US1469607A

US1469607A - Device for giving foot comfort

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Publication number: US1469607A
Application number: US275698A
Authority: US
Inventors: William M Scholl
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1919-02-08
Filing date: 1919-02-08
Publication date: 1923-10-02
Anticipated expiration: 1940-10-02
Also published as: FR519076A; DE356040C; GB162570A

Description

Oct. 2 1923.

- w. M. SCHOLL DEVICE FOR GIVING FOOT COMF ORT Filed Feb. 8

1 WILL M. SCHOLL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DEVICE FOR GIVING FOOT COMFORT.

Application filed February 8, 1919. Serial No. 275,698.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. SoHoLL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Giving Foot Comfort, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for giving foot comfort, and in some of its features more particularly to flexible, adjustable, padded insoles. It has for its general object to provide a leather body structure and adjusting pads such. that the device may be readily and accurately adjusted to suit the requirements of the wearer, and such that all parts will be simple, inexpensive and easily made and assembled.

The invention consists in the features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a plan view,

with parts broken away, showing a flexible arch-support embodying the invention; Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3

is a view with parts broken away showing the under side of the arch-support; Fig. 4 is a detail of a ductile metal ribbon, and Fig. 5 illustrates a plurality of detachable fillers in process of assembly on such a ribbon.

The body of the device, as shown, comprises upper and lower members, 10 and 11, constituting respectively a cover piece and a base, these being connected permanently together in such manner as to form effective pockets, open marginally to permit their being spread apart for the insertion of intervenin fillers at the desired points.

Spec' cally, each of these

members

10 and 11, in the preferred flexible or non-metallic construction shown, is made of leather, the body being shaped to conform to the inside of a shoe so as approximately to fill the heel and shank portion thereof and extend to the ball of the shoe. The cover member 10 may be extended laterally along. its inner edge to lie against the side of the shoe under the wearers instep-arch. The connection between these two members, in such aflex ible leather construction, may be effectedby stitching 13, such stitching preferably following two

courses

14 and 15,. to unitethe leather pieces along two spaced-apart lines extending along the outer edge of the support from near the middle or shank thereof, and also to connect the leather pieces at two widely spaced points respectively, near the ball and heel ends of the inner margin of the support. Such connection leaves three

pockets

16, 17 and 18, marginally opening toward the inner side of the shank, the front of the ball portion, and the rear of the heel portion, respectively, for the reception of adjusting filler-members or pads. The stitching illustratedis eflective for this purpose, the course or runl extending from a point near the inner forward portion of the body in a shallow are nearly to the center of the shank; then transversely to, and forwardly along the outer edge of,.thev device for a suitable distance; and then inward again to substantially intercept the stitching-arc aforesaid. The other course or run of st1tch-- ing, 15, takes a enerally similar shape with respect to the fieel portion, the separation between the adjacent transverse portions of the lines of stitching leaving a restricted outlet opening 19 from the pocket 16 to v the outer margin of the support between the two leather plies. Each .of the other pockets referred to, preferably, has a re stricted opening opposite to its open margin, through which access may be had fromthe pocket to the bottom of the device, and so for the respective ball. and;

heel pockets

17 and 18, I make slits 20 and21 in'the base leather 11,,adjacent the longitudinal axis of the appliance. a Y I Any or all of the stated: pockets may be padded with removable and adjustable pads to give the desired elevation to the coverpiece and the desired degreeof resistivity, at any of the areas corresponding with the pockets. -Usually the longitudinal instep arch requires the greatest elevation and the firmest support, and in the pocket 16 there may be inserted one or more filler members disposed to give, or superimposed so as 1% roW, its pliancy being such that it may readi ily be bent by the fingers. Thus, as shown in Fig. 5, several pads or filler members, 25, each skived along its appropriate edges and severally decreasing in area so that jointly they may provide a smoothly curving hump, are suitably apertured and threaded on a metal ribbon which, after being bent down around the pads so as to hold them snugly in assembled relation, may have its free, confronting, contacting end-portions run through the passage 19 and bent sharply back around under the lower leather piece, as best shown in Figure 2. In substantially the same way and by the same means, adapted only in size, single or superimposed filler pads may be emplaced in and retained in the ball and heel pockets, or either of them, the ribbon being run through the appropriate slits made in the lower leather piece.

