US793439A - Lace-fastener. - Google Patents

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No. "798,439. PATENTED JUNE 27, 1905. J. B. HALL.

LACE FASTENBR.

APPLICATION rum) MAR. 15. 1905.

Witness ya $4 M Patented June 27, 1905.

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JOHN B. HALL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

LACE-FASTENER- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 793,439, dated June 2'7, 1905.

Application filed March 15, 1905. Serial No. 250.140.

[0 all whom it many concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN B. IIALL,-a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsyl- Vania, have invented a new and useful Lace- Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a novel construction of a device for securing the end of a cord or lace, and particularly the end of a shoe-lace, although it is capable of general application and for use as a fastening for the laces of corsets, gloves, or any other article, provision being made for easily and quickly securing the loop or the extremities of lacing-strings in place after they have been woven across each other in the usual manner, my principal object being to provide a novel device which would hold securely the end of the lacing after the same had been knotted or tied in the usual manner.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a shoe, showing the lace-fastener and its adjuncts in position. Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of a lace-fastener embodying my invention shown in detached position. Fig. 3 is a detail looking at the inner side of the upper. Fig. 4: is a central vertical section through Fig. 3.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, it will be apparent from the embodiment of my invention that I have provided means whereby the shoelace after being tied in a knot 19, as indicated in Fig. 2, can be readily fastenedand prevented from unty ng.

In the construction seen in Figs. 2 and 3 I have shown the fastener as initially composed of a corrugated or serpentine member 31, having the terminal 32 provided with slits 33, whereby a plurality of tongues 34: are formed, said tongues being adapted to be inserted through the eyelet 20 and then clenched on the inner side of the shoe-upper 15, as will be understood from Figs. 2 and 3.

1n the preferred embodiments of my invention it will be seen that the corrugated or serpentine tongue is present, whereby the necessary resiliency is obtained and the device is readily adapted for the purpose intended.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A lace-fastener, consisting of a body portion having a resilient corrugated member at one end adapted to receive a lace, and a slitted portion at the other end the slits extending away from the corrugated member and to the extreme end opposite thereto.

2. The combination with an upper having an eyelet, of a lace-fastener consisting of a body portion with a resilient corrugated member at one end and a slitted member at the other end, the slits extending away from the corrugated member and to the extreme end. opposite thereto and being passed through the eyelet and clenched upon the same.

JOHN B. HALL.

Witnesses: v

E. HAYWARD FArRnANKs, M. G. LUKENS.

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