US269094A

US269094A - Shoe-fastening

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Publication number: US269094A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1882-12-12
Anticipated expiration: 1899-12-12

Description

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V. B.- MORTON & S. P. BENNETT.

SHOE PASTBiIING. No. 269,094.. Patented Deo; 12, 1882.

WITNESSES: INVBNTSRST flu. ATTUENEYS.

Nrrao STATES PATENT @rrrca.

VEGA B. MORTON AND SAMUEL P. BENNETT, OF OERALYO, KENTUCKY.

SHOE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part .of Letters PatentNo. 269,094,'dated December 12, 1882.

Application filed June 17, 1882. (No model.)

| O is depressed or flattened, as shown at To all whom it may concern Beit known that we, VEGA B. MORTON and SAMUEL P. BENNETT, of Oeralvo, in the coun ty of Ohio and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Fasteners; and wedo hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shoe provided with our improved fastening. Figs. 2, 3,and 4 are perspective detail views of the fastening device detached from the shoe, showing slight modifications in the construction of the same; and Fig. 5 is a cross-section through the fastener, with its doubled lace-string.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Our invention has relation to fastenings for boots, shoes, and gaiters; and it consists in the detailed construction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letterA lepresents a low-quarter walking-shoe which is provided with our improved fastener. This is made of suitable sheet metal, of the shape shown in the drawings, so as to form a baseplate, B,aud aloop, O, which projects upwardlyfrom the base, its lower part being bent to one side, approximately atright angles to the loop 0, so as to form a lip, D, whichrests upon the corresponding part of the base-plate B. The

bent part D is fastened down upon the baseplate B by the same rivet, E, by which the fastener is secured on the shoe.

In Fig. 4 of the drawings wehave shown a modification, in which the top part of the loop forming a projecting lip or book, d.

The use of this fastening device will readily be understood by reference to Figs. 1 and 5 of the drawings. The fiap A of the shoe is made with small button-holes or eyelet-holes c, to adapt it to be buttoned upon the loops 0 of the fasteners when the flap is prevented from becoming un buttoned by the lace-string F, which is fastened to the flap at d, inserted through the several loops, doubled around the outside loop or end loop, and then reinserted through the several loops, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

We are aware that metal has been bent into loops, suchloops engaging in eyelets in shoe or garment tlaps, such devices being shown in Patents No. 244,675, of 1881, and No. 210,700, of 1878. We are also aware of the construction set forth in Patent No. 125,400, of 1872, and none of these are sought to be covered in this application.

WVhat we claim is- The metal base-plate B, secured to the loops C 1), and both secured to the shoe by the single rivet E, and the flap A, having eyelets 0, combined with the lacing-string F, having metal tip upon the free end, and secured to the flap A at d, the said lacing-string adapted to be passed through all the loops in one direction, around the upper loop, back through the remaining loops, and the metal tip secured as and for the purposes set forth. V

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereunto affixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

VEGA B. MORTON. SAMUEL P. BENNETT. Witnesses:

SAM. MORTON, J. M. GAsEBIER.