US391557A

US391557A - Shoe-clasp

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Publication number: US391557A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-10-23
Anticipated expiration: 1905-10-23

Description

(No Model.)

H. S. PULLMAN.

SHOE CLASP.

No. 391,557. Patented Oct. 23, 1888.

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UNITED STATS HERBERT S. PULLMAN, OF ROCKVILLE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO GROVE H. WILSON, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

SHOE CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,557, dated October 23, 1888.

Application filed February 11, 1888. Serial No. 263,672. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I,'HERBERT S. PULLMAN, of Rockville, in the county of Tolland and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Shoe-Clasp, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improved clasp specially adapted for-use with overshoes of the arctic type. The invention is embodied in the construction hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l isa plan view of ablank from which the tongue is formed. -Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the complete device. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a slightly-modified form, and Fig. 4. is a perspective view of a shoe having my device applied.

It is the prime object of the present invention to economize in metal and produce asimple, readily-applied, and easily-manipulated tongue adapted for use in connection with the ordinary form of keeper and in essentially the ordinary manner.

In carrying out the invention the integral tongue A and base or rootB are preferably constructed from a blank, 0, illustrated in Fig.1. The blank, consisting of a single piece of metal, preferably cut from a sheet in any approved manner, is provided with a substantially-rectangular base, in which a transverse slot, C, is produced, and a tongue projecting centrally therefrom at right angles to said slot, the said base being out upon each side in alignment with the sides of the tongue, whereby side lips, 0 are obtained. The lips, however, if found desirable, may be omitted.

In forming the device from the blank the tongue is bent upon itself in a wave-line over the base and the slot therein projecting beyond the same, as illustrated in Fig. 2. The lips are then, or in the same operation with completing the form of the tongue, bent upon them selves downward under the base, forming the round edges to, which surrounding surface and the equivalent surface of the tongue are made to align. Thus when the device is attached to the shoe, as illustrated in Fig. 4., and the former rocked upon the latter, the said smoothedge surface a, which is the contact-surface, will not wear the shoe.

A spring is not needed upon this form of catch, as when the tongue is passed through the keeper and brought to a horizontal position the tension of the keeper upon the tongue and the curve in the latter substitute a spring.

When the lips C are omitted,the device assumes the shape illustrated in Fig. 2.

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

1. As an improved article of manufacture, the shoe-clasp herein described, consisting of a slotted base and a tongue integral with the base curved from one edge over the base and slot, the edges of the base essentially aligning, the outer curve of the tongue being bent upon itself to present a round or smooth surface, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a clasp [or shoes, the blank consisting of an essentially-rectangular slotted base and a tongue projected centrally from an edge andhaving the base cut in alignment with the side edges of the tongue to produce'side lips, as and for the purpose specified.

HERBERT S. PULLMAN.

Witnesses:

J. F. ACKER, 'Jr., 0. F. DOEBLER.