US528300A - Shoe-lace holder - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

G. E.MO NGEAU SHOE LACE HOLDER.

Patented Oct. 30, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

GEORGE E. MONGEAU, OF LowELL, MASSACHUSETTS SHOE-LACE HOLDER.

$PEGIEIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 528,300, dated October 30, 1894.

Serial No. 519,870. (No model.)

To all? whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. MONGEAU, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Lace Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective viewof my shoelace holder. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 4 isa modificationto be referred to.

My invention has for its object to provide for boot and shoe dealers a neat, simple, and eflective device for holding and displaying a bunch or quantity of shoe-laces in such manner that they can be conveniently withdrawn singly or several at atime without disarrangmg the remainder of the bunch.

To this end myinvention consists in abase or body adapted to be secured to a wall or other convenient surface, and having an outwardly projecting bow-shaped portion or loop adapted to receive and support the double shoe-laces, combined with a spring-actuated arm or lever adapted to extend up behind the shoe-laces when introduced within said bow and serving to press the laces forward, whereby they are confined between said bow and lever with a yielding pressure as hereinafter set forth.

In the said drawings, A represents the base or body of the holder, which is adapted to be secured in a vertical position to a wall or other convenient surface in a store or apartment by means of screws (1 as shown in Fig 1. The base A is provided at its center with an outwardly projecting how-shaped portion or loop B for holding the bunch of shoe-laces b and by which they are supported at their centers or doubled portions with their ends hanging down, as shown in Fig. 1. The portion B is provided at its upper end with a latch-piece or lover a pivoted at 5 to a lug 6 and normally held by a spring 10 against the end 12 of said portion B to close the entrance to the same, the operation of introducing the doubled shoelaces within the loop or bow B being thus greatly facilitated, as the latch 0 will readily yield to permit the entrance of the laces and will instantly close to prevent their escape.

C is an inwardly curved armor lever which extends up behind the shoe-laces as shown in Fig. 1,'and is pivoted at 15 to a lug cl projecting from the base A beneath the bow B, said lever being provided with a slot 6 to enable it to pass over the bow B which extends through said slot as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Between the base A and the under side of the lever O is placed aspiral springf which serves to press the lever G outward, said spring being held in place at its opposite ends by circular bosses or projections g, h, on the lever and base as shown in Fig. 2.

When a bunch of shoe-laces is to be-placed within the holder, the lever 0 is pressed backward by the hand against the stress of the spring 1 over the bow B and beyond the lower end ofits spring-actuated latch-c and held back in this position by the hand until the shoe-laces have been passed in front of said lever down within the bow B by pressing their doubled portions against the yielding latch c which then immediately closes, after which thelever O is released, when it will be pressed forward by the spring f thus causing the bunch of shoe-laces to be held securely in place between the bow B andlever C as shown in Fig. 1 with a yielding pressure and enabling them to be conveniently Withdrawn singly or several at a time withoutdisturbing or disarranging those remaining in the holder. Ido not confine myself to the employment of a spiral springf as shown,as a spring of any other suitable description may be used to actuate the arm or lever O. The arm or lever O is provided with rounded edges and is preferably curved as shown to enable it to better fit around the rear of the bunch of shoe-laces without cutting or injuring the same, and by means of the spring f the lever O is rendered self-adjusting so that it will follow up the bunch of shoe-laces as it becomes reduced in size and hold it securely until the last one is drawn out.

Instead of providing the bow-shaped holder B with a spring-actuated latch c as above described, it may be constructed in a single unbroken piece without a latch as shownin Fig. 4, in which case the ends of the shoe-laces will be passed sidewise through the bow B in 3. In a shoe-lace holder, the base or body A 30 front of the lever when the latter is pressed having an outwardly projecting portion B backward by the hand. I prefer however to adapted to receive and support a bunch of employ a spring-actuated latch-piece as first shoe-laces, in combination with the spring 5 described as the operation of introducing the actuated arm or lever O pivoted to the base shoe-laces within the holder is thereby greatly beneath the bow B, and provided with a slot 35 facilitated. e, wherebyit is adapted to pass over said bow WhatI claim as myinvention,and desire to and exert an outward pressure against the secure by Letters Patent, isbunch of shoe-laces within the saute, substan- 1. A shoe-lace holder comprising a base or tially as set forth.

body having an outwardly projecting bow- 4:. In a shoelace holder, the combination of 4,0 shaped portion adapted to receive and supthe base or body Ahaving an outwardly proport abunch of shoe-laces and a spring-actujecting bow-shaped portion 13, the curvedated clamping arm or lever extending up lever C pivoted to the base beneath the bow B [5 behind the bow and pressed outwardly toand adapted to extend up behind the bunch Ward the front of the bow to hold said bunch of shoe-laces within said bow B, said lever 4 5 against the front portion of the bow with a being provided with a slot e whereby it is yielding pressure, substantially as described. adapted to pass over and embrace the bow B, 2. In ashoe-lace holder, the base or body A and the spring f adapted to exertan outward having an outwardly projecting portion B pressure on the lever C to hold the shoe-laces adapted to receive and support a bunch of against the bow B with a yielding pressure, 50 shoe-laces, said portion 13 being provided with substantially as set forth.

a spring-actuated latch-piece c, in combinal/Vitness my hand this 3d day of August, tion with a spring-actuated clamping arm or A. D. 1894:. lever 0 extending upwardly across the bow GEO. MONGEAU and pressed forwardly by its spring to hold said bunch against the front of the portion B In presence ofwith ayielding pressure, substantially as set P. E. TESCHEMACHER, forth. R. HENRY MARSH.

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