US904639A

US904639A - Display-form for shoes.

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Publication number: US904639A
Application number: US42930308A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles F Partridge
Original assignee: EMPIRE LAST WORKS
Current assignee: EMPIRE LAST WORKS
Priority date: 1908-04-27
Filing date: 1908-04-27
Publication date: 1908-11-24
Anticipated expiration: 1925-11-24

Description

C. F. PARTRIDGE.

DISPLAY FORM FOR SHOES.

' APPLICATION FILED APR. 27, 1908.

Patented Nov. 24 1908.

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4 attaining 9 form. 2 is" fitted. Th1s form preferably simforms for shoes and it as for an object to I the engagement of the rear end of the form and being preferably formed UNITED STATES PATENT caries.

CHARLES F. PARTRIDGE, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB TO EMPIRE LAST WORKS, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

DISPLAY-FORM FOR SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 27, 1908. Serial No. 429,303. To ollwhom it may concern: manner the support must be detachably see it known that 1, CHARLES F. )AR- I cured to the form. Timon, of Rochester, 1n the county of Monroe, In the present instance a yielding support and State or New York, have invented cer- I 1s provided in order that the inclined rear tam new and useful Improvements 1n Dlsend of the form will bear with yieldin pres- NO. 904,639. Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

play-Forms for Shoes; and I do hereby desure against the counter portion of th: shoe. clare the following to be afull, clear, and

'llns yielding support may consist of a eizact'descrlption of the same, reference bespring arm 4- having one end free and its ing had to the accompanying drawings, other end bent upwardly and detachably form ng a part of the specification, and to i secured beneath a lip 5 bent from the The reference-numerals marked thereon.- form. The arm bears against the inner sole The present invention relates to display} and supports the form in a ra sed position with the counter preventing the form being forced from the shoe. the human foot above the shoe. A shoe display form constructed in ac- A further object is to construct the form cordance with thisinvention is inexpensive in=such a manner that it may be used either with or without the usual stretching last or filler, andthat it may be quickly fitted to and and permits the use of-an ordinary stretchremoved from the shoe. I ing last without exposing the latter.

To these andotherends the invention coni to manufacture andfsimple to insert and to remove. It. adds-to: thedispla Y of the shoe claim as my inventionb 1. A hollow shoie form simulating the human foot from a point above the toes and open at its bottom to fit-over a shoe last.

' 2. A-hollow shoe form made of thin material, open at its bottom andsimulating the human toot from a point above the toes. v

3. A shoe form simulating the human foot A section with-l from a point above the toes, and a yielding support for holding the form in a raised po- 2 is a perspective View of the-same embodisition in the shoe.

ment, and F igc 3 is a yiew similar to Fig.1 4-. A hollow shoe form simulating the huwith a stretchlng last or filler inserted in the shoe. Referring particularly to the drawings 1, indicates a 0w shoe in which the display novel claims at the en In the drawings,- low shoe partly in ment of my inventio a support detachably secured to the form for hol ing it in a raised position in a shoe.

A shoe form simulating the human foot from a point above the toes'and a yielding support for the form comprising a spring arm secured at one end to the form to bear against the inner sole of a shoe. 6. A hollow shoe form made of thin material, open at its bottom and simulating the ulates that portion of the human foot beginning' at a point below the instep but .above the toes and ending at a point above the instep and below the ankles. 'In order l-lat-i -mav fit over a suitable 1ast3. it may be made hollow, opening on lts under side from a single blank ofsheet metal or other thin material by stamping operations. When used with a ward end of the form and arranged to bear stretching last or filler, its lower'edgefs are against the inner sole of a shoe.

introduced between the u er ed o the- Y m 2 r 1 shoe and the last and it is tlihs helfi UHAS' PARERIDGE' tion, but when itis used without last a suitable support must be provided 'and inorder that the form may Witnesses HAROLD H. 811mm, RUSSELL B. GRIFFITH.