US1423409A

US1423409A - Hose protector

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Publication number: US1423409A
Application number: US466797A
Authority: US
Inventors: Victor H Fairless
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1921-05-04
Filing date: 1921-05-04
Publication date: 1922-07-18
Anticipated expiration: 1939-07-18

Description

v. H. FAIRLESS.

HOSE PRGTEETOR. AP-FLICATION FILED MAYl, |921l Patented July 18, NZZ,

stare VICTQB H. FAIRLESS, 0F TRENTON, TENNESSEE.

HOSE PROTECTR.

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.guard to protect the hose romthe liquid polish or other material used to clean and shine shoes. lt etten happens that boot- V blacks are careless in the application of this liquid to the shoe, which is a preliminary operation to applying the paste polish, and as a result the socks or hose are s lashed and stained by the liquid material. articularly is this so with white hose which are discolored andl ruined by random splashes oi the polish or other liquid, and which of course become unsightly before they can be removed and changed. Furthermore, light colored hose are freouently soiled 'ust along edge of llow shoes hy the polishing brush or cloth being rubbed across them.

it is an ob ect of the present invention to provide an adjustable ard to fit aboutlthe ankle and protect the ose, and which will be of an inexpensive construction and one which will ada t itself to low quarters particularly and a so to high shoes.

lWith the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention will be more fully described hereinafter, and will be more particularly pointed out in the claim appended hereto.

ln the drawings, wherein like symbols re ter to like or corresponding parts throughout the several views,

Fig. l shows in dotted erspective the out. line of a low shoe or ox ord provided with an improved protector constructed according to the present invention with the trousers indicated above the same;

Fig. 2 is a similar view taken trom an opposite angle and showing the .connecting device for the protector band;

vFig. 3 is also a dotted perspective view of a high shoe showing the a plication of the improved device in 4inverte position;

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the protecting device; and

vist Fi 5 is an edge view thereof.

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rring more particularly to the draw- Specication of Letters Patent.

' Patented July te, i922.

yapplication tiled may e, 1921. Serial No. 466,797.

ings, the improved protector cons-ists of a band l of thin, light material preferably celluloid having a suitable depth to cover entirely the area. of theY hose apt to be splashed by a liquid, blackening, cleaning, or other material used in bootblack establishments. @ne edge 2 of the band l is cut ,ed straight, while the opposite longitudinal edge is provided with a wave-like form which includes a pair of lugs 3 and t adapted to it well inside the depressed portions.

5 of the upper ede of the oxford tor instance, as shown in igs. l and 2. The lower edge of the band l is further formed with a tab 6 near one end of the band for tting beneath the tongue of the oi'itord, the position of which is also adequately illustrated in Figs. l and 2.

A series of a ertures or openings 7 are made in one en of the band l to receive a hook 8 formed from one end 'of a single strand of wire 9 which'v has its intermediate portion looped outwardly to provide parallel legs 10 and 11 forming a finger piece for the removal and insertion of the hook 8 into a selected openin 7. rll`he other end of the strand 9 is engaged permanently with an end ot a flexible tape l2 secured in an suitable manner to that end of the Celluloid band 1 opposite the apertures 7.

ln use, the band l is made to encircle the ankle of the wearer in the fashion, for instance, indicated in Figs. l and 2 where low shoes are worn. lin this instance the wave-like lower longitudinal edge of the band l is disposed downwardly with the lugs 3 and t fitting inside the depressed parts 5 of the shoe uppers, and the tab 6 resting beneath the tongue ot the shoe so as to center and assist in holding the protector in a proper relative position with respect to the shoe, and to the hose which it is desired to rotect.

ith the formation thus given the band the hose willbe entirely concealed and will M edectivelyn guarded against any splashes 'of the blachng or other material. 'The hook ree - restricted only by the scope of the following claim.

A ho'se protector.j comprising e dat dexible bend adapted to be placed about the ankle above e shoe top end adopted to over lap at its ends for fitting ankles of dierent thicknesses, seid handhaving spaced depending lugs adapted to lient the sides of the ankle and projectinto theshoe top and .having e depending tab near one end for engagement beneath the tongue of the shoe,

.e flat'tape carried on one end o the band and adapted to lic Het across the overlep-` ping ends of the' bend to hold the seme together, end e, hook on the free end of the tape, seid bend heving e longitudinal row of openings neer'its other end for selectively receiving 'the hook therein whereby the hook may be edjustebly secured to seid other endA or the bend for closing the seme in different sizes and et all times providing 'e substantielly Het outer surface for the bend, substantially es described.

WCTR H. FAXRLESS.