US20120151807A1 - Noise Reducing Heel Tip - Google Patents

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US20120151807A1
US20120151807A1 US12/973,995 US97399510A US2012151807A1 US 20120151807 A1 US20120151807 A1 US 20120151807A1 US 97399510 A US97399510 A US 97399510A US 2012151807 A1 US2012151807 A1 US 2012151807A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
    • A43B21/00—Heels; Top-pieces or top-lifts
    • A43B21/02—Heels; Top-pieces or top-lifts characterised by the material
    • A43B21/06—Heels; Top-pieces or top-lifts characterised by the material rubber
    • A43B21/08—Heels; Top-pieces or top-lifts characterised by the material rubber combined hard and soft rubber
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
    • A43B21/00—Heels; Top-pieces or top-lifts
    • A43B21/02—Heels; Top-pieces or top-lifts characterised by the material
    • A43B21/06—Heels; Top-pieces or top-lifts characterised by the material rubber
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A43—FOOTWEAR
    • A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
    • A43B21/00—Heels; Top-pieces or top-lifts
    • A43B21/36—Heels; Top-pieces or top-lifts characterised by their attachment; Securing devices for the attaching means
    • A43B21/42—Heels with replaceable or adjustable parts, e.g. top lift

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  • the present invention relates in general to footwear.
  • Heeled shoes are any shoe with a heel. Heeled shoes have a bottom component called a heel tip to protect the heel of the shoe and balance the shoe.
  • the heel tip is glued, nailed, screwed in, or attached by any means to the bottom of the heel that touches the walking surface.
  • the heel tip varies in size according the shape of the bottom of the heel.
  • Heel tips are made with a hard, rigid plastic. Using heeled shoes with plastic heel tips produces sound due to the impact of the heel tip's hard material hitting the surface. This sound is reduced when a heel has a heel tip made fully or has a coating of rubber on the bottom part of the heel tip. The use of rubber minimizes the noise produced while using the shoe by softening the impact of the heel tip hitting the surface.
  • heeled shoes with hard plastic heel tips is a nuisance. It creates unnecessary noise pollution.
  • the wearer of hard, plastic heel tips creates a noise disturbance which may attract negative attention.
  • Using heel tips with rubber reduces this noise and creates a quieter environment. Wearing quieter shoes takes away any negative attention from the wearer from the noise disturbance created by hard plastic heel tips.
  • Heel tips on heeled shoes are typically made of a hard plastic material in various sizes according the size of the bottom of the heel. Heel tips are glued, nailed, screwed in, or attached by any means during the shoe manufacturing process. Heel tips produce noise when using the shoe due to the impact of the hard material hitting the surface.
  • This invention minimizes the noise produced when using heeled shoes by coating a plastic heel tip with rubber and/or using an entirely rubber heel tip if size allows.
  • the rubber lessens the noise due to its ability to soften the impact of the heeled shoe to the surface.
  • the softness of rubber lessens the impact producing less noise than that of hard plastic. Subsequently, incorporating rubber in the heel tip lessens the noise produced when wearing a shoe with this heel tip.
  • Heeled shoes have a heel tip to protect the heel of the shoe and balance the entire shoe. Heel tips are nailed, screwed in, glued, or attached by any means to the heel.
  • the heel tip varies in size according to the width, length, size of the heel.
  • the heel tip in this invention uses rubber to reduce the sound produced when wearing a heeled shoe.
  • the noise reducing heel tip uses rubber to reduce the noise produced while wearing, walking, and/or moving in the shoe. Rubber is durable yet soft. Rubber is durable enough to protect the heel, hold the weight of the wearer, and balance the shoe. Yet rubber is soft and lessens the impact of the heel tip hitting the surface thus creating less noise production.
  • the heel tip is fully composed of rubber if the width and length of the heel tip allows for this to happen for the purpose of reducing noise produced when wearing the heeled shoe.
  • Rubber heel tip may be screwed, glued, or attached by any means to the heel. If the heel is too narrow to use a fully rubber heel tip then a two layer heel tip will be used for the purpose of reducing noise produced when wearing the heeled shoe. A narrow heel would not allow for a fully rubber heel tip since it would have to be screwed into the heel where plastic would cover the top of the screw and then rubber on the bottom surface which hits the ground. If heel is too narrow the two layer heel lift with adjacent screw can be screwed or glued into the heel.
  • the two layer heel tip is composed of plastic and rubber.
  • the top layer (closest to the heel) is made of a nylon based plastic that is rigid and strong enough to bear the weight on a narrow heel.
  • the bottom layer (furthest from heel, actually hits walking surface when wearing the shoe) is made of rubber to reduce the noise produced when walking or moving while wearing the shoe.
  • the fully or partial rubber heel tip both serve the same purpose of reducing the sound produced while wearing the shoe.
  • FIG. 1 Location of Heel Tip in Various Heel Shoes
  • FIG. 2 Rubber Heel Tip in Heeled Shoe
  • FIG. 3 Full Rubber Heel Tip
  • FIG. 4 Partial Rubber Heel Tip