In character the fillers may vary. Usually, for filling the side pockets, leather elements 25, properly skived, and each having a canvas patch 26 cemented to its under side, are used, these giving the stifiness and texture found most desirable. The canvas patch not only gives added stren th to the leather, but assists in creating a frictional engagement between the superimposed plies thatwill make very definite the positioning of the parts with respect to each other and will prevent squeaking. In building up a rather thick laminated filler for the instep arch-it is preferable to employ as the bottom ply a master filler having several distinct slots 27, through any one of which the metal ribbon may be'looped according to desired positioning of the filler. Other cooperating filler members may have individual, separated slots as indicated at 27 in Fig. 5, or a single elongated slot as shown at 28. In either such way adjustment of the filler, or its omponent parts, transversely to the ribbon may be had, and of course the snugness with which the pad is drawn into its pocket by the ribbon will give a certain latitude of adjustment in the opposite direction even where a single slit, or a number of slits in a single line he used.

For many urposes, particularly for very tender feet, elt pads may be employed as indicated at 30; or if desired, any one of the fillers may be made of rubber, as indicated at 31 in connection with the heel pocket. In the heel arrangement it is sometimes desirable to use rubber as a heel cushion and sometimes a harder filler, inclined transversely to straighten up the foot,

' is desirable.

parent that some of its features may be employed in a metal-base-plate arch suprt; that in its broader aspects it is not limited to the specific materialsreferred to; and

that embodiments of the invention may be made, within the scope of the appended claims, in many and varied forms of detail.

I claim:

1. In a device of the character described, upper and lower members connected to" form therebetween a marginally-open pocket having an opposite relatively-restricted opening, and a filler in said pocket comprising a member having a slit therethrough and a ductile metal ribbon engaging said slit, said ribbon passing through the said restricted opening and bent around the edge of said opening for retention.

:2. In a device of the character described, upper and lower members connected to leave therebetween a pocket marginally opening and having a restricted opposite opening, a filler member having a slit, and a ductile thin metal ribbon looped through said slit and with its superimposed end portions passing through the restricted opening and bent back under the edge of the latter.

3. An adjusting ad for arch supports comprising a suitab y' shaped body having a slit, and a thin ductile metal ribbon looped through said slit and with its limbs projecting beyond the edge of the member in superimposed contacting relation.

i. A device of the character described comprising upper and lower leather members stitched together to form a pocket open along a relatively large marginal mouth and having a relatively narrow opening opposite the mouth, and a filler member in said pocket having a thin, readily-bendable metal tongue of width substantially conforming to \the narrow opening and bent back around the edge of the lower member,

detachably to retain the filler member in place.

5. A device of the character described comprising upper and lower leather members united by stitching that outlines a side pocket open marginally along the inner side of the shank and also outlines a parallelsided transverse outlet passage opening to the inner sideof the shank and to said pocket, and a filler member in said pocket having a thin soft-metal tongue of width substantially conforming to that of said outlet passage, said tongue extending through and ositioned in said passage, and the end of sai d tongue being bent back under the lower leather member detach-ably to retain the filler member in its pocket.

6. A filler member for arch supports comprising a plurality of superimposed pads having slits, one of said pads being slitted to receive the ribbon at different positions; a relatively narrow thin ductile, ribbon of metal looped through the slits of said pads, said ribbon having its end portions brought into over-lapping contact.

7; In a device of the character described,

a flexible body shaped to fit the heel and shank of a shoe and having a ocket opening toward the inner margin of t e shank'of the body, and having a restricted opposite open ing, a filler for said pocket comprising superimposed slitted members shaped so as jointly to form a suitable hump, and a thin.

ductile metal ribbon looped through said slits, extending through the restricted opening, and bent back around the edge of said opening to lie under the body.

8. In a device of the character described, a body having a pocket, a plurality of superposed pads and a single means joining said pads detachably and detachable with said receive a plurality of superimposed pads, a

plurality of pads structurally adapted .for assembly in variable number, and a unitary means structurally capable of. coaction'with a variable number of pads to position and retain the selected number of pads in amembled relation and of coaction with the'bod to position and retain said assembled pa in said body pocket.

10. In a device of the character described, a body having a pocket, a plurality of superimposed pads in said pocket and a single ductile ribbon joining said pads and engaging the body to retain the pads in said pocket.

11. In a device of the character described, a body comprising upper and lower members connected to provide a pocket open marginally along the inner side of the shank and having an opposite relatively restricted opening, a filler inserted in said pockethaving a relatively long narrow slit, and a ductile metal ribbon narrower than the slit length engaging in the slit, said ribbon passing through said opposite opening and bent back around an edge thereof.

12. In a device of the character described, a'body comprising upper and lower members connectedxto providea pocket open marginally along the inner side of the shank and having an opposite relatively restricted opening, a filler inserted in said pocket comprising a pluralit pads, one thereof, aving a relatively long narrow slit, and a ductile metal ribbon, narrower than the slit length of the one pad, engaging the pad slits, said ribbon passing through said opposite opening and bent back around an edge thereof.

WILLIAM M. SCHOLL.

of superposed slitted-