US1685489A - Lace for footwear - Google Patents

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Sept. 25, 1928. 1,685,489

C. JANSEN LACE FOR FOOTWEAR Filed Feb. 24, 1928 iff Patented I Sept. 2,5, 1928.

UNITED `STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL JANSEN, F NEW YORK, N. Y.

LACE FOR FOOTWEAR.

Application led February 24, 1928. Serial No. 256,610.

This invention relates to improvements in shoe-laces, particularly elastic shoe-laces, and .1t 1s the principal ob]ect of my invention to provide a shoe-lace chiey eonslsting of a plu! and will then be specifically deined in the appended claim.

In the accompanyin drawing forming a A'material part of this isclosurez- Fig. 1 shows in elevation a shoe-lace, and fastening means therefor constructed according to my invent-ion.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view of .a-shoe-lace showingv its interior structure,- and its outer mantle.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentar side elevation ot one end of the lace, part y in sect-ion.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary side-elevation, `partl in section of the other end of the shoeace.

. Fig. 5 is an end view seen inthe of arrows 5-5 of Figure 3. 35 Fig. 6 is an end view seen inthe direction of arrows trof Fig.`4. y

Fig. 7 illustrates in fragmentary vside eledirection vation, partly in .section showing both endsA of the lace united.

4o As illust-rated on the drawing, the vshoe lace 10 has its inner core made of a plurality of rubber strings 11,v preferably formed, as

shown, united in any well known manner and of substantially square cross-section as at 12.

This bundle of four etc., strings is encased in an outer mantle 13 spun or otherwise guided around the core and .nade of silk,

- thread, arn, rubberized or not, or other suitable an durable material.

These and other objects and advantages.

One end of the shoe-lace is formed into 'a' point, as indicated at 14, and carries at adist-ance beyond the point a metal sleeve A15 having its front formed into a plate 16 having substantially the form of a cross, as shown in Figure 5.

The other end of the lace is ball-shaped, as at 17 and has formed thereon a socket 18 of substantial key-stone vform, the outer end of which is closed by a. plate 19, provided with an opening of cross-shape as shown in Figure 6 adapted to receive the end plate 16 of the other end ot' the shoe-lace, the dimensions of which are so selected that plate 16 can be readily introduced into the socket 17 through the opening 2O in plate 19 and when intended, will engagethe inner wall of plate 19 while t-he point 14 willassume the position indicated in Figure 7.

This will explain the operation of my device suiicicntly and therefore further detailed explanation will not be necessary.

It will be understood that my shoe-lace is I preferably intended for use with foot wear having eyelets with undercut heads, and that I have shown and described the preferred form of my shoe-lace as an example only of the 'many ways in which the same may be practically constructed, and that I may make such changes in its construction as come within the scope of the appended claim without de arture from my invention.

aving thus descrlbed my Invention, what I claim' as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is v For shoe-laces of the class described a fastening means for connecting the ends ot said lace comprising a point at one end, a sleeve on the lace lat a distance from said oint, a substantially arm-shaped end plate or said sleeve, a ballhaped body having a hollowed 4substantially keystoneshaped socket formed therein at the opposite end of the lace, an end plate for said socket having a median crossshaped opening adapted to receive and allow the passage of the cross-shaped end plate of the other lace end into said socket to be locked thereinby a twist of the lace'.

Signed at New York inthe county ot New York and State of New York this 28th day of November A. D. 1927.

CARL JANSEN.

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