Boot jack

A boot jack is a tool for easy and gentle at the same time taking off of boots, which for want of a shoe closure ( lace up, zipper, etc.) may not open and are therefore difficult to strip from the foot. Boots servants can also be used for the extraction of low shoes, which is helpful for physically disabled persons.

The naming is due to a staff member who was instrumental in earlier times when wearing boots.

Type

The Boot Jack is having a U- shaped incision provided, slightly oblique -positioned wooden board to which the boots located at the foot is inserted with the heel pull-out usually. With the other foot a counter pressure is applied then to the board, while the fixed board in Boots is touched by train of the leg from the foot. This is to ensure that the train is not too much exercised because otherwise the heel may stop.

There are also boots servants the same time the front shoe support ( Anglo-Saxon models). Accordingly, the boot is inserted into the ankle laterally into the recess of such a wooden board. Due to the simple geometric design of this tool for Stiefelausziehen, boots servants serve with print as an advertising medium or artistically distorted, for example in the form of a stylized bull's head, the heel piece of the boot between the "horns" takes to wearing boots.

Decorative alienated Stiefelknecht

Boot Jack and Boot Anziehhaken

Stiefelknecht in the form of a beetle