US138863A

US138863A - Improvement in shoe-fasteners

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Publication number: US138863A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1873-05-13
Anticipated expiration: 1890-05-13

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

JONATHAN OOYKENDALL, OF FARMINGTON, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOE-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,863, dated May 13, 1873; application filed November 18, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JONATHAN COYKEN- DALL, of Farmington, in the county of Fulton, in the State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement on my Shoe-Fastener patented September 6th, 1870 and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of? this specification, in which like letters of reference refer to like parts, and in which Figure 1 represents a side view, showing the shoe unfastened and the flaps thrown open; Fig. 2 a perspective view and Fig. 3 a side view, showing the shoe fastened.

Like letters in the different figures of the drawing indicate like parts.

In my patent of September 6, 1870, the front of the shoe is provided with flaps, arranged to overlap one another, and fastened by straps in such a manner as to exclude the dirt or dust. The object of my present invention is to make the shoe so as to adapt the flaps to the rear end thereof, and providing the flaps with straps, as before, and fastening them in the same manner, only passing the bucklestrap around the front of the shoe instead of around the back, thus more effectually excluding the dirt or dust, and at the same time rendering the shoe more water-proof. The quarters are left open behind above the counters, and one of the quarters prolonged so as to lap around the back of the foot above the heel, and provided with a strap, which is buckled to a second strap, which is attached to the edge of the opposite quarter, and which strap, in like manner, passes under said flap and through its base or the quarter, and around the instep, meeting the first strap and buckling or buttoning together.

A represents a shoe of any out or pattern, closed in front, and open behind to the top of the counter. B is a flap or portion of quarter, which may be an integral part of quarter, or may be sewed onto the latter. 0 is the outer guard or rear prolongation of the opposite quarter, forming an outer flap or guard to cover the opening of the quarter and the flap B. It is provided with an adjustable strap, (1. D is an adjustable strap and buckle, attached to the extremity of the inner flap B, which passes under the flap G and through a slit, 6, at its base, thence around the quarter and instep, and buckles to th strap (1 of the flap 0.

Each flap may be stitched to their respective quarters, or may be an extension of the quarter.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In the shoe A, open behind upward from the top of the counter, the flaps B O with their straps D d, arranged and fastened in the manner and for the purpose as herein shown and set forth.

Witnesses:

E. THURLOW, JOHN J ONES.