US990094A - Boot or shoe heel. - Google Patents

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N. B. ARNOLD.

BOOT 0R SHOE HEEL] APPLICATION rum) NOV. 17, 1910.

Patented Apr. 18, 1911.

WITNESSES A TTURNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NELSON B. ARNOLD, OF NEW YORK, N.

poor on error: HEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 18, 1911.

Application filed Noveniber 17, 1910. Serial No. 592,814.

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The object of the invention is t6 pro-' vide a new and improved boot or shoe heel having a tread partly made of leather and partly of rubber to prevent the wearer ,of the boot or shoe from' slipping, to relieve the jar incident to walking, and to permit convenient removal of the rubber portion of the tread and location of the same at that part of the heel usually worn out first. For the purpose mentioned use is made of a rubber plate approximately in the form of a heel lift and having oppositely raised portions spaced equidistantly from the median line of the plate to permit'of cutting the plate alon the median line for forming, rubber trea s for the rear outer heel portions of boots or shoes. p p

A practical" embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the boot or shoe heel as applied; Fig. 2 is a rear end elevation of the same, parts being shown in section; Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view of a double rubber plate to be cut in two in a lengthwise direction for forming the rubber plates of a pair of shoes or boots; Fig. 4'is a a ing the worn down perspective view of the single'rubber plate and Fig. 5 is an edge view of the double rubber p1ate.-

It is well known that boot and shoe heels are usually worn down at the rear outer portion of the heel, and in order to provide a soft and removable tread at that rear outer portion to take up the jar and jolt incident to walking, and to permit'of readily remov- I part, use is made of a heel tread, presently to be described in detail.

The heel shown in Figs. 1 and 2'consists of a number of layers or lifts, of which the top lift forms the tread, and consists'of a leather top lift A and a rubber plate B, while the remaining lifts C, C, C are preferably formed of leather. The top lift A has a cut-out portion, the wall or out A of each extending diagonally in a rearward direction from the outer side of the heel to a point at the rear of the heel a distance from the middle, as plainly indicated in Fig. 1. The rubber plate B is shaped to fit the cutout portion of the top lift A, and for this purpose the rubber plate has a straight inner wall B abutting against the wall A,

and a flange B extending between the lift A and the next following one C, as shown in Fig. 2. The outer side of the rubber plate B is rounded to correspond to the rear outer face of the heel, as will be readily understood by reference to the drawings. Nails or pegs D are driven through the top lift A and the flange B into the remaining lifts G, C, C of the boot or shoe heel, so that the top lift is fastened in place on the heel and at the same time the lift A and the rubber plate B are held abutting at their adjacent walls or edges. Cement or the like is used to fasten the rubber plate B in position on the lifts Aand C.

It is understood that by the arrangement described, the rubber plate B occupies the rear outer portion of the tread of the heel, and as this tread portion is worn down first, it is evident that the rubber plate B is worn instead of the leather parts of the heel, and this rubber. plate can be readily renewed when worn out by a new one, it only being necessary to remove the bottom lift A by withdrawing the nails or pegs D and plac- -in g a new rubber plate B in position by the use of the nails or pegs D.

In practice, a double rubber plate, such as shown in Fig. 3, is manufactured, to permit the shoemaker or other person to readily cut this plate in two parts along the median line :r--m, so as to provide two single rubber plates for the heels of a pair of boots or shoes, it being understood that the single plates out form the double plate are right and left for the heels of the right and left shoes or boots. The double rubber plate preferably consists of a layer of canvas, on which are arranged the raised tread portions of rubber, located equidistant from the median line w-zv, so that when the double plate is out along the line a2w, the cut portions of the canvas layer projecting from the raised portions form the nailing flanges B The canvas is thinly coated with rubber at the under side and the portions forming the nailing flanges. In practice, the double rubber plates are made of a few dlfg emcee i ferent sizes 'to conform to the sizes of the forming rubber treads for the rear outer v bottom layer along the median line for heels on which they are intended to be used. heelportions of a pair of bootsvor Shoes; each.

Having thus described my invention, I rubber itread'having a nailing flange project? 15 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters ing laterally from the raised tread portion.

Patent: In testimony whereof I have signed my 'As an article of manufacture, a rubber mame to this specification in the presence of plate approximately in the form of a heel two subscribing Witnesses. 1ift,1- and having a thin bottom layer and raised rubber tread ortions, the latter being ON A f p spaced equidistant om the median line of the bottom layer to permit of cutting the Witnesses:

Tmo. Gr. Hos'rER, PHILIP D. RonLHAUs.

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