US548208A

US548208A - Shoestring or corset-string eyelet-tie

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Publication number: US548208A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-10-22
Anticipated expiration: 1912-10-22

Description

(No Model.)

. E. A JORDAN. SHOESTRING 0R CORSET STRING EYELET TIE.

' No. 548,208. Patented 088.22, 1895.

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NITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

EDWARD A. JORDAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHOESTRING OR CORSET-STRING EYELET -TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 548,208, dated-October 22, 1895.

Application filed January 22,1895.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD A. JORDAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Shoestring or Corset-String Eyelet-Ties; 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 appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in shoestring or corset-string eyelet-ties; and the objects of my invention are to securely fasten the ends of shoestrings or corset-strings without tying their ends in knots, and thereby prevent the ends of the strings from slipping or becomingloosened 0r untied. I attain these objects by the constructions illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top plan view of the eyelet-tie. Fig. 2 is a side View of the same, looking from the toe of the shoe. Fig. 3 is an end view of the eyelet-tie seen from the left side of the shoe, and Fig. 4 is perspective view of the shoe and the eyelet-tie securely fastened into the same. Fig. 5 is a top plan View of another form of my device, showing the ends of the lacing-cords fastened therein and Fig. 6 is an end view of the same seen from either side of the shoe. Fig. 7 is a top plan view of still another form of my eyelet-tie; and Fig. 8 is an end View of the same seen from the side of the shoe before securely fastened therein.

The letter a in Figs. 2 and 3 refers to the eyelet-body, which is securely fastened by means of an ordinary punch used in clinching or riveting eyelets in the uppermost lacing-hole of a shoe or in the lowermost or last lacing-hole of corsets.

b refers to the body-ring, located upon'the top of the eyelet-body a, and o is the top ring of the eyelet-tie. The two rings 6 c are connected together at the inner ends thereof by the connecting-strip cl. The said connecting-piece d is slotted longitudinally, and the slot opens into and forms a continuous slot or opening, with the perforation in the top ring 0, through which latter perforation the projection upon one jaw of the punch enters. In order to clinch or rivet the lower portion of the eyelet-body a upon the inner Serial No. 535,780. (No model.)

surface of the upper around the perforation made therein, the outer surface of the upper round the hole is pressed firmly against the lower surface of the body-ring b by the punch or riveting-machine, and it is securely held thereto.

6 6 refer to the two biting edges of the two rings 1) c, and f fare the two more widelyseparated or open edges of the two rings 19 c. As shown upon the drawings, the two sides of the top ring are bent out of line. In other words, one side of the top ring 0 (the upper side when fastened into the shoe) is located near to the top surface or edge of the body ring I) than it is on its opposite or lower side. This particular construction is for the purpose of permitting the end of the string in its turn around the slotted connecting-strip d between the two rings 1) c to pass freely between the two open edges ff and to be clamped or squeezed between the two biting edges e e of the said rings. The said connecting-strip (1 projects inward when secured to the shoe over the eyelet-body a and at about right angles thereto. This feature of construction allows not only the ends of the strings or cords to crowd a lower portion of the cord below against the upper surface of the slotted strip d, but increases the friction between the ends of the string or cord at the point where they cross, the lower portion thereof thereby preventing the liability of unloosening or slacking the same. The ends of the strings are passed upward through the eyelet-body, over the upper surface ofconuecting-strip (1, across to the opposite sides of the upper, between the open edges of the two rings, around the upward-projecting portion of connecting-strip d, and finally secured and firmly held between the two biting edges e e of the rings 17 c.

In fastening the ends of the string when the construction illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 is used the cord is passed upward through the hollow eyelet-body a and then downward through the narrow slot in top ring 0 and connecting-strip d, and thereby securely held,

the two biting edges 6 e of the ring a and the disk 0 Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. An eyelet-tie, consisting of the tubular eyelet body, two rings, each having biting or clamping edges, and a connecting strip, uniting the two rings, substantially as described.

2. An eyelet-tie, provided with a tubular eyelet body, two rings, a connecting-stri p projecting inwardly and at right angles to the eyelet body, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

3. An eyelet-tie consisting of a tubular eyelet body, two clalnping rings, one of which having one of its edges thereof bent out of line with its opposite edge, whereby a biting or clamping jaw is formed, substantially as described.

4. An eyelet-tie having an eyelet body, two rings provided withbiting edges upon one side, a slotted connecting strip, uniting the said eyelet body and two rings together, the edge of one of said rings bent out of line of said opposite edge, substantially as for the purpose described.

5. An eyelet-tie consisting of two rings, ahollow body portion, a'vertically slotted connecting strip uniting the said two rings, and hollow body portion, one of said rings bent out of line upon one side thereof with the edge on the opposite side, a vertically slotted connecting-strip projecting inwardly from, at right angles to, and beyond the vertical axis of the eyelet body, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD A. JORDAN. \Vitnesses:

JOHN RODGERS, ALBERT O. ALEXANDER.