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The heel tip of a heeled shoe uses rubber to reduce the noise produced when using the heeled shoe.

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    FIELD OF THE INVENTION
  • The present invention relates in general to footwear.
    • BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
  • Heeled shoes are any shoe with a heel. Heeled shoes have a bottom component called a heel tip to protect the heel of the shoe and balance the shoe. The heel tip is glued, nailed, screwed in, or attached by any means to the bottom of the heel that touches the walking surface. The heel tip varies in size according the shape of the bottom of the heel.
  • Heel tips are made with a hard, rigid plastic. Using heeled shoes with plastic heel tips produces sound due to the impact of the heel tip's hard material hitting the surface. This sound is reduced when a heel has a heel tip made fully or has a coating of rubber on the bottom part of the heel tip. The use of rubber minimizes the noise produced while using the shoe by softening the impact of the heel tip hitting the surface.
  • The noise produced by heeled shoes with hard plastic heel tips is a nuisance. It creates unnecessary noise pollution. The wearer of hard, plastic heel tips creates a noise disturbance which may attract negative attention. Using heel tips with rubber reduces this noise and creates a quieter environment. Wearing quieter shoes takes away any negative attention from the wearer from the noise disturbance created by hard plastic heel tips.
    • BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
  • Heel tips on heeled shoes are typically made of a hard plastic material in various sizes according the size of the bottom of the heel. Heel tips are glued, nailed, screwed in, or attached by any means during the shoe manufacturing process. Heel tips produce noise when using the shoe due to the impact of the hard material hitting the surface. This invention minimizes the noise produced when using heeled shoes by coating a plastic heel tip with rubber and/or using an entirely rubber heel tip if size allows. The rubber lessens the noise due to its ability to soften the impact of the heeled shoe to the surface. The softness of rubber lessens the impact producing less noise than that of hard plastic. Subsequently, incorporating rubber in the heel tip lessens the noise produced when wearing a shoe with this heel tip.
    • DETAILED DESCRIPTION
  • Heeled shoes have a heel tip to protect the heel of the shoe and balance the entire shoe. Heel tips are nailed, screwed in, glued, or attached by any means to the heel. The heel tip varies in size according to the width, length, size of the heel. The heel tip in this invention uses rubber to reduce the sound produced when wearing a heeled shoe.
  • The noise reducing heel tip uses rubber to reduce the noise produced while wearing, walking, and/or moving in the shoe. Rubber is durable yet soft. Rubber is durable enough to protect the heel, hold the weight of the wearer, and balance the shoe. Yet rubber is soft and lessens the impact of the heel tip hitting the surface thus creating less noise production.
  • The heel tip is fully composed of rubber if the width and length of the heel tip allows for this to happen for the purpose of reducing noise produced when wearing the heeled shoe. Rubber heel tip may be screwed, glued, or attached by any means to the heel. If the heel is too narrow to use a fully rubber heel tip then a two layer heel tip will be used for the purpose of reducing noise produced when wearing the heeled shoe. A narrow heel would not allow for a fully rubber heel tip since it would have to be screwed into the heel where plastic would cover the top of the screw and then rubber on the bottom surface which hits the ground. If heel is too narrow the two layer heel lift with adjacent screw can be screwed or glued into the heel. The two layer heel tip is composed of plastic and rubber. The top layer (closest to the heel) is made of a nylon based plastic that is rigid and strong enough to bear the weight on a narrow heel. The bottom layer (furthest from heel, actually hits walking surface when wearing the shoe) is made of rubber to reduce the noise produced when walking or moving while wearing the shoe. The fully or partial rubber heel tip both serve the same purpose of reducing the sound produced while wearing the shoe.
    • DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
  • FIG. 1: Location of Heel Tip in Various Heel Shoes
  • FIG. 2: Rubber Heel Tip in Heeled Shoe
  • FIG. 3: Full Rubber Heel Tip
  • FIG. 4: Partial Rubber Heel Tip

