US313161A

US313161A - Overshoe

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Publication number: US313161A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-03-03
Anticipated expiration: 1902-03-03

Description

SJC. BE'LKNAP & T. H. PYB.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

SAMUEL O. BELKNAP AND THEODORE H. FYE, OF ZANESVILLE, OHIO.

OVERSHOE.

SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,161, dated March 3,1885.

Application filed July 23, 1883. (No model.)

' following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invent-ion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Ourinvention relates to an improvement in rubber overshoes, the object being to provide this class of goods with icecreepers, and to provide for the removal of the same when not needed.

Vith this object in view our invention consists in the combination, with a rubber overshoe, of a removable ice-creeper consisting of a metallic plate provided with points arranged to project through the sole or heel of the shoe.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view ot' a sandal embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is areverse plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a view of the sandal in vertical transverse section. Fig. 4 is a detached view of one form which the creeper may assume, and Fig. 5 is a detached view of a dummy.

In the drawings our invention is shown as applied to a sandal or foot-hold, A; but it is apparent that it is applicable to all styles of overshoes.

The ice-Creeper consists of a metallicv plate, B, having points O depending from its lower face. These points may vary in number and in position, and they may be attached to or made integral with the plate, as found most desirable. The plate itself may assume va rions forms, as fancy and convenience may dictate. The points are arranged to project through holes D, formed either in the heel or sole ofthe shoe, or both.

The dummy is employed to ll the holes D when there is no occasion for the use of the Creeper. It consists of a plate, E, of molded .rubber or metal, provided with projections F,

adapted to till and close the holes D without projecting through them. If desired, the plate may be provided with teeth instead ot' points,J and the dummies made accordingly.

llhe shoe requires no especial adaptation to fit it for our improved ice-Creeper, and it. receives the minimum of injury therefrom.

The Creeper and dummy are easily eX- changed each for each, and they do not discommode the wearer ofthe shoe. l

In Letters Patent No. 278.308, granted tous May 29, 1883, the invention consists ot a halt'- sole and devices for removably securing the half-sole to the shoe. Between the haltsole and the sole of the shoe is placed an ice-creeper. XVe would therefore have it understood that we make no claim in this patent broad enough to cover the invention shown and described in our patent as above recited.

The improvement herein described is much simpler and cheaper in its construction than that described in our patent.

Instead ot' employing a half-sole with devices for securing it to the shoe, we use an ordinary overshoe or sandal and attach the icecreeper thereto.

Having thus fully described our invention, what We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a rubber overshoe, of a removable ice-Creeper consisting` of a plate provided with depending points arranged to project through holes formed in the sole-or heel ot' the shoe, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL C. BELKNAP. THEODORE H. FYE.

Witnesses:

JACOB C. FRANcIs, GEO. L. PHILLirs.