US1558378A - Shoe attachment - Google Patents

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G. C. MQAULEY SHOE ATTACHMENT Original Filed July 10 1 2 a amewy,

Patented Oct. 20, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE/ GEORGE C. MOAULEY, 0F DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

SHOE ATTACHMENT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE C. MGAULEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of \Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

In carrying out the present invention, it is my purpose to provide an attachment for shoes to be used by bowlers, which will cooperate with the ordinary shoe for answering all of the purposes attributed to the con ventional types of bowlers shoes that are now universally used.

The primary object of this invention is the provision of such an attachment that may be readily applied or removed from the ordinary shoes in a simple and expeditious manner for preventing the slipping of the bowlers while playing the game and for protecting the shoe from wearing.

A still further object is to provide such a shoe attachment that may be carried in small compass, such as in the pockets of the bowlers, and one that may be manufactured and marketed at relatively small cost.

Yet another object is to provide such an attachment for shoes that may be employed in conjunction with ordinary types of shoes for answering all of the purposes now attributed to bowling shoes that may be readily adjusted to widely varying sizes of shoes.

Additional objects will be apparent as the nature of the invention is better understood, and the following detailed description is read in connection with the accompanying drawing, wherein:

The figure is a perspective of my improved shoe attachment.

Now, having particular reference to the drawings my novel attachment for shoes e1nbodies a strip 5, preferably of buckskin, out to the configuration of the sole of an ordinary shoe. The side and front edges of this strip of material are slit inwardly at spaced points thereon, for providing tabs 6 that are usually turned and positioned in overlapping relation with each other for providing a skirt portion around the sides and front edges of this strip for engagement Application filed July 10, 1923, Serial No. 650,625. Renewed September 10, 1925.

with the side and front edges of the usual shoe sole.

Each of the tabs 6 so formed is provided with a central eyelet 7 and interlaced through these eyelets is a desirable form of lacing 8 that may be drawn up or loosened for increasing or diminishing the overlapped relation of the tabs with each other for thereby actuating the strip to varying size shoe soles.

Riveted at 9 to one end of the upstanding portion of the strip 5 formed by the tabs 6 is one end bf a strip 10, while similarly secured to the opposite "end of said upstanding portion is a short strap 11 that carries at its free end a buckle 12, through which is adapted to be positioned the free end of the strap 10, that is formed with a desirable number of openings for selectively receiving the usual pivoted tongue of the buckle.

It will be of course apparent from the. foregoing, that the strip 5 is to be positioned upon the sole of the shoe, and that the strip 10 is to be engaged around the heel portion thereof and connected to the short strap 11 through the medium of the buckle 12 for thereby effectively regulating said strap 5 upon the sole of the shoe.

Numerous advantages of a shoe of this character will be at once appreciated by those skilled in the art, and even though I have herein shown and described the most preferred embodiment of the invention with which I am at present familiar, it is nevertheless to be understood that minor changes may be made therein, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

A shoe attachment comprising a strip of material adapted to be applied to the sole of a shoe,'and when applied having its rear edge spaced from the,,heel of the shoe, the said strip being provided with a marginal portion adapted to be folded up around the edge of the sole of the shoe, said marginal portion being provided with slits forming tongues, which may overlap each other, each tongue having an opening, a securing strap portion of the strip and serving as means for attached to the marginal portion of the strip drawing the tongues in overlapped close and at the rear edge of the strip and at the proximity with the upper of the shoe and 10 openings in the terminal tongues and adaptthe strap in close proximity with the rear ed to extend around the back of the shoe portion of the upper of the shoe.

upper and lacing passing through the open- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature. ings of all of the tongues of the marginal v GEORGE C. MGAULEY.

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