US82022A - Improved shoe-lacing - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.;

WILLAED F. OLIVER, OF LYNN, ASSIGNOR TO BOSTON SHOE STUD AND BUTTON COMPANY, OF BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED SHOE-LACING.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLARD F, OLIVER, of

Lynn, in the countyof'Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and 4 vuseful Improvements in Shoe=Lacings5 and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference .being had to the accompanying drawings,

making part of this specication, and to -the letters of reference marked thereon, like letters' indicatinglike parts wherever they occur.

To enable Others skilled in the art to-construct and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

My invention relates to shoe-lacings; and consists in providingthe sides of the .slit of a shoe with hooks or bearings so 'made and arranged that a lacing-cord may be conveniently slipped orlooped over them for the purpose of drawing the sides of the slit togetherwithout the use of eyelets, and in providing the upper hood with a convenient device forholdiug the lacing-cord in place when `the sides are thus drawn together. y

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 is a view of a part detached.

My hooks or bearings may b e attached to the sides of the slits in various ways. For

convenience in constructing them, I take two strips of metal, one of them long enough to extend from one end to the other of the slit B in a shoe, C, and the other long enough to extend nearly the length of the slit B, leaving space enough atthe upper end to allow a separate hook, D, provided with a device, a,'for fastening the cord, as shown in Fig. 2. The front edges of these strips I provide with hooks or bearings A, and their rear. edge opposite the hooks with small projections, and then I fasten these strips to the sides of slit B by rivets b'passing through the projections, and so that the hooks or bearings A, on each side, may alternate between each other, as clearly` shown in Fig. 1. Near the upper end of' the side upon which .the shorter strip. is placed I attach the upper or f last hoolqD, and to its side pivot an elbowcatch, a, so arranged that its lower arm, U, may bear against the lacing-cord E, when dated' september e, 186s.

I passed through the hook to hold it in place, as

clearly shown in Fig. 2.

One end ot1 the lacing-oord E, I attach to the shoe C near the lower end of the slit B,

and the other end of the cord may be attached to the upper part of the slit B, or to the hook- D, as shown in Fig. 1.

lthat-is necessary to fasten it` is, slip the cord E over the hooks or bearings A and the hook .D, their draw it tight and' fasten it with the catch a, or in any other desirable manner.

These hooks 'A may be made separately, instead of forming a part ofa metal strip, as the hook D is, and then attached, my object being mainly to provide the slit B` with alternating hooks or bearings, for conveniently fastening the shoe with a lacing-cord.

In the drawings I have shown my hooks or bearings A attached to a shoe to v,be laced up at the side. When the lacing is at the side, I prefer to have these hooks connected with metal strips, for keep the sides of the slit straight and prevent them froml wrinkling, or the `top of -tlie shoe from working down.

When the slit isin the front of the shoe, it is Obvious that the metal strips, with the .bearings A attached, cannot utility and convenience, and I thenattachtlie hooks or bearingsAseparately to the sides of slit, using a lacing-cord in the saine manner as when the slit is at the side of the shoe, my to provide the slit with hooks or bearings over which theobjeet being the same`that is,

the bearings lshouldbe placed opposite to euch l other, for convenience i-n lacing. 4lythis means I provide a shoe withlfastenings which do. away with the use of holes or eyelets encourse, avoids 'the delay and tinely`,an 1, of truble of inserting the lacing through a V,se-- lries vof holes, which trouble is frequently greatly increased by the loss of the metal point on After the. shoe is placedA upon the foot, all

the reason that these strips j be used with the same l the ends of the strings, and by the strings," in suchcase, becoming u nraveled, so or their equivalents, for receiving and holding that they cannot be readily pnt through the the string, when arranged substantially as set holes. v forth.

By my method of lacing, these metal points 2. -Thecatch or clamp a, with its arm e piv' on the strings are rendered entirely unnecesoted to the hook D, and arranged for l'mlding sary, thus cheapening the manufacture of the the string, substantially as described. strings also, and both ends, being madefas't,

are not ermosed for unraveling. y A WILLARD' F' OLIVER' Having thus described my invention, what' Witnesses Y I claim is'- y J. C. STICKNEY, 1. A shoe provided with a series of hooks,v M. D. BROOKS.

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