US1817249A

US1817249A - Composite shoe heel sheet

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Publication number: US1817249A
Application number: US424935A
Authority: US
Inventors: Gilowitz Benjamin
Original assignee: EMANUEL S STEINBERG
Current assignee: EMANUEL S STEINBERG
Priority date: 1929-08-29
Filing date: 1930-01-31
Publication date: 1931-08-04
Anticipated expiration: 1948-08-04

Description

Aug. 54, 1931.

B. GILOWITZ COMPOSITE SHOE HEEL SHEET Filed Jan. 51, 1930 Yea elktomaqg lPatented Aug. 4, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BENJAMIN GILOWITZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-EIGHTH TOv JOSEPH SMITH AND TWENTY PERCENT TO EMANUEL S. STEINBERG, BOTH OF BRONX, NEW

YORK, N. Y.

COMPOSITE SHOE HEEL SHEET Original application filed August 29, 1929, Serial No. 389,236. Divided and this application filed January 31, 1930. Serial No. 424,935.

The invention aims to provide for the manufacture and marketing of a plurality of novel shoe heels, heel lifts or other shoe treads carried by a single flexible sheet of rubber or the like and adapted to be cut from said sheet as needed uithout danger of impairing their shape.

lVith the foregoing in view, the invention resides in the novel subject matter hereinafter described and claimed, description be ing accomplished by reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figs. 1 and 2 are elevations showing the opposite sides of an article of manufacture constructed in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 3 is a sectional perspective View on line 33 of Fig. 1.

The unique article of manufacture enrbodies a flat sheet 32 of rubber or the like, and two sets of resilient tread members 33-34 joined to opposite sides of said sheet respectively. Preferably, the tread members 33 are moulded integrally with the sheet 32 whereas the members 34: are formed separately from said sheet and cemented or vulcanized thereto. Both sets of the members 333al are heel-shaped in the present disclosure and any one of the members is directly opposite and of the same size and shape as one of he members 3st. Thus, by cutting the sheet 32 around the edges of the opposed members 33-3 l, a complete heel or a heel lift may be provided, according to the size in which the article is manufactured. The members 3% are each formed with a central rather large opening 35, these openings extending from the upper to the lower sides of said members and being occupied by wear resisting inserts 36 which are vulcanized, cemented or otherwise tightly secured in the openings and against the sheet 32.

By using the heel or lift just described with the member 33 downwardly, the appearance is given of an all rubber heel or lift. When desired however, the devices may be applied in an inverted position with the inserts 36 exposed downwardly to assist in resisting wear. These inserts form effective anchorage for the attaching nail heads, re-

gardless of which side of the device is secured against the heel body. By having the members 33 and 3d at opposite sides of the sheet 32, cutting of the latter will not endanger the true shape of the heel at either its upper or lower portion, and any portion of the sheet 32 left projecting from the heel, can easily be ground oif or otherwise removed after attaching the heel to the shoe.

The formations 37 as seen more particularly in Fig. 2, are simply small webs connecting the tread members 33 and formed by the rubber filling ports which connect the various mould. recesses in which said members 33 are formed.

By the novel construction shown and described, a very advantageous and salable article is provided, yet one which may be easily and inexpensively manufactured.

This application is a division of my parent U. S. application, Serial No. 389,236, filed Au gust 29, 1929.

I claim 1. In the shoe heel art, an article of man ufacture comprising a flexible sheet, upper and lower sets of resilient shoe tread members joined to the upper and lower sides of said sheet and wear resisting inserts inset in one set of said tread members, any of said tread members at either side of the sheet being directly opposite one at the other side and being of the same size and shape as the latter.

2. In the shoe heel art, an article of manufacture comprising a flexible sheet, resilient shoe tread members joined to one side of said sheet, additional resilientshoe tread members joined to the other side of said sheet, each of said additional members having a central cut-out from one of its sides to the other, and flat wear-resisting inserts within said cut-outs and secured againstsaid sheet, any of said tread members at either side of the sheet being directly opposite one at the other side and being of the same size and shape as the latter.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature.

BENJAMIN GILOTVITZ.