US309308A - Shoe-lacing - Google Patents

Description

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A. G. MATHER.

SHOE LAGING.

No. 309,308. I in Patenfpgqljec. 16, 18 84.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,308, dated December 16, 1884.

' Application filed January 18. 1883. (No model.)

Illinois, have invented certain new and useful ing-loops.

Improvements in ShoeLacing, of which the following, in GOIZIIGGIJIOH with accompanying drawings, is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective representation of ashoe provided with lacing embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail showing the manner of constructing the lac- Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the same. Fig. 4: is a side view Showing the shoe when laced.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts.

The shoe shown is intended to represent a shoe of that clash which has a lacingslit, and B is a flap or tongue laced near one of its edges to one of the edges of the said slit, the other edge of the saic tongue being left free or loose, as is clearly indicated in Fig. 1.

A A are loops each consisting of a piece of leather folded upon itself and stitched along its central portion to the under side of the flap B.

O O are the ordinary eyelets, usually arranged near the edges of the lacing-slit.

D is a button applied to the shoe near the upper corner of that side of the lacing-slit to which the tongue Bis laced.

E is the lacing-cord, and F is a comparatively short strap applied to the end of the said cord and having in it a series of buttonholes, as shown.

To lace the shoe I fasten one end of the lac ing-cord near the button D, pass it thence through the inner opening of the upper loop, A, thence through the eyelet near the lower end of the said loop from the outside'of the shoe inward, thence through the next eyelet on the same side of the shoe, thence through the inner opening in the next lower loop A,

and so on until the lower eyelet upon the opposite side of the lacing-slit is reached, the cord being passed through that eyelet, then upwardly through the outer opening of the lowest loop A, thence across the lacing-slit inward through an eyelet and upward and outward through the next succeeding eyelet upon that side of the lacing-slit, then across the latter and upward through the outer opening in the next upper loop, A, and so on until the lacing-cord passes through the upper eyelet opposite the button D, all of which is clearly indicated in Fig. 1.

It will be perceived from the foregoing description, and from reference to the drawings, that by drawing up or tightening the cord E the shoe will be tightly and firmly laced with facility. After tightening the cord in this manner as much as need be, I wind it around the ankle in the direction of the button D, and button the strap F to the head of the said button, as is indicated in Fig. 4.

It will also be perceived that the cord need not be withdrawn from the loops or eyes in unlacing or loosening the shoe.

I am aware that shoes have heretofore been provided with lacing flaps or tongues having two rows of eyelets therein, and a row of eyelets upon each side of the lacing-slit, and that separate lacing-cords have passed from one set of eyelets to the other and tied in separate knots, and I do not intend, therefore, to claim the same; but,

Having thus described myinvention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A shoe provided with a flap or tongue, having loops on its under side along each longitudinal edge thereof, the instep having eyes or eyelets along both sides of its opening or lacingslit and a single lacing-cord applied through the said loops and alternately through two of said eyes or eyelets, substantially as specified, and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALONZO G. MATHER.

7 ELIAS R. BOWEN.

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