Abstract: Herein disclosed is a retractable wiper device which comprises: a first crank connected for forward and backward rotations to the reduction output shaft of a motor; and a second crank rotatably supported on the first crank such that it is kept in association at a predetermined bent angle with the first crank, while the first crank is being rotated forward, and in general association with the first crank while the first crank is being rotated backward. When in the forward rotation of the first crank, a stopper is always pushed to keep its engagement with the first crank thereby maintaining the aforementioned predetermined bent angle by two overlapped cams which are associated with each other at a predetermined play angle.

Abstract: A windshield wiper assembly for use with a driven wiper arm for cleaning a windshield comprises a wiper blade arm assembly adapted to be mounted to the driven wiper arm and including an elongated support frame, an elongated blade carrier pivotally mounted to the support frame, and first and second blades mounted to the blade carrier. Means are provided for pivoting the blade carrier between a first position in which the first blade is positioned for contacting the windshield and the second blade is positioned to be spaced from the windshield and a second position in which the first blade is positioned to be spaced from the windshield and the second blade is positioned for contacting the windshield. By making the blades of different compositions, different cleaning tasks can be effectively accomplished, as for example removing ice or insects. Alternatively, a wiper blade comprises two sections made of different materials.

Abstract: An anti-lift deflector for a windscreen wiper includes a hooking member for mounting the deflector onto a wiper or wiper arm and an aerodynamic blade attached to the hooking member and having a substantially flat first zone extending rearwardly from a leading edge of the blade followed by a second zone which is inclined relative to the first zone and which terminates at a trailing edge of the blade. During use of the deflector, the first zone is slightly inclined relative to the surface to be wiped and the second zone is inclined relative to the surface to be wiped at an angle greater than the first zone. This creates a surface effect giving a relatively large pressure decrease below the deflector, thus forcing the wiper blade into contact with the surface to be wiped.

Abstract: A generally U-shaped connector, having two branches, for fastening together a windshield wiper arm and a windshield wiper blade, has a latching means cooperating with a recess formed in the wiper arm. The connector also includes gripping means for unlocking the arm from the blade. At least one of the branches of the connector body includes at least two resiliently deformable tongues, which are separated from each other by gaps. One of these tongues carries the latching means, while the other tongues, working as a pair, carry the gripping means.

Abstract: An upright vacuum cleaner which includes a floor nozzle portion having a rotary brush incorporated in it, a dust collecting portion incorporated with an electric blower tiltably provided on the floor nozzle portion, a cord winding device mounted at a rear face side of the dust collecting portion, moving rollers rotatably mounted at opposite ends of one main shaft, and a cover member for covering the cord winding device from the rear face side, with the main shaft of the rollers being held between the dust collecting portion and the cover member.

Abstract: A vacuum system having a closed air flow loop for cleaning rugs and floor or other surfaces. There is a vacuum source having a suction side and a controlled air flow pressure side (exhaust side). A head assembly is adapted to ride on the rug or floor or other surface to be cleaned. At least one rotatable brush is positioned within the head assembly. The suction side of the vacuum source communicates with the head assembly to provide suction within the head assembly for picking up dirt or other materials. The air exhaust side of the vacuum source communicates with the head assembly. A turbine motor is positioned so that the air exhaust from the vacuum source impinges on and drives the turbine motor. The brush and the turbine motor are interconnected whereby the turbine motor drives the brush. The means interconnecting is at a right angle to the axis of rotation of the brush.

Abstract: A tool handle comprised of a hollow, transparent handle body defining a chamber therein inserted with a plug, the handle body having a plurality of raised stripes longitudinally disposed around the outer wall surface thereof for positive grip, and a plurality of retaining notches internally disposed around a top opening thereof, the plug comprising an elongated rod vertically extending downwards from a spherical head and inserted through the top opening into the chamber, the elongated rod having a bottom hole for holding the tool bit inserted into a bottom hole on the handle body, a plurality of projecting strips respectively engaged in the retaining notches, and a peripheral surface for marking advertising matters or attaching an advertising label for showing through the transparent handle body, the spherical head being stopped above the top opening and having a peripheral wall surface disposed flush with a peripheral wall surface of the handle body for comfortable grip.

