Abstract: Athletic footwear for non-contact or light-contact sports having a resilient sole portion to which front and rear upper portions of reinforced canvas or rubber material are securely attached. Foot protection and mobility are optimized by isolating the plural upper portions, one from the other, and by positioning the front and rear upper portions so as to be effective at points of maximum foot flexibility, namely, over the ball of the foot and across the ankle. Leather reinforcement of the canvas portions at both the bosses through which laces are passed for drawing the shoe to the wearer's foot and at the exposed edges of the canvas uppers prevents discomfort to a sockless user while permitting maximum absorption of stress at these points.

Abstract: A mechanism for taking up the slack in a continuous web being fed to the take up mechanism by independent control means. The take up mechanism is automatically switched on whenever feeding of the continuous web by the independent control means commences. The take up mechanism continues to operate as the continuous web is being fed by the independent control means. At such time as the feeding of the continuous web is terminated the automatic take up mechanism continues to take up slack in the paper web until the tension in the paper web precludes further rotation of the geared spindle upon which the continuous web is being wound. Because of the pivotal nature of the drive assembly, comprising a motor and drive gear, the motor continues to turn the drive gear causing the latter to "walk" over the now stationary driven gear and in so doing causes the housing of the motor to come into contact with and depress a microswitch thereby interrupting the flow of electricity to the drive motor.