Shoe holder adapters for stiff platform

Adapters for mating the shoe receiving stilt platform of a utility stilt with the shoe of the user, the adapters including a frontal member adapted to receive and hold the frontal area of a user's shoe therein and a heel member adapted to receive and hold the heel area of the user's shoe therein when the frontal area of the user's shoe is placed within the frontal member, the frontal member including a frontal base having means extending from one lateral end of the frontal base to the other lateral end thereof and disposed in spaced relation above said base member to define a frontal shoe receiving opening into which the user will place the frontal area of the shoe, and a heel member including a heel base and at least two lateral heel plates extending upwardly from the lateral edges of said heel base and being angled with respect to one another in the vertical direction with the front ends thereof spaced from one another a greater distance than the rear ends and adapted to receive and hold the heel area of the user's shoe therein;

• the frontal member having means for adjustably mounting said frontal member longitudinally of a stilt platform and said heel member having means for adjustably mounting said heel member longitudinally of said stilt platform wherein the spacing between said frontal member and said heel member may be adjusted, whereby on such adjustment together with the means extending in spaced relation above and between said one end of said frontal base to the other said end, said adapters may be fixedly adjusted onto a shoe receiving platform whereby any size shoe to which said adapters have been properly adjusted can be stepped into said adapters and held to the stilt platform and released therefrom only on sufficient upward and rearward pressure being exerted to said shoe to free it from said adjusted adapters.