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US 4,610,100 AGranted
Shoe with replaceable heel
OwnerClifford A. Rhodesinventor
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Abstract
The shoe has a permanently affixed heel plate attached to the bottom of the heel support portion of the shoe. This heel plate contains a mortise having a decreasing transverse width from the front to the rear of the heel plate. A replaceable heel having a flat surface on one side and a dovetail on the reverse surface corresponding in shape to the opening in the mortise is slid into the mortise to be firmly seat by a friction fit on the heel plate.
Claims10
A shoe having a heel comprising
- (a) a heel plate permanently affixed to the bottom of a heel support portion of the shoe;
- (b) the heel plate conforming to the outer contour of the shoe with a rear edge of the heel plate substantially contiguous with the rear edge of the shoe and having at least one mortise for receiving a corresponding tenon projecting from one surface of a replaceable heel, the mortise extending from a front edge of the heel plate in a decreasing transverse width towards the rear edge of the heel plate;
- (c) the replaceable heel having a substantially flat first surface and at least one tenon projection on the upper reverse surface corresponding in shape to a space in the mortise;
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- (d) the replaceable heel being insertable into the heel plate mortise at the front edge of the heel plate to engage the mortise and then by force in a rearwardly longitudinal direction seating the tenon portion of the replaceable heel into the corresponding space in the mortise.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.