Abstract: An adjustable baby cart handrail positioning device including an arched handrail pivotably connected between two supports by two connecting devices. Each connecting device includes a connecting member connected between a circular holder on either support and a circular block on either end of the arched handrail through respective toothed joints, a socket received in an outer hole on the circular block, a first spring retained between the connecting member and the circular holder, a second spring retained between the circular block and the socket, and a screw rod and locknut set to secure the connecting member, the first and second springs and the socket in place. Pressing the socket causes the connecting member to disengage from the circular block permitting the handrail to be rotated on the supports for adjusting its angular position.

Abstract: A fiber opening and cleaning machine includes an opening roll provided with inclined beater elements. Such beater elements have a wave shaped design and are considerably less in diameter than the relatively larger diameter beater rods customarily used in such machines. The advantage of the wave shaped beater elements lies in the grasping and spiral conveying of the fiber flocks fed into the machine.

Abstract: A bundling tie for bundling a plurality of elongated members such as wires and cable is presented. The bundling tie is easily detachable by hand and reusable. The bundling tie comprises a flexible strap member which is secured to an anchor member (e.g., cable, wire, tube, etc.) by inserting one end of the strap through a slit in the strap, thereby circumferentially engaging the strap to the anchor. The strap is then wrapped around a bundle of additional elongated members and secured by a hook and loop (VELCRO) attachment.

Abstract: A two-part fastening clip for fastening a piece of longitudinal extending molding to a panel. The clip includes a bottom part having means for anchoring the bottom part in a hole in the panel and a top part having means for securing the molding to it. The bottom part has an upwardly projecting connection pin of rectangular cross-section and a pair of side pieces projecting laterally outward from two opposite sides of the upper end of the pin. Downwardly facing seat surfaces that extend in a direction perpendicular to the pin and in the longitudinal direction of the molding are provided on the lower sides of the side pieces and two outwardly and downwardly slanting slide surfaces are provided on the other two sides of the upper end of the pin.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for securing a tarp in which a planar clip having an elongate opening is placed on one side of the tarp. The opening has a wide end and a narrow end. A first portion of the opening has substantially straight edges which taper towards one another. The wide end is formed in the first portion. A second portion of the opening has substantially straight edges which are substantially parallel to one another. A button having a base, a neck and a head engages the clip with a tarp therebetween thereby securing the clip to the tarp. An elastic cord is connected to a hook at one end thereof which is connected to a structural member. The other end of the elastic cord is stretched and connected to the clip at a selected location on the cord thereby securing the tarp.

Abstract: A jewelry clasp is provided featuring a safety catch for securing a cover after that cover is moved into a closed position on the base. The safety catch is mounted for swinging movement between the base and cover from a released position into a latched position wherein the free end of the safety catch releasably keeps the cover in its closed position.

Abstract: A snap closure device, in particular for jewellery, costume jewellery trinkets and the like, comprising a body with a hook part open on one side and a closing member hinged onto the body. The closing member has a closure part for closing the hook, a part for resiliently engaging on the body and an operating part, and it is movable between an open position, in which the hook part is open towards the outside, and a snap closed position, in which the closing member engages the body and closes the hook.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for forming a through bore or recess in a turbine blade, for a lacing wire hole for example, includes a machine capable of approaching the area to be machined in a first direction during which an initial machining operation may take place and them moving in a second direction completing the machining operation. Support means are provided to ensure the blade is held firmly. The method and apparatus permit of accurate machining of blades when they are in an array of blades still secured to the rotor.

Abstract: A complex machine tool has a single frame having a chip collecting space at a center portion thereof, first and second spindle stocks on the frame, relatively free to move and drive in a Z axis direction and holding the chip collecting space therebetween, workpiece spindles on the spindle stocks free to rotate and drive and facing each other, and tool rests. The tool rests have turrets and can assume various kinds of movement. Complicated and varied types of machining can be performed combining the rotation control of the workpiece spindles and the spindle stocks.

Abstract: The present invention provides a complex machine tool wherein the punching center is coincides with the cutting work position so that the range of movement of a workpiece is not subjected to any restriction even during the workpiece cutting work in the same manner as in the workpiece punching work. The composite machine tool comprises a plasma torch (16) mounted on the machine tool body near the working position and arranged to be movable freely such that it can be withdrawn from the working position when a workpiece (5) is subjected to die-punching work, and proceeded to the working position when the workpiece is subjected to cutting work. Futher, the machine tool comprises protecting means (18, 19) for protecting the lower turret (3) and other members mounted adjacent thereto from the dross and heat developed by plasma arc during the workpiece cutting work by the plasma torch.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an automated machine for making electrical leads and for automatically identifying and removing leads having defective terminal attachments. A crimp quality monitor device is used to monitor machine performance and to identify defective terminal attachments as they are made. When such a defective attachment is identified, the monitor generates a signal which causes a gate mechanism to route the defective lead to a particular tray. When a lead having a high quality terminal attachment is detected, the lead is routed to another tray so that the non-defective leads are not commingled with the defective leads.

