US430947A - Combined foot-rest and stool - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.) A. B. HELLER.

GOMBINED FOOT BEST AND STOOL.

No. 430,947. Patented June 24, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED B. HELLER, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED FOOT-REST AND STOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,947, dated June 24, 1890.

Application filed October 11, 1889. Serial No. 326,754; (No model.)

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED B. HELLER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined Foot-Rests and Stools, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification. The object of my invention is to provide an improved portable foot-rest and stool for use in retail shoe-stores and other similar places, which may be brought or placed in close proximity to the bench or other place where the customer is seated and the foot be supported by the rest, so that the shoe can be fitted and buttoned by the salesman seated on the stool for that purpose. The rest is movable upon a pivot, so as to change the position of the foot with reference to the stool, if desired, and means are also provided for relieving the instep of strain during the act of buttoning, if the shoe is too tight at that point.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described, and definitely pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a combined stool and foot-rest constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional view of the same.

In the said drawings, the reference-numeral 1 designates two parallel bowed or curved rods of wood or other suitable material, which form the legs or supports of the stool. These rods are braced longitudinally by means of the rods 2, secured near the ends thereof and passing through loops 3 at the center of the bars 1. At one side of the supporting-frame, intermediate of the center and ends of the bars or legs, is located the stool 4, upon which the salesman sits while fitting and buttoning the shoe on the customers foot. This stool is supported by the four uprights 5 5, secured thereto and to the transverse braces 6 6. These braces consist of the parallel bars having their ends bent angularly downward, forming short arms 8 8, to which the uprights 5 are riveted or otherembrace and are secured to the bars 1..

Brace=bars 1O 10, with loops 11 11, are pro vided on the other side of the support, and

secured to these bars 10 is a fiat plate 12, having a central aperture, through which passes the pivot-pin 13 of the foot-rest, be ing secured thereto by the screw-nut 14. It will be seen that these brace-bars not only support the stool and foot-rest, but brace and hold the bars 1 laterally and prevent them from spreading.

The foot-rest consists of a block of wood or other suitable material so shaped and mounted upon the rods or bars 1 that when the foot is placed thereuponit will be securely held at the right angle for the salesman to fit the shoe. It has a curved upper face 15 to receive the sole of the shoe, and is recessed at the rear, forming a shoulder 16 and a flat surface 17 to receive the heel. On the under side the rest is curved from the toe or point backwardly to a point below the instep, where it is cut away, forming a flat bearing surface 18, which rests upon. the plate 12, and in the center of which the pivotpin 13 is inserted. The rest is then cut away parallel to the surface 17.

On the upper face 15 of the rest is formed a curved tapering depression or recess 19, with vertical front, to receive the heel of the shoe and hold the foot when. the shoe buttons tightly across the instep. By thus resting the foot in the groove the shoe is loosened across the instep and may be more easily buttoned. This is due to the change in position of the foot in the shoe, the weight being transferred from the toe to the heel.

The foot-rest being pivotally connected to the support can be moved to the right or left, as may be desired.

From the above description it will be seen that my improved stool and rest are simple and economical in construction, and the structure, while being very light and portable, is extremely strong and will be found very durable in use. It possesses other advantages, which will be apparent to salesmen and shoe-dealers generally.

Having thus described my invention, what 1, and the foot-rest pivotally secured to the I claim is braces 10, substantially as desc 'ibed.

The combination with the supports consisting of the curved bars 1, of the braces 6 ALFRED HELLER 5 and 10, said brace 6 consisting of the trans- I WVitnesses:

verse bars having arms 8 8, the stool 4, haV- GEORGE W. JOHNS,

ing uprights 5, with loops 9 9, secured to bars B. F. SCHONEBERGER.

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