US942965A - Shoe-fitting stool. - Google Patents

Description

H. H. KRAMER.

SHOE'FITTING STOOL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5, 1909.

Patented Dec. 14, 1909.

I q Vihwona UNTD STATES PATEN HENRY H. KRAMER, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN E. PEYTON, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

SHOE-FITTING STOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14, 1909.

Application filed May 5, 1909. Serial No. 493,991.

To all whom "it may concern:

:PEO it known that I, HENRY H. KRAMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Teri-e llaute, in the county of Vigo and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Shoe-Fitting Stool, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to shoe fitting stools used in shoe stores in fitting shoes to custumors, and has for an object to provide a device of this kind that will adjust itself to the position of the customers foot when placed thereon, and can be locked in this position for the purpose of lacing or buttoning a shoe.

Another object is to provide a device of this character which provides an easy and natural support for the customers foot thereby removing the wrinkles in the upper of a shoe which take place in the use of the usual form of stationary foot rest.

Still another object is to provide a device of this character which will permit the customor to give the foot such movements as result when walking without removing the foot from the foot rest, thereby obtaining the same feeling of the shoe on the foot as when walking.

With these advantages and other objects in view, which will be shown in the accom panying specification and set forth in the claims, my invention embraces the structure illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the assembled device. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the stool. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the foot rest. Fig. 4 is a cross section of the same.

In a more detailed description of my invention, in which like characters of reference designate similar parts in the views shown, 1 designates the seat of a stool having the ends 2 terminating in the bearing portions 3 constituting legs. Secured to the opposite ends 2 of the stool are "the ends of the vertical sides 4 and inclined bottom 5 of a receptacle forming a compartment between the seat 1 and legs 3 of the stool, in which the shoe fitter may keep such accessories as button hook, shoe horn, brush, powdered chalk, etc, the inclined bottom of this compartment causing the articles to slide to the center of the compartment where they will be concealed from view and easy to find when wanted.

Suitably secured to one end 2 of the stool is a laterally projecting arm 6 terminating in a beveled end 7. The arm is substantially rectangular in contour and is preferably made of metal; however, the construction is not limited to this as any other material will do equally as well. Pivoted to the top surface of this arm 6 is the adj ustable foot rest 8 terminating at its lower end in a lateral projection 9 constituting a heel rest which permits the heel of the shoe to be placed against the under side of the projection whereby to permit the customer to slip the foot easily into the shoe.

Secured longitudinally to the under side of the foot rest is a perforated disk constituting a ratchet 10, the purpose of which will presently appear and an angular iron 11, said disk and angle iron having alined openings to receive the pivot pin 12 and being adapted to slidingly fit similarly apertured plates 13 secured to opposite sides of the projecting arm 6 constituting bearings for the pivot pin. Seated on the pivot pin is a coil spring 14 exerting a pressure on the foot.- rest in a direction away from the arm (5, the purpose of this spring being to permit the adjustment of the foot rest to any desired angle, and also to permit the customer to give the foot such movements as result when walking without removing the foot from the foot rest.

For holding the foot rest at any desired angle a locking member is provided to engage the perforated disk 10 which will now be described: The disk 10 is substantially a sector in facial contour and has formed adjacent its periphery a plurality of radial rectangular openings 15 adapted to engage the pawl 16 of the locking member. The pawl 16 is rectangular in contour and is beveled on its upper face adjacent the end in order that when held in engagement in the radial openings 15 of the ratchet the foot rest may easily be lowered. The lower face of the pawl bears on the lower edges of the said openings and prevents motion in the opposite direction until the pawl is re leased from engagementwith the ratchet. The pawl 16 is seated in a sleeve 17, dis posed transversely to the projecting arm 6 and terminating in lateral securing portions 18. The sleeve is secured at its inner end to the top of the projecting arm 6 and at its outer end to the flange of an angle iron 19, suitably secured to one side of the projecting arm. The shank 20 of the pawl projects through the outer end of this sleeve 17 and terminates in an apertured end adapted to pivotally receive a latch 21. This latch is provided with oppositely arranged bearing cars 22 adapted to pivotally receive and slidingly fit the end of the shank 20 of the pawl, said ears terminating in bearing portions 23, adapted to bear against the end of the sleeve 17 when the latch is in operative or horizontal position and release the pawl 20 from engagement with the ratchet 10. For yieldingly holding the pawl in engagement with the ratchet a coil spring 24% is seated on the shank 20 of the pawl and held compressed between the inner end face of the pawl and the end of the sleeve 17 thereby exerting a pressure on the pawl in the direction of the ratchet and holding said pawl in engagement with the ratchet when in normal position.

As may readily be seen from the above description, the foot rest being pivoted and working in conjunction with a ratchet and pawl locking device may be placed in a vertical, or horizontal, or any intermediate angular position to conform to the desired position of the customers foot and held at that position for the purpose of lacing or buttoning the shoe. The ratchet may be thrown out of gear at the desire of the shoe fitter by placing the latch in a horizontal position thereby permitting the foot rest to adjust itself to the position of the customers foot when placed thereon and support the foot in a natural position.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the construction and operation of my invention may easily be understood without a more extended description, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion and various details of construction may be made without sacrificing any of the advantages or departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. A shoe fitting stool having vertical ends constituting legs, a supporting arm projecting from one of said ends and terminating in a beveled end constituting a stop, a spring actuated foot rest pivoted on said arm near said stop, and means for yieldingly holding said foot rest in operative position.

2. A shoe fitting stool having a supporting arm adapted to secure a foot rest, a spring actuated foot rest pivotally secured adjacent one end of said arm, an apertured disk constituting a ratchet having terminal means for securing said foot rest, and a yieldingly held pawl adapted to engage said ratchet whereby to hold said foot rest in operative position.

8. A shoe fitting stool having a supporting arm provided with oppositely disposed plates adapted to pivotally secure .a foot rest, a yielding foot rest having an oppositely positioned disk and angle iron adapted to pivotally secure said foot rest to and slidingly fit said plates, said disk having radial perforations constituting a ratchet, and a spring actuated pawl adapted to engage said ratchet whereby to hold said foot rest in operative position.

4-. A shoe fitting stool having a supporting arm provided with lateral journals adapted to receive a pivot pin, a pivot pin seated in said journals, a spring seatedon said pivot pin and exerting a pressure away from said supporting arm, a foot rest pivotally secured to said supporting arm by said pivot pin and normally held inclined by said spring, a ratchet combined with said foot rest, and a pawl operating with said ratchet for yieldingly holding said foot rest in operative position,

5. A shoe fitting stool having a supporting arm, an adjustable foot rest pivoted on said arm, said foot rest having a ratchet pivoted on and adapted to slidingly fit said arm, a spring actuated pawl adapted to be normally held in engagement with said ratchet, and a latch connected with said pawl whereby to release said pawl from engagement with said ratchet.

6. A shoe fitting stool having a foot rest supported thereon and normally held in inclined position, a ratchet combined with said foot rest and pivotally secured to said arm, a pawl having a beveled end adapted to engage said ratchet, a sleeve assembled with said arm having terminal means for securing said pawl, and a latch combined with said pawl, said latch having bearing portions adapted to engage the end of said sleeve whereby to remove the pawl from engagement with said ratchet.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY H. KRAMER. Witnesses:

A. L. MILLER, G. M. CRANE.

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