US1475412A

US1475412A - Shoes

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Publication number: US1475412A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1923-11-27
Anticipated expiration: 1940-11-27

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Nov. 27,1923. 7 1,475,412

M. W. 'SELBY HEEL FOR SHOES Filed June 29) 1921 H TE- ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 27, 1923.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE...

MARK W. SELBY, OF PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, ASSIGNOB. TO THE SELBY SHOE COMPANY,

' 0F POBTSLIOUTH, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

HEEL FOR SHOES.

Application filed. June 29, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MARK 4V. SELBY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Portsmouth, in the county of Scioto and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heels for Shoes, of which the following is a-full, clear, and exact description. Y

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in vieware: to provide heels for shoes having shock-absorbing and rigid supporting sections; to avoid separation of the absorbing and supporting portions of a heel; and to simplify and cheapen the construction thereof.

Drawings.

Figure 1 is a bottom face View of a heel constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 is a top View thereof.

Figure 3 is a side edge view thereof.

Figure 4: is alongitudinal section, the section being taken as on the line H in Fig. 1.

Figure 5 is a cross section of the same, the section being taken on the line 55 in Fig. 2.

Figure 6 is a cross section, the section being taken on the line 66 in Fig. 2.

Description.

Heretofore auxiliary heels have been made from solid rubber in the form of a complete tab, or as a portion of the tab such as shown and described in an application filed by me on the 17th day of June, 1921, said application bearing Serial No. 478,270,. to which cross reference is here made.

\Vhere the portion of the tab has been coir structed from-rubber or other yielding material, the breast or remaining portion of the tab or heel has been constructed from leather, either molded or built up to form the com plementary portion of the complete heel tab. Objection has arisen to this form of construction, one objection consisting in the fact 7 that the portions in service are apt to separate sufficiently to admit water or other disintegrating or unsightly material, which produces in tlme, poor wearing quality 1n the heel or an unsightly feature thereof. To avoid this the present invention has the body portion 11 constructed from any suitable relatively rigid material such as rubber impregnated fabric, the plies of which are arranged and pressed to form a hard and rela- Serial No. 481,238.

tively rigid body, or from hard rubber fiber and other suitable material impregnated with rubber or not, incorporated with which,

by amalgamation, vulcanizing or other suitable and desired method, is a soft rubber striking portion added at the rear of the body portion to form a striking edge 12 for the heel when in service. i

As shown on the drawing, the striking portion 12 is preferably of a substantially less area than the body portion '11, and, in any case, the area of the former need only be sufficient to assure of the initial impact of the foot of a person being absorbed thereby, so that the major wear on the heel is borne by the more rigid body portion 11, and, consequently, the wear on the heel, in its entirety, will be more uniformly distributed over the area of the tread thereof.

It is preferred that the striking portion 12 and the body portion 11 should connect to form an inclined junction as seen best in Fig. 4: of the drawings. Also it is I preferred as seen best in Fig. 5, that the side edges of the heel should be formed of rela tively soft rubber, which is connected "with the relatively rigid portion in a somewhat broken or not sharply defined line, thereby avoiding separation between the relatively rigid and relatively soft materials.

The heel herein shown and described is attached to the service heel of the shoe in a manner usually provided for heels of this character such as by driving the fastening nails 13 through the perforations 14: provided in the said heel.

While I have herein shown and described the heel as constructed from rubber and rubber permeated material, it will be understood that 1 may, if desired, construct the heel from other materials preserving, however, the essentials of unity between the relatively hard forward portion and the relatively resilient rear portion of the structure.

Olac'ms.

1. A shoe heel comprising a supporting section formed of a fabric impregnated with rubber and having its rear portion reduced in width, and a striking section extending across the rear of said supporting section and having side extensions along the side edges of the reduced portion of the latter and merging into the side edges of the forward portion thereof, the striking section being formed of'a softer and more resilient rubber and vulcanized tosaid supporting tionof the latter, the striking section being formed of a softer and more resilient rubber than said: supporting section and vulcanized thereto.

3. A rubber heel for shoes comprising a relatively rigid supporting section having its rear portionreduced in width and undercut at its rear end to provide a recess opening through the tread surface thereof, and a resilient. striking section snugly fitting said recess and extending beyond the edges of the reduced portion of said supporting section, the contacting edgefaces of said supporting section and said striking section beinginclined downwardly andrearwardly to the tread surface of the heel, and said sections being vulcanized together.

4. A rubber heel for shoes comprising a relatively rigid supporting section undercut at its rear end to provide a recess opening through its tread surface, and a resilient striking section formed of a softer rubber than said supporting section and fitting snugly in said recess and extending beyond the latter, said striking section having-portions extending beyond the opposite sides of said recess and of a thickness equal to that of said supporting section, said extended portions of said striking section being extended along the side edges of the rear reduced portion of said supporting section and in contact therewith, and said sections being vulcanized together.

MARK W. SELBY.