US50345A - James elleman - Google Patents

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UNITED' STATES PATENT', OFFICE.

JAMES ELLEMAN, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IIVPIIRVEMENT. ON SHOE-BUCKLES..

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,345; dated October 10, 1865.

use the same, reference bein g had to the accompanying drawings, crini-ng'ilfart of this specification.

The object of .my inveinion is to provide a very simple and cheap buckle for fasteningv slioes,.and Vfor other purposes, the same being made substantially as hereinafter described, and forming a new article of manufacture.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is n. view. showing the application of `myinventionfto a gent'leinans boot. Fig. 2 is a front view of the buckle with Ythe straps attached thereto; and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal central Section taken on the line x ai, Fig.l 2.

Similar letters ot` reference indicate corresponding parts. i

The buckle is made by striking orv cutting out of a sheet of metal a dat piece, a, having an y desirable shape or form suitable for a buckle or shoe-fastenin g. 'lhrough'this piece of metal, near each end thereof', there is punched or cut a slot, b, the direction 'of the length being transversely with the piece a.. rIhe said slots are to be made sufficiently long and wide to receive within them the strap c attached to the llap ot' the boot. (See Fig. 1.) Two other slots, d d, are out or punched through this piece of metal, like the others, transversely therewith and near the center thereof, and sufficiently near together to leave but a bar or strip ot'v metal between. Through these is inserted the strap e, which is lo secure the buckle tol the shoe or other article by passing thestrap up .through one slot, ,over the bar, and down through the other. (See Fig. 3.) The buckle having been Vthus secured to the strap, in order to fasten the shoe it is only necessary to insert the end of the strap c up through oneoi' the slots, drawing taut upon the same, and then passing it;

down through the other slot b, which will secure it iirinly, and the two parts ofthe shoe or other article will Athen be buckled or fastened .securely together.

It will be noticed that little or no labor-1s necessary in making my buckle, as it, with the several slots in it, may be struck or cut out of a fiat piece of metal in any desired shape, or, indeed, a grent number may be cut out at the same time hyoneoperntion. Thus the expense .of manufacturing my buckle isflittl'e or nothingl` in comparison with all other buckles now in the market, and the parts to be united by them can be as quickly and readily secured as with any other buckle.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, as a new article ot' manufacture, is

A buckle or shoe -fastening made substantially as lherein shown and described.

JAMES ELLEMAN.

lWitnesses:

RICHARD ARNOLD,

WILLIAM L. DUNBAR.

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