US1478143A - Metallic heel for shoes - Google Patents

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Dec. 18 1923. y

B. PREBLUDA METALLIC HEEL FQR SHOES Filed Oct. 6. 1920 Patented Dec. 18, 1923.

BARNEY PREBLUDA, OF FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOB. F ONE-HALF TO ISIDORE CHERNOCK, 013 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

METALLIC HEEL FOR SHOES.

Application filed October 6, 1920.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BARNEY PREBLUDA, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Fall River, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Metallic Heels for Shoes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part thereof.

My invention relates to improvements in metallic heels for shoes, and has for its object to provide a heel comprising a hollow metallic heel member and a separate heel plate which may be independently secured to the shoe bottom and securely locked within said hollow metallic heel member for associating the heel with the shoe and for serving as an auxiliary heel to take part of the load thereon. Another object of the invention is to provide a light-weight heel plate, which may be secured permanently to the shoe bottom and which is designed to fit within and interengage with the heel for detachably coupling the heel with the shoe so that the heel may be removed therefrom when found necessary (as for replacing purposes) without disturbing the 'shoe or the heel plate affixed thereto.

Still another object is to provide a simple heel which is designed with a shaped coupling plate having perforated flanges adapted to be secured 'to the shoe bottom by the usual nail or clincher method and to interengagingly fit within recesses provided in the top of the heel therefor; said plate having an offset heel anchoring base which pro-- jects downwardly within the hollow of the heel towards the tread section thereof and engages with the coupling screw which clamps and secures the heel in set position with the coupling plate.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be gathered from the description following herein and considered in connection with the accompanying drawing wherein the invention is shown embodied.

The terms employed herein are used in the generic and descriptive sense to designate' the elements illustrated, and are therefore not primarily intended as terms of limitat on.

Referring to the drawing Fig. 1 represents a longitudinal, sectional Serial No. 415,025.

view taken through my type of heel shown secured and set with a shoe;

Fig. 2 represents a plan view of the heel showing the coupling plate set with the hollow heel member;

Fig- 3 represents a perspective view of the coupling plate;

Fig. 4 represents a plan view of the hollow heel member;

Fig. 5 represents a sectional view taken on line 5-5 on Fig. 1;

Fig. 6 represents an elevational view showing the coupling plate secured to the shoe bottom;

Fig. 7 represents a development ofthe coupling plate shown in Fig. 3;

Fig. 8 represents a plan view of the couplin plate after shaping; V

F 9 represents an elevational view of a modified type of coupling plate;

Fig. 10 represents a plan view of the coupling plate shown in Fig. 9;

Fig. 11 represents a development of the plate shown in Figs. 9 and 10.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawing.

The numeral represents a hollow, shaped, metallic heel which is preferably made of aluminum so as to reduce the weight thereof to a minimum. The heel 20 is preferably cast with the partition wall 21, which provides the upper and lower chambers 22 and 23, respectively, on either side thereof. Said heel may be shaped to conform to any of the different styles of heels, as the French heel shown in Fig. 1, with the outer and exposed surfaces enameled in any desired color to suit the requirements of the shoe with which the same is to be associated. The top 24: of the heel 20 is preferably thickened around the same to yield a substantial flange for the shoe to bottom on. and said flange is recessed on the sides of the heel, as shown in Fig. 4, to form the plate depressions 25 and 26, yielding the end plate abutting shoulders 27 and 28 at the front portion of the heel and the intermediate abutting lug 29 at the rear portion of the heel. The lower chamber 23 is preferably packed flush with a leather packing 30, as shown in Fig. 1, and is held securely set therein by the an choring bolt 31 which reaches into the upper chamber 22 of the heel through an opening within the 32 provided therefor in the partition wall 21. To said packing may be aiiixed the tread lift 33 (whether leather or rubber) by suitable nails or screws 34:, as shown in said Fig. 1. U

represents the coupling or heel plate which em} with the above heel for ecuring the latter to the shoe Said plate s preferably stamped out from suitable sheet metal stock (as steel, for example), in substantially the form shown in Figs. 7 or 11, and then shaped into the respective forms shown in S and lOJ Either of said forms present the side flangeswhich lit and within the plate recesses 25 and 26 0;" the heel 20 provided for the purpose. It will here be noted that the type of coupling plate 35 shown in Figs. 3 and 8, will fit the top of the heel 20, as shown in Fig. 2, where the flanges 36 and 87 are snugly seated respective recesses 25 and 26 provided therefor in the heel, with the front ends of said flanges butting against the abuttimzg shoulders 27 and 28 and the rear ends abutting against the abutting lug 29 of the heel. Said flanges 36 and 37 are provided with a number of suitable nail. or

. clincher holes l0 by means of which the plate 35 is securely set and affixed to the shoe S, as shown in Figs. 1. and 6. The plate is preferably designed with the webs ll and 42, which project from the plate flanges 36 and 37 and form an integral coupling base 43 for the plate. The coupling base is preferably provided with a threaded nut or nipple l which is secured thereto, as by soldering, and adapted to re ceive the anchoring bolt 31 for clamping the plate 35 and heel. 20 securely together. Said coupling base 4-2-5 may be made to fit well within the hollow of the heel 20 and as close to the partition wall 21 as may be desired (as indicated by the dotted position shown in Fig. 1) so as to minimize the working moment between the coupling plate and the heel 'member, and thus consequently firmly couples the heel with the shoe, bracing the two together and preventing any tendency on the part of the heel to wiggle or become out of true with it set position on the shoe.

