US1392823A - Cushion-heel for shoes and the like - Google Patents

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H; FAEGEN cu smou HEEL FOR sue 0 THE LIKE.

' APPLICATION FILEDJULY 6, I918.

1,392,823, Patented 001;. 4, 921.

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CUSHION-HEEL FOR SHOES AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letterslatent.

Patented Oct. a, 1921.

Application filed July 6, 1918. Serial No. 243,655.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, T'IARRY FAncnNsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cushion-Heels for Shoes and the like, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has to do with an improved heel for shoes and the like, and it has particular reference to the armoring or protection of said heel for the purpose of enabling it to better resist wear. The features of the present invention are very well adapted for use with rubber and other resilient heels.

One of the objects of the invention is to protect or armor a rubber or other resilient heel by vulcanizing a wear-resisting plate into the body of the material of-wnich the heel is made, so that it will be very firmly and permanently joined thereto. Another object is to so form and construct the reinforcing or armoring member that the same will not only be very well adapted for resisting wear, but also will be readily applicable to the present use and will very perfectly vulcanize into the body of the heel.

Other objects and uses of the invention will appear from a detailed description of the same which consists in the features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 shows a bottom plan view of a rubber heel having applied thereto the armoring plate or member of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one form of the reinforcing or armoring memb r, the same being made of two pieces riveted together; and

Fig. lis a perspective View of a somewhat modified form of armoring or protecting device, the same being made of a single piece of metal.

In the dr wing the numeral 5 designates the body of the heel. The same is made of rubber and may be one of a number of well known types. It is illustrated as being provided with a series of lugs or antislipping projections on its lower surface. Ordinarily the nail holes 7 will be passed up through the project-ions 6. The rear corner 8 will be the corner ordinarily subjected to maximum wear. Within this corner I embed an armoring plate 9 relatively close to the edge and having its lower surface lying just at or very close to the lower surface of the heel. The armoring device 9 is conveniently made of crescent or horse shoe shape, such as illustrated in the figures, so that it will conform more or less to the contour of that portion of the heel into which it is set. Ordinarily the armoringdevice will be made of steel or iron, or some other metal sufficiently hard to materially resist wear as compared to the material of the heel itself.

This armoring device is to be built or vulcanized into the body of the heel itself so as to virtually constitute a portion of such heel. In order to assist the union or connection of the armoring device to the rubber I of the heel, T have so formed said armoring device that this vulcanizing union or conncction may be most perfectly accomplished. For this purpose, I provide a lug or projection 10 on the upper surface of the armoring device, the same preferably facing in toward the concave side of the are thereof. In the construction shown in Fig. 3, this lug- Or projection 10 is a separate block secured or attached to the armoring device by a rivet 11; whereas in the construction shown in Fig. 4 these two parts are integral.

In use, the scuffing or wearing force com ing upon the arinoring device will ordinarily tend to deflect it toward the back edge of the heel. This would tend to upset or twist the armoring device in the body of the rubber, but by providing the lug or projection 10 this twisting or upsetting action is largely resist-ed and overcome.

I claim:

As a newarticle of manufacture, a reinforcement block for resilient heels comprising an arcuate member and a single lug or tongue rigid therewitn, and located centrally thereof and extending in the direction of the concave face of said arcuate member, said lug or tongue lying outside of the space embraced between the planes of the upper and lower surfaces of the arcuate member and being of less width than the length of the arcuate member and serving to provide abrupt shoulders at its sides at the point of junction with the arcuate member, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

- [LR-RY FAEGENSON.

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