US1361796A

US1361796A - Shoe-fastener

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Publication number: US1361796A
Application number: US408441A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frederick W Moore
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1920-09-07
Filing date: 1920-09-07
Publication date: 1920-12-07
Anticipated expiration: 1937-12-07

Description

F. W. MOORE.

SHOE FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-7, I920.

Patenteil Dec. 7,1920.

UNITED STATES FREDERICK W. MOORE, OF MAN TON, RHODE ISLAND.

SHOE-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. *7, 1920.

Application filed September 7, 1920. Serial No. 408,441.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Fnnnnnron W. Moons, a citizen of the United States, residing at Manton, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in shoe fasteners, and the primary object thereof is to provide a shoe fastener of improved construction which dispenses with the use of lacing.

A further object of the invention is to provide a fastener which can be economically produced, easily operated, and which also can be easily applied to the shoe, and which will be positive in its holding action.

Further and other objects of the invention will be later set forth and manifested in the course of the following description.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation showing a fragment of a shoe with the present invention applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. l

Fig. 3 is a View similar to Fig. 1 of a modified form of the invention; and

Fig. 4 is a section on line le-4 of Fig. 3.

In proceeding in accordance with the present invention there is employed a bar 1 of the curved form shown in Fig. 2 having substantially right angular or offset ends 2 one of which is turned inwardly at 3 while the other is somewhat flattened and turned outwardly at 4 and formed with a pair of points or prongs 5. T he end 2 having the flattened part 4; is passed through one of the shoe eye lets E, and the points 5 are then forced into the leather on the outer side of the eyelet, thus holding the bar in position. The opposite end of the bar with inturned part 3 is threaded through the opposed eyelet E which acts as an anchorage for the free end of the bar.

In the modified form of the invention the bar 10 has one end curved at 11 to form a hook like part which engages through the eyelet E while the opposite end is oflset at 11, with the offset part extending through the eyelet E, and provided with a flattened portion 12 which engages against the back of the shoe front and under the usual reinforced part R borne by the shoe front as indicated at 12.

In both forms of the invention it will be seen that the fastener bar bridges the space between the two eyelets, and has a hook-like part on one end and anchoring means on the opposite end, the anchoring means and the hook-like part extending respectively through the eyelets.

In operation the shoe front wings are pinched or moved together so as to release the hook-like parts 3 or 11, whereupon the wings can be stretched to release the foot, and in fastening the wings together, the latter are moved to approach whereupon the hook-like parts are moved through the eyelets.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a shoe fastener, a bar having each end offset at substantially right angles and having the terminal of one end turned inwardly to overlie the bar in spaced relation to the latter, the other offset end having a flattened extension which is disposed to lie parallel to the bar and projecting outwardly from said opposite end of the bar, and an angular integral terminal borne by the outer end of the extension to engage with the shoe to hold the extension flatly against the rear face of the shoe front.

2. In a shoe fastener, a bar having each end offset at substantially right angles and having the terminal of one end turned inwardly to overlie the bar in spaced relation to the latter, the other offset end having an extension disposed to lie parallel to the bar and extending outwardly from the opposite bar end, and an integral angular part borne by the extension to engage with the shoe to hold the extension against the rear face of the shoe front.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK W. MOORE.

Witnesses:

JAMES HILL, J osnrn A. MILLER.