Walter J Stevens

US Patent:

D2931613, Dec 15, 1987

Filed:

Jun 24, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/748174

Inventors:

Walter T. Stevens - Moorestown NJ

US Classification:

D 2317

US Patent:

46254366, Dec 2, 1986

Filed:

Jun 24, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/748173

Inventors:

Walter T. Stevens - Moorestown NJ

International Classification:

A43B 512

US Classification:

36113

Abstract:

A clogging tapping device for attachment on the heel and sole of shoes to hammer out a lively rhythm while square dancing is provided including a base plate member with a sharp turned-up periphery edge and a plurality of holes through the base plate which allows nails to be hammered through to fix the plate to the shoe, a rounded tapping plate member generally a toe sole shape or a heel shape with an attachment device of at least two rivets to loosely attach the tapping plate to allow it to cant and move to strike the base plate and a plurality of holes through the tapping plate, one each aligned over the holes in the base plate but in this case, the hole being of a size to allow the head of the nail to be force fitted through each hole, where the rivets are rounded and set in depressions of the tapping plate to avoid scarring the floors.