US777272A - Display-form. - Google Patents

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No. 777,272. Patented December 13, 1904.

STATES PATENT OEEICE.

i N ITE lll JONATHAN T. BROWN, OF MARBLEHEA'D, vMASSALIIUSE'ITS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO O. A. MILLER '.ITREEING MACHINE COMPANY, OF BROOKTON, MASSAOHUSETIS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

lSPLAY-FOFiWlm SPECIFICATIONfor-ming part of Letters Patent No. 777,272, dated December 13, 1904.

Application filed -Tnly 11, 1902. Serial Nn. 115,146. (No model.)

T (LZ/f 1071/0771/ 71ml/ @0N/067%: flexed, as when it is being inserted in a shoe Beit known that I, JONATHAN T. BnowN, of or withdrawn from a shoe. Marblehead, m the county of Essex and State The shoe-form comprises a heel part l and of Massachusetts, have invented certain new afore part 3, connected preferably at a sin and useful Improvements in Display-Forms, gie pivotal point by a hinge 20. The line of of which the following is a specification. division between the fore part and heel part This invention relates to forms, followers, extends from the instep on the upper side to and lasts, herein referred to as shoe-forms I the betteln of the form, so that the portion or forms which are employed for deterof the form oceupyingthe opening at the top IO mining, preserving, or restoring the shapes of the shoe between the counter and the in- 55 of boots and shoes, and particularly to that step is all comprised in the heel part l, and class of shoe-for1ns which are made in two the topface ofthe shoe-form has a continuous parts connected together preferably at a sinor unbroken surface 13. The heel part co1ngle pivotal point in such manner that the prisesaforwardly-prejecting member er sole- I5 form may be shortened for insertion into or piece 2 and a forwardly-projeeting member 6o withdrawal from a slice and may be lengthor instep-piece 9, the upper member or exened, so as to lill out the shoe after having tension 9 having on its outer end a surface been placed therein. The shoe-form herein which is adapted to support the upper partef shown is especially adapted for use with lowthe instep portion ofthe shoe. The fore part 2O cut or Oxford shoes in which the upper porhas a member t for supporting the lower por- 65 tion of the form is exposed above the top of tion of the instep of the shoe. Preferably the shoe; but of course the invention is not the portion A of thc fore part extends up limited in any way to shoe-forms adapted for wardly and backwardly to or near the instept this use. supporting portion 9 of the heel part. The

One of the features of my invention conshoe-form is cut away between the fore part 70 sists in a divided shoe-form having a single and the heel part, as at 5, for the purpose of part adapted to fill completely the upper porpermitting the relativemovement of the parts tion of a low-cut shoe, so that when the form of the hinge Q0. The face 1l of the forepart is in such a shoe it will present to view only member t and the faces IOand 1Q of the heelunbroken surfaces like a solid shoe-form. part me1nber9 are formed to slide freely with 75 Another feature of the invention consists in relation to each other the parts are moved constructing the heel part of a shoe-form on the hinge 20. The adjacent faces 7 and S with a member o1' extension adapted to supbelow the hinge serve as stops to limit the port aportion of theinstep of the shoe, theremovement of the parts in the direction for by reducing the tendency of the shoe to colextending the form, and preferably, also, the 8O lapse the form. faces Il and 12 contact when the shoe-form Other features of the invention, including is in its extended condition. It will be obcertain details of construction and combinaserved that when the heel part of the form is tions of parts, will be herein described, and turned up for collapsing the form the height l pointed out in the claims. of the form measured through the lower por- Figure l is a side elevation. partly in section of the instep is decreased, thus making tion, of a shoe-form embodying my invention it easier to put the form into a shoe and to in one of the best forms now known to me, a take it out. The location of the pivotal conshoe being shown upon the form. Fig. 2 is nection between the fore part and the heel a similar view of the shoe-form collapsed or part may be varied; but said connection is 90 preferably so located in advance of the instepsupporting surface, or it may be under said surface, that the tension of the upper over the said instep-su pporting surface has no tendency to collapse the shoe-form. It is to be noted that the heel part with its forwardlyextending member or sole-piece 2, together with the fore part or toe member, constitute the bottom face of the form, and when the shoe-form is extended the entire bottom of the shoe is engaged and held in proper position by these parts.

