US3104013A - Shoe display devices - Google Patents

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Sept. 17, 1963 H. M. FlSK SHOE DISPLAY DEVICES Filed June 2, 1961 IN V EN TOR.

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United States Patent 3,104,013 SHOE DISPLAY DEVICES Hal M. Fisk, 3764 Shatter Ave, Oakland, Calif. Filed June 2, 1961, Ser. No. 114,537 1 Claim. (Cl. 211-37) This invention relates to improvements in devices for attractively displaying shoes in store windows, shoe shops and in the shoe departments of stores, and provides an ornamental, shoe aligning combination, with which a shoe merely needs be hooked from beneath and outwandly and released, the shoe automatically gaining its own most attractive display position.

It is well known that many types of display devices for shoes have been and are being used, usually being supported by the heel on a rack or slanting shelf, which permits showing shoes only in one position unless the display device is turned about its vertical My invention can be used to display both, a front and a side view of a pair of shoes, and any desired number of difierent shoes can be displayed on a single display device, since it can be produced in various forms, such as integral with a standard on which shoes can be displayed on one to four sides, and on a peg board on which any number of shoes can be displayed, thus providing a display device.

The objects and advantages of the invention are as follows:

First, to provide a display device on which a shoe need merely be hooked with the shoe automatically aligning land positioning itself in the most artfully displayed position.

Second, to provide a display device as outlined by which shoes may be displayed on any or all sides of a standard or the like, to display both, front and side views of the shoes if desired.

Third, to provide a display device which is adaptable for use in connection with peg board, through the medium of which a great many diiTere-nt shoes can be displayed in a comparatively small space.

In describing the invention reference will be had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is :a tront elevation of a standard with the invention shown as applied to three sides thereof.

'FIG. 2 illustrates a modification of the invention as applied to a standard.

FIG. 3 illustrates a modification in which both types of supports are shown as applied to a peg board, and shown full size.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged View of the self-locking peg for mounting on a peg board.

FIG. 5 is a section taken on line 55 of FIG. 4.

FIG. 6 is an end view of FIG. 4.

The invention includes a vertical support and tan inverted hook having a base attachable to the support, with the hook having a fulcrum provided on its inner end which is spaced from the support, and on which fulcrum the heel portion of a shoe is supportable, with the bottom of the recess forming the hook providing a stop for the top of the heel portion or counter, and with the latter point so locatedlas to cause the heel to rest against the standard or other support, one type of hook being indicated at 10, and another at 11, the type shown at 12 being merely broader and more ornamental, and consisting of a plate-like'mem ber having a base coopenative with the vertical support and having a recess formed outwardly and upwardly from the lower end of the base, with the upper end of the base attach-able to the vertical support, and the portion below the recess terminating in spaced relation to the support to form a hook to receive the back end of a shoe in the recess, with the bottom of the recess providing a stop for the top edge of the back end of the shoe, and the inner end of the hook providing a fulcrurn, all of which depend on two specific points, the fulcrum 13 on the type 10, 14 on the type 11, and 15 on type 12, and each having a stop, indicated at 1 6 on type 10, 17 on type 11 and 18 on type 12, with the distance :from the support 19, 20 or 21 to the point 16, 17 or 18, measured at right angles to the support, being approximately one and a half inches for womens pumps, and which also applies to mens Oxfords, while for childrens shoes, the distance would be reduced because of the lesser height of the counter portion.

With the inverted hooks so arranged, the top of the counter portion will rest against the points 16, -17 or 18, the inside of the counter resting on the fulcrum 13, 14 or 15, with the hack of the shoe and bottom of the heel resting against the support as indicated respectively at 22 and 23.

As illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2, the invention is formed integral with the standard, while in FIG. 3 the invention can be :applied to standards provided with suitable passages, or to any perforated support, such as peg board 21, which also can be formed of ornamental material, such as plastic, glass, or panel board.

FIGS. 3, 4, 5 land 6 illustrate the invention in detail as applicable to any type of support having suitable passages for the anchoring shafts, the shaft having opposed front and rear eccentrics 24 land 25, with intervening cylindrical portion 26-, the front eccentric being in a dependent position to provide a front fulcrum, and the rear eccentric 25 being in the opposite position and having an upwardly projecting engaging and locking element 27 to engage the back wall of the support, with the maximum diameter through the rear eccentric and the engaging element being such as to permit passage through the passage 28 in the support, the eccentrics being smaller in diameter than the passage.

Thus the shaft can be inserted through the passage when tilted upwardly, and when released will lock in position through engagement of the engaging element with the back or" the support, with the load being applied on the eccentric 24 coupled with reaction through the eccentric 25.

'1 claim: In a shoe display device including a vertical support, shoe supporting means comprising a plate-like member having a base for attachment to the support, and having a recess formed diagonally upward and outward from the lower end of the base, with the portion below the recess terminating in spaced relation to the support, to form an inverted hook terminating in a fulcrum, with the lzgck end of a shoe insertable in said recess and rwi the inner end of the recess providing a stop for the top of the back end of the shoe, with the shoe supported by said fulcrum, with the heel portion of the shoe resting against the vertical support the support having a back, and having a passage formed therethrough, means for attaching the shoe supporting means to the suppont, comprising a shaft projecting rearw ardly from the upper end of the base and having front and rear opposed eccentrics with a maximum diameter through the eccentrics to provide for passage through the passage, with the tront eccentric in the dependent position, and the rear eccentric having an upward projection to engage the back of the supp crt with 3 r 4 said rear eccentric and upward projection having a providing for installation and removal of shoe suprrnaximum diameter to pass through the passage when porting means at will. F Suppomng means is tilted upwardly and References Cited in the file of this patent wrt the shoe supporting means supported by the front ec- 5 UNETED STATES PATENTS centric coupled with reaction through the rear eccen- 386,850 Sanford July 31, 1888 tric when \a shoe is mounted in the device, thus 2,117,630 Sapeer May 17, 1938

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