US1428493A - Lace fastener - Google Patents

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J. F. PARADIS.

LACE FASTENER. APPLICATION FILED APR. 6, I922.

Patented Sept. 5, 1922.

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JOSEPH FRANCOIS PARADIS, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, ASSIGN'OR OF ONE- HALF TO RENE CHIQUETTE, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

LACE FASTENEB.

Application filed April 6,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, 'Josnrir FRANooIs Pnrnxnrs, a citizen of the United States of America, and residing at the city of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and useful Lace Fastener, of which the following is the specification.-

The invention relates to a lace fastener as described in the present specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings that form part of the same.

The invention consists essentially of the novel features of construction pointed out broadly and specifically in the claims for novelty following a description in detail of the preferred form of the invention.

The objects of the invention are primarily to avoid the inconvenience and annoyance caused by the undoing of the tie in boot and shoe laces, to facilitate the fastening of the shoe laces, and generally to provide a simple fastening that is particularly suitable for shoe laces though applicable to any fastening in which laces or cords are used.

view of a shoe having the fastener applied thereto.

Figure 9, is a detail showinga plan view of the clamp hook fastener enlarged.

Figure 3 is a detail showing a side elevation of the clamp hook.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the various figures.

Referring to the drawings, the hooks 1 are mounted on the uppers 2 and 3 respectively of the shoe, each hook having the widely spread eye pieces 4: and 5 by means of which 1922. Serial No. 550,174.

it is firmly sewed to the leather of the shoe,

and the clamping hook 6 depressed at .7 be

and eye pieces t and 5, where the lacegis squeezed but not damaged to the extent of being cut or torn.

' In the use of the fastener the shoe is laced in the ordinary manner and at the cop one crossed lace being inserted in the hook 1 and the other in the hook 2, where they are held until released, thereby obviating the necessityof tying the laces together as is customarily dene in fastening shoe laces.

This may be applied to corsets or other garments having lace fasteners and in making is preferably formed from a length of wire, which is bent into shape terminating in the eye pieces 4 and 5 for securing it to the shoe or garment. In the drawings, Figure'l 1s a perspective What I claim is:

A lace fastener comprising a hook having widely spread eye bars converging to a cen tral hook, the latter forming a lace fastening loop with said eye bars at the point of convergence of slightly less dimensions than a lace and extending on the same plane as the outer surface of said eye bars and outturned at the point. o

Signed at Montreal, Canada, this 23 day of March, 1922.

' aosnrn FRANCOIS PARADIS.

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