Abstract: A machine for destroying, disinfecting and collecting in safe, removable, disposable containers hypodermic needles and syringes containing medical contaminants. The device includes a compact housing which is easily portable, a shear housing containing removable and serviceable shear blades and a shear member. A safety container which includes a clear visual top is used and collects the destroyed needles and syringes in a container that can be subsequently readily disposed of. A low RPM high torque motor is used to greatly reduce the noise of operation of the device. A front observation window in the housing permits the viewer to determine how full the safety container is visually through the clear top of the safety container.

Abstract: The present invention includes a lead sorting module in an automated lead making machine for segregating leads having defective terminations from the other leads. The module includes a lead deflecting door that is moved by an actuator to cause the leads having defective terminations to fall into one tray and the other leads to fall into another tray. The machine includes a crimp quality monitor which determines whether or not a termination is defective and then effects a corresponding control over the actuator.

Abstract: A hollow column is provided for a tool turret with a housing that is to be connected to a machine tool or the like, with a drive motor, and with a tool disc which has receptacles for tools, the tool disc being mounted rotatably relative to the housing and being lockable in selectable angular positions. The hollow column is nonmoveable relative to the housing. A shaft which extends in the longitudinal direction of the column, and which can be driven by the drive motor is disposed within the hollow column. That tool, which is inserted into the receptacle that is situated in the working position, can be driven by the shaft. At least one line is provided in the column so as to be part of a system provided for the transfer of energy, lubricant, coolant, pressure or the like.

Abstract: A method of assembly of a foam seat cushion and rigid pan permitting high production assembly techniques. The cushion cover includes a flap which is tucked under a retainer. The retainer includes a plurality of lances which pierce the cover flap and enter holes formed in the pan to preliminarily position the tensioned cover flap prior to the installation of permanent fasteners connecting the retainer to the pan.

Abstract: A hand tool for the removal of rivet shanks from riveted structures provides for single handed operation by one person performing such rivet shank removal. The tool is similar to extended nose or "needle nose" pliers, with the exception of the forward ends of the upper and lower jaws. The upper jaw is provided with a downwardly facing punch at its forward end, while the lower jaw has a cooperating indentation with extensions on either side of the indentation. After removing the manufactured rivet heads and overlying sheet material, the indentation in the forward lower jaw of the tool is placed around the shop head portion of the remaining rivet and the tip of the punch of the upper jaw is placed atop the top of the remaining rivet shank. Pressure is then applied to the handles, as in using a pair of pliers, and the remaining rivet shank is pressed from the rivet hole and outward between the extensions of the lower jaw indentation.

Abstract: An axially centering apparatus for fusion-bonding optical fibers comprising a pair of guides having long grooves on the upper surfaces thereof for engaging optical fibers, a pair of fulcra formed in parallel with the long grooves of the guides for supporting the guides, a pair of centering stands having substrates for supporting the fulcra, a pair of centering mechanisms having load imparting mechanism sections having telescopic output ends, load imparting mechanism sections, and transmitting mechanism sections for the adjusting mechanism sections so that the long grooves of said centering stands are disposed adjacent to each other to align in a rectilinear line, said centering mechanisms are associated with the centering stands to contact the output ends of the centering mechanisms with the guides of the centering stands, wherein said one centering stand satisfies the conditions that the fulcrum 3A and the long groove 4A are relatively positioned so that the crossing angle .alpha.

