US822206A

US822206A - Shoe-fastener.

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Publication number: US822206A
Application number: US24024205A
Authority: US
Inventors: Hans Fredrickson
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1905-01-09
Filing date: 1905-01-09
Publication date: 1906-05-29
Anticipated expiration: 1923-05-29

Description

PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

H. FREDRIGKSON.

SHOE FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9, 1905.

3m vim/box view taken from a different point.

PATENT critics.

HANS FREDRIOKSON, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

SHOE-FASTENER- To (all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HANS FREDRIcKsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Shoe-Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a fastener for shoes designed to do away with the use of a plurality of buttons arranged down the front of the shoe and also of eyelets and laces. While I have shown the device as used in connection with one style of shoe only, it is obvious that it can be used with any form of shoe desired and that as many of the fasteners can be employed upon a shoe as may be desired.

The invention consists of the novel fea tures of construction and combination of parts, hereinafter fully described, pointed out in the claims, and shown in. the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the application of the device to a shoe. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of a housing carrying the locking device. Fig. 3 is a similar Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of a catch. Fig. 5

is a section through the housing, the catch' locking mechanism being shown in plan. Fig. 6 is a vertical section through the housing and catch, the locking mechanism being shown in elevation. Fig. 7 is a detail per spective view of the locking-lever detached.

In constructing my device I employ a plate A, having points A struck downwardly therefrom and having from one end a projecting shank A which is toothed along one edge, asshown at A, to form a catch. The plate A is placed upon the marginal portion of the top adjacent the front cut, and the points A are passedthrough the leather and then bent or clenched, clamping the plate A firmly upon the front of the shoe. I also provide a plate B, having the downwardly struck points B, and the plate B is placed upon the front of the shoe uponthe opposite side of the front cut from the plate A. The plate B carries a housing O, which is cut out at one side, as shown at C, and upon the opposite side, as shown at C the latter opening being larger than the opening O. Within the housing O is pivoted a curved locking-lever D, the outer free end portion of which extends through the slot C and engages an outer side of the housing O and is roughened,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 9, 1905. Serial No. 240,242.

Patented May 29, 1906.

as shown at D. The lever D is cut away on its under edge, as shown at D whereby a shoulder D is formed. At the inner end of the lever lugs or trunnions D are struck laterally and serve as pivot-points, the said trunnions being pivoted, respectively, in the top of the housing O and in the plate B. A curved spring E is secured at one end to the casing C adjacent one side of the opening O and is curved inwardly and around the inner pivot end of the locking-lever and thence outwardly, having its other end secured to the upper edge of the locking-lever above the cutout portion D In operation the shank A extends through the housing, entering first the opening O, passing under the locking-lever at the cut-out portion D and projecting through the opening C To fasten the shoe, it is only necessary to pass the shank or catch through the housing, the teeth A being engaged by the shoulder D of the locking-lever and held in such engagement by the spring E. To unfasten the shoe, the thumb is pressed against the roughened portionD of thelocking-lever, and it is moved upon its pivotal point so as to throw the end of the spring E secured to the locking-lever toward the end secured to the casing and moving the shoulder D away from the teeth A When the lever is in this position, the shank can readily be withdrawn or, if fastened too tight, can be loosened by partial withdrawment from the casing. As

' soon as pressure of the thumb is removed the spring E will return the locking-lever to its normal position, as shown at Fig. 5.

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

1. The combination with a housing cut out on opposite sides, of a toothed catch working through the said housing, a curved lockinglever projecting through one of the cut-out portions of the housing and pivoted within the housing, adjacent its inner end, a spring secured at one end to the housing and at the opposite end to the said locking-lever, and a shoulder formed upon said lever and adapted to engage the teeth of the catch.

2. A shoe-fastener comprising a plate, a toothed shank carried by the plate, a second plate, a housing carried by the plate and cut out upon opposite sides, a curved locking-lever. having trunnions formed at its inner end, said trunnions being pivoted respectively in the top of the housing and in the plate carrying the-housing, the outer end portion of the I point of the lever and secured at its other end locking-lever engaging an outer side of the to the lever, adjacent the out-out portion as housing and being roughened upon its outer f and for the purpose set forth.

face and cut away on its lower'edge adjacent HANS FREDRICKSON. 5 said roughened portion, thereby forming a shoulder, and a spring fastened at one end to the housing and carried around the pivotal Witnesses:

KAREN FREDRIoKsoN, FRANK S. GRANT.