US1942486A - Shoe and retaining means therefor - Google Patents

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Jam. 9, 1934. C MlLLER 1,942,486

SHOE AND RETAINING BEANS THEREFOR Filed April 25, 1932 Patented Jan. 9, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 4 Claims.

My invention relates to shoes and, more particularly, to low shoes which have means for retaining the shoe on the wearers foot.

The main object of the invention is the provision of a low shoe having improved retaining means therefor.

Another object of the invention is to provide a shoe with adjustable instep straps.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a shoe having retaining means so constructed and arranged as to permit rapid adjustment thereof between shoe-retaining and shoe-releasing positions.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a low shoe having separable straps attached at both ends to the shoe constructed and arranged to permit the wearer to put the shoe on and take it off without detaching the straps at either of the ends thereof.

Another object is to provide a low shoe with instep straps which extend across the shoe opening laterally thereof and which are permanently attached at both ends, yet are adjustable to permit the shoe to be put on and taken off the wearers foot.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a low shoe having separable straps permanently attached at both ends to the shoe and provided with a fastener which is quickly adjustable to fasten said straps together in shoeretaining position and to permit separation of said straps in shoe-releasing position.

A yet further object of the invention is generally to improve low shoes of the type described.

These and other objects of the invention which might hereinafter appear are realized in the constructions which will be described presently with reference to the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a side view of a shoe embodying my invention, showing the fastener in shoe-retaining position;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the shoe with the fastener in shoe releasing position;

Figs. 3 and 4 show modifications in side elevation; and

Fig. 5 is a section on line 5-5 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing in detail, a low shoe of any suitable construction having the usual upper 10 is provided with straps 11 and 12 which extend from opposite sides of the shoe counter laterally of the opening therein at the instep portion of the shoe and also longitudinally of the opening to or near the toe or upper vamp portion of the shoe. As here shown, said straps 11 and 12 are integral with the upper of the shoe line thereof. Both ends of each strap are thus fixed to the shoe. Said straps 11 and 12 have laterally extending instep portions llaand 1201., respectively, which together constitute an instep strap, and longitudinally extending forward portions 11b and 12b which are parallel and adjacent to each other, as shown in Fig. 1, when the straps are in shoe-retaining position and which are separated from each other in diverging relation from their points of attachment 13 and 14, when the straps are in shoe-releasing position, as shown in Fig. 2. The instep portions 11a and 12a of the straps 11 and 12, respectively, extend in opposite directions substantially at right angles to the forward portions 11b and 12b.

A releasable fastener here shown as a buckle 15 is mounted on said straps for slidable engagement therewith whereby to fasten said straps together as shown in Fig. 1 and to permit them to be separated as shown in Fig. 2. Said buckle comprises front and rear plates 15a and 15b hinged together at the upper edges thereof by a pintel 16 which is secured to the front plate 15a and has the ends thereof received in apertures in ears 17 which are provided on the rear plate 15a. Thus the buckle plates 15a and 15b can be pivoted away from each other to facilitate sliding the buckle on the straps toward both ends of the latter and can be pivoted toward each other to tightly engage the straps in shoe-retaining position. Although the pivoted construction of the buckle 15 is desirable, it can be dispensed with as the engagement thereof with the wearer's foot is ordinarily suflicient to retain the buckle in desired shoe-retaining position.

The construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 has many advantages which are readily apparent, and I consider said construction the preferred embodiment of the invention. However, the invention can be embodied in other ways. As illustrative of other embodiments of the inventive idea herein disclosed, two other constructions are shown and described. As shown in Fig. 3 the straps 11 and 12 are provided with a plurality of eyelets 18 extending longitudinally on the forward portions of the straps and a lace 19 by which said straps can be releasably fastened together. In Fig. 4 there is shown a fastener 20 of the hookless or Zipper type provided with the slide 21 for securing and releasing the straps.

2. A low shoe having a counter provided with.

narrow extensions at the front upper edge portion thereof, said extensions comprising straps extending laterally of the shoe openingand also longitudinally thereof to the front upper yamp portion of the shoe, the forward ends of said straps being secured adjacent each other to said vamp portion, and means for releasably fastening to gether the forward portions of said straps for the full length thereof. a I

3. A low shoe having straps fixed to the opposite sides of the shoe counter, each of said straps having a lateral portion and a longitudinal portion, one of said lateral portions being longer than the other, said longitudinal portions being disposed in adjacent parallel relation and fixed to the front of the shoe in offset relation to the 1ongitudinal median line thereof, and releasable ineans'positively engaging said straps for fastening them together.

4. A low shoe provided with straps fixed to the shoe upper, said straps having lateral portions and longitudinal parallel portions, said parallel portionshaving their forward ends secured adjacent each other to the front upper vamp portion of the shoe i n-offset relation to the longitudinal median line thereof, and releasable means positively engaging said longitudinal portions for fastening said straps together.

CHARLES MILLER.

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