Creeper, of which the following is'a full, clear, and exact description. l

Heretofore ice creepers embodying a body plate having sharpened spurs extended therefrom have been secured tothe shoe on the human foot by means of'astrap or other suitable means for holding the creeper in service. Difiiculties have arisen largely chargeable to the fact that the wearer has when entering a house or upon a porch with immediately leaving the The expedient of Walking on the toes has been used with the result that the foot has been unintentionally lowered,

which has allowed the points of the spurs to damage the floor, carpet or other surface with which they are brought into contact.

One of the principal objects of the present invention is to avoid the difiiculties above set forth. With this object in view, the

invention consists principally in providing a spurred plate removably attached to the means provided for holding it in service on the shoe. The means employed for accomplishing the purpose is hereinafter disclosed in the drawings.

Drawings.

Figure I is a side view of an ice creeper constructed and arranged in accordancewith the present invention, shown as in an active position; a

Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the cooperative members forming a creeper constructed in accordance with" the present invention, the members being shown as separated for the sake of clarity;

Fig. 3 is a cross section on an enlarged scale of the creeper, the section being taken as on the line 33 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the creeper, the section being taken as on the line 44in Fig. 3.

' Description.

As seen in the drawings, a creeper plate is permanently held in service relation to a shoe 10 by a strap 11. The strap 11 engages the plate 9 by means of a fiat loop 12.

-vent1on'1n service, the strap "contained therein, the plate 9 posed below the arch of the foot and the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 14, 1918. Serial No. 234,471.

Patented Au J27, 191s.

upset from the body of-the plate 9 and separated therefrom at the ends to form a passage through the 'sai 18 arranged to hold in service the spur plate 13,; and d has pendent lugs 14, which operate as stop members for detergated slot 15, which operates witlithe head 16 ofa latch 17 mounted on the plate 13 inserted when the plate 13 is disposed in.

service.

To install an ice creeper constructed and arranged in accordance w1th the present inaround the instep of the shoe I0 and the foot shank of the shoe. The strap 11 is drawn sufliciently tight to hold the plate in position. If the strap 11 and plate 9 are installed while the the house or on plate 13 engages the lugs 14, the latch head 16 is alined with the slot 15 and springs into engagement therewith.

hen the user desires to remove the plate 3 and avoid marring a surface with the spurs 19 of the creeper, he engages the handle end 22 of the latch 17 and presses downward thereon until the head 16 is disengaged from the slot 15. The plate 13 Glaz'ms.

1. An ice creeper comprising a keeper plate; means for attaching the same to a shoe for the human foot when in service; a spur plate removably attached to said keeper plate; and means for locking said spur plate for on said keeper plate, said means embodying edges on said spur plate, said edges being overturned in spaced relation to the body of said spur plate forming channels for the edges of said keeper plate.

2. An ice creeper comprising a keeper plate; means for attaching the same to a shoe for the human foot when in service; a spur plate removably attached to said keeper plate; means for locking said spur plate on said keeper plate, said means embodying a spring latch mounted on one of said plates for engaging the other of said plates; and means manually operable for releasing said latch.

-3. An icecreeper comprising a keeper plate; means for attaching the same to a shoe the human foot when in service; a spur plate removably attached to said keeper plate; means for locking said spur plate on said keeper plate, said means embodying a spring latch mounted on one for engaging the other of said plates; and means manually operable for releasing said latch, said means embodying an operating handle extended from the end of said spur plate.

4. An ice creeper comprising a keeper plate; means for attaching the same to a shoe for the human foot when in service; a spur plate removably attached to said keeper plate; means for locking said spur plate on said keeper plate, said means embodying a spring latch mounted on one of saidplates for engaging the other of said plates; and means manually operable for releasing said latch, said means embodying a handle end integrally formed with said latch and extended from the side of said spur plate.

ABRAHAM SCHEMEL.

of said plates