US247787A - Heel-sti ffener for boots and shoes - Google Patents

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(Nomodel.) I y J. M. WATSON.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEREMIAH M. WATSON, OF SHARON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEEL-STIFFENER FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,787', dated October 4, 1881.

Application iiled May 3, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEREMIAH M WATSON, of Sharon, of the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Heel Stiffenings for Boots or Shoes; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, ot' which- Figure l is an external eleva-tion, Fig. 2 an internal View, Fig. 3 alongitudinal section, and Fig. 4 a transverse section, of a boot or shoe heel counter provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in theclaim hereinafter presented.

In carrying out my said improvement I combine with a boot or shoe counter made of leather or leatherboard a metallictlexile or elastic re-eni'orce or stiftening-plate, capable of conzo forming, without wrinkling, with the counter, to the shape of the last while the shoe or boot containing such counter is lasted or being lasted, the object of the re-enforce being to prevent the counter, while the boot or shoe may be in wear, from yielding so as to cause what is termed ruiming down at the'heelf7 which is particularly apt to follow with counters of leather or leath er-board when wet or water-soaked.

The re-enforce or yielding metallic plate B, which I combine with a boot or shoe counter, A, is notched or provided with a range of teeth, ad or da', both at top and bottom. As shown in Fig. 2, the apex of each angular space between any two next adjacent of the teeth of such range is opposite the middle of the base of a tooth ot' the fellow range of teeth, each tooth being triangularin shape. This arrangement renders the plate stronger and less liable 4o to break than would be the case were the apices (No model.)

ot' the spaces between the teeth of one range directly opposite those ofthe teeth ofthe other range. The re-entorce so made of thin metallic plate is laid atwise on the inner side of the counter and lengthwise thereof, and is connected to such counter by bending at a right angle or thereabout, near its apex, each tooth of the upper range, and inserting through the counter thepart so bent, and upsetting or clinching it down upon the counter, such being` with respect to each tooth, as shown iuFigAt. Without the two series of teeth arranged very nearly together, as shown, the re-ent'orce will not readily bend'laterally and longitudinally with the counter and take the proper or requisite form without wrinkling during the process otlasting a shoe or boot having such a counter; but with the two ranges ot notches or teeth the necessary ilexures or bendings ot' the re-enforce, both longitudinally and laterally of it, follow without danger of it becoming ridged, wrinkled, or broken.

I am aware that it is not new to make a counter entirely of metal, nor is it new to x upon a counter, at its lower part, a metallic plate. OonsequentlyI make no cla-im to such in the abstract', but

What I claim as my invention is as follows:

As an improved article of manufacture, a heel-stiIenin g, substantially as described, cousist-ing of the counter of leather or leatherboard, and of the tlexile or elastic metallic plate or re-entorce, notched or having teeth at its opposite edges, and arranged and combined with the said counter essentially as set forth. 75

JEREMIAH M. WATSON.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT.

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