US25395A - Heel fob boots and shoes - Google Patents

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UNXTE SIMEON DODGE, JR., AND B. POTTER, JR., OF MARBLEHEAD, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEEL FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that we, SIMEON DODGE, Jr., and BENJ. POTTER, Jr., both o-f Marblehead, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Heel for Boots and Shoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying-drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a view of our improved heel; Fig. 2, a modification of the same; Fig. 3, the machine which we employ in its manufacture; Figs. t, 5, G and 7, details to be referred to hereafter.

In the manufacture of shoes by hand the heels are formed of successive layers or rises of leather which are so hammered in the center that the rise which lies nearest to the foot shall be concave to fit the form of the wearers heel-while the outer rise is flat as required to give a steady tread upon the ground. At other times the inner rise is temporarily secured to the shoe and before the successive rises are added, a narrow strip of leather called a spur lift is pasted around the edge, this spur lift being chamfered off so as to raise the outer edge to a level with the center. The succeeding rises are then put on and the whole are nailed to the shoe.

Our invention has for its object to furnish to the manufacturing trade a heel having a concave seat to suit the form of the heel of the wearer and a fla-t tread, and thus relieve them of the labor of hammering and fitting each heel as it is applied to the boot. And our invention consists in a heel having the rises united together by cement and formed by compression in a press having a suitable follower and die to give it the concave or hollow seat and the flat or level tread.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand our invention we will proceed to describe the manner in which we have carried it out.

The leather is skived to take off the loose fibers upon the flesh side, and is cut into pieces and moistened. The requisite number of rises are then secured together by some suitable cement and are submitted to pressure in the press represented in Fig. 3. The block or die A is made convex to give the requisite concave to the seat of the heel, and 1n order to preserve the tread flat a depression f (Fig. 6) is made in the follower B, of the size to be given to the bottom of the heel and as the pressure is brought upon the leather it is forced into this depression; thev raised portion o, of the follower' pressing down the edges of the leather as at Z), Fig. 4, and causing it to conform to the convex surface of the block A. A number of pieces of leather of the proper size with a thin layer of cement between them are placed in the press as at H (Fig. 3) and are submitted to pressure for about a minute more or less or while the operator is preparing the material for another heel. It is then taken out and is found in the form represented in F 4 and 5 with a concave g and a flat tread m, and the heel is finished (Fig. l) by cutting away the superfluous leather either by hand or by suitable machinery.

In Fig. 2, is seen a modification of our invention the object being as before to produce a heel as an article of trade having a concave seat and a flat tread, in this case the heel is made of leather with the exception of the inner rise which is of wood, the whole being united as before with cement and sublnitted to pressure between a block and followeiI having flat or level surfaces. Fig. 7 represents the blank thus formed. The heel is then cut out and by a suitable rimxner or other revolving cutting tool the concave seat is formed in the wood as seen at L, Fig. 2. Any suitable cement that will dry rapidly may be employed such as shellac dissolved in alcohol or a compound of india. rubber or even glue but we prefer to employ a water proof cement as this excludes moist-ure from the joints between the leather.

le are thus enabled to furnish to the market a heel of better quality and less cost than those manufactured by hand as they are applied to the boot.

Our improved heels are secured to the boots in the ordinary manner by nails or pegs and if thought desirable a layer of waterproof cement may be put between the heel and the boot.

That we claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent as a new article of manufacture is- A heel having a' concave seat and a flat Jreal with its rises united by cement asset 'ort i.

WILLIAM FABENS, BENJ. G. HATHAWAY.

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