US1808992A

US1808992A - Combined counter liner and heel cushion

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Publication number: US1808992A
Application number: US354578A
Authority: US
Inventors: Jesse D Langdon
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1929-04-12
Filing date: 1929-04-12
Publication date: 1931-06-09
Anticipated expiration: 1948-06-09

Description

June 9, 1931. J. D. LANGDON 1,308,992

COMBINED COUNTER LINER AND HEEL CU SHION Filed April 12, 1929 FIG. 1.

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Patented June 9, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JESSE D. LAN'GDON, DE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA COMBINED COUNTER LINER AND HEEL CUSHION Application filed April 12,

The present invention relates to counter liners and heel cushions for shoes, slippers, and similar articles of footwear, and aims to provide a combined counter liner and heel f cushion of novel construction.

or the liner may be used without hereinafter described and claimed, it

panying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved counter liner embodying the heel cushion.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section thereof.

Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 33 of Fig. 2, showing the liner in place in a shoe.

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of the liner and cushion.

The counter liner, as shown, is adapted to be removably fitted in a shoe, slipper, or similar article of footwear, as disclosed in my application Serial No. 127,100, filed August 4,

1926 (now Patent No. 1,711,851, granted May 7, 1929, but it is to be understood that the improvements may be embodied in either permanent or removable counter liners, embodying the bottom 7 and upturned portion 8.

In carrying out the invention, a piece 9 of leather or other flexible material, is disposed below the liner bottom 7, and is stitched thereto, as at 10, to form a pocket open at the rear end, the stitching being interrupted at the heel or rear end of the liner, to provide the mouth 11 of the pocket, which is of narrower width than the pocket.

A cushion 12 of sponge rubber or other suitable flexible material is adapted to fit in the pocket, being wider than the mouth 11,

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so as to prevent the cushion from slipping out of the pocket. However, by doubling the cushion transversely it serted through may be readily inthe mouth 11, to enable the cushion to be placed in and removed from the pocket. T

when inserted in the pocket he cushion expands laterally after being doubled, so as to straighten out the bottom portion of the line The cushion counter liner w tion under the being assembled with the ill be retained in proper posiheel of the foot, and will afford convenient cushioning action for the heel. The cushion may moved for replacement,

also be readily reor to enable the counter liner to be worn without the cushion if desired.

Having thus is claimed as new 1. A counter bottom portion described the invention, what liner for a shoe comprising a formed cushion expanded laterally in said pocket to straighten out said bottom portion, the

mouth of the pocket being of less width than the cushion.

2. A counter tom portion p liner for a shoe having a botrovided with a longitudinal pocket open at one end, and a cushion expanded laterall y in said pocket to straighten out said bottom portion, the mouth of the pocket being of less width than the cushion.

3. A counter tom provided narrower than said pocket liner for a shoe having a botwith a pocket whose mouth is the pocket, .and a cushion in of a width greater than said mouth of the pocket.

4. A counter liner for a shoe having a bottom provided pocket, the mouth of the rower than the pocket of greater width with a rearwardly opening pocket being nar pocket, and a cushion in said than the mouth of whereof I hereunto .alfix my JESSE D. LANGDON.

with a pocket, and a