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J. PKETZUCH.

PROTECTING PLATE FOR SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. n. 1918.

1,319,793. Patented Oct. 28,1919.

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JOSEPH PIE'IZUCI-I, 0F CINCINNATI, OHIO.

PROTECTING-PLATE FOR SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 28 1919.

Application filed February 11, 1918. Serial No. 216,646.

. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH Pm'rzUoH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Protecting Plates for Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a plate for the toe or heel of a shoe which shall be cheap of manufacture, simple in construction and highly efficient in use.

The heel plate is to be applied to the heel or toe of the shoe to prevent wear and preserve to the fullest wearing capacity, certain parts of the heel which first run over or Wear out and it may also be formed for the purpose of preventing slippage to a certain degree.

It can be stamped in blank form out of pliable metal and be ready for use without any further work thereon, and it can be placed on the shoe by the user himself, as he need not be skilled to place the same in proper position or it can quickly be placed on the shoe by the retailer either by hand or by a small machine. It may be made out of metal having a minimum degree of softness, or from metal with less pliability, but it should be made of metal which can be bent into shape without great effort.

The plate is triangular in contour, or approximately so, and consists of a body portion having a tang thereon, situated at the forward part thereof, and at its other or opposite end the body portion runs to a point which acts in use the same as a tang.

v It will be seen by this construction that I am enabled to bend or turn over these points or tangs and drive them into the edge of the sole or heel and also into the body portion or surface of the sole or heel. This enables me to drive the tang into the lift or bottom layer of leather on the heel and also into the leather edge on the sole, thus preventing any tendency to crack leather or to go between any of the layers thereof; thus this protecting plate will be firmly held in a normal and uniform position and not interfere in any manner with the original construction of the shoe.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification:

Figure 1, is an isometric View of a shoe showing the sole and heel fitted with my plates,

Fig. 2, is a view in elevation of the plate,

Fig. 3, is a similar View without the tang cut out of the body part,

Fig. 4, is a section taken on the line H of Fig. 3 except that the holding points or ends are ent over as they appear when fastened in the shoe heel, and

Fig. 5, is a section on line 55 of Fig. 1, the heel and upper of the shoe broken away.

The plate is formed of a body part 1, having a point 2 and an integral securing tang 3. I may also employ a tang as '1': struck out of the body portion 1, see Figs. 2 and 5. The point 2 is sharp and the points or corners 5 are usually rounded or cut away so that when placed on the shoe sole or heel, the plate will snugly fit and lie flush with the edge of the sole or heel.

The sole of the shoe is marked 6, the heel 7 the upper 8 and the lift of the heel 9.

The dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 3 show the point at which the tangs and points are bent over so that the plate can be placed in position.

In Fig. 2 and also Fig. 5 I show the plate formed with the cutout tang a and in this case point 2 need not be bent over; in Fig. 5 I show this particular plate ap plied to the lift of a shoe heel. In Fig. 3 I show the plate as it is used when the point 2 is bent over and in Fig. 4 I show this particular plate with the point 2 bent down to go into the face of the heel or sole and the tang 3 bent over to a form in which it is pressed or hammered into the lift or sole edge of the shoe.

It will be noted that this plate is widest at the point where it lies at the edge of the sole or heel,

When the user desires to put these plates upon his shoes he turns the points or tangs into the position desired and then presses or hammers them in place.

These protecting plates, it will be observed, are placed in position in such a manner that they afford the best protection desired at the points where they are placed and that they do not mar the outward appearance of the shoein any manner.

These plates are usually made of very thin material which can readily be bent into the proper form, but are shown thicker in the drawings so as to best illustrate the invention.

l/Vhile I have described one specific method of carrying my invention into effect it will be understood that the same is capable of some modification without departing from the spirit of the invention and I wish to be understood as claiming that such modifications will still fall within the scope of my invention.

What I claim as new and my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A protecting plate for shoes, stamped out of thin metal of a triangular shape to form a body portion, at one end tapered down to form a sharp tang point, and at this sharp end also provided with a tang cut out of the metal, and at its opposite end being materially widened and at the middle of said widened part provided with a pointed bendable tang.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH PIETZUCH.

/Vitnesses:

H. E. CARs'rENs, N. C. Scorn copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

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