US395338A

US395338A - Overshoe

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Publication number: US395338A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-01-01
Anticipated expiration: 1906-01-01

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP LONG, OF PERRYSVILLE, OHIO.

OVERSHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 895,338, dated January 1, 1889.

Application filed July 11, 1887. Renewed August 25,1883. Serial No. 283,794. (No model.)

To (all, whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP LONG, of Perrysville, in the county of Ashland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Over-shoes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

Myinvent-ion relates to overshoes, and more particularly to devices for securing overshoes to the shoe or boot over which they are worn.

It is well known that overshoes unprovided with fastening devices are liable to become loose and drop off; and the object of my invention is to provide a reliable inexpensive fastening whereby the heel of the overshoe may be securely attached to the heel of the boot or shoe within it.

The invention consists in the features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a shoe and overshoe with my improvements applied to the latter. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view. Fig. 3 shows the fastening device detached, and Fig. I illustrates a modification.

A represents the shoe or boot upon which the overshoe is worn.

B indicates the overshoe, and C the securing device, consisting of a plate, D, formed at one end with loops or eyes (Z, adapted to serve as bearings for the studs or pins 2 of a tongue,E.

F represents a spring secured at one end to the under side of the plate D, and formed at its opposite end with a lug,f, adapted to bear against the lower or pivoted end of the tongue E. This tongue is provided at about its center with a pin, G, which is adapted to pass through an opening, g, in the back of the overshoe and into a hole, a, in the heel of the inner shoe. The plate Dis secured between the layers of the heel of the overshoe, so that only the eyes d and the free end of the spring F project. The tongue is adapted to be turned to a horizontal position in putting on and in taking off the shoe, and to facilitate its movement its upper end is bent outwardly to form a flange-piece, e. After the overshoe is in place upon the shoe, the tongue is turned up to a vertical position, so that its pin will enter the openin g and a. The spring F holds the tongue firmly in place.

It is obvious that the fastening device may be varied in its construction and application, and I have shown in Fig. 4 a different form of the device.

In Fig. 4 is shown a plate and tongue formed in a single piece, the tongue having sufficient resiliency to enable it to be drawn away from the heel of the overshoe while the latter is being put on or taken off. The tongue has a pin, G, to enter the holes of the shoe, as described above.

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

The combination, with an overshoe, of the plate provided with a spring and a tongue pivoted to. the plate, said tongue having a pin adapted to enter ahole in the heel of the boot or shoe upon which the overshoe is worn, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PHILIP LONG.

Vitn esses:

E. MILLIGAN, PAUL OLIVER.