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1. Wherein using rubber in the heel tips of heeled shoes for the purpose of reducing the sound produced when wearing the heeled shoe.
a. Wholly or partial rubber heel tips reduce noise production caused by using heeled shoes.
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US20120186110A1 (en) * 2011-01-25 2012-07-26 Mark Recchi Footwear with heel lift
US20190014865A1 (en) * 2017-07-17 2019-01-17 Julie Belleza Customizable Universal Heel Protector Assembly

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US1263555A (en) * 1917-03-20 1918-04-23 Ellis S Helwitz Shoe-heel.
US1328991A (en) * 1919-04-28 1920-01-27 William F Baum Heel for boots and shoes
US1335371A (en) * 1919-10-25 1920-03-30 David H Finberg Shoe-heel
US1530159A (en) * 1922-01-14 1925-03-17 Fletcher Lewis Glenn Heel lift for french heels
US1754280A (en) * 1928-07-09 1930-04-15 John F Mcnamara Shoe heel
US1875806A (en) * 1931-06-30 1932-09-06 Albert W Givens Enlarged wearing surface for spike heels
US2308103A (en) * 1938-10-10 1943-01-12 L E Sauer Molded heel
US2851797A (en) * 1957-02-20 1958-09-16 Fernando M Ronci Heel and tap therefor
US2875534A (en) * 1958-09-26 1959-03-03 Grossman Evelyn Heel protector
US3122848A (en) * 1962-10-04 1964-03-03 Grossman Evelyn Heel protector
US3141248A (en) * 1962-11-23 1964-07-21 Ny Linn Chicago Corp Heel lift
US3196560A (en) * 1963-08-19 1965-07-27 Hollis Heels Ltd Shoe heel reinforcing dowel and top lift
US3222801A (en) * 1963-12-03 1965-12-14 Ferdinand W Mostertz Spike heel construction
US3299542A (en) * 1964-10-09 1967-01-24 Nylund Knut Herbert Shoe heel with exchangeable tread part
US3439435A (en) * 1965-05-26 1969-04-22 Fredon Pierre A G Heel protector
US5311675A (en) * 1993-05-10 1994-05-17 Topel Tracy L High heel shoe cap
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US1261525A (en) * 1916-12-08 1918-04-02 Ellis S Helwitz Shoe-heel.
US1263555A (en) * 1917-03-20 1918-04-23 Ellis S Helwitz Shoe-heel.
US1328991A (en) * 1919-04-28 1920-01-27 William F Baum Heel for boots and shoes
US1335371A (en) * 1919-10-25 1920-03-30 David H Finberg Shoe-heel
US1530159A (en) * 1922-01-14 1925-03-17 Fletcher Lewis Glenn Heel lift for french heels
US1754280A (en) * 1928-07-09 1930-04-15 John F Mcnamara Shoe heel
US1875806A (en) * 1931-06-30 1932-09-06 Albert W Givens Enlarged wearing surface for spike heels
US2308103A (en) * 1938-10-10 1943-01-12 L E Sauer Molded heel
US2851797A (en) * 1957-02-20 1958-09-16 Fernando M Ronci Heel and tap therefor
US2875534A (en) * 1958-09-26 1959-03-03 Grossman Evelyn Heel protector
US3122848A (en) * 1962-10-04 1964-03-03 Grossman Evelyn Heel protector
US3141248A (en) * 1962-11-23 1964-07-21 Ny Linn Chicago Corp Heel lift
US3196560A (en) * 1963-08-19 1965-07-27 Hollis Heels Ltd Shoe heel reinforcing dowel and top lift
US3222801A (en) * 1963-12-03 1965-12-14 Ferdinand W Mostertz Spike heel construction
US3299542A (en) * 1964-10-09 1967-01-24 Nylund Knut Herbert Shoe heel with exchangeable tread part
US3439435A (en) * 1965-05-26 1969-04-22 Fredon Pierre A G Heel protector
US5311675A (en) * 1993-05-10 1994-05-17 Topel Tracy L High heel shoe cap
US8033035B2 (en) * 2008-05-14 2011-10-11 Solemates, Llc Stabilizing and support accessory for stiletto heels

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US20120186110A1 (en) * 2011-01-25 2012-07-26 Mark Recchi Footwear with heel lift
US20190014865A1 (en) * 2017-07-17 2019-01-17 Julie Belleza Customizable Universal Heel Protector Assembly

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