US1479421A - Shoe heel - Google Patents

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Jan. l, 1924 1,479,42l

A. POWELL SHOE HEEL Filed 0G12. 5 192C 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Jan. 1, 1924 y 1,479,4-2

A. POWELL SHOE HEEL Filed Oct. 5, 1920 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Zi i:

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.ARTHUR'POWELL 0F COBIB/IDGE,l STOKE-ON-TRENT, ENGLAND.

snor: HEEL.

Application med October 5, 1920. Serial No. 414,844.

To all whom t may cof/wem:

Be` it known that I, ARTHUR POWELL, subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and resident of Cobridge, Stokeon-Trent, in the county of Staord, England, manager, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Ap licable to Shoe Heels, of which the following is a specification."

My invention relates to improvements in' or applicable to the heels of boots, shoes and other footwear and has particular reference to the type of heels having detachable rubber or composition pads, the object being improved means for enabling the rubber or composition pad to be readily connected to the heel proper ofthe boot or other footwear and be transferred or renewed when desired, a further object being means for preventing the displacement of the rubber or composition pad duringv wear.

My invention consists essentially in a rubber or composition pad having a projection, tongue, or raise portion thereon provided with an inclined projecting edge toengage a correspondingly shaped groove, bevelled or undercut edge round an open slot in a metal late fixed on the heel proper of the boot, s oe or other footwear, the said open slotted metal plate having holes or recesses therein to accommodate projections formed on the rubber or composition padto prevent the displacement thereof when in use.

My invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which,

lFig. 1 is an elevation of part of a gentlemans boot having y improved detachableheel padapplied thereto, j

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the heel, shown at Fi 1, removed 'from the boot Without the detac able rubber or composition pad,

Fig.v 3 is a plan of F i 2. Fi 4 is a lan of a lIshaped metal plate whic is fixe to the heel proper of the boot or other footwear and enables the rubber pad to be detachably secured in position and readily removed as desired,

Fig. 5 is asection through line A--B of Fig. 6 is an inverted plan of the detachable rubber or composition pad,

Fier 'Y is an' elevation of sare-e,

q is a section through line C-D of heel,

lFigui/9 is a back view of the heel of a boot -with the detachable rubber or composition Fig. 12 is a Similar View to Fig. 1 but illustrating a part ofa ladys boot having the detachable pad,

Fig. 13 is a back view of Fig. 12,

Fig. 14 is a view of the inside of the vFi 15 is l, an inverted plan of the ladys heel illustrated at Fig. 1,2,

Fig. 16 is a plan of a U shaped metal plate which is attached to the ladys heel to carry the detachable rubber or composition pad,

Fig. 17 is a cross section through line E--F of Fig. 16, and t Fig. 18 is a view of the complete heel as seen from the inside thereof, the sides of the rubber or composition pad being pressed downwards and assuming the position `when the pad is being removed from the U shaped metal plate fixed on the heel proper.

In these figures a is the heel proper and c the upper portion of the boot or other foot wear, these being of the usual well known construction.

Accordin to my said invention I .employ a lU s aped metal plate k (see plan ig. 4) which is secured to the heel a of the boot or other footwear by screws m passing through countersunk holes n. The said plate k is preferably constructed of alumin- -ium for lightness and has a slot d open at its inside m as shown at Fig. 4, the edge of the said slot d being inclined or bevelled so that when in positlon on the boot heel it forms an undercut groove e2 extendin all round the open slot al for the edge f2 o the' projection or raised portion f of the ad to slide in. To further assist in fixing t e detachable rubber pad b and to prevent dislacement thereof during wear, i I employ iioles h2 in the U shaped metal plate k to accommodate projections g (Figs' and 7) formed on the rubber or composition pad b. The said holes h2 form recesses when the plate k is on the boot heel and if desired iii? the arrow Y (Fig. 4) into the open slot d to engage the inclined edge e2 of the U shape metal plate, the projections g on the rubber pad then engaging the holes or recessles if? in the metal plate.

in some cases a projection j on the back of the rubber pad b (shown `dotted at Fig. 6)

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material to strengthen the raised portion or tonxe f.

'l e outer orv tread portion of the rubber or composition pad b is roughened in any suitable way to prevent slipping.`

Rubber or composition pads of various thicknesses ma'y be moulded or shapedto y engage the metal U shaped plate when se- `cured to a ladys high .heel by which means the dheight of the heels may be varied as desire To facilitate easy insertion, the rubber or composition pad b is gripped by the ngers at its two sides (see F 1g. 18) whilst theedge f2 of the tongue f of the pad is sliding into the undercut groove e2 of the U shaped plate, the projections g on the pad taking into the :temeer recesses h2 of theA metal plate immediately the sides of the pad are released., To remove the rubber or composition pad b the sides thereof are pressed until the projec- Vtions g clear their recesses h2 in the plate k when the rubber pad is slid out of the open slot d. This enables the pad to be transerred from one boot to the other during Wear or a new pad to be substituted when member having apertures, the walls of which are inclined iongitudinally of the member for a distance at the rear edges of said apertures and terminate in walls at right angles to the length of the said member, in combination with a complementary pad or rubber lift having raised portions with beveled sides and end, and studs ositioned at the sides of the beveled sides ci) the pad, the said studs havingy inclined ed es conforming generally to the contour of t e walls of the apertures of the first mentioned member and adapted to enter the said apertures.

in testimony whereof i have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR POWELL.

Witnesses:

J. Bnrrrorer,1 d. H. Cornersm

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