US404416A - Rubber boot or shoe - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. L. JOYCE.

BUBBBR BOOT 0B sHoB.

No. 404.416. Patented June 4, 1889.

.UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOSEPH L. JOYCE, OF NEIV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

RUBBER BOOT oR SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 404,416, dated June 4, 1889.

Application filed October 22, 1888. Sen'al No. 288,791. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH L. JOYCE, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in India-Rubber Boots or Shoes; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompan ying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this speciiication, and represent, in

Figure l, a side view of the foot portion of the boot complete; Fig. 2, an under side view of the boot before the heel is applied; Fig. 3, a transverse section through the heel portion, showing the heel applied.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of the heel portion of india-rubber boots or shoes, in which the heel is a solid heel, and in which the boot or shoe is worn Without an inner shoe having a heel, in contradistinction to an overshoe in which the heel is hollow, to contain the heel of the inner shoe. In the usual construction of this class of boots and shoes the counter is drawn over and turned down upon the insole and then the outer sole applied, the heel portion of the outer sole being of sufficient extent to lap up onto and around the side of the counter, and then the heel is applied directly to the sole, the turned-up portion of the sole being exposed between the counter and the heel proper, and this is substantially necessary for the attachment of the heel as usually constru'cted.

The object of my invention is to avoid this overlapping` of the sole upon the counter and give to the heel portion of the boot an appearance substantially the Sallie as that of leather shoes; and it consists in making the heel portion of the sole of less extent than the area of the heel portion of the boot, and so that the turned-over portions of the counter will be exposed on the heel-surface outside the edge of the heel portion of the sole, combined with a heel the area of which is larger than the area of the heel portion of the sole, and so as to lap directly onto the counter around the heel portion of the sole, the said heel having nails extending through it and through the turned-over portions of the couliter through the insole, and turned down upon the inside, as a means of securing the heelbearing directly upon the counter outside the heel portion of the outer sole.

The boot throughout, except as to the heel portion, maybe of common construction; but instead of cutting the heel portion A of the outsole of an extent to overlap and be turned up onto the counter I make the said heel portion Aof the outsole of less area than the heel portion of the boot. Preferably the counter B is turned inward around the heel portion before the sole is applied, and onto the insole C, as represented in Fig. El. Then the outsole is applied, the contracted heel portion A joined to the turned-over edge of the counter, but so as to leave a margin a of the counter exposed around the heel portion of the boot, as seen in Fig. 2.

D represents the heel, which is made from lifts of leather or of any suitable hard material, and which has an area upon its upper side corresponding to the area of the heel portion of the boot. This heel is provided with a series of nails b, introduced around the edge of the heel, and which project through it a distance considerably greater than the thickness of the entire sole portion of the boot. The heel is applied with the nails lirst inserted by setting the. heel in proper relative position to its place on the boot, then vforcing the heel with its nails down onto the boot, the nails piercing through to the inside of the boot, and are there deflected by a metal surface on the last and so as to be turned down close upon the inside, as seen in Fig. 3.

The upper surface of the heel is best recessed, as seen in Fig. 3; but in any case the outer edge d of the heel must overlap onto the counter upon the bottom of the boot and outside the edge of the heel portion of the sole, as clearly seen in Fig. This construction makes a close contact between the heel and the counter and without the interposition of the usual turned-over edge of the heel portion of the sole, which gives to the boot or shoe around the heel the appearance substantially the same as that of a leather boot or shoe, and the heel is secured to the boot in the most perfect manner.

The h erein-described improvement i n in diarubber boots or shoes having solid heels, con- TOO Sisiingr in a hoot having the lower edg'eof the Counter turned over onto the insole, the heel pol-Lion of ihe outsole of nn :irren Sinniler than the :irren of the heel portion oi' the hoot, but The Suid heel poron of the soie joined to the inner edge of the turned-over portion of the counter, so :1S 11o ienrve n nmrgin of the Counter upon theheel-Surfacearound theheel portion of Jthe oui'soie, combined with :L heel of hnrd inziteiinii, its upper Surface of un aren corresponding substmitinl'ly to the :Lren of the heel portion of the hoot nud lau-ger than the hee] portion oif the outsole, the heel applied and its outer edge resting directly upon the counter outside bhe odge ol? the outsole, mld 15 the S11-id heel secured by nails through the heel sind through the solo, the pointu` oli' ille nails turned down upon theinside of the solo, Substantially as deszcrhed.

JOSEIII L. JOYCE.

.Viizi i eases:

Fluch U. EARLE, JAMES P. EARLE.

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