US815599A - Filler for boots and shoes. - Google Patents

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No. 815,699. PATENTED MAR. 20, I906.

A. LEWIS.

FILLER FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

- APPLICATION FILED APR. 6, 1904.

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UNITED sTAT s PATENT OEEIOE;

ALFRED LEWIs, ()F KETTERING, ENGLAND, Ass IGNoR To MOBBS AND LEWIS, LIMITED, OF OARRINGTON FOUNDRY, KETTERING; ENGLAND,

A CORPORATION OF GREAT BRITAIN.

FILLER FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 20, 1906.

Application filed April 6,1904:- Se rial No. 201,859-

Be it known that I, ALFRED LEwIs,- a subj ect of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of Carrington Foundry, Kettering, inave the county of Northampton, England, invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fillers for Boots or Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an under side view of a filler constructed according to this invention. Fig. 2 is a side vlew, and Fig. 3 an under side view, showing a modification in the form of sprin Fillers for boots'and shoes are dliiefly used by retail dealers for the purpose of displaying their wares, and it is usual to provide a filler for each size and fitting of boota circumstance which acts prejudicially on the sale of fillers to retail tradesmen on account of the cost.

Fillers have been made from vulcanized fiber, which is blocked andshaped for the purpose; and in carrying out the present invention it is proposed to employ the same material, as it has a certain amount of elasticity which is necessary; but any other material having like characteristics may be employed.

Now the object of the present invention is to provide a filler which may be used for several sizes and fitting of boot or shoe within certain limits, so that the expense consequent on having a filler for each size and fitting will be avoided. To this end the heel portion of the sha ed fiber filleris removed, say, at a oint W ich would about correspond with t e commencement of the stiffener of the boot or shoe, and at a point which would about correspond with the ball of the foot a spring is attached, which will yield to pressure when inserting the filler in the shoe and also act to force the sides of-the filler outward and keep it in contact with the sides of the boot or shoe. By these means a collapsible and expansible'filler will beprovided, which will be capable of accommodating itself to the, interior of the boot or shoe no matter what may be the size and fitting within certain limitsin other Words, afiller of greater adaptability and utility than heretofore is produce Referring then to the drawings, A is the shaped hollow fiber filler. At the bottom edge this filler is made with turned-in lugs B, to whichthe ends of a laterally-distending spring 0 are attached by rivets D or in any other convenient manner, as willbe seen from the under side views, Figs. 1 and 3.

The form the spring C may take is of minor importance so long as its objectis borne in mindnamely, that it shall press the sides of the filler outward against the inner walls of the fupper of the boot or'shoe. In thedrawings two forms of spring are illustrated. Thus in Fig..-] the spring is extended rearwardly to fit the heel of the shoe, which may sometimes be preferred. In Figs. 2 and 3 the rear extension of the spring is turned up to form a hook, which may be readily seize by the finger to help towithdraw the filleras well as to fit the heel. this s ring is that it will form a kind of handle by which the filler may be inserted or withdrawn and willv be specially useful for the smaller sizes. The extended spring will also form a side stay or support for the waist of the shoe from the joint to the heel.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A collapsible and ex ansive filler for boots and shoes consisting o hollow-shaped elastic foot and waist portions and a spring attached to the sides of the foot portion in advance of the waist portion and extended rearwardlyalong the Inner sides of the more-contracted waist portion and thence rearwardly beyond the waist portion to form a handle, the said spring being so formed that end pressure on t e rear end of the spring in the longitudinal direction of the filler will be transmitted to the point where the spring connects with the opposite sides of the foot ortion ina direction to force thesaid sides of wardly.

In testimony whereof 'I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribingwitnesses.v D

' ALFRED LEWIS. Witnesses: g

- RALPH. W. GARANEs, H. RUssELL SMITH.

the foot portion out- I waist portion, forming a side support for the

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