US1870945A - Shoe model - Google Patents

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Filed Feb. 3, 1932 INVENTOR (Zarles Waizaway )4 L .BY

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Patented Aug. 9, 1932 M UNITED STATES CHARLES W. CONAWAY, 0F GREATNECK, NEW YORK SHOE MODEL Application filed February 3, 1932. Serial No. 590,567.

My invention relates to models for shoes and the like, the main object being to provide a simple, light, cheap, and highly eflicient model to be used by salesmen as a trade dress to demonstrate to prospective buyers to the best advantage the actual appearance of the finished product as to design, lines, contour, color, surface ornamentation, and other details. The construction is also such that all of these features may be viewed from the front, side, and rear, which is quite essential to a satisfactory demonstration. By this construction, not only is a great saving in selling expense and cost of production effected, but whenever the prospective purchaser may desire slight modifications in respect to certain details, these may be easily, quickly, and cheaply made in existing models without sacrificing valuable material. In addition to the above, the salesman may carry with him, by reason of the light weight of the models and the fact that the same may be nested in a given limit of space and weight, many more demonstrating devices or models than would otherwise be possible.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating my new and improved model- Fig. 1 is a side view;

Fig. 2 is a front view;

Fig. 3 is a rear view.

1 represents the toe portion of the model and 2 represents the heel portion thereof connected to said toe portion by spaced side portions. The toe, heel, and sides are made of one or more irregular sheets or strips of differently colored paper overlapping at their edges so as to form a body of suflicient firmness to be self-supporting when assembled. These parts when assembled illustrate perfectly the finished product as to all details of shape, design and color. By the use of such a model, the prospective buyer may view the same from all sides and thus visualize correctly the actual appearance of a shoe built of corresponding size, shape and design. Again, by the use of differently colored pieces of paper, variations in contour may be easily made, and surface ornamentation, including lines and color, may be varied at will, since the use of paper lends itself admirably to such changes. Again, by making the body of the model hollow, as shown, any number of these models may be nested one within theother, thereby saving greatly in the space required for packing and transportation. 5 It is not necessary in all cases to nest such models since in some instances they may be folded and opened up for demonstration, in which event, of course, the sides of the model may be easily separated and bent, or sprung u out, by the fingers to the contour of the shoe, the thickness of the paper'being such as to permit the model to be bent without breaking, and when bent to remain of the desired contour during the demonstration period. 65 I have illustrated only one of an unlimited number of designs that may be demonstrated by the use of such a model. In the drawing I have shown only the shoe upper, so-called, since the presence of the shoe heel itself adds nothing of importance to the appearance of the upper. By the term selfsupporting, I mean that the stock from which the model is built should be suficiently firm so that the model will retain its shape sufiioiently during a demonstration to permit the same to be viewed from every angle and at the proper distance to get the true effect. In the preferred construction the body of the model is made up of a plurality of paper strips, or inserts, of different shapes and colors and of different surface ornamentation, all being fitted together and secured by adhesive so as to simulate in all respects the appearance of the finished product. 3-3 represent such inserts. In the preferred construction after a particular design has been selected, the variouspieces constituting the model body may be taken apart and used to assist in making patterns for corresponding pieces of leather or other material from which the shoe itself is to be made.

I claim:

A shoe model comprising a plurality of 7 sides of said body corresponding in contour I00 to the toe, heel and sides respectively of a V finished shoe upper, the outside surfaces of the differently colored irregular paper pieces delineating the contrasting color ornamen- B tation of different portions of the surface of said body, the edges of the outside pieces delineating the ornamental outline design thereon.

CHARLES W. CONAWAY.

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