US8381A

US8381A - Shoe-latchet

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Publication number: US8381A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1851-09-23
Anticipated expiration: 1868-09-23

Description

I. BANISTER. SHOE FASTENING.

No. 8,381. Patented Sept. 23,1851.

UNITED STATES FATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC BANISTER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

SHOE-LATCHET.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 8,381, dated September 23, 1851.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IsAAo BANISTER, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Shoe-Latchet; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exactd-escription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification.

Figure 1, is a side view of a shoe furnished wit-h mynew and improved latchet, showing the appearance of the shoe and position of the latchet when fastened; Fig. 2 a side view of the shoe when the latchet is unfastened; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section of the several parts constituting the latchet, detached from the shoe and united to each other; and Fig. at, a view of the respective parts of the latchet detached from each other.

The nature of my invention consists in attaching to a flap A, which passes over the instep and is connected to one of the quarters of a shoe, a thin flexible plate or latch B, which is curved at its front end (6,) for fitting into a socket or eyelet cl, secured between the lining and upper leather of the vamp of a shoe, and at the other end 7' projects beyond the said flap a suflicient distance to enable it to be passed under a catch or hook c, which is secured to the opposite quarter of the shoe, and serves by its action on the latch to confine the shoe firmly to the foot.

The latch B, is inserted under the lining of the flap A, except its ends 6, and f, and is held therein by stitches. The socket or eyelet (Z, is fitted bet-ween the vamp (or quarter) of the shoe and its lining, in a similar manner. The curved end 6, of the latchet fits loosely into the socket cl, so as to be easily. inserted therein, or withdrawn. The catch 0, is secured between the quarter of the shoe and its lining in the same manner as is the socket and latch, above described. This catch 0, turns or hooks downward a sufficient distance to prevent the latch from ever falling out of it, when a shoe is confined thereby upon the foot; the latch B, is drawn down below the point of the catch, and thence slides under it, and is retained therein by the upward pressure exerted upon the strap A, by the foot.

The above described latchet, consisting of the latch B, socket (Z, and catch 0, may be made of any suitable material having proper flexibility, strength, and durability.

hen a shoe supplied with my improved latchet is unfastened, the front end 6 of the latch readily becomes detached from the socket (Z, and allows the shoe to open freely to receive the foot, or allow it to be withdrawn therefrom; and when it is desired to fasten the shoe, the curved end of the latch passes easily into the said socket or eyelet.

I do not intend to limit the application of the above described latchet to fastening any particular kind of shoe, but to apply it in all cases where it may be applicable. Nor do I wish to be understood that the flap A, is a necessary part of my invention; but that any two parts of a shoe may be so united or fastened when desired by my improved latchet.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The confining a shoe to the foot by means of a flexible latch B, secured to one portion of the said shoe, acting in conjunction with a socketor eyelet (Z, and a catch or hook a, secured to other parts of the shoe and operating substantially in the manner herein set forth.

The above specification of my new and improved shoe latchet signed this second day of June 1851.

. ISAAC BANISTER. lVitnesses Z. G. ROBBINS, J. S. BROWN,