US1706312A - Shoe form - Google Patents

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March 19, 1929.

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Applicationv led February 19, 1927. Serial No. 169,616.

This invention relates to forms employed bysalesmen and others to display shoes' and has for its general objectto provide a form which will hold a 'shoe expanded and .in natural and attractive shape but which will not obstruct the interior of the shoe to such an extent as to conceal the lining, whereby the interior as well as the exterior `of the shoe may be readily inspected.

io The nature of the invention will best be understood from the following description of certain forms or embodiments thereof illustrated in the accompanying drawings. It will be understood, however, that the particular constructions, described and shown havev been chosenfor 'purposes of exempliiication merely, and that the invention, as defined by the claims .hereunto appended, may be otherwise embodied without departure from the spirit and scope thereof.

ln said drawings.k Y Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of a shoe, showing the form in position therein.

Fig. 2 is a Vbottom plan view of the form 5 removed.

Fig. 3 is a similar view vof a modified construction.

Fig. t is a detail view, on a reduced scale, of the spreader member ofthe form.

As herein shown, the form comprises a toe member 10, shaped to enter and substan-v tially fit the interior of the toe portion lof a shoe, and a resilient skeleton spreader member 11 connected to the toe member and extending therefrom to the rear end of the shoe. The toe member 10, which is preferably of hollow construction with an open bottom, may be composed `of any suitable material, such as fibre, and terminates at the i() rear end of the toe portion of the shoe, the sides of said member adjacent their ends being braced or spaced by a suitable cross "member or strut 12. The spreader member 11 may comprise a loop of relatively heavy as spring wire of a suitable size and shape to extend about and substantially fit the sides, quarters and counter of the shoe. In the preferred construction shown,the ends of the loop 1 1 are connected to each other andl .so to the toe member 11 at a point well in front of the rise of the instep. As shown in F ig. 4, the ends of the loop 11 `are formed with eyes 13 to receive a stud V14e which extends through the top wall of the toe member 10, 55. is provided at the outer side of the latter with ahead 15, and has a threaded inner end to receive a nut 16, said stud and nut constituting a clainpfor connecting the forward ends' of the spreader member or loop to the under surface of the topvrwall lof the toe member. Inv order to .adapt ythe* form to shoes of different sizes, this connection isr preferably made adjustable, as by forming the toe member withfaseries of r holes 17 to receive the stud 12d-,as shown inl Fig. 2. If preferred, the holes 17 may be replaced by a slot 18, as shown in Fig. 3,*iii which the stud 14 is adjustablyheldby the clamping action Y of the nut '16.' v

Then the form above described-is in position iny a shoe, as shown in Fig. 1, the'latter will be held distended in the manner desired for display purposes, but, by reason of the skeleton nature of the form, and particularly of the spreader memberl kv11 thereof, they in-v terior of the shoe will not be obstructed or concealed` to any material extent'. Due to the attachmentof the spreader member to the toe member at a point in front of the rise of the instep, the forward end of the toe member is forced downwardly into the forward end of the toe portion of the shoe, thereby preventing upward curling of the shoe and holding the slice bottom to the true tread. Moreover, since the loop 11 is both laterally and longitudinally resilient, the

effect of the longitudinal pressure thereof againstthe rear end of the shoe will be not only to force the toe portion into place,`but' also to expand the spreader laterally, as indicated in broken `lines in Fig. 2, thereby spreat'ling the quarters of the shoe to the same extent as a complete form but without the obstruction interposed by the latter (to.

free Vinspection of the interioi'of the shoe.'

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A shoe form including aV toe member adapted to fit in the toe portion of a shoe and a resilient spreader member connected tothe toe member and adapted to fit in that portion of the shoe lying back of the, toe portion thereof with tensional bearing against the interior of the sides and end of the shoe.

2. A shoe form including a toe member adapted to fit in the toe portion of the shoe rand a yresilient spreader' member adapted to fit in that portion of the shoe lying back of the toe portionthereof" and when in ico place having tensional bearing in part against the end ofthe shoe and in other parts against the interior of its opposite sides With vextension along said sides, vthe spreader member being connected to the toe member, and `means for making suchv connection. y

3. A shoe form including a toe member adapted to fit Within the toe portion oia shoe and a resilient spreaderl member adapted tov fit inthat portion of the shoe lyL ing-y back of its toe portion with tensional bearing againstthe end and opposite sides oigthe shoe, those portions of the resilient member bearing againstithe opposite sides of the shoe'extending ,along said sides and connected 4-to the toe member in position Where the pressure exerted by the resilient member l when in place will tend to force down the forward end of the toe member rinto theforward end of the toe portion of' the shoe,.and means for making such connection.

4. Ay shoe form' including a toe member yadapted to fit Within the toe portion of a adapted .to ifitwvithin the toe portion of a shoe and a resilientloop connected to the toe member adapted to lit Within that portion of the shoe lying back of its toe portion and When in lplace extending from the toe member about the quarters and counter oli' the` shoe with tensional bearing against said quarters and counter, those portions of the loop extending about the quarters of the shoe being connected to the toe member in v position where the pressure-exerted by the resilient loop when* in place Will vtend to force down tlieiiorward end` of the toe member into the forward end of the toe portieri of the shoe, andineans forv making suchv connection.

6. A shoe form yincluding.a toe member and a resilient loop extending from said toe member about 'the quarters and counter ol' the shoe, and an adjustable clamp connectingthe ends of said looprwith eachother and With said toe member.

7. Ashoe form including a toe member and aresilient loop extending from said toe member about the quarters and counterv of the shoe, and anadjustable clamp connecting.,the ends of said loop with each other and with said toe memberat a point in front of the rise of lthe instep.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

WALTER L. C. NILES,

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