US1572162A - Arch support - Google Patents

Description

Feb. 9 1926.

1,572,162 w. M. SCHOLL ARCH SUPPORT Filed DEQ. 1, 1924 VEEEIEJ Patented Feb. 9, 1926.

UNITED STATES WILLIAM M. SCHOLL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ARCH SUPPORT Application filed December 1, 1924. Serial No. 753,329.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM M, SCHOLL, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of. Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in an Arch Support; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact-description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and tothe numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to ,arch supports.

One of the objects of the invention is to make an arch support that is effective and of light weight. I 1

Another object is to'make an arch support for the inner longitudinal archofv the foot which may be held in place by an elastic band extending around the foot.

Another object is to provide an arch support for the inner longitudinal arch of the foot having an elastic'band to yieldingly contract the foot about the support.

Another object is to provide a support for the inner longitudinal arch of the foot which may be made to extend to both longitudinal arches of the foot by inserting pads in a pocket of the support. 7

Another objectis the provision of means for holding the pads in the pocket.

Other objects, advantages and benefits arising from the invention will readily appear to persons skilled in the art from a consideration of the following description when taken in conjunction with the drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is an elevation of one of the devices intended to be worn on the right foot.

Figure 2 is an elevation of the same device looking at the opposite side thereof.

Figure 3 is a transverse section taken on line 33 of Figure 1.

Figure 4: is a bottom plan view with parts removed, as indicated on line 4:1 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a plan view of a pad for insertion in the pocket of the device.

In all of the views the same reference characters are employed to indicate similar parts.

In the orthopmdic treatment of the feet,

and especially for the fallen arches of the feet, it is quite essential that the support for uplifting, restoring and retaining the arch side of the foot.

in its natural position should be light of weight, easy fitting, and should have no unnecessary parts to encumben its use.

In the device exemplified in the drawings, every part thereof is more or less flexible, and yet sufficiently stable and rigid to yieldingly hold the misplaced parts of the foot in their normal, natural positions.

In the drawings, 10 is. a leather plate having a curved outline 11 on one side and a more or less sinuous curve 12 on the other side, as shown more clearly in Figure A in plan View. The lower flexible or yielding plate 13 is preferably semi-circular in form, having substantially the outline ofthepads to be inserted therein one of which is shown at 15 in Figure 5.

The two plates 10 and 13 gether between 16 and 17 on one side and between 18 and 19 on the other side, leaving the space between 17 and18 on the side 12 open for the purpose of providing a pad re cei-ving pocket normally closed by the elastic band 20. The band is stitched together at its ends 21 by a seam 22 so that both sides of the band are in substantially the same plane. The band is then stitched to the plate 10 through the center of the seam. This leaves the entire length of the band 20 free to expand and contract without any restriction whatever. The plates 10 and 13 are not stitched together between the points 19 and 16, thus leaving an opening 25 therebetween, more clearly shown in Figure 2, through which the band passes.

To place the device in position on the foot, the foot is. inserted through the band until the device described is a little back of the longitudinal median locality of the foot. The upper curved head 26 of the plate 10 extends well up around the curved inner The pads 15 to be inserted in the pockets of the support are preferably semi-circular in plan outline, being tapered radially from are stitched tothe center of the straight line 28 to its peripheral line so that the outer portion of the pad isthicker than the inner portion, that is to say the part that lies under the highest portion of the inner longitudinal arch is thicker than the part that extends under the foot and is immediately under the outer longitudinal arch.

The pads may be held in place in the pocket by means of a thin narrow metal strip 27 which may be extended under the upper leather plate 10 and above the plate 13. The strip 27 has very little, it" any, resiliency, and therefore it will remain in the shape in which it is placed after the pads have been inserted in the pocket. Because of the fact that it is thin, it will not be felt by the foot which is in contact with the plate 10.

\Vhen it is desirable to take out the pads 15, the strip 27 may be opened and the pads removed or additional pads may be placed in the pocket and the strip replaced. The strip is of such a character that it may be bent man 1 times without bein broken.

lVhile I have herein shown a single embodiment of my invention for the purpose of clear disclosure, it will he manifestto a person skilled in the art that considerable change in the configuration and arrange ment of parts is permissible within the scope of the appended claims.

Having" described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An arch support for the inner longitudinal arch of the foot comprising an elastic band to extend around the foot, a yielda ble plate within the band, and to which the band is attached, transversely curved so that one longitudinal edge will lie'in a substantially horizontal plane and the other edge will extend upwardly toward the top of the transverse curve of said arch; and another similar plate, substantially semi-circular in plan attached at its curved edges, outside of the band, to the other plate to form a laterally opening pocket between the plates within which to insert pads.

2. A foot corrective appliance comprising an elastic band to extend around the mid-portion of the foot; an arch support for application to the'inner longitudinal arch of the foot attached to said band, said support comprising apair of yieldable plates connected together near their ends, open at one side for the band to pass throughand be tween the plates and open-at the other side for admitting a pad between the plates, and a substantially semi-circular arch supporting pad for insertion between said plates.

3. A foot corrective appliance comprising twoyieldable plate members connected together near their ends and open between their side edges-to form a pocket, a yieldable'band extending through said pocket between the plates, and stitched to the upper plate by a seam extending transversely of the band and longitudinally of the plate and near the mid-portion of one of said plates, and a padfor insertion in said pocket between the plates.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name. \VILLIAM M. SGHOLL.

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