US1476677A

US1476677A - Shoe lace

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Publication number: US1476677A
Application number: US604852A
Authority: US
Inventors: Alvarez Justo
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1922-12-04
Filing date: 1922-12-04
Publication date: 1923-12-11
Anticipated expiration: 1940-12-11

Description

Dec. 11, 1923. 1,476,677

J. ALVAREZ SHOE LACE Filed Dec. 4. 1922 INVENTOR WITNESS? ATTORNEY Fatented Dec. ll, 1923.

UNITED STTES PATENT O FFICE.

SHOE LACE.

Application filed December 4, 1922. Serial No. $,852J

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Jus'ro ALvARnz, a citizen of Spain, residing at Flushing, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shoe Laces, of which the folowing is a specification.

My present invention relates to shoe laces and has for its object to provide a lace of peculiar and advantageous construction, susceptible of being applied to a shoe in such manner that it is very easy to fasten or unfasten the lace quickly, and the lace is not liable to render a shoe uncomfortable or to detract in any measure from the finished appearance of a shoe.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification Figure l is a View showing the application of my novel lace to a shoe.

Figure 2 is a view of the lace per se.

Figure 3 is an enlarged diametrical section showing my improvement on one end of the lace.

Similar numerals ofreference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

The lace l is preferably, though not nec essarily, of round type and is provided on one of its ends with a tip member 2 or is otherwise equipped to facilitate its insertion through the eyelets of a shoe. At its opposite end the lace is provided with a button best shown in Figure 3 and which constitutes/the salient feature of my inven tion. The said button is made up of a small metallic disk 3 and a small metallic disk 4. These disks are of circular form, and the disk 3 is provided with a peripheral fastening flange 5. The disk t has at its inner side a small round tube 6 adapted to receive and when properly clamped to hold any kind of shoe lace. After the end portion of the shoe lace is secured in the tube 6, the metallic disk 3 is applied to the outer side of the metallic disk 4, and the flange is fastened over the peripheral portion of the disk 3, when the disk 3 will be strongly con nected to the disk 4, and the lace will be permanently connected to the two disks.

nected disks 3 and 4 In this connection it will be noted that one endportion of the'lace is frayed, and is housed and secured'between the two disks, Figure 3. This manifestly lends strength to the connection ofthe button to thelace, and at the same time completely encloses and protects the frayed end of the lace.

As will be understood from Figure 1 of the drawings the button formed by the conin the manner described in the foregoing, is placed in the upper eyelet at the inside of a shoe, and the end ofthe string. is passed through the lower eyelet from the outer side of the shoe. From this it follows that it is extremely easy to fasten or unfasten the lace expeditiously, and itwill also be noticed that the lace is not liable to subject the wearer to discomfort, and when the lace is properly used the shoe will be free of knots or visible string ends.

I have entered into a detailed description of the constructionand relative arrangement of the parts embraced in the present and preferred embodiment of my invention in order to impart a full, clear and exact understanding of the said embodiment. I

. do not desire, however, to be understood as confining myself to the specific construction and relative arrangement of pants inasmuch as inthe future practice of the invention various changes and modifications may be made such asfall within the scope of my invention as defined in my appended claim;

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is z- A shoe lace having at one end a frayed portion and a button made upof two metallic. disks, one of the disks being aperztured and provided with a lateral central tube receiving a part of the lace, and t ie other their being applied to the side of the first-- named disk and the said end portion of the lace being frayed'and housed between the disks, remote from the tube and being provided with a circumferential fastening flange straddling the peripheral portion of the first-named disk whereby the disks are connected together and the lace is permanently secured to the disks.

In testimony whereof I affix my signa- JUSTO ALVAREZ.

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