US1340911A - Wooden french shoe-heel - Google Patents

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J. L. PREO AND I. HENNE.

WOODEN FRENCH SHOE HEEL. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 19, 1919.

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UNITED TATES PATENT QFFICE.

JOHN L. PRIEO AND ISABELLE HENNE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WOODEN rnmvon SHOE-HEEL.

Application filed September 19, 1919. Serial No. 324,870.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JorrN L. Pnno and ISABELLF. HE'NNE, citizens of the United States, residing in the city and State of New York, have jointly invented a new and useful Improvement in VVooden French Shoe-Heels, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to wooden French shoe heels. and to the top-lifts thereof. The top-lift is customarily secured to the bottom of the heel by a number of nails disposed outwardly from the center, and in the application of the lift or when removing a worn lift and replacing it with a new one, the nails are likely to chip and break the edges of the constricted heel. The object of the present invention is to overcome this difiiculty by simple and practical means in no way affecting the appearance of the heel. In accordance with this plan the lift is attached by means of an in terior screw taking into a screw-socketed keeper, which is inserted into the heel through a hole opening from the front and concealed by the finishing layer of the breast, the attachment involving only-preformed holes and avoiding injury to the delicate spread edges of the bottom.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof:

Figure 1 is a side view of lower part being in section; V

Fig. 2 is a sectional view, taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; I

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view of another form of the invention; and

Fig. 4; is a fragmentary sectional view of still another form.

Describing first Figs. 1 and 2, the wooden French heel body 1 is of usual form, 2

a heel, the

is the leather top-lift, and 3 is the leather covering of the front of the heel. A short central opening 4; is bored upward from the bottom of the heel, (that is to say, downward from the top, considering'the inverted working condition), and this is met by an opening 5 bored inward from the front, through the breast.

Into the openingo there is inserted a keeper 6, consisting of a metal block, plug, bar or' the like, having a tapped socket 7 formed therein, to register with the opening 4:. A headed screw 8 is inserted upthe heel. The stem 10 is hollow or socketed fat the bottomQand the socket is internally threaded for engagement by a screw 8 ward through an interior hole in the top- 5 lift and through the opening 4, and screwed into the socket of the keeper '6, whereby it tightly clampsthe top-lift without danger of injuring the wooden edges, and in such manner that the lift can be readily removed and substituted by a new one as often as may be desired. The opening 5 being covered by the finishing layer 3, the

appearanceof the heel is not impaired.

7 Fig. 8 illustrates the fact that there may be a plurality of openings r in the bottom of the heel and a corresponding number of screws 8 taking into a plurality of screw-threaded sockets in a keeper 6. In this case, also, the holes are preformed and together with the fastening elements are located away from the edges.

In the form illustrated in Fig. 4, a diagonal bored hole '9 extends from the front face of the heel downward and rearward through the bottom, at or near the center. This hole receives the stem 10 of a keeper 6 at the iupper end of which is a thin head" 11 formed to fit flatly against the face of which is inserted diagonally upward through a hole in the top-lift. The head 11 is concealed by the finishing layer 3, without bulging, and holds the keeper against displacement.

What is claimed as new is:

1. The combination of a high wooden shoe heel having an opening extending inward from its front face, a keeper inserted into said opening and having a threaded socket, a top-lift, and a screw for securing the top lift inserted upward into ongagement with the socket of thekeeper.

2. The combination with a high wooden shoe heel having an opening extending upward from its bottom and an intersecting opening extending inward from the front of the heel in angular relation to the first opening, and a top-lift, of a keeper inserted into the second opening and having a threaded socket, and a screw for fastening the top lift extending upward into the first opening and engaged with the socket

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