Abstract: A method is provided of forming a sleeve to tube joint of enhanced resistance to pressure loading and which can be employed with relatively large diameter pipes, in which the sleeve and tube are crimped to each other by diametrically opposite crimps extending concavely inwardly of the outer surface of the sleeve and convexly inwardly of the inner surface of the tube, the respective crimps being isolated from each other by struts extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve and tube, provision being made for equalization of the stresses produced in a seal ring contained in an annular flange of the sleeve during compressive reduction of the annular flange, provision also being made for the axial movement of the sleeve relative to the tube during compressive reduction of the flange.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for attaching a surgical needle having a generally cylindrical end portin defining an elongated aperture having a generally circular cross-section and a suture having a generally elongated end portion of generally circular cross-section corresponding in dimension to the elongated aperture of the needle. The apparatus includes a pair of dies, each having a generally arcuate surface portion having irregularities including concave portions such that when the cylindrical end portion of the suture is positioned within the aperture of the needle and the dies are positioned about the generally cylindrical end portion of the needle with the surface portions facing the outer surface thereof, the application of inward force to the dies causes the dies to impact the needle and produces inward crimping of the needle so as to attach the needle to the suture.

Abstract: A composite brush to shunt attachment wherein a volatile component of a composite but mostly metallic brush, used for current collection purposes, does not upon welding or brazing, adversely affect the formation of the interfacial bond with a conductive shunt which carries the current from the zone of the brush. The brush to shunt attachment for a brush material of copper-graphite composite and a shunt of copper, or substituting silver for copper as an alternative, is made through a hot isostatic pressing (HIP). The HIP process includes applying high pressure and temperature simultaneously at the brush to shunt interface, after it has been isolated or canned in a metal casing in which the air adjacent to the interface has been evacuated and the interfacial area has been sealed before the application of pressure and temperature.

Abstract: An insulated panel for a domestic or household appliance is formed by a process in which two sheets of plastic material are extruded from a co-extrusion die and moved directly into a die thermoforming fixture. When the open die members are closed, the edges of the two sheets are sealed together to form a hollow panel and the walls of the panel are forced outwardly to conform to the shape of the die members. After the hollow panel is trimmed it is moved to a foam machine preferably while still contained in the thermoforming fixture so that foam insulation is inserted into the hollow panel while the walls of the panel are supported by the die members so that these walls are not deformed while the foam insulation is added.

Abstract: Device that makes possible the holding and/or automatic assembly of parts includes tool-carrying arms (40), fluid power circuits that actuate these tools, and control circuits for these power circuits. A support unit (10) has arms (40) mechanically fastened thereto. A fluid distributor (30) is mounted on the support unit, a part of the power and control circuits of the arms being incorporated into the support unit, the other part being extended in the arms.

Abstract: A tube puller tool assembly for extracting tubes from a tubesheet of heat exchangers. The tool assembly includes an actuator cylinder unit attached to a guide cylinder, having a piston rod attached to a tapered mandrel for expanding multiple fingers of a collet member firmly against the tube inner surface. The collet is initially urged into contact with the tapered mandrel surface by a compression spring provided between the piston rod and collet member, except forward movement of the collet relative to the mandel is limited by a retainer ring in the guide cylinder. In use, the tool assembly is first pressurized to place the collet and mandrel members in an extended forward position, then the tool is inserted into a tube to be pulled, with a guide cylinder being abuted against the tubesheet. The tool is then pressurized to retract the piston and mandrel and thereby radially expand the collet fingers firmly into the tube.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a printed wiring board on a cubically molded substrate enables formation of high-precision printed circuits fully compatible with the complex configuration of the cubic substrate. The manufacturing method includes initially forming a conductive layer on the surface of a cubic substrate followed by etching the conductive layer. The method includes the steps of forming electrodeposited resist on the conductive layer, exposing the electrodeposited resist to parallel light beams through a planar photomask, and etching the conductive layer to complete the formation of the printed circuit.

Abstract: A fuel rail for a side- or bottom- fed injector wherein the rail contains conductors, and the injectors are connected to the conductors simultaneously with the insertion of the injectors into through-holes in the rail. The fuel rail is made by extruding material to a desired transverse shape, cutting the material and machinery transverse through holes in the extruded material.

Abstract: A pump drip collector is easily provided to a pump housing of a particular shape. A cylindrical drum of L-shaped cross section, incapable of serving as a drip collector by itself, is adapted to be freely pressed over a cylindrical protrusion from a flat face of the pump housing. When a circular end edge of the drum engages the face, it is spun welded in place. Thereafter, the drum and pump face together provide a complete drip collector. The drum may also pilot on the outside of the protrusion to maintain concentricity during the spinning process.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically attaching end plates to the ends of a railroad tie. A web of material automatically is fed to a plate assembly position. A portion of the web of material is formed into an end plate at the plate assembly position. The formed end plate is removed from the web of material. The formed end plate then automatically is connected to one end of the railroad tie. The system also senses the size of the end of the railroad tie and the end plate formed at the plate assembly position automatically is sized to be about the same size as the sensed size of the end of the railroad tie.

