US876897A - Low-cut shoe. - Google Patents

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No. 876,897. PATENTED JAN. 14, 1908.

' W. G. GLOPTON.

LOW GUT SHOE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20, 1907.

attozmuf WILLIAM G. OLOPTON, OF

v UNITED s'rrs BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JACOB C. MOSER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

LOW-CUT SHOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1908.

Application filed September 20. 1907. Serial No. 393,754

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM G. CLoProN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of'Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Low-Cut Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This'invention relates to improvements in low cut shoes and slippers and has particular reference to an improved device within the shoe or slipper for retaining the same on the foot of the wearer.

It is desirable in the manufacture of lowcut shoes and slippers worn by women, to

have them out low and in the efforts of the manufacturer to secure the effects desired, the limit has been in many instances overreached, because of the inability to retain The result is that y the shoes on the feet. such low-cut slippers ride up anddown on the heel and wear the stocki as the result of the friction thus produc d; they spread on the sides when the weight is placedon. the

toes and thus draw the heel portion of the slipper from the foot, and in manyinstances in walking down stairs, the heels by being released because of the spreading'of the sides when the .weight is placed on the toes, have caused the wearer to fall.

One object of the invention is to provide a device that shall be entirely concealed from view when inuse; giveease and comfort to the foot, and which may coact betion between the foot and slipper an tween the slipper and the foot in such manner as to cause the slipper to hug closely to the foot'during such movements of the foot as ordinarily tend to dislodge the slipper or shoe. 1

Another object is to rovide an improved device that will draw t e heel or counter ofthe slipper against the heel of the wearer at such times when the sides tend to spread and the two endsof such strip are secured to the counter.

I am also aware that it has been proposed to provide straps that extend from the heel of an overshoe forward and over the instep ofthe inclosed shoe but in none of the devices within my knowledge are the low shoes provided on the interior with devices that have a construction or an operation like that herein disclosed by me.

-The invention is illustratedin the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1, shows a perspective view of a slipper provided with an improved con-- struction of retaining device. Fig. 2, Illustrates a plan view of the same. Fig. 3,

shows a central longitudinal'sectional view throu h the same. Fig. 4, illustrates a de'. tail 0 the device employed to secure the ends of the elastic band in the slipper, and Fig. 5, shows a ortion of the slipper lining at the point w ere the band is sustaine thereby.

Referring to the drawing the numeral, 1, designates the slipper having the usual opening, 2, at the upper side thereof for the insertion of the foot. At the rear and on the inside of the slipper I provide loops, 3, preferably at diametrically opposite sides of the counter portion, 4, of the slipper. In the present instance these loops, 3, are formed by making parallel and 1 substantially vertical incisions or slits, 5, in the lining, 6, thus forming the loop, 3, from the lining material that remains between the slits or incisions.

Above the sha k or waist portion, 7, and also on the interior of the slipper I provide loops, ,8, at opposite sides and also in the lining by again slitting the latter. At the forward portion of the slipper and beneath the instep, 9, I preferably form parallel spaced-apart horizontal slits or incisions,

10. Thus it will be seen thatpreferably 1 provide three sets of slits in-the lining below the upper edge, 11,. of the slipper and at spaced-apart intervals therein.

-A band or strip, 12, of any suitable material, and it may be'of elasticif desired is provided at its ends with some suitable device for permitting its attachment to the interior of the shoebeneath or on the instep. In the present instance the ends of this band are provided with a flat flexible 'metal'plate.

the loop,

13, having a curved end portion, 14, with a flange, 15, beneath which the end of the band is passed and clenched while said plate is also provided with oppositely-projecting prongs, 16. I may, for the purpose of securmg a better connection between the band and plate, provide stitches or other fastening devices, 17, which extend over the prongs 16.

.In attaching the band or strip to the slipper I first bend. the prongs, 16, at one end so they will enter the horizontal slits, '10, in the lining adjacent the instep. I then feed the free .end of the band or strap freely through through the loop, 3, at the counter, 4. The band is then extended across the inside of the slipper to and freely through the loop, 3, at the opposite side of the counter then forward through the loop, 8, and finally the end is secured to the lining adjacent the in step. It will thus be seen that the band or strip extends along one side of the slipper then across to the opposite side forminga yielding heel-engaging stretch, 18, and then forward along said opposite side.

As the two ends of the band or strip are secured forward any strain toward the rear.

against the heel-engaging stretch, 18, will cause an inward pull on the opposite sides adjacent the shank as the tendency of such pull will be to straighten the band out while the same pull tends to draw theforward ortion of the slipper back over the instep of t e foot.

The effect of strains at either endof the opening is to contract the opening by straightening the band stretches along the opposite sides and in the effort to straighten out the entire opening, 2, of the slipper is contracted about the foot and at such times the slipper is more securely held about-the foot.

It will be understood that the band extends along the opposite inner's'ides' of the shoe and forms a loop atthe heel. end thereof,

and that the area of the openin within the side and end stretches of 'the and is less than the area of the shoe opening soithat when the foot is inserted in the'shoe opening 8, above the shank or Waist thenrear'wardly and in doing so the side stretches graw the sides of the shoe in close against the oot.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is,

low the surrounding edgesof the opening,

wise of the opening ad acent the counter and the shoe and extending forwardly from the counter.

2; A shoe having a band on its inside below the edges of the opening which extend rearwardly along the op osite longitudinal sides of the shoe and sald bandalso extending from one side of the counter to the other and adjacent but spaced from the rear of the shoe and saidband being loosely sustained at the sides of said counter.

3. A shoe having a band on its inside below the edges ofthe opening, said band extending continuously along one inner side of the shoe and crossin inner side adjacent t g from the end of the shoe and then extending along said opposite inner side of the shoe and means for sustaining said band. loosely between its ends.

side thereof extending along the opposite inner side surfaces and across at the heel but band being sustained by said inner side surfaces and forming an opening inside of the" CHARLES. B. MANN, Jr.,

oe in the latter is inserted G. FERDINAND Voe'r.

said band being spaced from the heel end of the shoe and extending in a direct line cross- 4. A shoe having a band wholly on the in .shoe of less area than the shoe opening the endrstretch, 18, of the band must yield I 1. A shoe having a band on its inside lie-- being loosely sustalned at opposite sides of over to the-opposite e counter but spaced spaced from the end of the shoe, and said I

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