US838198A - Boot or shoe holder. - Google Patents

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No; 838,198. 'PATENTED DEG. 11, 1906.

H- 0. MILLER.

BOOT 0R SHOE HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED-JUNE 1a, 1902.

INVENTEI a M WITNESSES.

5% M i 'W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HOWARD OLIVER MILLER, OF BROOKTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR,

BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS. TO O. A. MILLER TREEING MACHINE COM- PANY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

BOOT OR SHOE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 11, 1906.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HOWARD OLIVER h/IIL- LER, of Brockton, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boot or Shoe Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to holders adapted to support boots or shoes while they are being cleaned and polished, and it has for its object to provide a simple and effective holder of this character.

The invention consists in the improvements herein after described and claimed.

Of the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a holder embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation showing a modified form, and Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of the last or form which supports the toe portion of the upper.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, a represents a guide which is here shown as an elongated bar having in one side a longitudinal recess a, the edges and bottom of which guide the slide 1), hereinafter referred to. On one end of the guide a is formed an ear or flange a adapted to be secured to a wall or other vertical support, said ear or flange being preferably formed to be detachably engaged With earsformed on a socket aflixed to the wall. On the outer end of the guide a is formed a downwardly-projecting arm 0 the lower end a of which is formed as a rest adapted to bear upon the inner surface of the heel portion of a boot or shoe upper.

The shank or slide b is formed to enter the recess a in the guide a and is held in sliding engagement with said guide by means of the bolt 0, afiixed to the guide a and passing through an elongated slot 1) in the slide, the head of the bolt 0 confining the slide against the guide and the guide being constructed to permit said slide to be inserted in the recess or guideway 11 by movement transverse to said guideway. On the outer end of the slide 1) is formed a downwardly-projecting arm b which is bent at its lower portion or has a forwardly-extending part b on which are afiixed two substantially parallel upwardly-projecting dowels b I). These dowels are adapted to enter sockets d d, formed in the bottom of the foreart last or form d and adapted to enter the fore part of a boot or shoe upper. The dowels I) and sockets d are of such length that they furnish an elon gated reciprocal bearing-surface the length and parallelism of which enable the dowels to securely hold the form (1 in place without liability of accidental displacement while the device is in use. It is of course an easy matter to lift the form (1 from the dowels and from the arm portion b by giving the form d a direct upward movement; but in practice when a boot or shoe is placed on the form the various movements of the cleaning and polishing appliances upon the exterior of the upper are not likely to impart movement to the form in the exact direction required to cause it to rise from the dowels. On the other hand, these movements are more likely to cause the walls of the sockets in the form to bind upon the dowels b without dislodging or raising the form from the dowels. I find, therefore, that this simple holding means comprising the two parallel dowels on the arm and the two parallel sockets in the form enable the form to be securely engaged with the holder without the use of any additional or supplemental holding means, such as a wedge or chock inserted between the rear end of the form (1 and the arm portion W. I prefer a form with a recess (1 in the bottom of the form d and sockets d extend.- ing upwardly from the bottom of said recess, as shown in Fig. 3. The recess is of such length and width that it fits closely upon the arm portion b In using the described holder the slide 5 is moved back as far as it will go and the boot or shoe is drawn onto the arms a and 6 until the portion a bears upon the interior of the heel portion of the boot or shoe and the form (1 projects into the fore part of the boot or shoe. The slide 5 is then moved outwardly, thus separating the form d from the arm a and causing said parts to bear firmly upon the corresponding parts of the boot or shoe.

I employ a pawl and a ratchet to automatically look the slide 1) when it has been moved outwardly to the desired extent, thus preventing it from slipping baokwardly. In Fig. 1 I show the ratchet f formed upon the guide a and the pawl g pivoted to an ear or projection a upon the slide. (1 represents a handle formed on the ear or projection a", and 9 represents a handle formed on the pawl 9. When the pawl is engaged with the ratchet, as shown in Fig. 1, the handle 9 stands in position to be controlled by the fingers which grasp the handle a, the said fingers bearing yieldingly on the handle g and holding the latter in such a position that the pawl g is held yieldingly in engagement with the ratchet It will be seen, therefore, that the pawl and ratchet act automatically or are caused byv the operators hand to act automatically in preventing backward movement of the slide, no movement or other action of the operators hand being required in causing automatic action other than grasping the handle a In Fig. 2 I show the ratchet formed on the slide and the pawl pivoted to an ear formed onthe guide a.

I claim- 1. A boot or shoe holder comprising a fixed member having a horizontally-extending arm that is recessed at one side to form a guid'eway, and is also provided with a depending arm formed to bear upon the interior of the heel portion of a boot or shoe, a movable member having a shank extending into the guideway in the fixed member and also having a depending arm formed to enter the fore part of a boot or shoe, said arm being constructed to permit introduction of said shank into the guideway by movement transverse to said guideway; a headed bolt carried by the horizontal arm and extending into a slot formed in the shank of the movable member to prevent displacement of said shank transversely to the guideway, and means carried by. the depending arm for retaining a fore-part last upon said arm.

2. A boot or shoe formshaped to enter the fore part of an upper and having a slot and a plurality of substantially parallel sockets in its bottom adapted to receive complemental portions formed on a holder.

In testimonywher'eof I have affixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

HOWARD OLIVER MILLERv l/Vi tnesses ADELINE C. RATIGAN, H. L. RoBBINs.

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