US743954A

US743954A - Eyelet safety-tie.

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Publication number: US743954A
Application number: US11642602A
Authority: US
Inventors: James K Thoma
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1902-07-21
Filing date: 1902-07-21
Publication date: 1903-11-10
Anticipated expiration: 1920-11-10

Description

No. 743,954. PATENTED NOV. 10, 1903;

J. K. THOMA.

EYELET SAFETY TIE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 21, 1902.

NO MODEL.

mesa-ea sir-an YATES Patented November 10, 1908.

' EYELET SAFETY TlE.

SPEGIFIGA'EIQN formingpart of Letters Patent No. 743.9545, dated November 10, 1903. Application filed July 21. 1902. Serial No. 116.426. ('llo model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES K. THOMA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cooperstown, in the county of Otsego and State of New Yorlr, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eyelet Safety-Ties; and Ido declare the following to he 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.

T his invention has relation to improvements in shoelace fasteners; and it-consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described and particularly claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shoe with my improved lace-fastener secured to the marginal edge of the upper with the lacing-cord attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a front view of the lace-fastener. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the fastener having another form of baseplate. 7

Reterring to the drawings and illustrated in Fig. 1, I show a complete shoe 29 with my improved lace-fastening 10 secured thereto having a single lacing-cord 11 attached to the usual hooks and eyelets 12 securedto the meeting edges 13 of the upper of the shoe. However,'1 wish it to be understood that my device is equally capable of fastening both ends of the lacing-cord.

As shown in Fig. 2, my improved shoe-lacing fastener consists of a base-plate 2 and a top plate 27, the former of which has its head portion i cut orslitted on opposite sides to form rearwardly and downwardly projecting securing-

prongs

21 and 22, which are adapted to be passed through the material of the shoe upper and clenched thereto. The head and foot portions of the base-plate are provided with perforations or

openings

23 and 23?, through which rivet-s or other fastening means are adapted to pass for the better securing of the plate to the shoe-upper. Through the central portion of the base-plate I provide a central opening. Thet-op plate is provided with a. circular central portion having an opening therein which enacts with the opening of the base-plate,and an eyelet 20 is inserted through the openings of both plates, so as to secure the two parts together and to the shoe-upper. On opposite sides of the circular portion of the top plate I provide reversely-curved sprin g-arms 29,having upwardly-curved hearing ends 32, provided with terminal upwardlycurved hent ends 82, which serve to bear against the upper and lower ends of the upper surface of the base-plate, so as to permit of the ends of the shoe-lacings being inserted or forced between the same and'secured hetween the curved bearings of the top plate and the upper surface of the base-plate directly below thecurved bearings,whereby the shoe-lacing is securely held in place.

I. wish it to he understood that I do not con fine myself to placing a single fastening on one meeting edge of the upper of. the shoe-as, for instance, when there are two ends to the lacing I secure afastening on the opposite meeting edge of the upper to thereby meet the requirements of the double ends of the lacing. I

In Fig. 3 I show the top plate-8 with terminal upwardly-curved ends 8' 8 and an eyelet 9, all of which is of the same construction as that shown in Fig. 2. The base-plate 6, shown attached to the top plate 8, in this instance has two

prongs

7 and 7 formed on the opposite endsthereof, whereby tosecu re the same to the shoe-upper.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 7 A fastening device for shoe-lacings comprising a flat base-plate having a central open ing, means at the opposite endsof the baseplate tosecure the same to the upper of a. shoe, a top plate having reversely-curved arms provided with terminal upturned ends, said top plate also having a central opening to coaot with the central opening of the base-plate, an eyelet passing throughthe said shoe-upper and through the said central openings of the base and top plates to secure said parts together, substantially as specified.

' JAMES K. THOMA. Witnesses:

J. S. CAMPBELL, H. T. BAsmenR.