US2265724A - Shoe rack - Google Patents

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Dec.9, 1941. R. E. E'DMONISON 2,265,724

- .SHOE RACK v I 7 Filed Dec. 23, 1940 part I and a heel receiving part 2.

Patented Dec. 9, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SHOE RACK Robert E. Edmonson, Beaumont, Tex.

Application December 23, 1940, Serial No. 371,416

7 Claims.

This invention relates to shoe forms and more particularly to a device for use in connection with shoes which have become wet, to permit the drying out of the shoe While retaining it in its proper shape, and preventing the natural tendency to curl.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved and simplified device which can be readily applied to shoes of different sizes Without adjustment and which will hold the shoes under proper tension during the drying.

The invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combinations of parts hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

One sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof in which like reference characters indicate like parts throughout.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device;

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the device applied to a shoe and indicating in dotted lines its application to a shoe having a thicker sole;

Figure 3 is a fragmentary side elevation showing a modification of the sole engaging notch;

Figure 4 is a fragmentary side elevation showing a modified form of mounting for the lever;

Figure 5 is a fragmentary perspective of the toe and showing a modified form of toe engaging member.

Figure 6 is a medial, vertical, longitudinal cross-section through Figure 5.

Referring to the drawing the improved shoe form comprises a, base having a sole receiving Preferably the sole receiving part of the base is on a higher level than the heel receiving part 2, and this sole receiving part is provided with a plurality of grooves or corrugations 3, which may be of any desired shape or arrangement, and the object of which is to permit a free circulation of air between the base and the sole of the shoe to facilitate the drying of the latter. In the embodiment illustrated the toe end of the base is notched as at 4 to receive the end of a lever 5 which is pivoted to the base as by pin 6. The lever 5 extends over the base and is provided with a downwardly projecting heel lug adapted to fit in and press against the heel of a shoe. The rear end 8 of lever 5 serves as a handle and is adapted to be engaged with the base by means of a spring 9 having a ring l0 on one end which will slip over the handle 8, and being secured by the other end to the base as by hook ll. The pivot end of the lever is provided on its inner face with a sole engaging notch [2 which is adapted to seat over the sole of the shoe at the toe and press the sole firmly against the base.

To avoid scarring the sole this notch may be formed by inserting into the lever a rubber lug l3 as indicated in Fig. 3, thus providing a resilient upper face for the notch l2, or resiliency may be given the entire lever by surrounding the pivot pin 5 with a rubber bushing M as shown in Fig, 4.

For use with ladies shoes or shoes having no projecting sole at the toe the lever 5 may be provided at its pivot end with atoe grip I4 adapted to seat over the toe of the shoe rather than to engage the sole.

It will be noted that with the sole engaging notch l2 closely adjacent to the fulcrum that relatively slight variations in the thickness of the sole will be proportionately reflected on an exaggerated scale by the free end of the lever 5 so that the tension on the sole will automatically be increased in proportion to the thickness of the sole,

Various modification in the precise shape and arrangement of parts will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art but all within the scope of the present invention as claimed.

Having thus fully described my invention I claim:

1. A shoe form comprising a base upon which the sole and heel of a shoe may rest, a member mounted on the base for engaging the toe and heel of the shoe simultaneously and resilient means for applying pressure to said toe and heel holding means.

2. A shoe form comprising a base upon which the sole and heel of a shoe may rest, a member pivotally mounted on the base for engaging the toe and heel of the shoe simultaneously and resilient means for applying pressure to said toe and heel holding member proportional to the thickness of the sole.

3. A shoe form comprsing a base upon which the sole and heel of a shoe may rest, a lever pivoted to the toe end of the base and having a downwardly directed heel engaging lug adjacent its free end over the heel part of the base and a sole engaging notch adjacent its fulcrum end with resilient means adapted to associate the free end of the lever to the rear end of the base.

4. A shoe form comprising a base upon which the sole and heel of a shoe may rest, the face of that portion of the base intended to receive. the sole of the shoe being flat and raised with respect to that portion on which the heel is to means associated with the fulcrum end of the lever to permit resilient engagement of the toe of the shoe.

6. The device of claim 3 with the sole engaging notch formed by a rubber lug.

7. The device of claim 3 with a compressible rubber bushing associated with the lever pivot.

ROBERT E. EDMONSON.

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