US252475A - Joseph kieffeb - Google Patents

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' (NoModeL) J. KIEPPER HEELPOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

Patented Jan. 17,1882,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OF IcE.

JOSEPH K'IEFFER, on MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

HEELFOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,475, dated January 17, 1882.

Application filed June 6,1851. (No model.)

T 'all whom it may concern Be it knwn that I, JosEPH KIEFFER, ofthe city of Montreal, in the District of Montreal and Province of Quebec, Canada, have inyented certain newand useful Improvements in the Heels of Boots and Shoes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention has reference to that class of heels composed of a shell of leather orother suitable substance, suitably filled and secured to the sole and upper, and has for its special objects the'economy of material and greater rapidity of manufacture and degree of finish.

Up to the present timeheels, when made in the above way, have been formed of sole or other thick leather, and deeply channeled g at their upper edges in order to stitch them to the uppers, the soles being secured thereto by being turned down "upon and secured to the flat or front face of the heel.

I propose to form the heel from thin leather by swaging and in one operation, the bottom edges of the heel being turned up so as to allow-of the metal or otherbottom plate being affixed thereto, and the upper edges turned over all round, so as to form a channel in which the stitching to the upper can be laid, such turned-down edge being afterward smoothed down on and secured to the heel itself. The soleis laid upon and sewed to the turned-down edge of the front face, and projects into the heel sufficiently to give it a hold on the filling, thus forming a very firm and secure junction of sole and heel. The front edges of the blank are so brought into contact and joined that the burnisher will give a smooth flat surface. From the metal plate forming the bottom of the heel the nails which secure the plate to the heel proper, and at the same time afford a holdlast to the covering-piece of leather, are punched'out in both. directions at one operation by any suitable set of punches.

For full comprehension, however, of the invention reference must be had to the annexed drawings, in which- Figure -1 is a view of the heel-blank Fig. 2, a top view of shaped heeland part of sole secured thereto; Fig. 3, a sectional elevation on line Z Z, Fig. 2; Fig. 4,-a. horizontal sectional View on line X X, Fig. 3; and Fig.5, a plan of bottom plate, with covering-piece partly broken away. 7

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A is the heel-blank, of thin leather, and cut of such an outline that when, by means of dies or swages, it is pressed it will assume the shape shown especially in Figs. 2 and 3, the bottom edges being turned up, as shown at A, and having been usually previously cutorslit, so as to make them-fit better. The upper edge, A is, as shown in Fig. 3, turned in and down, so as to leave a channel, B, in which the stitching securing the heel to the upper is laid. This overlapping edge A is, when the boot or. shoe is finished, smoothed down and brought to an even surfaceand continuous outline with the outer face of the heel by means of a rotating wheel, burnisher, orother suitable device, gum being generally used to unite the surfaces in contact.

The turned-down edge A on the front face of theheel carries the end of the sole 0, which passes'into theiuterior of the heel and is sewed to A the edge of which is, as before mentioned, turned in and secured. Y

The meeting edges A A of the blank are arranged and sewed together, preferably as shown in Fig. 4, so as, when burnished or pressed, to leave a flat smooth surface.

The metal plate D has punched out from it bysuitable dies on both sides at one operation projections 01 01, having their edges serrated, so as to give a better hold, those, d, on the upper side securing it to the turned-up rim A and entering the filling of the heel, and those on the lower side entering into and holding the bottom or covering piece, E.

The heel will in my invention be filled with wood or with any of the compositions now adopted for that purpose, as may be desired.

For some of the cheaper kinds of boots and shoes leather-board or other like material may be used as the substance of the shell, the turned-down edge, which is stitched to the upper, being, however, formed of leather and'secured to and inside the shell in any usual way.

In some cases the covering-piece E may be omitted, the metal plate D then forming the bottom of the heel, and the size of the projections from the under side being regulated in,

consequence.

I do not claim as my invention any special means for forming the heel and securing together the several parts composing it, as any suitable system of dies, swages, molds, &c., may be used for the purpose.

What I claim is as follows 1. A heel-shell made of a single piece of leather or like substance, and havingits upper edges turned down so as to form a channel for the stitching securing itto the upper, substantially as herein set forth.

2. In combination with the shell of a hootheel, the sole secured thereto by stitching on JOSEPH KIEFFEB.

Witnesses:

FRAS. HY. REYNOLDS, OWEN N. EVANS.

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