US1439873A - Ice creeper for shoes - Google Patents

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Dec. 26, 1922.

J. DICARLO.

ICE CREEPER FOR suozs. FILED APR 22 1920 6 QMVE'NTOR Z Patented net. as, 1922. o l iifl dll 7 i rye ty e we We t r e a 1; 1 '-r we: ,7: a e- E). in Tish a. l Alias i i iihlit r a r can JOSEPH DIGARLO, EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS.

ICE CEEEPER FOR SHOES.

Application filed April 22, 1920. Serial No. 375,767.

To allwhomz'tma z concern: upon the ends 9 of the straps 10 and 11;

Be it known that I, JosnrH Dronn io, a these ears are then riveted to the straps by' citizen of-the United States residing in the rivets 12' which pierce through the ears and city of Edwardsville and State of Illinois, the ends of the straps. It will be noted that 5 have invented new and useful Improvements two of the ears are located at the toe of the in Ice Creepers for Shoes, of which the folplate .1, while two others are oppositely polowing is a specification, reference being sitioned at a medial point along the sides of had to the accompanying drawings. i the plate 1, and finally two are oppositely This invention pertains toan attachment positioned at the rear end ofthe plate 1.

10 for shoes, in the nature of an ice creeper or Thestrap 10 is formed in the shape of a anti-slip device. Maltese cross, the rearwardly extending The primary object is to provide a simple, tongue 13 thereof being 2 adapted to engage eflicient and durable attachment for the a buckle 1 1 which is mounted mediately shoes of pedestrians, which will enable one upon the strap 11. The strap 11 is likewise 15 to walk upon the ice or any slippery surface composed of two parts joined together by a without danger of falling. buckle 15. Thus the toe portion may be ad- Another object is to provide the device in justed and secured to the shoe. a form readily attachable to and detachable I likewise provide a heel plate 16, simifrom the shoe, v v larly formed from a single piece of sheet i 20 A further object is to provide such a demetal, as shown in Figure 6 and likewise vice stamped from a single piece of sheet perforated with a plurality of holes 1 "metal-and bent and punctured to form for punched downwardly so as to afford ragged use. y edges 5 to prevent the slipping of the heel.

In the drawing i This heelplate is cut/and shaped and con- 5 Figure 1 is a sideelevation of the device sists of a bottom plate 17 and an upstanding necessary to equip one shoe, same consisting side strip 18 adapted to frictionally engage of a heel plate and a toe, plate. the heel 19 of the shoe 3. Theside strip has Figure 2 is a top plan view. integral connection with the bottom plate Figure 3 is a frontal elevation. l 17 at the rear point 20, is then bent for- 30 Figure dis a rear elevation wardly past theintegral side lugs 21, and

Figure 5 is .a detail showing the method the integral front lugs 22, and the ends 23 of attaching the straps to the toe plate. of the side strip are bent and pinched in Figure 6 is a plan'view of theheel and back of the lugs 22. The side strip 18 is L toe elements spread out in sheet form. then further locked by bending the top ends 5 In carrying out this invention, I provide 245 of the lugs 21 and 22 down and outa toe plate 1 formed from a single piece of wardly and pinching these ends against the sheet metal cut to form as shown in Figure side strip.

6. This plate is cut to conform to the for- The operation of the apparatus is obvious. ward portion or ball 2 of the shoe 3. The Various sizes of the heel and toe plates 4 body of the plate '1 is perforated with av pluwould of course be made to meet demand rality of holes 4: which are punched down- While I have herein described a certain wardly so that the ragged edges. 5 of the 'specii'ic method of constructing and assem holes project downwardly as means for enbling the elements of my invention, it is ungaging the slipper-surface. The outer edges derstood same may be varied in minor de- 45 ofthe plate 1 are provided in oppositely distails, not departing from the spirit of my posed relation with a plurality of ears 6. invention as defined in the appended claim. These ears are formed integrally with the What I claim to be new and patentable is: plate 1, being connected .tothe plate 1 at the An ice creeper for shoes, formed of a points 7, while the free ends 8 of the ears single piece of sheet metal,'and including a 50 are adapted to be bent around and closed heel plate, side strips having integral conneetion With the heel plate at a central rear over the inwardly turned ends 0'5 the side point, side lugs and frontal lugs; the said strips. side strips being bent up and extended X around the sides of the heel plate and bent JOSEPH DILARLU partly across the front thereof; the side lugs: Witnesses: being bent up and down over the side strips: A. K. DOHLE,

and the frontal lugs being bent up and down 0. J. MUELLER

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