US687513A - Sandal or slipper. - Google Patents

Description

Patented Nov. 26, 190i.

N. A. BIBiKOV.

SANDAL 0B SLIPPER.

(Application filed Sept. 19, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' NICHOLAS A. BIBIKOV, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SANDAL OR ISLIPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 687,513, dated November 26, 1901.

Application filed September 19, 1900. Serial No. 30,456. (No model.\

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Beit known that I, NICHOLAS A. BIBIKOV, of the city of New York, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sandals or Slippers, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in footwear; and the object of my invention is to produce a very cheap, simple, and easy sandal or slipper which is particularly adapted for use as a bath-slipper or house-sandal, but which may of course be used for any usual purpose. I have found that by taking a length of fibrous cord and shaping it so that the parts shall lie side by side and assume the shape of a slipper sole and vamp and then stitching or otherwise fastening the parts together a very cheap shoe or sandal is made, and this structure is particularly desirable as a bath-slipper, first, because the fibrous material opens up when wet and becomes very soft and elastic, and, second, because the structure described is very cheap. I have found, too, a particularly cheap and reliable means for attaching such asandal to the foot, and this fastening device can be applied to any ordinary sandal, if desired.

To these ends my invention consists of certain features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference refer to similar parts throughout both views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the sandal or slipper embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section through the fasteningclasp.

The sole 10 and upper '11, the upper con sisting merely of the vam p, are given substantially the usual shape, but are made, preferably, of a fibrous cord 12, an ordinary manila cord being suitable, which cord is laid flat and wound and pressed to the desired shape, so that none of the parts shall overlap, but lie side by side, and when suitably shaped the parts are confined and held together by stitches or other equivalent fastenings. As

above remarked, ordinary fibrous cord is preferable for this structure; but Ido not confine my invention to such cord, as any cord having the necessary consistency can be used.

The upperconsists, as above stated, of a vamp 11, the bottom edge of which is stitched or otherwise fastened to the toe and front portion of the sole l2, and the vamp has a split or open top 14, which is formed partly to make the sandal easy to the foot, partly to 'make it more attractive to the sight, and

partly for the sake of cheapness, as it will be noticed by reference to the drawings that the cord members at the ends of the vamp are doubled and returned upon themselves, as shown at 15, which structure naturally produces the slit or opening 14.

The upper edges of the vamp 11 are stayed by the cross-strap 16, which extends across the slit or opening 14, and the cord forming the vamp is extended to form the fasteningstraps l7,which extend back and are attached to the heel of the sole, as shown at 19. The straps 17 are also fastened at their ends to the vamp 11 at the inner edges of the quarters--that is, at the end of the slit let.

A clasp 20 is held to slide on the straps 17, the clasp having ferrulelike parts 21, each embracing a strap 17, and the clasp is located, preferably, near the heel and can he slid up or down, as desired. This clasp can be made of aluminium, tin, or other light material. In fact, it can be made of anysuitable mate rial.

The foot is inserted between the straps 17 and the toes thrust into the vamp 11, after which the clasp 20 is pulled up on the back of the heel, thus tightening the straps 17 and holding the sandal or slipper firmly to the foot. It will be observed that this fastening means can be applied to any ordinary sandal.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the sandal or slipper which I have described is of the simplest structure, that the material is cheap, that it can be easily made, and that it is flexible enough to conform to all the movements of the foot and to permit such movements to be easily made. It will also be observed that the sandal or slipper described is particularly adapted for bathing purposes, as the sole is not only fiat, but is for the most part without an upper, and consequently there is nothing to hold water.

Iclaim as new, and desire to secureby Letters the vamp on opposite sides of the Opening Patent, isi to the heel of the sole, and a fastening-clasp 15 As an improved article of manufacture, a connecting the aforesaid straps and slidable 5 sandal or slipper comprising a sole of fibrous. thereon.

cord, theparts of which are placed side by In testimony whereof I have signed my side, fastened together and made of the req name to this speoificationin the presence of uisite shape, a vamp covering the toe portion two subscribing Witnesses.

only and formed likewise of cord, the mem- NICHOLAS A. BIBIKOV.

IO bers being placed side by side, fastened 110-" Witnesses:-

Having this described my invention, What I said opening, flexible cords extending from gether and shaped toleave an opening at the WVARREN B. HUTCHINSON, instep, a stay or strap extending across the EMANUEL RANNHEIM.

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