US1780230A - Tap for dancing slippers or shoes - Google Patents

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W. J. HANEY TAP FOR DANCING SLIPPERS 0R SHOES Filed March 25, 1930 Irwenlor By 2mm A llomey Patented Nov. 4, 1930 UNITED ST'E'ES WILLIAM JOHN E or some mm, NDIANA TAP FOR DANCING strrrnnson snons Application filed March 25, 193 0. Serial Nq. 438 ,791.

The object of my present invention is the provision of a hard rigid tap designed to be affixed to and used on a dancing slipper or shoe and particularly the toe portion thereof, and calculated to confer on the taps a loud ring, enable a dancer to produce the tapping noise with minimum exertion, and prevent the dancer from slipping on hardwood floors.

To the attainment ofthe foregoing the invention consists in the tap as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a View partly in full lines and partly in dotted lines showing my improved tap affixed to the toe portion of a dancing slipper.

Figure 2 is an inverted plan View of the tap per se.

Figures 3 and 4 are enlarged sections taken in the planes indicated by the lines 3-8 and 4t, respectively, of Figure 2.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

The shoe 1 represented by dotted lines in Figure 1 may be of the conventional construction or of any other type on which my novel tap may be used to advantage.

My novel tap is hard and rigid in character and may be made of any material appropriate to its purpose without affecting my invention, though I prefer to make it of metal or of a suitable metallic alloy.

The tap designated by 2 is preferably of the outline shown in Figure 2 and is concavo-convex as brought out in Figures 3 and 4: in order to enable itto bear at its front and side edges against the slipper sole and afford a space between it and said sole which space is open at the rear end of the tap as will be appreciated from Figures 2 and 4. Any suitable means may be employed, within the purview of my invention, for the fixing of the tap to a slipper or shoe, though I prefer to provide the tap with a multiplicity of apertures 3 about and spaced from the large aperture hereinafter described, for the passage of affixing means or attaching means which may be of any character compatible with the purpose of the tap.

My present invention resides chiefly in the tap as just described characterized by a large aperture a extending transversely through tiie tap in communication with said space and arranged, by preference, in or adjacent to the '4 enter of the tap. I have learned through eX- perieuce that the said large aperture 4 in the hard tap of the form-described enables the tap to afford a loud ring when the tap is struck against a floor sov that the desirable tapping noise is produced with a minimum amount of exertion on the part ofthe dancer. The said lar 'e aperture. 4 in the tap is also advantageous because when provided with the aperture, as i, the tap grips the stage or floor and lessens the liability of the dancer slipping particularly when the dancing is carried 011 on .a hardwood floor.

It will also be appreciated from the foregoing that by virtue of the aperture i the improved efiect alluded to is attained without materially increasing the cost of the tap.

I have entered into a detailed description of the preferred embodiment of my invention herein disclosed with a view to imparting a full, clear and exact understanding of said embodiment. I do not desire, however, to be limited to the details herein set forth, my invention being defined by my appended claims within the scope of which $3 modifications may be made without departure from my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what is claimed is 1. A hard rigid tap for dancing slippers adapted to be affixed to the underside of the hole of a slipper or shoe; said tap being conoavo-convex in section to afford a space between its upper side and the underside of the sole and being provided adjacent to its edges with apertures for attaching purposes and being further provided within and spaced from said apertures with a comparatively large aperture extending transversely through it and communicating with the said space.

2. A hard rigid tap for dancing slippers or shoes, adapted to be aflixed to the underside of the sole of a slipper or shoe, the said tap being concavo-convex in section to afford a space between its upper side and the underside of a sole and to enable its forward and side edges alone to bear against the sole, and being provided adjacent its edge portion with a plurality of apertures for attaching purposes and being also provided in spaced relation to said apertures with a large aperture extending transversely through it and communicating with the said space.

3. A dancing slipper or shoe having attached to the underside of its sole a hard rigid tap with a substantially central free aperture extending upwardly from its underside; the said underside of the tap being convex in all directions from the wall of the said free aperture.

4. A hard rigid tap for dancing slippers adapted to be afiixed to the underside of the sole of a slipper or shoe; said tap being concavo-convex in section to aflord a space be tween its upper side and the underside of the sole and being provided with a substantially central aperture extending transversely through it and open at its outer end and communicating at its inner end with the said space.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

WILLIAM JOHN HANEY.

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