US1458088A - Shoe lace - Google Patents

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June 5, 11923.

SHOE LACE Filad May 19. 1922 ATTORNEY Patented June 5, IQZB.

UNITED STATES I Treaties PATENT @FFHCE.

LEROY F. UNNOLD, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SHOE LACE.

Application filed May 19,

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEROY F. UNNoLn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements *in Shoe Laces, of WlllCh the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shoe-laces.

Some of the objects of the present invention are: to produce a shoe-lace and fastening means therefor with which a lace-shoe maybe easily and comfortably laced for wear, and which gives the desired neat appearance; to produce an elastic shoe-lace having a device attached to one end thereof which may be concealed, and which is capable of temporarily retaining the free end of the shoe-lace after the same has been passed through the eyelets of the shoe. With these and other objects in View the invention resides in the particular provision and construction of parts hereinafter fully described and illustrated in the accompanyin drawing, in which:

Iigure 1 is an elevation of the shoe-lace and the fastening device therefor of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a view of the shoe-lace and the fastening device therefor applied to a shoe of the hook and eye type; the lace not being applied to the hooks; the shoe thus being in condition to be put on the foot of the wearer.

Figure 3 is a view similar to the view shown in Figure 2, but showing the shoelace applied to the hooks of the shoe.

Figure 4 is a view of the fastening device detached. v

Referring 'now more particularly to the several views of the drawing, it will be apparent that, there is provided a shoe-lace 1O composite in nature in that the same com prises a rubber element 11 and a web covering 12 which surrounds the rubber element 11. One end .of the shoe-lace 10 has a tip 13 of any desirableform.

In order that the shoe-lace 10 may be interlaced in the eyelets of the type of shoe 14, and further, in order that the ends of the shoe-lace may be fastened together with the shoe-lace applied to the shoe, there is provided a fastening device 15.

The fastening device 15 consists of a single piece of metal stamped out toprovide a part 16 and a part'l7, The part 17 1922. Serial No. 562,178.

has small burrs 18. .The part 16 has a plu rality of apertures 19 therein, which provide a portion 20 therebetween. The fastemng device 15 ispermanently attached to the shoe-lace 10 by rolling the part 17 about the end of the shoe-lace without the tip. The burrs will be impaled in the shoe-lace end and in that way the attachment will be made effectual. With the fastening device 15 so attached to the shoe-lace 10 the same is ready for use. The shoe-lace be; ginning for instance with the lower left eyelet is passed outwardly therethrough, then over to the adjacent lower eyelet, then inwardly and across to the next uppermost eyelet, and so forth, after which the end is returned to the device and is passed through one of the apertures 19, over the portion 20, and finally through the other aperture 19. This latter passing of the shoe-lace end through the apertures 19 and over the portion 20 temporarily retains the same against slipping. Thus a temporary attachment of the free end of the shoe-lace to the fastening device 15 is elected. It should now be manifest that, inasmuch as the shoe-lace 10 is elastic, the shoe may be readily slipped on the foot, after which the shoe-lace maybe drawn up for application to the hooks of the shoe. In a low shoe having merely the eyelets a comparatively short shoe-lace may be used which will permit the foot to be easily inserted in the shoe,

and which shoe-lace will then adjust itself owing to its elastic nature, to draw the lapels together about the foot in yielding relation thereto. And so it' is with the hook and eyelets type of high shoe; the shoe upper is in yielding relation to the foot.

From-the foregoing, it will be manifest that, in the use of a shoe-lace and fastening means therefor of the present invention, a

shoe may be readily put on the foot and removed therefrom; thelyielding action derived afi'ords comfort to the wearer; and the appearance will be a neat one.

What is claimed is:

1.v For a lace-shoe, an elastic lace, and a device at one end of said lace having an attaching part which grips the lace and lace crimping means for, the securement of the free end of the lace to said device.

2. For a lace-shoe, an elastic lace, and a device attached to one end of said lace, said device embodying attaching means and an apertured part in the apertures of which the opposite free end of the lace is passed to secure the same to the device.

3. For a shoe-lace, a fastening device comprising means for efl'ecting the permanent attachment of one end of the shoelace thereto, and means for effecting the temporary attachment of the opposite end to the device.

4. For a shoe-lace, a fastening device comprising-a part having burrs, which part is capable ofbeing rolled about one end of the shoe-lace with the burrs impaled in the shoe lace end, and means for efl'ecting the aeaoee q temporary attachment of the opposite end ofthe shoe-lace to the device. V

5. For a shoe-lace, a, fastening device comprising a part having burrs, which part is capable of being rolled about one end of the shoe-lace with the burrs impaled in the shoe-lace end, and an apertured art in the apertures of which the opposite free end 0 the shoe-lace is passed to temporarily attach device.

In testimony whereof I hereby aflix my signature. 4 LEROY F. UNNOLD.

the said end of th shoe-lace to said

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