US1737679A - Shoe - Google Patents

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Dec. 3, 1929. L. PIGNANELL] 1,737,679

SHOE

Filed Jun 14. 1928 L myE To u/ 1 f? none/A BY .7 .7

ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 3, 1929 UNITED STATES LUIGI PIGNANELLI, F TACOMA, WASHINGTON SHOE Application filed June 14, 1928. Serial No. 285,386.

This invention relates to improvements in womens shoes.

The object of my improvement is to produce a shoe wherein the rear portion is constructed to furnish thereat rigidity sufficient to so support the arch and maintain the shoe in proper shape and the front portion somewhat after the manner of a turned shoe to afford flexibility to yield to the movements of the wearers foot when walking.

Another object is to provide a shoe of relatively light weight, neat appearance, strong, durable and inexpensive to manufacture.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description. The invention consists, generally stated, in the production of a shoe wherein the known McKay method is followed with regard to its rear portion-that is with the lower edge of the upper interposed between the insole and the outsole and secured thereto by tacks and sewed seams, while the fore portion of the shoe is made without any insole, but utilizes a ligament or ligaments adhesively con nccted to the inturncd edge of the upper at opposite sides of the shoe and which with such edge are sewed to the outsole.

The invention further consists in the novel construction, adaptation and combination of the parts as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing,

*igure 1 is a side elevation of a shoe embodying the present invention, a portion of the shoe being broken away, and shown partly in longitudinal vertical section; Fig. 2 is an underside plan view of Fig. 1 with parts broken away to disclose the internal arrangement of the shoe parts; and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on line 33 of Fig. 2.

In said drawing the reference numeral 5 represents the outsole of the shoe, said sole extending the entire length of the shoe, or from the plane of the front surface of the heel 6 to the front end of the shoe.

Adjacent its edge, at the sides and at the toe. said sole is provided in its underside with a thread receiving channel 7.

The shoe upper may consist of a single piece of leather, or several pieces as shown, of which 8 denotes the vamp and 9 the quarters secured together and having inturned lower edges, denoted by 8 and 9 respectively.

Said vamp andquarters are provided respectively with linings 10 of cloth or the like, which linings are formed to provide inturned lower edges such as10 All of the above described parts are or may be similar to what have been heretofore used in the art. According to the present invention, a short insole 12 is used, the same extending from the rear end of the shoe, where it serves as a heel seat, and terminates in a front edge 13 located at or about the ball of a foot.

In lasting, the vamp and associated lining edges at each side of the shoe and about the toe are inserted between two layers 14 and 15 of fabric or an equivalent, of approximately the shape of the fore part of the usual insole, and are secured to both layers by a suitable adhesive so as to constitute with the vamp a continuous wrapping extending circuitously about the fore part of the last.

The insole 12 is next positioned upon the last below the inturned edges 9 of the quarters, after which the outsole is applied and secured to said insole by means of lasting tacks 16.

Thereupon the last is removed from the shoe which is sewed upon a machine, of known construction, to produce a seam of thread stitches which, as at 17 in the fore part of the shoe, unite the sole to both the vamp edge 8 and the overlying edges 14 and 15 of the respective fabric ligaments above and below the same; and, as at 17 in the rear partof the shoe, along the opposite edges of the insole the stitches unite the outsole, the insole, the intervening edges 9 of the quarters, and also to the rear portion of the vamp and the edges thereof which extend beyond the front edge 13 of the insole.

The heel is then secured by glue and nails in a well known manner to the insole. A sock lining, not shown, is used as customary, within the shoe to protect the wearers foot from becoming chafed.

The above described shoe is of light weight, strong and with a relatively rigid rear part and a flexible fore part.

Where a greater thickness of material is desired under the foot'i'n the fore part of the shoe an ancillary insole of leather, indicated by dotted line 18, having the shape of the fore portion of the usual insole, may -'be inserted within the shoe above the upper ligament 1% and in front of the insole 12, as shown.

The ancillary insole, however, is not sewed nor otherwise secured to the outside, nor is it fastened to the upper and therefore does not detract from the flexibility of the fore part of the shoe, but serves supplementary to the refered to sock lining to cover the seam 17.

What I claim, is,-

1. In a shoe, the combination of an outsole provided with a channel in its underside, an upper having its lower edge extending inwardly above said outsole, fabric located above and below said lower edge for coupling the same at opposite sides of the shoe and cooperating with the upper to encircle the foot at the fore part of the shoe, and an insole located above said inturned edge at the rear part of the shoe, the front end of said insole being located at or about the ball of the foot, said outsole being sewed by a seam extending upwardly from said channel throughout the length of the shoe to the inturned edge of the upper, and also to the insole and to said fabric at the rear and fore parts respectively of the shoe.

2. In a shoe, an upper having an inturned lower edge disposed above the outsole and sewed thereto by a seam of thread, an insole of less length than that of the outsole and located entirely in the rear part of the shoe, said insole being secured to the outsole by said seam, and a ligament secured. by an adhesive material to the under surface of the inturned edge of the upper for coupling the portions thereof at opposite sides of the shoe and in the fore part thereof in front of the forward end of said insole.

3. In a shoe, the combination of an insole for the rear portion of the shoe, an outsole, an upper and a lining therefor, two layers of fabric provided in the fore part of the shoe in front of said insole, the upper end the lining thereof having its lower edge turned inwardly between said layers and secured thereto by an adhesive substance, said oinsole being tacks andsecured to the upper by a line of stitches extending about the outer edge of the outsoleu V Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 28th day of May,1928.

LUIGI PIGNANELLI;

secured to the insole by lasting

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