US357942A - Insole for boots or shoes - Google Patents

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W'ILLIAM H. RUSSELL, OF TRANQUILLITY, NEW JERSEY.

ENSOLE FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 857,942, dated February 15, I887.

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To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1. WILLIAM H. RUssnLL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tranquillity, in the county of Sussex and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Boots or Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a pad for footwearsuch, for example, as boots, shoes, or slippersas fully set forth in the following specification and claims, and illustratedin the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a shoe or gaiter containing my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of an insole. Fig. 3 is a detail view of a heel-pad. Fig. 4. is a detail view of a toe-pad.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents a strip or ridge of elastic niaterial-such, for example, as cork or sol't rubber. The strip or ridge A is formed with orsecured to abase, O, of suitable material-such as leather, soft rubber, or corksaid ridgeA being convex in cross-section and extending across the base in a curved line. The ends of the ridge are joined to a transverse ridge, B, also convex in cross-section and extending across the base O. The base is placed in a boot or shoe so that the heel of the person will rest snugly in the recess formed by the ridges A and B, the latter ridge serving as an elastic or yielding rest for theforward part of theheel. As shown, apad is also placed in the boot or shoe under the ball of the foot, near the toes. This toe-pad comprises a ridge, D, convex in cross-section, and extending in a curved line across a basepiece, 0, similar to the base-piece having the ridges A and B.

The ridge A for the heel-pad is so shaped as to conform to the general outline of the heel, and the ridge D for the toe-pad is so formed as to sit snugly against the forward part of the ball of the foot, near the toes. In general, the ridges have a rounded outline.

A curved ridge, E, also convex in crossseotion,cxtends in a curved line across the base 0 of the curved ridge D, the said ridge E occupying a position directly in rear of the ball of the foot.

The heel-pad and toe-pad may be placed in a boot or shoe after the boot or shoe is made up and finished; or the pad or pads may be placed into a hoot or shoe prior to the insertion of the insole F, so that the insole rests over the pad or pads, as seen in Fig. 1. In case the insole rests over a pad, it is of advantage to cut the insole at one or more places, as seen in Fig. 4 at G, so as to allow the insole to sink down alongside of the ridges. Recesses are thus formed for allowing the heel and ball of the foot to come into firm contact with the ridges. 1

As in walking most of the jar orstrain pro duced is brought to bear on the heel of the foot, itis in general only necessary to employ a heelpad. A toe-pad is, however, an advantage, particularly in the case of diseased or infirm persons.

The use of pads, as above described, deadens the jars or shocks produced in walking. The bases 0 for the ridges may be so formed as to fit snugly into a heel or toe of a boot or shoe.

.Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A heel-pad for boots or shoes, consisting of a base-piece having the curved ridge A, extending across the base-piece, and the transverse ridge B on said base-piece in advance of the curved ridge, substantially as described.

2. A pad for boots or shoes, consisting of a base-piece having the two curved ridges D and E, extending across the base-piece for supporting the front and rear portions of the ball of the foot, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with an insole, F, having the transverse opening G at its heel end, of the heel-pad consisting of a base-piece having a ridge, A, extending across the base piece and entering the opening in the insole, substantially as described.

4. In a boot or shoe, the combination, with the insole F, having the transverse openings G G in its heel and toe portions, of the heel pad consisting of a base-piece having the transverse ridge A, and the tocpad consisting of the base-piece having the two ridges D and E, extending in curved lines across said basepiece, substantially as and for the purpose de scribed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

\VM. H. RUSSELL- [L. 8.] lVitnesses:

W. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

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