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US 4,376,486 AGranted
Shoe last rack
OwnerPaul J. Arcadi, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A shoe lasts rack comprises a support member to which are fixed outwardly projecting loops of different sizes to accommodate shoe lasts of different sizes, and associated with each loop is a pin that is outwardly projecting from the supporting member and on which the shoe last rests when placed in the rack.
Claims5
A rack for holding shoe repair lasts used by a shoe repairman, said shoe repair lasts having each a socket and said rack comprising:
- (a) a planar supporting member adapted for attachment to a shoe repairman's work bench in a substantially vertical position;
- (b) a plurality of loop members each extending outwardly and substantially horizontally from a surface of said planar supporting member and affixed to said planar supporting member;
- (c) a plurality of pins affixed to and projecting from said surface of the planar supporting member, each one of said pins being disposed at a downwardly directed slant angle below a corresponding one of said loop members in such a location that said socket in said shoe repair last engages over the pin and the loop member associated therewith peripherally engages said shoe repair last, whereby said last is supported by said co-operating pin and loop member in a substantially vertical position on said rack and in engagement with said surface.
A rack for vertically supporting shoe repairman's lasts each comprising a socket disposed in a portion of said last, said rack consisting of:
- (a) a planar supporting surface;
- (b) means holding said planar supporting surface in a substantially vertical position;
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- (c) at least one row of a plurality of last engaging and supporting members mounted to and projecting from said planar supporting surface;
- wherein each of said last engaging and supporting members mounted to said planar vertical supporting surface consists of an elongated member and a substantially horizontally disposed U-shaped member associated with and disposed above said elongated member in such a way that a last is held in a vertical position in engagement with said planar supporting surface when placed through said U-shaped member with said elongated member introduced in said socket.
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