Abstract: A shaving apparatus for flat and contour shaving makes it possible to distribute in the form of a think film on the skin just prior to shaving a cosmetic or pharmaceutical preparation. It comprises an applicator part, a feed part and a blade part, the blade part and the applicator part together forming the razor head (1), while the feed part forms the razor handle (4). The preparation is applied by means of a roll (5) or a spatula-like part, on which rotates a thin film of the preparation supply shielded from the outside. The feed device comprises a preparartion reservoir (6) and a miniature pump (5), which is arranged in such a way that it can easily be operated during application by the fingers guiding the razor and consequently during shaving preparation is fed into the applicator. The blade part comprises at least one blade functionally cooperating with the applicator part.

Abstract: The present invention is a scissor assembly adapted to be in an open or closed position and to be manipulated by a user to cut a selected material. The scissors assembly includes a first scissors member and a second scissors member pivotally connect and biased into the open position. The first scissor member has a handle and a blade. The first handle is formed as an enlarged and elongated shaft sized to fit in a user's palm and be gripped by the fingers, the second scissor member likewise, has a handle and a blade. The second handle has a portion which defines a lever sized to be manipulated by the thumb when the first handle portion is fit in the user's palm and gripped by the user's fingers. In the preferred embodiment, the first handle is formed as a releasable container and the second handle is foreshortened relative to the first handle. In the alternative embodiments, the first handle is formed of implements such as a screw-driver, flashlight or pliers.

Abstract: A blade-carrier tool of the type forming a handle for holding in the hand, and provided at its front end with a removable blade which is held in position by a clamping mechanism including two jaws between which the blade may be engaged. The jaws of the clamping mechanism are connected to respective levers serving to control the clamping mechanism. The levers are suitable for occupying an open first position in which the jaws are moved apart from each other, and a closed second position which is spontaneously locked under the action of declutchable locking means, in which position the jaws bear against respective opposite sides of the blade and hold it securely in position.

Abstract: An archery bow sight is disclosed having a tubular member within which are plate members disposed in intersecting planes. Sight components are of transparent plastic having a fluorescent dye dispersed therein. The tubular member and plate member surface areas absorb light waves and conduct the waves to their respective edges to provide a brilliant reticle for use in low light conditions without reliance on artificial light sources. The mounting plate receives a base of the sight in an adjustable manner. Ultraviolet light waves are converted by the sight into visible light waves.

Abstract: An automobile wheel alignment method and apparatus are provided for duplicating the pre-determined readings for the parameters of camber, caster, and toe, and allowing for the precise adjustment of such parameters at a location remote from the conventional alignment machine. First, second, and third indicators are provided, along with a gauge element, for duplicating the readings for camber, caster, and toe. Also provided are a housing for containing the indicators, and mounting means for removably securing the housing to a hub assembly after the wheel has been removed.

Abstract: A pressure transducer elevation gauge for determining the precise elevation of a physiologic pressure transducer in a heart catheter laboratory for determining hemodynamics, specifically relating to the heart. The pressure transducer elevation gauge is positioned adjacent to a reclined patient and an indicator is vertically adjusted on an upright rod or stand to the precise level, or mid-axiallary line of the patient's heart. The gauge indicator is then moved toward the foot of the bed, where it is used to precisely locate the physiologic pressure transducer at the mid-axiallary line.

Abstract: Apparatus for measuring the loaded axes of the foot is disclosed. The apparatus is particularly well suited for location of the ankle (talo-crural) and subtalar (talo-calcaneal) joint axes. The apparatus inludes a platform having one major axis of rotation to which either the ankle or subtalar axes can be aligned. The platform is hung from this fuxture axis and has adjustment for both height and pitch. The platform is adjustable from side to side and rotates about the perpendicular to the hanging support.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for approximating a workpiece contour. The conformable tool includes a support plate having a plurality of apertures and a two dimensional arrangement of a plurality of pins, each of which is slidably disposed within a corresponding aperture of the support plate. A plurality of locking members works in concert to simultaneously lock the plurality of pins in position once the pins have effectively approximated the contour. The conformable tool is pressed against the three dimensional contour of the workpiece so that each pin is displaced in response to the workpiece contour. The pins are then simultaneously locked in place by the locking members and the conformable tool is removed from the workpiece contour so that the conformable tool can be used as a forming base to reproduce the workpiece surface.

