US645309A - Shoe-fastening. - Google Patents

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No. 645,309 Patented Mar. l3, l900.

A. 0. CARMAN &. l. S. MORRIS.

SHOE FASTENING.

(Application filed 009- 20, $899.

(No Model.)

I INVENTORS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALVIN O. CARMAN AND ISAIAH S. MORRIS, OF BELDING, MICHIGAN.-

SHOE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,309, dated March 13, 1900.

Application filed October 20, 1899. Serial No. 734,227. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALVIN O. CARMAN and ISAIAH S. MoRRIs, residents of Belding, in the county of Ionia and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Fastenings; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to an improvement in shoe-fastenings, and more particularly to eyelets, the object of the invention being to provide a simple and efficient eyelet for use in shoe-fastenings and the like and to so construct the same that it will be cheap to make, easy to apply, and effectual in the performance of its functions.

With this object in View the invention consists in certain novel features of construction of our improved eyelet and a certain improved system of lacing, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view showing a shoe provided with our improved eyelets. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of one of the eyelets. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of a blank for making said eyelet, and Fig. 4 is a view showing one of said eyelets secured to the shoe. N

A represents a shoe of ordinary construction, B the lacing-cord, and 1 a series of eyelets secured at intervals along both sides of the open front portion of said shoe. In constructing the eyelets 1 we first stamp a blank, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, comprising the body portion 2, having the downwardly-projecting tubular portion 3 stamped therefrom and slit to 'form a central tongue 4, and two jaws or fingers 5, one disposed on each side of the tongue 4. The tongue 4 is provided on its outer end with oppositely-disposed lugs 6, and the fingers or jaws 5 are bent at right angles to the body and the tongue bent to form a loop or eye and the lugs 6 disposed behind the fingers orjaws 5 and secured in place, thus forming our improved eyelet, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

To secure the eyelet to the shoe, the shoe is punched to receive the tubular portion 3, which latter is upset at its inner end and clamped against the shoe, and the jaws 0r fingers 5 are bent back against the inner face of the shoe, thus firmly securing the eyelet in place and securing the eye formed by the tongue 4 against the edge of the open portion of the shoe and in position to receive the lacing or string B, as will now be explained.

Various slight changes might be resorted to in the general form and arrangement of the several parts described without departing from the spirit and scope of our invention, and hence we would have it understood that we do not wish to limit ourselves to the precise details set forth, but consider ourselves at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of our invention.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

An eyelet consisting of a body portion pro vided at one end with means for securing the eyelet to a support, jaws or fingers at the other end of said body portion and adapted to em brace the edge of said support, a tongue be tween said jaws or fingers bent to form an eye or loop, the free ends of said tongue pro jecting between said fingers or jaws and pro= vided with laterally-projecting lugs secured thereto.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALVIN O. OARMAN. ISAIAH S. MORRIS.

Witnesses:

CHARLES EDDY, M. A. REED.

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