US530080A - Bootjack - Google Patents

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 530,080, dated. December 4, 1894.

Application filed July 6, 1892. Serial N'OHBQIIIZ- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be'it known that I, CHARLES BISANZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Red Lodge, in the county of Park and State of Montana, have invented a new and useful Bootjack, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in bootjacks, and has for its object to provide means for removing and also for replacing a boot or shoe easily and quickly, one apparatus being employed for both purposes.

The construction of my improved jack is fully described hereinafter in connection with the drawings, and the novelty thereof is specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved jack in position to remove a boot or shoe. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the jack in position to replace a shoe or boot.

The jack comprises, essentially, the base plate, A, and the perpendicular plate, B, secured at one edge to said base and provided at its free end with a heel notch, O, and the parallel, lateral pins, D D, attached to one side of said perpendicular plate. The perpendicular plate is attached to the base-plate at about the center of the latter, thus forming upon one side of plate, B, the standard, E, and upon the other side thereof the footrest, F, as shown clearly in Fig. 2.

When the jack is in the position shown in Fig. 1, namely, to remove a boot, the plate, B, is horizontal, being supported by the standard, E, and the lateral pins, D D, the extremities of which are in a plane with the free edge of the standard, which plane is parallel with the plate, B. The heel-notch, C, is located at the free edge of the plate, B, between the pins, D D.

When the jack is in the position shown in Fig. 2, with the base resting flat upon the floor, the perpendicular plate, B, rises vertically therefrom, and the pins, D, D, extend out latorally.

To use the jack'to assist in placing a. boot or shoe upon the foot, said boot, or shoe, is suspended upon the lateral pins, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, by passing the pins through the loops at the front and rear sides of the boot top or upper. Then, placing the unemployed foot upon the rest, F, the foot may be inserted into the boot or shoe readily and quickly and without strain to the operator.

By placing the foot upon the foot-rest, as described, the jack is steadied and held firmly in position while inserting the other foot in the shoe. The jack is adapted to place either shoe by turning it, always, so that the unemployed foot may rest upon the foot-rest, F.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

In a boot-jack, the combination with a baseplate, of a perpendicular plate,B, attached at one end to the base-plate at an intermediate point of the latter, and provided at the opposite end with a heel-notch and parallel perpendicular pins, the portion of the base-plate upon one side of the plate B being equal in projection with said pins, and the portion upon the other side thereof being designed as a foot-rest when the plate B is in its Vertical position, substantially as specified.

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

CHARLES BISANZ.

Witnesses:

A. FREIMAN, J. GRUNDMAN.

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