US724391A - Shoe-fastener. - Google Patents

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PATBNTED' MAR. si, 1908.,

G. 'HIRSGHELL SHOE PASTBNER.- APPLICATION FILED DEO. 19. 1902.

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UNITED STATES l PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE IlIRSCHELL, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHOE-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 724,391, dated March 31, 1903. Application filed December 19, 1902. Serial No. 135,872. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE HIRSCHELL, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania,have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Shoe- Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and,

useful improvements in shoe-fasteners; and the main obj ect of the invention is to provide novel means for the fastening of the shoe throughout the length of the front openin g or slit for effectually closing the shoe in an eX-V tremely-rapid manner.

Briefly described, the invention comprises a spring metal strip or tongue engaging in slides or guideways provided therefor in the adjacent edges of the slit made in the shoetop. Suitable means is provided for securing the spring-tongue in the fastened position, and this tongue when released is adapted to wind upon a small shaft located at the lower end of the slit in the shoe-top.

To describe the invention in detail, reference will be had, to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and wherein like numerals of reference will be employed for indicating like parts throughout the several views, in which;

Figure l is a detail perspective view of a shoe equipped with my improved fastening means. Fig. 2 is a detached enlarged side elevation of one of the slides or guideways or strips in which the spring-metal tongue is adapted to operate. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical sectional view thereof. Fig. 5 is an edge view of the spring-metal strip or tongue. Fig. 6 is a detached frontA elevation of the same. Fig.7 is a transverse vertical sectional view thereof. Fig. 8 is an enlarged cross-sectional View of a part of the shoe and of the fastening, showing the tongue in locked engagement with the slides or guideways. Fig. 9 is a detached detail enlarged View of the tonguecarrying member and tongue, showing the tongue wound on its shaft. Fig.10 is a transverse vertical sectional view of the same.

Fig. 11 is a detached detail top plan view of 'ing the tongue in position.

the locking-button, and Fig. l2 is adetached detail side elevation of the same.

In the accompanying drawings, l indicates the upper of the shoe; 2, the top part of the shoe, which top part is slit down the front from the upper edge thereof to the upper of the shoe in the usual manner in order to permit the opening of the shoe to permit the ingress and egress of the foot. Firmly. embedded in the material of which the top of the shoe is formed along the edges of the slit are slides or ways 3, somewhat V-shaped in cross section and provided with inturned fianges 4, (see Fig. 4,) either one or both sides of the ways or slides being provided with apertures 5 to permit of the ways or slides being fastened securelyin the shoe-top by stitching or other approved means.

Mounted on the upper 2, directly at the lower termination of the slit in the shoe-top, is a plate 6, carrying small lugs or keepers 7,

in which is mounted a shaft 8, to which is connected the lower end of a spring-tongue 9. This spring-tongue isprovided with slideflanges 10, making the same substantially I- shaped in cross-section, (see Fig. 7,) these slide-hanges slidingin the ways 3 and hold- The upper end ofthe tongue is provided with an eye 11, in which is mounted for rotation the shank 12 of a button 14, the shank having a flattened portion 15, which when the button is turned vso as to engage the'flattened portion with the upper ends of the ways 3 rests thereon and holds the spring-tongue in engagement with the ways. The shank of the button is riveted in a small washer 16, which prevents the same pulling out of the eye in the tongue.

When the shank of the securing-button is turned so that the flattened portion thereof is in line with the passage .between V the two ways 3,the tongue 9 is free,and when released by reason of the coil-spring winds upon the shaft at the bottom of the slit,thereby opening the shoe-top to permit the-'shoe to b e placed on the foot. When the foot has been inserted in the shoe, the tongue is drawn upwardly by pulling on the button 14 and the button.

ends of said ways to hold the tongue in the elevated position. j

While I have herein shown and described the invention in detail, yet it will be observed that in the practice of the same various changes may be made without departing from the general spirit of the invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with the shoe, and the ways fitted in the shoe-top, of a spring-tongue adapted to slide in said ways, and means carried by the shoe-upper upon which the tongue is wound when released, substantially as described. 4

2. In combination with the shoe-top, the ways fitted therein and the tongue arranged In testimony whereof I affix my signature 3o in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE I-IIRSCHELL.

IVitnesses:

II. C. EVERT, A. M WILSON.

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