US1513762A - Rubber-heel reenforcement - Google Patents

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Nov. 4 1924. 1,513,762'

A. J. QUIST HUBBER HEEL REZN FORCEMENT Filed Aug 19 1921 Patented Nov. 4, 1924.

UNITED STATES ANDREW J. QUIST, OF MOUNT JEWET'I, PENNSYLVANLA.

RUBBER-HEEL REENFORCEMENT.

Application filed August 19, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW J. QUIsT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount J ewett, in the county of McKean and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Rubber-Heel Reenforcement, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is a rubber heel, and one object of the invention is to give stitlness to a curved heel, so that it will form a tight joint about its periphery, when nailed down, thereby eliminating the use of cement.

Another object of the invention is to provide novel means for reinforcing the heel.

A further object of the invention is to provide novel means for preventing the seizurling nails from being pulled through the lee It is within the rovince of the disclosure to improve general y and to enhance the utility of devices of that type towhich the invention appertains.

Vith the above and other objects in vciw,

' which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combina tion and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, within the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows in plan, a heel constructed in accordance'with the invention; Figure 2 is :1 side elevation; Figure 3 is a rear end elevation; Figure 4 is a section on the line 44 of Figure 1; and Figure 5 is a section on the line 55 of Figure 1.

The numeral 1 marks a heel, made of rubber, the outer surface of the heel being convexed lon itudinally of the heel, as indicated at 2, and sing convexed transversely of the Serial No. 493,632.

heel as indicated at 3. The inner surface of the heel is eoncaved longitudinally of the heel as shown at -l and is concaved transversely of the heel as shown at 5.

An insert or reenforcement 6, preferably made of canvas, is embedded in the heel 1. 'ashers 7 may be superposed on the insert or reenforcement 6, the heel having openings 8 alined with the openings of the washers and adapted to receive securing elements.

The reenforcement serves to stifi'en the heel so that, when the heel is nailed down, the heel will make a tight joint, about the entire periphery, without the use of cement. The Washers 7 serve to prevent the nails from being pulled through the heel, the nails, of course, being inserted into the openings 8, and the heads of the nails engaging the washers 7.

hat is claimed is:

A rubber heel having an outer surface which is convexed longitudinally of the heel and transversely of the heel, the inner surface of the heel being concaved longitudinally of the heel and transversel of the heel a flexible textile insert comp etely housed within the heel and conforming to the convexity and the concavity of the heel, the insert conforming in peripheral outline to the peripheral outline of the heel, the insert being ocated approximatel midway between the outer surface of the ice] and the inner surface of the heel; and washers mounted on the insert, the washers being com letely housed within the heel, and the heel having openings leading to the washers.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, It have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

A. L. Enos'moM E. CoL UIs'r.

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