Boot tree device

Claim 1

A BOOT TREE OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED COMPRISING A BASE MEMBER, AN ELONGATED STANDARD FORMED AS A UNITARY METAL EXTRUSION, SAID STANDARD BEING MOUNTED ON SAID SECURED TO SAID BASE MEMBER INTERMEDIATE THE OPPOSITE ENDS THEREOF, BOOT HEEL ENGAGING CLAMPS MOVABLY SECURED TO THE TOP SURFACE OF SAID BASE MEMBER ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID STANDARD, SAID STANDARD BEING GENERALLY RECTANGULAR IN CROSS-SECTION AND HAVING A FIRST LONGITUDINAL SLOT FORMED IN EACH OF THE OPPOSITE FACES THEREOF, A BOOT TOE ENGAGING CLAMP SLIDABLY SECURED IN EACH OF SAID SLOTS, EACH OF THE SLOTS HAVING FLANGES ALONG THE OPPOSITE EDGES THEREOF TO CONSTRICT THE SLOT OPENING, EACH OF SAID TOE CLAMPS INCLUDING TOE ENGAGING PORTION AND BEING FORMED FROM A SINGLE PLATE BENT ON A TRANSVERSE LINE INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS THEREOF SO AS TO BE GENERALLY OF L-SHAPED CONFIGURATION, A TOE CLAMP ANCHORING TOOTH FORMED ON ONE END OF SAID TOE CLAMP, SAID ANCHORING TOOTH FORMED BEING GENERALLY OF T-SHAPE AND OF GREATER WIDTH THAN THE CONSTRICTED OPENING OF THE SAID SLOTS, A HOLDING PLATE POSITIONED ON SAID AHCHORING TOOTH AND THE ANCHORING TOOTH AND HOLDING PLATE BEING SLIDABLY CONTAINED WITH A RESPECTIVE SLOT INWARDLY OF SAID FLANGES, A TOE CLAMP SECURING BOLT HAVING THE HEAD END THEREOF ANCHORED TO SAID PLATE AND THE SHANK THEREOF PROJECTING THROUGH SAID TOE ENGAGING PORTION OF SAID TOE CLAMP AND A NUT APPLIED TO SAID BOLT TO TIGHTEN THE TOE CLAMP AGAINST THE SOLE OF THE BOOT.