US1570015A - Fastener for laces - Google Patents

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Jan. 19 1926. 1,570,015

7 Y D. E. TROXELL FASTENER FOR LACES Filed April 23, 1925 gnuenhw 7 dam/7 6H0: ne ul Patented Jan. 19, 1926.

UNITED STATEfi PATENT OFFICE.

FASTENER FOR LAGES.

Application filed April 23, 1925.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID F. TaoxnLL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockbridge Baths, in the county of Rockbridge and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fasteners for Laces, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for securing laces on clothing and foot gear and the main object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which will greatly facilitate the lacing of shoes or the like and securely hold the tied laces, and prevent the knots from becoming undone accidentally.

The hooks provided on shoes generally have sharp edges over which the laces pass and do not permit the drawing together of the laces very readily, and one object of the present invention is to construct the improved buttons in such a manner that the laces slip easily around the same while the shoes are being laced, and a good hold on the lace is made when the latter has been tied. This is particularly advantageous on high shoes that reach up near the knee of the wearer, because if the laces are made to slip easily over the hooks and around the buttons when the shoes are being laced, much time is gained and it becomes easy to ob tain the required tightness around the limb.

In the accompanying drawing, several modified forms of the invention have been illustrated; and-- Figure 1 is a perspective front view of a pair of buttons forming the subject matter of the present invention;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section along line 22 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a section of the button;

Figure 1 is a horizontal section along line H of Figure 3;

Figure 5 shows a top plan view of a modified form of a button;

Figure 6 is a perspective view of a slight- 1y modified button from the preferred form shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3;

Figure 7 is a top plan View of still another modification; and

Figure 8 is a side view of Figure 7.

The button consists of a foot plate 10 in which is rigidly secured a shank 11 projecting at right angles from the surface of the foot plate 10 and provided with a head 12. The foot plate 10 has one or more apertures 13 to receive means for securing Serial No. 25,317.

the same to the shoe top. The head 12 is preferably elongated and provided with a V-shaped cut 1 1 leading from the inner edge thereof. The head is spaced sufliciently above the foot plate 10 to permit one or more turns of the shoe lace around the stern 1.1. The latter is preferably othaltt' round cross section with the flat side 9 inwards, that is, on the same side as the V-cut in the head, as best seen in Figure 1.

As already described, the head shown in Figures 1 and 3 is the preferred form and Figure 6 is similar thereto, but its head 15 has a V-cut 17 which is deeper than the one shown in Figures 1 and 3.

In Figure 5 is shown a button with a round or heart shaped head 18 having a curved slot 19 running substantially parallel with the peripheral edge or"? the head and forming a narrow linger 20.

The modification illustrated in Figures 7 and 8 shows a head 21 having two straight. p2 'allel sides, one convex edge and one con cave edge. A recess 23 extends inwardly from the convex edge 27 and forms a short projection 22 at one side of the head. A short standard 24- extends from the base in spaced relation to the concave edge 26 and has its free end hollowed out, as at 25, on the side facing the concave edge.

A pair of buttons are secured near the upper edge of a shoe 29, the buttons being positioned with the V-cuts 14: facing each other, and on the tongue 30 of the shoe at a short distance below. the buttons is secured a strip 31 preferably made of leather or some other suitable material. This strip has an opening 32 at its upper end and is so positioned that its opening is either on the level with the V-cuts or a short distance below the same. The shoe may be provided with more than one set of buttons if so desired, but in the present illustration only one set has been shown in use and below these buttons the ordinary hooks 33 made use of. After the laces have been engaged with the upper books 33, they are engaged with the shanks of the buttons and if so desired may be wrapped one or more times around the shanks. After being engaged with the shanks of the buttons, the laces are forced into the V notches so that they will be prevented from slipping loose while the end portions of the laces are passed through the opening 32 of the strip 31. The laces are now tied against the outer face of the strip and since the ltnot cannot pass through the opening 532 the laces will he held tight. It will, of course, he tn'it'lerstood that when the knot is; being formed the laces will he drawn out of the V notches.

On high shoes it is preferable to have several pairs of these buttons or at least one pair at the top and another pair about half way down the upper ot the shoe, but it is not necessary to have more than one strip :31, for tying the laces.

\Vhen buttons of the form shown in I igure 5 are used, the lace is taken through the slot 1!) hack of the linger ill} to hold it taut. When the form shown in Figures 7 and used, the lace is taken around the stud under the head ll one or more times and the end of the lace may," then be squeezed in between the concave edge 26 and the hoilowed out portion 25 ot the standard 2-1, or after ha ring passed around the stem, the lace may he led into the V-cut 23 over the projection and the two ends thereupon tied together.

Having thus described the in'vt. ntion what is claimed as new is:

1. In a lace fastening device, a button having a foot adapted to be attached to a garment, a shank extending from the outer 'face of said foot, at substantially right angles there-1o a head at the outer end ot the shank, said head licilig elongated with a V-cut. at one of its narrow edges, and said shank having a halt-rtnind cross section with its flat side coinciding with said V-cut.

2. In a device of the class described, a pair of buttons as specified in claim 1 seeured to a garment; to he laced and havinp their V-shaped cuts plat-ed opposite to each other, a strip provided with an open ng and secured on the garment and adapted to receive the ends of a lace tying the garment with its opening;- disposed between the buttons a lter passing around the shanks of said hattons, and serving to support a knot tied on said ends.

2). A shoe lace Fastening device coinpris in a pair ct huttons each provided with a foot adapted to he secured near the edges of the tippers ot a shout at strip adapted to he srt'ttItJ-(l on the tongue of the shoe and having an opening adjatent its upper end said huttons, said hnttons hein provided with heads having V-s'ahaped cute in the portions facing each other, and shanks connecting said head with their respective feet, said shanks havin a hall round cross section with the tint side adjacent said V-shaped cut.

in testimony whet-e01 1 allix my signature.

DAVID F. TROXELL. [n 5.]

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