US449340A - Overshoe - Google Patents

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M. S. VARLEYL OVERSHOE. No. 449,340. Patented Mar. 31, 1891.

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PATENT MARTIN S. VARLEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

OVERSHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Tietters Patent 1T0. 449,340, dated March 31, 1891.

Application filed January 5,1891. Serial No. 376,788. (No specimens.)

T0 to whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IVIARTIN S. VARLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Overshoes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement.

in the class of overshoe having as means for preventing it from slipping off the foot an elastic band or strap extending from opposite sides of the overshoe near the heel portion thereof and passing around the heel portion, being shorter and describing a shorter curve than the latter to fit tightly above the heel and into the back of the shoe upon which the overshoe is worn, thus into the spcciesof olfset produced by the fit of the shoe upon the foot of the wearer.

The objects of my improvement are to prevent the tendency to slipping of the heel portion of the overshoe, which the mere band referred to does not obviate, by connecting it to such heel portion at the back thereof by a suitable band, and to save material in the manufacture of the overshoe by omitting from the upper edge of the-heel portion enough of the material to about correspond with that used for the retaining-band, whereby the expense of providing the latter shall be reduced to the minimum.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shoe provided with a rubber having my improved holding means applied to it. Fig. 2 is a similar View of a broken and somewhat enlarged section of the rubber, the section being taken lengthwise centrally through the heel portion of the same.

A is a rubber or similar form of overshoe.

B is a strap formed of elastic material and secured at opposite ends to opposite sides forward of the heel portion of the rubber, as indicated at 00 in Fig. '2, to encircle the shoe O on which the rubber or overshoe is worn at the part 0" of the said shoe or just above the counter portion thereof. The strap B is shorter than the curved counter portion or heel of the overshoe, whereby insertion of the shoe 0 into the rubber stretches the strap, which contracts against the part 0 when the rubber has been slipped in place, and thus prevents the rubber from being accidentally pulled off. To hold the rubber against all liability to being accidentally slipped off at the heel, I fasten the strap B from about its center by a strap D, of either elastic or inelastic material, (though preferably the latter,) to the back of the heel portion of the rubber, as shown in Fig. 2. fastened atits lower end portion to the inner back portion of the counter of the overshoe from its lower extremity to about the point y, being free above that point, and at its upper end portion it is secured to the strap B.

The application of the strap B may be made to extend from an offset formed by cutting a section of the heel portion of the rubber from the upper edge, as represented in Fig. 2, though that is not essential to the use of the combined straps 13 and D. However, the provision of the offset affords the advantages of lightening the overshoe, economizing in material, and reducing the cost of providing my improvement. Neither need the strap B be permanently attached at its ends, though the construction shown and described is much preferred. The elastic strap may be placed upon the rubber in the manufacture of the latter, and its ends where attached may extend between the outside rubber portion of the overshoe and the fabric lining therefor, which is usually provided.

WVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, an overshoe having an elastic strap B extending from The strap D is

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