US613360A - Rubber safety cushion-heel for boots or shoes - Google Patents

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No. 68,360. Patented Nov. I, I898. J. W. CROSS.

RUBBER SAFETY CUSHION HEEL FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

(Application filed Feb. 8, 1898.)

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JAMES W. CROSS, OF FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

RUBB ER SAFETY CUSHION-HEEL FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,360, dated November 1, 1898.

Application filed February 8,1898. Serial No. 669,572. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. Cnoss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fall River, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusettshave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rubber Safety Cushion-Heels for Boots or Shoes; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in safety rubber cushion-heels for boots and shoes; and the object is to provide a simple, inexpensive, as well as efficient and durable, device for this purpose.

To this end the invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The accompanying drawings show my invention in the best form now known to me; but many changes in the details might be made within the skill of a good mechanic without departing from the spirit of my invention as set forth in the claims at the end of this specification.

The same reference characters in dioate the same parts in the several figures. v

Figure l is a perspective view of my improved heel. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is another form of the heel-body.

1 denotes the body of the heel, which is formed of rubber, and 2 represents a reticulated or foraminous metal plate about which the rubber portion is cast, thereby giving the proper strengthand rigidity to the heel without interfering with its elasticity or cushioning properties. This heel-body 1 is formed with a segmental shoulder 3, which forms an annular wall about the recess 4, and, as shown in Fig. 1, this recess may be open at its rear end or closed, as shown in Fig. 3, and said wall or shoulder may-be plain or milled, as shown in the different views.

5 5 denote countersunk screw-orifices in the forward portion of the heel-body, which also extend through the perforated metal respond to the form of the wall or shoulder 3 in the heel-body, and the outer face of said disk is preferably concave or cup-shaped, as shown, to create a certain amount of suction to insure a firm and safe footing for the heel on stone or concrete pavements. Its opposite face 9 may be radially corrugated or plane to conform to the corresponding face of the plate 2 with which it comes in contact when the parts are assembled.

l0 denotes an axial countersunk orifice ex= tending through the compound disk 7 S to receive the retaining-screw 12, by means of which the said disk is removably secured to the heel proper, so that when badly worn it may be replaced by a new one.

While I have shown the inner face of the .heel 1 where it comes in contact with the shoe as being plane, I wish it understood that in practice I mold this face concave or, in fact, any shape to conform to the different styles of boots and shoes to which it is to be affixed. Neither do I wish to confine myself to the circular disk 7, as it may be made elliptical or oval or any other suitable shape to conform to the size and shape of the narrow or French heels in common use. It will also be understood that the recessed heel-body 1 may be formed of leather or any suitable imitation thereof as well as rubber.

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

1. A new article of manufacture comprising the heel 1 and perforated plate 2, the clastic disk 7 and the inclosed perforated metallic disk 8, and means for removably securing both disks 7 and S to said heel 1, substantially as shown and described.

2. A new article of manufacture comprising the heel 1, formed in the recess 4, the my hand in presence of two subscribing wit- (fzomposite disk 7 8 formed with the concave nesses.

ace, and means for adj ustably securing said composite concaved-face disk within the re- JAMES CROSS 5 cess in said heel, substantially as shown and Witnesses:

described. CHARLES L. BAKER,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set ERNEST L. GILOHREST.

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