In using the shoe-form the instep portion of the shoe is distended and supported by the movable heel part of the form, and when the shoe-form is used with low-cut shoes it presents a better appearance than other forms, because the part which is exposed to view above or through the top of a shoe is a solid portion withoutany lines of division, thus giving the appearance of a one-piece shoeform.

Having thus explained the nature of my invention and described a way of constructing and using the same, though without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made or all the modes of its use, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A foot-form comprising a heel member formed with a sole-piece extending toward the ball portion of the form, a toe member having its bottom surface arranged as an extension of that of said sole-piece and formed with an integral instep-block separated from said solepiece by a recess, an extension on the heel member closing the rear end of said recess and adapted to play closel to but past the end of said block, and a hinge connecting the end of the sole-piece to said toe member, whereby the instep measure of the form may be lessened by a movement of the sole-piece toward the instep-block.

2. A display form or follower comprising fore and heel parts hinged together, the heel part having a recess with an instep-support projecting forward over said recess, and having an upper portion forming a continuous or unbroken surface to the instep, and the fore part having a rearward extension movable from a position in line with the instep portion of the heel part to a position along the bottom of said recess.

3. In a shoe-form, a fore part and a heel part pivotally connected, the heel part being formed with a recess in its end adjacent the fore part and with an instep-supporting member, and a rearwardly-extending member on said fore part adapted to be moved from a position in line with the instep-supporting' member of the heel part into a position along the bottom of the recess.

4. A shoe-form comprising a fore part and a heel part hinged together, the heel part being formed with a recess in' its end adjacent the fore part and having an instep-supporting member` the upper portion of said heel part forming a continuous or unbroken t'op surface of the shoe-form, and a rearwardlyextending member on the fore part movable from a position in line with the instep-supporting' member of the heel part to a position along the bottom of said recess.

5. In a shoe-form, a fore part and a heel part pivotally connected, said heel part having a forwardly-extending member adapted to support the instep of the shoe, and one of said parts being cut away to form a recess for permitting the form to be collapsed by a movement of the other part into the recess.

6. In a shoe-form, a fore part and a heel part, the heel part being provided with an instep-supporting surface, and having a pivotal connection to the fore part, said pivotal connection being located in advance of the instep supporting surface of the heel part, whereby collapse of the form by pressure of the shoe on said instep-supporting surface will be prevented.

7. In a shoe-form, a fore part and a heel part connected at a single pivotal point, said heel part having a forwardly-extending member adapted to support the instep of the shoe.

8. In a shoe-form, a fore part and a heel part connected at a single pivotal point, the heel part having an instep-supporting member projecting forwardly therefrom, and the upper portion of said shoe-form presenting a continuous or unbroken top surface.

9. In a shoe-form, a fore part and a heel part connected at a single pivotal point and constructed to present only continuous or unbroken surfaces to view when the form is in place in a shoe.

10. In a divided shoe-form, a fore part and a heel part connected at a single pivotal point, the line of division between said two parts intersecting the bottom and the instep of the form, but not the top face thereof.

1l. A shoe-fo rm comprising a fore part and a heel part, the heel part being' provided with an instep-supporting surface and connected at a single pivotal point, said pivotal point being positioned with relation to the said instepsupporting surface to prevent collapse of the shoe-form bypressure of the shoe on said instep-supporting surface.

l2. In a shoe-form, a fore part and a heel part, the heel part being provided with a portion adapted to support the instep of a shoe and having a forwardly-extending member, a pivotal connection between said member and the fore part, the said fore part having a rearwardly and upwardly extending member separated from the forwardly-extending member of the heel part by a recess, the heel part IOO IIO

'forming the rear Well of seid recess l(ind being adapted Jfor movement toward and from Seid fore-part member to increase and diminish the height of the form measured throng-h the Seid fore-part and heel-part members.

13. A shoe-'form presenting e continuous or unbroken top surface and comprising e fore part and e heel part pivotelly connected, said parts being shaped Yfor permittingI relative movement to collapse the form and for pre- IO venting increase of instep-measure oiE the form when it is collapsed.

ln testimony whereorl lf have affixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JONATHAN T. BROWN. W'itneeses P. W. VPlczze'rr, H. L. ROBBINS.

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