US326148A

US326148A - Lacing-stud

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Publication number: US326148A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-09-15
Anticipated expiration: 1902-09-15

Description

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' LAGING STUD. No. 326,148. Patented Sept. 15, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEICE.

FRANCIS M. PIPER AND JAMES H. REED, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

LAClNG-STUD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,148, dated September 15, 1885.

Application filed May 1, 19:85. (X model.) i

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FRANCIS M. PIPER and JAMES H. REED, both of Lynn, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usetul Improvement in Laeing- 'Studs, of which the following, taken in conand Fig. 4 the same View of a blank used in making a stud provided with eyes by which it may be secured to the material; Fig. 5 is a section on line a0 a2; Figs. 3 and 4.

For convenience of description, We will designate the various parts of the stud as follows: a, the beak; b, the crown; c, the neck; d, the flat portion of the neck; 6, the plate; f, the prongs; g, the eyes; h, the edges of the crown.

In the manufacture of our improved stud we use a sheet of metal, and cut from said sheet, by means of dies, a blank of the form shown in Figs. 8 and 4., according as it is desired to produce a stud provided with prongs or eyes. The portion of this blank forming the crown b of the stud is made convex, as

shown in Fig. 5,'and is provided with the downwardly-projecting edges h. The convexity, as also the projecting edges, is given it when it is'stamped from the sheet of metal, the operation being simultaneous. A blank of this form and construction being produced, the beak a is bent downward so as to be on the level of the plate 6 in the finished stud. (See Fig. 1.) The neck a is so bent and set as to assume the form shown, Figs. 1 and 2, the

portion nearest the crown of the stud being nearly in a vertical position, while the poras abrace to keep the stud in its normal positiou in the material while subjected to the strain of the lace. The plate e is located directly beneath the central portion of the crown, and serves, by means of prongs or eyes, to secure the stud to the material. The beak a, being carried downward to the level of the plate, prevents the lace from accidentally slipping the stud, while this position of the beak and the convex shape of the crown prevent the stud from catching in the clothing. The downwardly-projecting edges h of the crown give an appearance of solidity, as well as a superior finish.

We are enabled by the construction above described to obtain a lacingstud which can be rapidly and cheaply produced. which will not readily slip the lace, and which, under ordinary conditions, will maintain its proper position when in use and under the strain of a tight lace.

What we claim is As an improved manufacture, alacing-stud and having the portion designed from the crown of the stud of a convex shape, said crown being provided with downwardly-projecting edges h, and having at one end a beak which will project, when the stud is formed, downward to the level. of the plate, and at the other a neck and a plate, 6, provided with means whereby the finished stud may be secured to the material, substantially as shown and described.

FRANCIS M. PIPER. JAMES H. REED.

Witnesses:

JEFFERSON D. 000K, JEROME INGALLS.