US698289A - Heel-lift for shoes. - Google Patents

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- J. J.- JONES. HEEL LIFT FOR suoss.

(Apglicltlon filed Dec. 8, 1899. Renewed Jan. 10, 1909.)

Patented Apr. 22 I902.

(No Model.)

- manently together to form a composite lift.

UNITED STATES LATENT @FFICIZ.

.JACOB J. JONES, OFNEVV YORK, N,'Y.

H EL- mm FOR. SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming- M or Letters Patent No. 698,289, dated April 22, 1902; Application filed December 8, i899; Reneweddanua'ry 10, 1902. Serial No. 89,092. (No model.)

To all whom it may concerm.

Be it known that I, J AOOB J. JONES, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, in thecounty and State of New. York, have invented a newand useful Im provement in Heel-Lifts for Boots or Shoes, 1

of which the following is aspecification.

v In my former patent of March 30, 1886, No." 339,060, a rubber lift of varying thicknesses.

was fastened to the leather heel of a boot or shoe, the said heel being prepared and shaped by the shoemaker to receive the said rubber lift, which was afterward secured thereto by cement. The shaping of the heel and the fitting and cementing of the rubber lift were attended with expense, loss of time, and .inconvenience. Besides, it was difficnlt to eifect a fully satisfactory joint; and the object of my present invention is to overcome these difficulties.

My invention is a new article of manufacture, and in carrying out the same I connect a layer of leather and a layer of rubber per- These parts are shaped and connected at the place of manufacture by methods well'known in the art-that is to say, bysuitable cement and pressure, allowing ample time for the same to thoroughly dry.- These composite lifts are sold as an entirety ready to be nailed to the heel of a boot or shoe, the samerequiring no special skill on the part of the shoemaker,and after attachment theedge may be trimmed and blackened as usual.

The layer of rubber is formed in a suitable mold and one flat surface is provided with a marginal recess in which is fitted and to which is cemented a layer or strip'of leather,

the cement securing the layer ofrubber and the layer of leather together both at the fiat meeting faces and at one edge of the'leather strip or layer. This leather layeris of approXimatelya horseshoe shape and the same occupies a position to receive throughit the nails which secure the,lift to the heel of the boot or shoe in the position-in which such nails are usually placed-Lin connecting the variouslifts of a'heel, the nails passing through the rubber and the heads setting againstthe surface of the leather:

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation,

and Fig. 2 a plan, illustrating my invention.

Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section at the line a 00' of Fig. 2,and Fig. 4 a vertical crosssection at y y of Fig. 2, illustrating my inve ntion as attached to the heel of a boot o'r shoe and as indicating" the tread-surface of a the composite lift.

Thelayer of rubber d and the layer or strip of leather '1) are permanently connected together at the-place of manufacture by cement upon the adjoining surfaces, the parts being held together by pressu reuntil thoroughly set and dry. The layer of rubber ismolded of the desired thickness, preferably smooth on' one fiat face, which forms the tread-surface, r

exactness, and when the parts are held together the cement intervenes between the fiat faces and the edges, so that the parts are held together at two points. The leather strip or layer is of liberal proportions, first, to provide'fortrimming and, mainly, to provide a liberal width of leather, through which the nails 3 in the usual position of connecting heel-lifts are driven, the said nails passing through the rubber and the leather strip or layer 1) into the usual leather lifts c of a heel, with the heads of the nails embedded in the rubber and seated against the surface of the leather. The rubber closes together over the nail heads after the passage of the nails. In

this manner it is possible tosecurely hold a 'compos'ite'lift of rnbber and leather to the heel of a boot or shoe. An entire layer of recess, and the same fits the said recess with leather upon one surface of the rubber layer,

is not so essential, because through the center part of the heel it is not usual to drive con- I necting-na-ils, the strip ofthe present vinvention providing amply for the main orouter row of nails.

I am aware thatit is notnew toconn ect a layer of rubber and an entire surface layer. of leather together by cement for forming a Ioo' composite lift for the heel of a boot or shoe and also that it is not new to make holes through the rubber layerof the said lift and to placetherein metal washers which form seats for the heads of connecting-nails, and I lift for boots and shoes comprising a layer of distinctly disclaim such construction. I rubber having a flat tread-surface and the op- I claim as my invention i posite surface provided with a marginal re- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a heelcess, and a layer or strip of leather of horse lift for boots and shoes comprising a layer of shoe form fitting the said marginal recess and rubber having a flat tread-surface and the opcemented thereto, substantially as set forth. posite surface provided with a marginal re Signed by me this 6th day of December,

cess and a layer or strip of leather of horse 1899. shoe form fitting the said marginal recess and JACOB J. JONES. cemented thereto at the flat opposing surfaces Witnesses: and edges, substantially as set forth. I GEO. T. PINCKNEY,

2. As a new article of manufacture, a heell E. E. POHLE.

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