Reinforced heel and dowel

Claim 1

A REINFORCED HEEL HAVING A BODY PORTION OF RELATIVELY WEAK MATERIAL PROVIDED WITH A RELATIVELY LARGE HEELSEAT END, A STEM OF RELATIVELY SMALL CROSS-SECTION, AND A RELATIVELY SMALL TREAD END, THE BODY PORTION BEING INTERIORLY PROVIDED WITH A RECESS EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY FROM THE TREAD END TO NEAR THE HEEL-SEAT END, AN ELONGATED REINFORCING DOWEL CONSTITUTED OF MATERIAL MUCH HARDER THAN THAT OF THE BODY PORTION PROVIDED WITH A HEEL-SEAT END AND A TREAD END, THE REINFORCING DOWEL, EXCEPT FOR ITS TREAD END, BEING DRIVEN INTO THE RECESS TO A POINT NEAR THE HEEL-SEAT END OF THE BODY PORTION, WHEREBY THE TREAD END OF THE DOWEL EXTENDS BEYOND THE BODY PORTION, THE EXTENDING TREAD END OF THE DOWEL BEING PROVIDED WITH TWO PROJECTIONS RIGIDLY EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY FROM THE STEM OF THE DOWEL AND ONE OF WHICH CONVERGES FROM THE STEM OF THE DOWEL TOWARD THE OTHER TO A DEGREE SUCH THAT THE OUTER PERIPHERIES OF THE PROJECTIONS BECOME POSITIONED RELATIVELY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER, THEREBY TO PROVIDE A LOCKING POCKET BETWEEN THE PROJECTIONS, AT LEAST THE PROJECTION CLOSER TO SAID HEEL-SEAT END BEING INTEGRAL WITH THE STEM OF THE DOWEL, AND A TOP LIFT IN WHICH THE SAID EXTENDING TREAD END OF THE DOWEL, INCLUDING THE TWO PROJECTIONS, IS EMBEDDED, WHEREBY A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF THE MATERIAL OF THE TOP LIFT BECOMES EMBEDDED IN THE LOCKING POCKET.