The coupling plate, thus coupled with the heel member 20, forms an auxiliary support or inner heel for the shoe and takes part of the load directly thereon, thus relieving the heel member from the necessity of being directly subjected to the strain of the entire load thereon, as is otherwise the case. Consequently, the heel member 20 is not only reinforced by the brace feature provided through the application of the aforesaid plate, but the strain thereagainst is greatly reduced to provide maximum wearing quali ties thereto.

It will here be noted that by making th coupling or heel plate of sheet steel and according to the within disclosure, that the same affords lasting feature thereto, sufficient to cope with any or all of the conditions to which the same may be subjected.

The weight thereof is light,'the method of making same is ex remely simple, and the work of applying the same properly to the shoe, together with the setting of the heel therewith, is even less troublesome than the ordinary heels now in use.

it will. further be noted that the coupling or heel plate, in this particular case, serves three distinct purposes: First, it provides a form of plate which may be accurately set on the shoe and easily and conveniently secured thereto by the old and customary nailing method; second, it serves as an anchor for the outer'heel member, when fitted and secured together, as hereinabove suggested, withthe least, strain on said outer heel member, and absolutely secures and an chors same in set relation with the shoe; and third, it serves as an auxiliary or inner heel which. takes part of the load thereon and relieves the outer heel member of the strain otherwise subjected thereagainst. Thus, my type of heel as herein described provides a heel which is designed to be usefuland-lasting. It is a known factin the present day types of metallic heels that the entire load is directed on the heel which is usuallycast thin and is employed without any bracing or reinforcing elements to assist in prolonging the life of the heel. i In the modification shown in Figs. 9 to 11, inclusive, it will be noted that the side flanges 36 and 37 are parted for the purpose of providing additional length to the webs 41 and 42 so tnat if desired said webs may be shaped, as shown in Fig. 9, to allow the same to fit and set adjacent to the walls of the heel member 20. In the type of plate shown in Figs. 3 and 6 said plate webs may or may not be allowed to engage with the heel member 20, according .as may be desired; while in the case of the modified type of plate shown in Fig.10, said webs may be allowed to abut against the walls of the heel member without destroying the other features of the within type of heel as hereinbove described.

It will thus be understood that the within type of heel provides a simple, inexpensive and reliable heel for shoes which may be applied to new as well as worn shoes, and possesses advantages, not only in the. convenience of application, but in the manufacture and wearing qualities of the same, and which advantages are not found in the present day types of metallic heels.

While the preferred embodiments of my invention have been described in detail, it will be understood that I do notwish to be limited to the particular construction set forth, since various changes in the form, material, proportions, and in the details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, or destroying any of the advantages contained in the same, heretofore described and defined in the subjoined claims.

Having thus described my invention in detail, what I claim as new is:

1. A metallic heel member comprising a hollow shaped outer member having an interrupted seating flange in its top wall and a tread supporting section in the bottom thereof, a plate member provided with means for securement of a shoe thereto, said plate member interengagingly fitting at its peripheral edge within the seating flange and extending downardly into the hollow shaped outer member, and means for securely coupling said plate to the tread supporting section of said outer member.'

2. A metallic heel comprising a hollow shaped heel member having an interrupted seating flange; a plate member having in dependent flanged sections adapted to fit within the seating flange of said heel member and provided with a depending coupling section projecting downwardly within the hollow of said heel member; and a coupling bolt engaging with said heel member and said coupling section of said plate member for coupling said heel and said plate member together to form a unit heel.

3. A metallic heel comprising a heel plate having an interrupted flange provided with perforations for accommodating nails or clinchers therein for securing the plate to the shoe bottom, said plate having a depending portion provided with a threaded aperture therein; and a hollow shaped heel member provided with a plurality of recessed plate supporting portions along the inner wall thereof, adapted to seat said interrupted flange of said heel plate therein, and a base portion provided with a coupling stud for engaging said threaded aperture of said heel plate for coupling together said heel member with said heel plate.

4. A metallic heel comprising a hollow shaped heel member provided with an interrupted recess extending along the upper inner edge thereof forming a plate supporting shelf and a closed tread section at the bottom; a plate member having an interrupted perforated flange adapted to be secured to the shoe bottom and to set within said seat ing flange of said heel member, said plate member having a depending section adapted to project within the hollow of said heel member and provided with a threaded nipple; and a coupling stud projecting through said closed tread section of said heel member engaging with said threaded nipple of said plate member and adpated to securely couple said heel with said plate member together to form the unitheel.

5. A metallic heel comprising a shaped heel member having a hollow upper .chamber provided with a top flange having depressed recesses extending along the inner portion thereof; an offset sheet metal stamping forming a heel plate adapted to be securedto the shoe bottom and having an interrupted and perforated flange interfitting and seating within the depressed recesses of said heel member with the offset portion of said plate extending downwardly within said hollow heel chamber; and a coupling member engaging the bottom of said heel member with said ofl'set portion for securely coupling the heel member with said heel plate to form a unit heel therebetween and to enagge the heel member securely with the shoe.

6. A metallic heel member comprising a hollow outer member having an interlocking plate seating flange formed in the upper end thereof, a plate member adapted to be secured to the shoe and provided with an interrupted peripheral flange, said flange being adapted to interlockingly fit within said seating flange, and means for securely coupling said outer hollow member to said plate member.

In witness whereof, I hereunto a'i'fix my signature, this 4th day of October, 1920.

BARNEY PREBLUDA.

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