Abstract: A stencil apparatus includes a plurality of letters, wherein each letter includes vacuum porting to effect secure mounting to an underlying surface. A modification of the invention includes a matrix of letters mounted to a single panel to permit simultaneous mounting of the panel to an underlying surface.

Abstract: A measuring device having a vertical column and a horizontal foot extending therefrom, the column having an indicator block adjustably slidable thereon, an indicator plate on the block for engaging a tool to operate on a workpiece, and indicia on the column related to the plate to establish the position of the tool with relation to different surfaces of the plate, and scribing portions on the plate to mark a workpiece when the column is moved with relation to such workpiece.

Abstract: A sensor for detecting the location of a hole in a surface of a workpiece. The sensor comprises a sensing head having a probe adapted to engage the portion of the workpiece surface defining a hole. A housing supports the sensing head for lateral displacement in any direction from a longitudinal Z axis of the sensor in response to engagement of the hole-defining portion by the probe. A pair of displacement conversion members are supported in the housing for independent axial displacement along the Z axis corresponding in direction and magnitude to the lateral displacement of the sensing head along X and Y lateral axes, respectively. Sensing devices are disposed to respond to the axial displacement of each of the conversion members to generate a signal indicative thereof.

Abstract: A running web the upper side of which is coated with one or more films containing a volatile substance is heated from below in a housing which contains a driven cooled condensing roller in the space above the path for the web. The vaporous substance which is expelled as a result of heating of the web is condensed on the peripheral surface of the cooled roller, and the film of condensate is stripped off the peripheral surface to enter an evacuating trough. The rate of condensation can be regulated by changing the rotational speed of the roller in dependency upon variations of pressure of vaporous substance above the running web and/or in dependency on the monitored rate of escape of vaporous substance into the atmosphere.

Abstract: This invention refers to a dryer for sugar cane bagasse and/or medulla with vertical type, mobile bed with countercurrent waste combustion gases consisting of: a cylindrical body like a silo. The load is fed into the top of the cylindrical body and is then evenly distributed by spreading devices. Combustion gases from conventional boilers with a high energy content and normally considered as waste are fed countercurrently with the assistance of a ventilator into the bottom of the dryer through slots or holes. Once the gases have picked up humidity while going through the silo, they are expelled through the top by means of a conduct to the boiler's chimney.

Abstract: The travel hair-dryer consists of two telescopic components (1, 2), one of the components (1) being provided at its base with an air inlet grille (6) and comprising the conventional components (3, 4, 5) of a hair-dryer, and the other component (2), sliding over the first component (1), being closed at the top thereof and being provided with a lateral grille (8) for the discharge of air, the said grille being released when the apparatus is extended.

Abstract: A tobacco drying apparatus for holding stalks of tobacco in a drying barn, in which a stalk of tobacco may be inserted upwardly into the drying apparatus and is automatically held against undesired downward removal therefrom. The drying apparatus includes first and second substantially parallel support members and at least one friction lock assembly which is attached to the second support member. The friction lock assembly has a gate member which is pivotal about an axis that is substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the second support member. The gate member further has a leading edge which extends toward the first support member, the leading edge of the gate member and the first support member which cooperate to receive a stalk of tobacco therebetween.

Abstract: A hunter's shoe for concealing the presence of a hunter by absorbing airborne noises caused by the contact of the shoes with ground objects such as fallen branches, twigs and leaves. In the first aspect of the invention, a detachable sound absorber is combined with a conventional hunter's shoe. The sound absorber is comprised of a heel absorber, a sole absorber joined to the heel absorber, a flexible heel pad joined to the lower surface of the heel absorber and extending around the perimeter of the heel absorber, a flexible sole pad joined to the lower surface of the sole absorber and extending around the perimeter of the sole absorber; an ankle strap attached to the heel absorber and a toe strap attached to the sole absorber. The heel and sound absorber is comprised of rigid housings joined together by a flexible member and filled with a sound absorbing material. In the second aspect of the invention, a sound absorber is made integral with a hunter's shoe.