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No. 765,226. P'ATBNTED JULY 19, 1904. H. H. CUMMINGS.

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APPLICATION mun SEPT. 10. 1902.

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PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY H. CUMMINGS, OF MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR' TO BOSTON SPIRAL TAGGING COMPANY, OF HINGHAM, MASSACHU- SETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE, AND FREDERICK L. EMERY, TRUSTEE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

' LACING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 765,226, dated July 19, 1904.

Application filed September 10, 1902- Sarial No. 122,787- NO m de -l To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY H. CUMMINGS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Malden, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts'have invented an Improvement in Lacings, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention relates to lacings, and particularly to means for stiffening the end or ends thereof.

Prior to my invention lacings have commonly been stiifened by the use of tubular metal stiffeners covering the end portions of the lacing and compressed thereupon. They have also been provided with coiled-wire stiffeners attached directly to the ends of the lacing, and they have also been stiffened by the use of a tubular slitted metal stiffener about which the material of the lacing has been wrapped, the edges of the material having been clamped by inserting the same in the slit and closing the latter upon and to clamp said material. This latter construction produces a covered stiffener that is, one wherein the metal is within and covered by the textile or other material of the lacing itself.

My invention in its preferred form relates to a covered stiffener of the general type last above mentioned. Stiifeners of this type,

wherein the closing together of the slit is alone relied upon to hold by clamping the edges of the covering or lacing material, are open to the objection that should the stiffening-tube become distorted or its slit opened even slightly it tends to release its hold upon the covering material, permitting the latter to loosen. To obviate this. my invention comprehends securing or interlocking the edges of the stiffening member to the fabric in such a manner that when turned into'tubular form its hold upon the fabric will not subsequently be destroyed upon destruction of its shape.

The above, with other features of my invention, will be best understoodfrom a description in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 illustrate, respectively, in top or plan view and in end view a lacing to which the stiffening member has been attached, these views showing the lacing and stiflening member before formation thereof into general cylindrical shape; Fig. 3, a view similar to Fig. 2, showing the members shaped in cylindrical form; Figs. 4 and 5, views similar to Figs. 1 and 2 and illustrating a different mode of applying the stifiener; Figs. 6 and 7, views similar to 4 and 5,-illustrating yet another mode of attaching the stiffening member; Fig. 8, a view similar to Fig. 7, showing the members shaped into cylindrical form; Figs. 9 and 10, views illustrating the use of the stiffener, Fig. 1, in'connection with a flat lacing instead of a tubular lacing, as in the preceding figures. Fig. 11 is a general view showing in side elevation the end of the stiffened lacing in form ready for use; Fig. 12, a detail showing the stiffening member, Figs. 1 and-2 and 4E and 5, before applied to the lacing; and Figs. 13 and 14, details illustrating the manner of treating the end of the lacing to which the stiffener is applied, these views being on a smaller scale.

Referring to the drawings, first to Figs.

1 to 3, inclusive, and 11 and 12, the lacing a may be of any suitable or desired formation or structure, usually, however, of tubular woven or braided fabric. It is severed in the required lengths, preferably by a bias cut to leave a pointed end, as at a, Fig. 13,

which may be folded back into the correspondingly-recessed portion a formed by the cut, thereby to produce a lacing end which will not unravel. When folded back upon itself, the lacing end will appear as in Fig. 14.

The stiffener proper, b, in blank is shown in Fig. 12, the same as there shown being provided at its edges with a plurality of serrations or looking projections b. This stiffener may be laid upon the flattened lacing end, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, with the lacing-point a folded back beneath it or over, as may be desired, preferably beneath it, and the edges of the flattened lacing are turned upward and impaled upon the points 6, which latter are then clenched inward, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, thereby looking or interlocking the edges of the stiffener and lacing securely one to the other and beyond the peradventure of escape under reasonable conditions of usage. Having in this manner effectually attached or locked the edges of the stiffener to the lacing, the stiffener and lacing together are then preferably rolled into general cylindrical form, as shown in Figs. 3 and 11, thereby turning the overturned or clenched locking-points b inward out of sight and access and giving to the lacing end the appearance of a smooth-covered stiffened end, at which the fabric alone appears. Preferably the adjacent edges of the covered end where they are brought one opposite the other in forming the cylindrical end referred to are left separated one from the other slightly, as indicated at M, Fig. 3, to givcto the end a certain elasticity, which it would not possess were the two edges brought directly into contact one with the other. This tends to prevent distortion of the end under comparatively slight blows or pressure, which were there no give or yield to the end would necessarily produce a distortion thereof, and however much the covered cylindrical end may be distorted it is practically impossible to loosen the locking engagement between the stiffener and the lacing.

In Figs. 4 and 5 the points 6 are turned under, and thereby projected into and through the edges of the lacing, instead of first impaling thereupon and afterward clenching the points upward and inward, as in Figs. 1 and 2. In the construction Figs. 4 and 5 the overturned points will be wholly concealed when the end is shaped into cylindrical form.-

In Figs. 6, 7, and 8 I have shown the stiffening member 6 secured to the edges of the lacing by clenching the smooth edge of the stiffening member upon the edges of the lacing member without the use of any positive looking points or projections, as in constructions previously described. This construction, Figs. 6 and 7 however, resembles the said prior constructions described in that the attachment of the stiffening member to the lacing end is Wholly independent of the formation of the same into general cylindrical shape and independent of the degree to which the slit is closed between the opposite edges of the lacing when brought together in cylindrical formation.

I do not claim in this application the arillustrated in Fig. 6, in which it is shown as folded over and upon the stiffening-blank 6-, so that when the latter is rolled, to tubular form the part a will be inclosed therein, since this forms the subject-matter of my copending application, Serial No. 207,422, filed on the 11th day of May, A. D. 1904.

In Figs. 9 and 10 I have shown the stiffening member as in Figs. 1 and 2, but here used in connection with a single fiat-shaped lacing instead of a flattened tube, as in Figs. 1 and 2.

In folding over the edges of the stiffener upon the lacing said edges at one end may be folded to a slightly-greater extent, thereby permitting the tapering of the tip, as shown in Fig. 11, when rolled into tubular shape.

My invention is not limited to the particular embodiment thereof here shown and described, the same illustrating only a few forms of my invention.

Having described my invention and without limiting myself as to details, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a lacing of a stiff ening member therefor having its edges secured to the edges only of said lacing.

2. The combination with a lacing of a stiffening member therefor having its edges independently secured to the edges only of said lacing.

3. The combination with a lacing of a stiffening member therefor having its edges provided with holding projections upon which the edges of the lacing are impaled.

4. The combination with a lacing of an end stiffening member therefor having its edges secured to the edges only of said lacing and the whole formed into general tubular shape.

5. The combination with a lacing having its end shaped into tubular form of an inclosed tubular stiffening member independently secured at its edges to the said lacing.

6. A lacing having its end rolled into tubular form and inclosing a tubular stiffening member, the edges of the latter being independently secured to saidlacing.

7. A lacing having its end folded back upon itself and a stiffening member laid upon and adapted to retain said folded-over end and secured along its edges to the edges of said lacing.

8. A lacing having its end folded back upon itself and a stiflening member laid upon and adapted to retain said folded-over end and secured along its edges to the edges of said lacing, the whole being thereafter rolled or shaped into general tubular formation.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY H. CUMMINGS.

WVitnesses:

EVERETT S. EMERY, ALICE RICHMOND BROWN.

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