US727805A - Shoe-lace hook. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAY 12, 1903. M. v. KELLY. I SHOE LACE HOOK. APPLICATION FILED JULY 26 1901; RENEWEP MAY 31, 1902.

H0 MODEL.

7/ lM/fal 2 Hdii asses Patented May 12, 1903.

MAXIMUS VINCENT KELLY, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

SHOE-LACE HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,805, dated May 12, 1903. Application filed July 26, 1901. RenewedMay 31, 1902. Serial No. 109,742. (No model.)

1'0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAXIMUS VINCENT KELLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Shoe-Lace Hook, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to lacinghooks, and particularly to that class adapted for use upon shoes.

The object of the invention is to provide a lacing-hook which shall be thoroughly efiective in holding a lacing assembled therewith and which shall be so constructed and arranged as positively to obviate the presentation of an obstruction to catch upon garments when in use.

A further object is to provide a lacing-hook in which the free end thereof shall by the tension of the lacing be caused to bear against the surface to which it is secured, thereby operating not only to prevent the hook from catching upon garments, but also to obviate accidental separation of the hook and the lacing.

With these and other objects in view, as will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in-the novel combination and arrangement of parts of a lacing-hook, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed; I

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding.

View in top plan of one of the lacing-hooks. Fig. 3 is a view in side elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is a view in transverse section, taken on the line 4 4, Fig. 2, and showing the hook applied.

Fig. 2 is a Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a shoe having the ordinary lacing-flies 2, provided with the usual lower eyelets 3. As these parts may be of the usual or any preferred construction, further description is deemed unnecessary.

The lacing-hook at, which constitutes the gist of the present invention, comprises a head6, carrying a securing shank or stud 7, a neck 8, and a curved arm 9, constituting a continuation of the'neck and terminating in a knob 10, which is preferably oblate-spheroidal in shape, although it may be round and still perform the functions for which it is designed. The head 6 is by preference flat, with rounded edges to prevent abrading the lacing, and the shank or stud is integral therewith, as usual. The arm is curved on an are practically concentric with that of the periphery of the head, and the knob projects inward toward the head to form a constricted passage communicating with the throat formed between the inner side of the arm and the periphery at the head, the neck being curved to form a rounded crotch consti tuting the terminal of the throat, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The arm is deflected toward the terminal of the shank or stud and to such a degree that when the hook is secured to the shoe-fly the knob'will rest against the fly, and thus prevent the accidental separation therefrom of the lacing should the same become untied. The contact between the knob and the fly is accentuated by the tension exerted by thelacing, thus in a positive manner holding'the knob down to prevent its catching upon a garment.

When the lacing-hooks are secured to the flies, the terminal knobs point toward the sole and are thus positioned for most convenient engagement by the lacing. When the .the hooks are secured, thereby causing the knobs to sink into the" materiaL'and-thus positively prevent entrance of the material of the garment; but the neck portion will be free from engagement with the flies or the like, thereby permitting free movement of the lacing, thus to obviate binding on the ankles, which would result if the lacing were positively held against sliding movement with relation to the hooks.

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

1. A garment-hook comprising a securingshank having a head, a neck projecting outward from the head and merging into an arm curved concentrically with and disposed throughout its length below the plane of the head and forming in conjunction therewith a lace-receiving throat, the free end of the arm being disposed to constrict entrance to the throat.

2. A garment-hook comprising a securingshank having a head, a neck projecting outward from the head and merging into an arm curved concentrically with and disposed throughout its length below the plane of the head and forming in conjunction therewith a lace-receiving throat, and a knob carried by the free end of the arm and operating to constrict entrance to the throat.

3. The combination with the lacing-flies of a shoe, of lacing-hooks comprising each a securing-shank having a head, a neck projecting outward from the head and merging into an arm curved concentrically with and disposed throughout its length below the plane of the head and forming in conjunction there with a lace-receiving throat, and a knob carried by the free end of the arm and disposed toward the sole of the shoe and bearing upon the fly.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aifixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

MAXIMUS VINCENT KELLY.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. BATTIN, Tnos. F. LEE.

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