US475073A

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Publication number: US475073A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-05-17
Anticipated expiration: 1909-05-17

Description

(No Model.)

B. C. ANDERSON.

. SHOE.

No. 475,073. Patented May 17,- 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

EDWARD O. ANDERSON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE INVISIBLE EYELET COMPANY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 475,073, dated May 17, 1892.

Application filed November 25, 1891. Serial No. 413,058. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD O. ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Laced Boots or tShoes, of which the following is a specifica- The object of my invention is a laced boot or shoe provided with eyelets which do not show on the outside, thereby preventing the unsightly appearance resulting from the wearing off of the japan or other coating from the eyelets when they are so placed as to appear on the outside of the boot or shoe, ashas been heretofore the universal practice.

I accomplish my object as follows: I provlde a stay-piece, as is now done, but instead of putting the eyelets through both this piece and the upper, thereby causing the eyelet to appear outside of the upper, where it will be subjected to wear, I put the eyelet through the stay-piece only, or through the lining and the stay-piece and puncture by any appropriate means a series of holes in the upper opposite the eyelets in the stay-piece. In this way, when the boot or shoe is laced, no part of the eyelets will be seen. The stay-piece may be placed on the outside, and in that case the eyelets will be put through the upper, the stay-piece provided with holes opposite to the eyelets being sewed on over the part containing the eyelets; but this I regard as only another form of my invention.

In the drawings I have shown in Figure 1 a front view of a shoe made in accordance with my invention, the stay-piece and upper being turned back, so as to show the eyelets in the former and the holes opposite to them in the latter; and in Fig. 2 I have shown the same laced up.

a is the shoe.

1) is the stay-piece.

c c are the eyelets.

d d are the holes in the upper opposite to the eyelets through which the lacings are to beplaced.

c is the lining.

It will be seen that by my invention the rough. side of the eyelet is concealed, whereas as they are now used it must appear on one side or the other of the upper; also by my invention the eyelet can be set so that the split and ragged rim caused by inserting it does not come next the stocking of the wearer, but between the upper and thestay-piece. This not only gives the shoe a neater and more finished appearance, but prevents the lacing from being worn by coming in contact with the split rim of the eyelet in putting onand taking off the shoe and also while itis being worn.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A laced boot or shoe provided with eyelets which are inserted in the under portion only of the different thicknesses of material composing the boot or shoe at that part and are covered by the outer portion of the shoe, through which outer portion are holes placed substantially opposite to the eyelets, so that the lacings may be put through the eyelets and the opposite holes and when the boot or shoe is laced no portion of the eyelets will appear, substantially as and for the purpose above described.

EDWARD C. ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

J OHN L. McLEAN, RoLoN E. FOSTER.