US1751036A - Shoe - Google Patents

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March 18, 1930. F G, HOOKE ET AL 1,751,036

SHOE

Filed June 16, 1924 G Fig.5. F-

60 07M M 'INVENTORQ BY ATTORNEY.

Patented Mar. 18, 1930 UNITED s'm'rss FATE FRED G. HOOKE AND JAMES J. FLYNN, F LOWELL, EIIASSAGI-IUSETTS, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-FOURTH TO GARDNER W. PEARSON, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS V SHOE Application filed June 16,

This invention relates to shoes. Its purpose is to provide a shoe of which the sole will be flexible and which will have the general appearance of a Goodyear welt shoe but which is made substantially by the process and machinery of a McKay shoe.

It has the further advantage that the shoe will not squeak.

We are aware that shoes are now made with an upper, an in-sole and a middle sole or what is sometimes called a doubler or slip-sole fastened together by through and through stitching, the edges of the middle sole extending out clear of the upper, and an out-sole fastened P 1 by sewing to the edge of this middle-sole.

Our invention consists broadly in cutting out a certain part of the middle sole and preferably filling this with a plastic pliable filling. This middle sole is a flat piece of leather as distinguished from a welt which is a long strip bent around to the shape of part of the foot.

Its shape substantially conforms to the shape of that part of the outer sole which is in front of the heel, and it is so cut out as to leave an opening or hole, the side edges of which are substantially equidistant, or parallel from its outer edges at all points down to the heel portion. It may or may not extend around the heel.

The principal feature is the hole cut out at the position occupied by the ball of the foot. In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a cross section of a complete shoe made according to our process viewed as on a line such as 11 of Fig. 3,

except that the shoe is complete.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of a shoe of our construction with the toe part bent upward to show its flexibility.

Fig. 3 is a view from the bottom of a shoe in process of manufacture after our middle sole has been sewed 0n and before the composition has been applied.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3 showing a shoe with a slightly modified type of our middle sole nailed instead of sewed in position, and with the cut out part filled with composition.

Fig. 5 is a bottom view of another modified type of our middle sole.

1924. Serial No. 720,259.

Fig. 6 is a bottom view of still another modified type of our middle sole.

Fig. 7 is a bottom view of still another modified type of our middle sole.

In the drawings U represents the upper, H the heel and O the outer sole of a shoe of ou construction.

I represents the inner sole and M-the middle sole of our construction while L represents the lining of the upper and S the shank of wood or metal. I I

In the preferred form of our middle sole, shown especially in Fig. 3, we cut out the 24 of the cut-out and the outer edge 21 of the forward part of the sole will be substantially parallel so that the part 21 can guide the sewing machine guide which directs the needle for stitching 10 which may be of thechain stitch type or any other usual McKay type.

In such shoes, the stitching usually extends from a point such as 25 just in front of the heel to a point 26 about where the curve of the toe begins, while around the toe portion the sole is nailed in position by nails such and poorgrade of leather for our middle sole M, we prefer to fasten around the toe by gluing or cementing acanvas or clothreinforcing strip 30.

As shownin Fig. 4, we may use a middle sole N with a heel part 41 and cut out part 42 and 40, between which is a bridge piece or cross piece 48. We find this cross piece keeps the sole from distortion and We locate it preferably just across the end of shank S at'a point where it will not be directly under the art 22 in such manner that the outer edge r; Fries A I As we may Wish to use a relatively cheap preferably by sewing 11, near the outer edge thereof. I i

As shownin Fig. the heel '52 of our mid dle sole 50 which is cut outat 51 may be sep- H r 1 arate from the. rest of the middle sole.

As shown in Fig. 6, we may use amiddle sole 60 in which the cut out part" 61 is only 7 where bones at the ball ofthe foot will rest,

struction is a middle sole 70, cutout at 71 and 72 leaving a diagonal cross piece 7 3 which follows parallel tofiandbehind the bones at. the ball of the foot where the foot and shoe 7 or in fact the cut out part may be in any place and o f-any size to suit different types of shoes; I As sl own*in- Fig. 7, we find a good connaturally bend,- I I 74 is a canvaszor; cloth reinforcementaround the-toe, where the nails go'.

squeaking is caused. This combinationof the The filler C is of a well 'known plastic and 1 pliable type which is extensively used in Goodyear welt shoes, and is softened by the,

heat 'ofthe foot, as a result of which it confonmsto the shape thereof. It remains plas ticand pliable, and fills, the cut out'space so accurately, that there is no slipping whereby cutout middle sole and :the plastic pliable filling'thus allows a pliable shoe, which will V notsqueak; to be made on a McKay through and through stitching machine.

claim I :1, A boot or shoe comprising an uppenan in-sole anda cut-out middle sole'reinforced at;the toe, fastened together by through and through stitching at the sides vand by nails' v v at'the reinforced toe an outersole fastened ,bythroughand throughstitching to the edge of-the-middleesole, and'pliable filling in the cut-routfpart of the middlesole I a 2, Aibootyor shoecomprising an upper, an

-. in-solesa nd 'ai r einforced cut-out middle sole fastened together by through and through dleso'le,

' 3. A boot insole inside the upper and a cut-out. middle stitching,;=anouter-sole fastened by stitching to the edge of the middle sole, and plastic pliablelfillingin the cut-out part of the midorshoe comprising an upper, an

sole outside-the upper and formed. of I one .pieceof materialsubstantially the sizeof the outer sole and having a complete heel part andhaving itsjforward part so cut out thatits periphery is-continuous and unbroken where i by "the cut-out part is entirely enclosed, the

vheel part being fastened to the upper andinner sole by nails and the partvin front .of the heel being fastened to .the inner sole and y the upperby through and through stitching, a plastic pliable filling in the cutout part of thetmiddle sole, and an outer sole attached by through and through stitching to the edge of the middle sole outside the upper.

FRED GQHOOKE.

JAMES J. F NI

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