US109933A - Improvement in shoe-lacing hooks - Google Patents

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y ALPHONSO PATTEN, 0F BIDDEFORD, MAINE, ASSIGNOR T0 HIMSELF AND ROBERT W. RUM'ERY, SAME` PLAGE.

Letters Patent No..109,933, dated December 6, 1870.

The Schedule referred to in these'Leti-:ers Patent and making parl: of the same.

To all persons to whom til-esc presents 'ma-y come:

Be litknown that I, ALPHONSO PATTEN, of Biddeford, in the county of York and State ot' Maine, have invented a new and useful Shoe-Laeing Hooked Stud; and do hereby declare the saine to be fulfy described in the following specilication and represented in the accompanying drawing making partthe'reof', and'of which- 4 Figure l isa front elevation;

Figure 2, a side view; and v Figure 3, a transverse sentieri, on'an enlarged scale, ofthe said fastening. 'l

In carrying out myV invention I form the head Aas a prismatic or cylindrical hook, having tw'o dents, act,

'atits base, and also with a screw-hole, 11,made upward in the head -fror its base, such screw-hole being to receive a headed male-screw, B, which, after having been passed through a'hol'e in the upper of a shoe, is te be screwedv into the head A, so as to draw it closely down upon the leather. the dents'or spursa serving to so`x` the headv as to preventit from being `revolved on. the leather by the strain of' the lacing.

l :un aware of the' laeing-stucls described inthe United States Patent '42,517 and 77,421, which, a1-

though in some respects are analogous to my inven- 1tion, yet differ materially from it, one veryimportant point of difference being that neither of such studs of such patents has any dents arranged upon it in man ner and for the-purpose in which are those of' my im

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