USD12242S - Design for a lacing-hook for boots, shoes, sgc - Google Patents

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12.242 DESIGN.

M. BRAY. Lacing Hook for Boots, Shoes, &c.

Patented May 3,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MELLEN EBAY, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

DESIGN FOR A LAClNG-HOOK FOR BOOTS, SHOES, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Design No. 12,242, dated May 3, 1881.

Application tiled March 23, 153i.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MELLEN BRAY, of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and original Design for Laciug-Hooks t'or Boots and shoes, gloves, or other articles to receive the lacing-cord, and is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved hook. Fig.2 is a plan of the same,and Fig. 3 is a central vertical section.

The leading feature of my design is a hook having an outer head or disk,the outer face of which has formed therein a recess surrounded by a circular bead, and connected by a concavo-convex neckto an inner disk or flange, which rests upon the material when applied thereto for use; also, a hook having a head or disk, in the outer face of which is stamped or otherwise formed a. circular sunken recess, said disk being connected bya concavo-con vex neck at one side to a second disk or flange, which rests upon the material when applied thereto for use, and also provided with a cy- Ti-rm of patent H years.

lindrical tubular shank for securing it to the material.

In the drawings, a is the outer disk or head, having in its outer surface the recess a. inclosed by the head a", and connected by the eoncavo-convex neck (1 to the flangec upon the upper end of the cylindrical tubular or hollow shank (I, as shown. The neck 0 connects the head a with the flange c at one side, and has its convex side inward, as shown.

[ claim- I. Thedesign fora lacing-hook herein shown and described, the same consisting of the head (I, having the recess a and inclosing-bead a", the circular flange c, and the eoneavo-convex neck b, connecting said head and flange at one side.

2. Thedesign fora lacing-hook herein shown and described, the same consisting of the head a, provided with the recess a and the head a", the hollow or tubular cylindrical shank (I, the disk or flange c. and the coucavo-convex neck b,connecting the head a and the flange c at one side.

Executedat Boston, llassaehusetts, this 21st day of March, ISSl.

Witnesses: )llCLLl-IN BRA Y.

l5. A. HEmrEawAv, \VALTER E. Loumuo.

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