US75768A - Improved device foe fastening shoes - Google Patents

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NICOLAUS KIRCHNER, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. s

Lemie Parent Na. 75,788, dated March sa, 1868.

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Be it'known that I, NrcoLAUs Krnonnun, of the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Lever-Fastening for Gaiters and Shoes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe constructionvand operation ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which-f p lFigure l is a perspective view of a shoe having mysaid fastening applied thereto, and the shoe-lap closed and fastened down thereby. A

Figure 2, a like view of the same shoe and fastening, showing the fastening and t'he lap of the shoe as openedl for the application of the shoe to oues foot; andv Figure 3, a side view of the full-sized fastening, as opened, for being permanently secured to the shoe or gaierv v Like letters of reference being used for indicating the same parts when in the several gures.

The object'of my invention is to afford a simple and. more easily-operated fastening for gaiters, shoes, Src., whereby the wearer can with the greatest Afacility either draw the overlapping piece upon the underlapping` i piece of a shoe and the' two opposite edges of agaiter-boot together properly, and fasten them securelyin place,

or unfas'ten and release the same, as occasion may require.-

'Y My invention consists of a springy lever having one of its 4enflsjointed to one endof a flat piece of metal, (which is providedwith a pliable spur or stem, whereby it can be readily and permanently fixed to the leather on one side of the shoe or gaiter,) and its other end formed into a transverse cylinder or head,` which will spring over and catch under the opposite end ofthe xed plate, when the said lever (previously passed through a loop `or hole in the opposite lap or edge of the shoe orgaiter) is pressed downward by the thumb or finger of the operator, substantially as hereinafter set forth and described.

Referring to the drawings, A is the overlapping piece of the shoe, B the springy lever, anrlC the llat piece of metal to which the lever B is jointed. The lever B-is a thin, fiat piece of spring-steel or other springy metal about three-sixteenths of an inch wide and three-quarters of an inch long, (more or lessa) having one end hinged to one end of the plate C and its other endlooped, so as to produce thereata transverse cylindrical head, b', (see fig. The plate C is a flat strip of sheet metal, about three-eighths of an inch Wide, having a transverse slot`in one end, whereby the lever B is attached, so astofOrrn the hinge-joint, and extending in'length about half an inch in a straight line, where it isbent to a` right angle, so as.V toform a projecting loop, c', (see gs. 2 and 3,) over and under which loop-the head b of B will catch, when the free end of the latter is pressed down upon it, (see iig. 1.) The free end c of the plate C is narrowed to a pointed stem about half an inch in length from theturn c', and in the middle of the plate C there is made a small hole, 0', (see g. 2.) Several ofthe plates C, with the levers B attached, as described, are fastened permanently by the Shoemaker to the part E of the shoe by forcing the stem, c, of each down through the leather and then up through 'another hole made in the leather` into the hole c, bringing the plate, leather, and'stem into close contact thereby, and then cutting oifr the projecting pointed end of ,the stern, and, finally, riveting it fast in the hole c', thus securing the several fastcnings permanently to the shoe in the relation to cach other and the lapping parts of the shoe, as shown lin gs. 1 and 2. The overlapping piece A ofthe shoe has loops, a! a', attached, or suitable holes made near the edge of the lapping-piece A, through which the free ends-of the levers B, respectively, can be readily passed, as Vrepresented in g. 2. I p i v The'shoeor gaiter isclosed and fastened upon oners foot by passing the free ends of the levers B through their-.respective opposite holes or loops, a', and then drawing the overlap A into its proper position, by turning and pressing down the lever B upon the plateC until its head, b', catches under the projecting loop c', thus securing lthe overlapping piece A in a properly-closed position, as shown in iig. 1. To release the overlap and 'open the' shoe, all that is required is .that the wearer raise the head end of B by his finger, when it will be drawn upward by the released overlap A, and the shoe consequently opened.

This is a very simple and perfectly reliable device for fastening shoes, gaiters, die., and can be applied as readily to either, whether they close by a lappiug-picce, A, as shown, or by the edges of the twoclosing sides of the shoeior gaiter` coming Vopposite to or abutting against each other; "and it will he seen that the lever B enables the wearer to bring the closing sides of the shoe together with facility, and without straining the ngers.

I wish it to be understood that Ifdo not intend to confine myself, in the construction ofthe plate C, to the use of the pointed stem a for fastening the ,same to the shoe, as two tongues may be readily out out longitudinally in the plate, so as to be bent out and passed down through the leather and clinched on the under side of the same, so as to hold the plate permanently thereon, in substantiallyr the saine manner; but, having fully described my fastening- What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is confined to tlxc following, viz:l

I claim a fastening for shoes and gaiters, consisting of the springy lever B and plate C, constructed and combined together substantially as described, and operating, when applied to the shoe or gaiter, as a lever for drawing the closing parts together, and as a spring-catch for fastening them in that position, as described.

I NICOLAUS KIRCHNER.

Witnesses:

BENJ. MoRIsoN, WM. H. MoRIsoN.

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