US1555089A - Laced shoe - Google Patents

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Sept. 29, 1925. 1,555,059

s. M. WHITE LACED SHOE Filed June 5, 1924 Savant;

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Patented Sept. 29,1925, V r j I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL M. W'HITE, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

LACE!) SHOE.

Application filed June 5, 1924. Serial No. 718,137.

To all whom it may canoe m: per portion with a hook 3 having its engag Be it known that I, SAMUEL M. VVniTn, ing member 3 pointed toward the toe of the a citizen of the United States, residing at shoe 1. This hook 3 is arranged substan- Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State tially at a point in the center of the tongue of Georgia, have invented certain new and so as to engage the string 4: at its last crossuseful Improvements in Laced Shoes, of ing 4* and 4", as the string is about tobe in which the following is a specification. serted through the uppermost eyelets 5 and invention relates to means for pre-- 5 of the shoe 1. The hook 3 is riveted to venting the tongues of shoes of the open face the tongue as at 6 and is preferably arranged. laced type from slipping. so that its clamped portion will be between y invention consists in providing the the inner surface of the tongue 2 and the tongue with a small hook arranged in the lining 7. center at its upper end, so as to engage the It can be readily seen that I have provided shoe string when theright and left portions an anti-slipping means, for shoe tongues of the shoe upper are drawn to closed posithat is inexpensive, easily applied to a shoe tion and the string tied. tongue, and comfortable to the wearer.

One object of my invention is to provide What I claim is: an anti-slipping means for the tongues of In a shoe of the open face lace type, a shoes, in which said means can be applied tongue to cover the opening in the front of to the tongue in the course of the shoes the shoe, a lining on the inner side of said manufacture or after the shoe is offered to tongue, an inverted shoe lace hook having the trade. a flat head portion, a portion under the head A further object is to provide an antiand substantially parallel with the under slipping means for the tongues of shoes, side of the flat head, and rivet portion havwhich can be applied to the tongue of any ing its inner end flattened agaii'ist the under shoe of open face laced type. surface of the tongue, the hook providing a My invention 1s illustrated in the accolnsupport for the shoe string, said hook being panying drawing, in which: secured to the central portion of the tongue F ig. 1 is a perspective view of a shoe near its upper edge and arranged at a point having the usual tongue with. my invention below the uppermost lacing eyelets of the applied thereto. shoe upper, so as to engage the shoe string Fig. 2 is a front view of a tongue, clearly at its last crossing before inserting the showing the shoe string engaged by the string in said eyelets of the shoe, the lining hook in accordance with my invention. of the tongue covering the inner side of the Fig. 3 is a perspective View Of a tong rivet of the hook so as to prevent the hook showing the preferred manner of applying from irritating the leg. my invention to a tongue having a lining. In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my The shoe 1 has the usual tongue 2, fassignature. tened at one end to the shoe in the customary way. This tongue 2 is provided at its up- SAMUEL M. WHITE.-

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