US39544A

US39544A - Improvement in gaiter-boots

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Publication number: US39544A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1863-08-18
Anticipated expiration: 1880-08-18

Description

J'. C. IBREED 8v C. K. BRADFORD. GAITER BooT.

No. 39,544. 'Patented Aug. 18, 1863.

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I.l c, BREED AND CHARLES K. ERADEORDELYNN', MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAITERBOOTS- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 39,5411, dated August 18, 1863.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, I. C. BREED and CHARLESK;BRADEoRD,ofLynn,in the county of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful 'Improvement in Ganter-Boots; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full. clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing-1, forming a part oi' this specifica-- tion, in which- Fignre 1 is a side elevation, representing a boot having two rows of eyelets, one in the front-.,A, and one in the back, B, and a vertical lacing. Fig. 2 isa view of the stop or fastener detached.

Like parts are represented by the same letters in the drawings.

The nature ot' our invention consists, rst, in providing the two parts A and B of a gaiter-boot, when so constructed as to overlap each other from the sole to the top, with two rows of eyelets-Julie row in the one part being over the row in the other part, and holding said parts together by avertical arrangement of the lacing, as Shown 'in Fig. 1; second, in the use of a sliding stop or fastener, constructed and operating substantially as set forth, and for the purpose described.

To ena-ble others skilled in the art to make and use our improvement, we will now proceed to describe its construction and operation.

Our boot, as shown in the drawings, is open at the 'side from the Sole to the top, the two parts A and B ,being so constructed as to overlap each other about three quarters of an inch, (more or less,) thereby avoiding the necessit-y of having the usual tongue inside to cover the opening. The back B in Fig. lis also provided with a similar row of eyelets, so

'arranged as to be directly under the row in A,

when ,thecontignousv edges of the front and back are parallel.

lis the lacing, which is fastened inside of the lowest eyelet, and in Fig. 1 is Simply passed out and in through the two rows of eyelets, forming,.as it may fbecalled, a running stitch, vertically to the top of the boot. The stringi thus arranged is so Short and free from friction as to be laced or unlaced with the greatest ease and dispatch, is very neat in appearance, and unites the overlapping edges of the front and back of the boot Suthciently close. The one part overlapping the other so much, it is obvious that the row of eyelets in the front A need not be drawn so as always to be directly over or parallel with the row or rows in the back B, and thus it is obvious that the leg of the boot is in a measure self adjusting or adjustable to ankles ot' different sizes.

fis the sliding stop or fastener, which `is made of sheet-tin or other suitable material,

provided with a central hole and a number of radial arms, (more or less,) as shown in Fig. 4. This stop isslipped on over the end of the lacing-string, and when the boot isV laced as tightly as required, said stop is pushed up close to the boot-leg and the string passed -round the radial arms, as shown in Figs. 1

and 2, and then tucked into the hoot in the usual manner. Thismethod ot fastening is very-rapid, simple, neat, 'and effectual.

-Havingthns described the construction and operation of our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

l. A gaiter-boot, the two parts A and B being so constructed as to overlap each other from the sole to the top, witha row of eyelets in the one part directly over and parallel with a Similar row in the other part, substantially' as set forth and described.

2. The sliding stop or fastener f, in combination with the lacing arrangement, substantially as and for the purpose described.

. 1. C. BREED.

CHAS. K. BRADFORD.

Witnesses.

N. AMES, JOHN E. N icHoLs.