US624587A - Shoe-fastener - Google Patents

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Patented May 9, I899.

G. S. WEBBER.

SHOE FA-STENER. (Apphcahon filed Dec. 23, 189B (No Model.)

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GEORGE S. WVEBBER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SHOE -FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 624,587, dated May 9, 1899.

Application filed December 23, 1898. Serial No. 700,181. N model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. WEBBER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoe-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the construction of fastenings wherein the separable edges of the article to be closed or clamped by the fastening are provided with longitudinally-extendin g engaging shoulders or sockets forming a guide or run way for a sliding clasp, and while my improvement is intended for use more especially in shoe-fastenings it may be employed in other connections, as fastenings for gloves or other articles, wherever its use may be found desirable.

My object is to provide guides or engaging shoulders each formed of a continuous length of wire bent to afford attaching means at more or less close intervals and practically smooth and continuous guiding and engaging edges, whereby the guides or engaging shoulders are rendered strong, durable, and easy to apply, as well as flexible, and therefore comfortable to the wearer of the shoe or other article to which they are applied.

In the drawings,Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shoe provided with my improvement; Fig. 2, an enlarged broken perspective View of my improved bent-wire guide in its preferred form as used in connection with the upper of a shoe, the attaching portions being unclenched; Fig. 3, a similar view with the attaching portions bent to their clenched form; Fig. 4., an exaggerated section on line 4. of Fig. 1, the slide being drawn up to the closing position; and Figs. 5 and 6, views corresponding to Figs. 3 and i, but of a modification of the construction.

A A are fastening members attached to the outer surface of the upper B of the shoe, on opposite sides of a slit t therein, and preferably parallel with the edges of theslit. Said members A are each formedof a continuous length of small-gage metal wire bent to afford free elevated projecting portions 8, affording practically continuous shoulders, which serve to engage a companion fastening member on the slide, curved double-wire shank portions s,which serve to support said shoulders above the surface to which the fasteners are applied, and attaching means 5 at the bases of the shanks serving to secure the fastening members to the part to which they are applied.

In Figs. 1 to inclusive, the attaching means 5 are extensions of the shanks s, bent upon themselves to afford a portion 5 which rests upon the outer surface of the upper, and portions 8 which are passed through perforations in the upper and clenched on the under side.

takes the form of eyes, which are practically incurved extensions of the shanks s, expanded to receive the attaching-thread r.

The portions 8 shanks s, and shoulders 3 form a substantially continuous socket-piece. The members are fastened to the shoe-upper preferably by inserting the parts 3 through perforations arranged parallel with the edges of the slit and clenching them. V

C is a slide which may be of leather, soft rubber, or other flexible material. Guidepieces A like those described are fastened to the under side of the slide at the side margins. In the drawings the guides A are shown as fastened by clenching,the portions 8 being left exposed for greater clearness. In practice the guides may either be applied in this manner and entirely concealed bya covering of thin material applied to the outer surface.

of the slide or the form of fastening shown in Fig. 6 may be adopted for the slide. The guide-pieces upon the shoe-upper are so fastened that the sockets which they afiord face outward, while the guide-pieces which are fastened to the slide are so placed that the shoulders which they afford face toward each other.

In Figs. 5 and 6 the attaching means 8 In use the slide is drawn down to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, permitting the shoe-upper to be opened at the slit and the 4 foot to be inserted into the shoe. The shoe is fastened by drawing the slide upward, cans ing the guides A on'the slide which fit into the guides on the shoe-upper, as shown in Fig. 4, to draw the meeting edges of the upper toward each other. Any suitable means may ets r.

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the movement of the slide, such as a loop at, applied to the upper, and shoulderspp on the slide for engaging the loop.

The gist of my invention lies in the construction of the guides AA, and any suitable means may be employed to fasten the slide when it is drawn up and to prevent the slide from being pulled out when it is drawn down.

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

1. In a fastening for shoes, or the like, the combination With a guide-equipped slide, of guides upon the shoe, or the like, comprising a single continuous length of flexible Wire bent to form the practically continuous projecting guide edges 3, the suppo1ting shanks s, and extensions of said shanks resting on the outer surface of the shoe, or the like, and means for securing the extensions, substantially as described.

2. In a fastening for shoes, or the like, the combination with a guide-equipped slide, of guides upon the shoe, or the like, comprising a single continuous length of flexible wire bent to form the practically continuous projecting guide edges 8, the supporting-shanks s, and attaching means comprising extensions of said shanks bent to afford the portions 8 resting on the outer surface and the portions .9 inserted through perforations and clenched, substantially as described.

GEORGE S. XVEBBER. In presence of R. T. SPENCER, D. V. LEE.

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