US830458A - Boot or shoe heel. - Google Patents

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No- 830,458. 7 PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906.

' J. B. 'SHEEHAN.

BOOT 0R SHOE HEEL. uruonmn rum) snrw. 21, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' JOHN B. SHEEHAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOOT on SHOE HEEL.

Application filed September Specification of Letters Patent.

21,1905. Serial No. 279,424.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

. To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JOHN B. SHEEHAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boot or Shoe Heels, of which the following is a description, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings and to the figures of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to heels for boots and shoes, and has for its principal object to provide an improved form of resilient noise less heel which may be manufactured at small cost and applied to either new or old shoes or other footwear or as an attachment to rubber heels.

A further object of the invention is to provide a heel that is practically indestructible, all of the weight and shock being taken up before the leather or other material exposed to wear comes into contact with the ground.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a heel in which the members making active contact with the ground may be placed at the point where the direct force is im posed.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a duplex resilient member, the impact being first taken up by a metal spring which when compressed to its fullest extent will transfer the weight to a backing member formed of rubber or like material.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form and proportions of parts may be made without departing from the in vention.

In the accompanyin drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a heel constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the heel inverted. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the metallic spring member detached and partly broken away to more clearly illustrate the construction.

Similar numerals of reference areemployed to indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

The heel 1 may be built up of several layers of leather or other material, one of the uppermost layers 2 being cut away to form a re cess for the reception of a rather thick sheet or disk 3, formed of rubber or similar material. The next lowermost layer 4 is also cut away to form a recess of somewhat smaller I area, so that the edges of the disk of rubber will be firmly held in place.

The principal spring 6 is formed of a strip of spring-steel or other suitable metal folded at the center to form two leaves having an inherent spreading tendency, this action being assisted by one or more springs 7, that preferably are helical in form. The expanding limit is fixed-by the vertical height of the recess.

Projecting from the lower side of the spring are a number of pins or prongs 9, that are guided in suitable openings formed in the lower layers of the heel. These pins in some cases may be pointed. to prevent slipping. These pins project below the bottom of the heel proper and may be arranged at any suitable point near the rear of the heel, either at the center or to one side thereof, in accordance with the habits of the wearer.

In use, the weight of the wearer will be gradually taken up by the metallic springs, the pins receding within the heel, and thenthe weight is transferred to the yieldable rubber disk, so that the weight and shock will be wholly absorbed by the time the heel proper comes into contact with the ground.

' A heel made in accordance with this invention possesses all of the advantages of an ordinary rubber heel, but is more resilient and serviceable and eliminates the objectionable sneakiness common to such heels.

Having thus described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A heel having arecess, and a spring arranged therein and provided with pins that pro ect below the bottom of the heel.

2. A heel havin a recess, a metallic spring seated therein, anc a plurality of ins projecting from the spring to a point be ow the bottom of the heel, the pins being guided in openings in said heel.

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3. A heel having a recess, and a folded tact with the ground.

5. A heel having a recess, a rubber disk or 5 cushion therein,

disk, and pins p a metal s ring under the rejecting from said spring and adapted for contact with the ground.

6. A heel having a recess, a disk of rubber confined therein,

a folded metal strip ar- 10 ranged below the diskipins projecting from the lower leafof the strip and adapted for contact with the ground, and coiled springs arranged between the leaves of the strip.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN B. SHEEHAN.

Witnesses:

J. V. S. MOKEE, A. W. SHIvrrz.

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