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CHARLES GOODYEAR, JR., OF NEW YORK, ASSIGNEE OF JACOB AUTEN- RIETH.

EYELET FOR LACING SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,3252, dated January 6, 1863; Reissue No. 2,176, dated February 20, 1866.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that JACOB AUTENRIETI-I, of the city and county of Philadelphia, and State ot' Pennsylvania, has invented a new and improved method of an eyelet or device for lacing boots, shoes, &c.; and Ihereby declare that the i'ollowingis a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ot' this specification, in which- Figure l represents a perspective view ot a shoe provided with a lacing in accordance with this inventlon. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, partly in section, of the eyelet or lacing device detached. Fig. 3 is a modiiication ot' the same.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use this invent-ion, I will now proceed to describe the manner in which the same is or may be carried into ett'ect. l

With eyelets ot' the ordinary construction, such as are in general use for lacing shoes, the lacing passes alternately above and below the edges of the leather, and the friction between the lacing and the parts of the shoe is so great that-in order to put on the shoe each section of the lacing hasl to be pulled ont separately, and after the foot has been entered each section of the lacing has to be strained separately, thus rendering the operation of lacing a shoe very tiresome and disagreeable. In many cases it becomes necessary to pull the ends of the lacing entirely ont of the upper or last eyelet in order to be able to enter the foot into the shoe, and after the foot is entered and the lacing has been strained it is extremely difcnlt to pass the ends of the same back through the last or upper eyelet, because the leather bears ilat down upon the foot, and in order to pass the lacing through the eyelets, it (the leather) has to be turned back. These difficulties are completely obviated by the use of this invention.

According'to this invention, the metallic eyes, instead ot being' fastened into, are secured onto, the leather or upper of the boot or shoe by means of an auxiliary eyelet, prongs, or other fastening device in a position transversely to the line of lacing and in planes yertical relatively to the upper. The eyes are parallel, or nearly so, to each other, instead ol' being situate in the same plane, and in the lacing, instead of running through the leather, winds its way through the -eyelct without, however, traversing the leather.

In the drawings, A is the eyele't, constructed with a tubular projection, a., similar to an ordinary eyelet, or `it may be made with two prongs, a', Fig. 3. By this tubularprojection or prongs the eyelet is fastened to the upper by being passed through the leather and being punched or turned over at the inner surface thereof. The tubular projection a or prongs a may be covered with a iiat disk or washer, b, the edge of which bears down en the outer surface of the leather and gives to the eyelet a goed hold. This disk, it' such be usrd, bears the loop or eye o through which the lacing Bis passed, as clearly shown in Fig. l of the drawings. By these means the lacing is (kept entirely above the upper surface ot' the leather, and, on being drawn tight, it slips leasily through the eyes c. The edges of the shoe can also be spread simply by pulling them apart without releasing severally the sections ot' the lacing; and after the foot has been entered the edges of the shoe are closed up by pulling the ends of the lacing, and if the lacing should pass out of one of the eyelets, or if a ner lacing is to be introduced, its ends can be readily passed through the loops, whether the shoe be on or oft'.

This invention is also applicable to lacing corsets and other similar purposes Having thus described the said invention, I would observe that this invention is susceptible of many modifications without departure from the principle thereof.

What is claimed, therefore, as the invention of the said J Aeon AUTENRIETH isl. A shoe-lacing with its eyelets and cords, constructed and arranged substantiallyas described.

2. The metallic lacing eyelet or loop, constructed and arranged, substantially as herein described, so that the lacing-cord shall run through the same without traversing the leather or material ot' the shoe or other article of wearing apparel to be laced.

3. The arrangement of the metallic eyelet or loop transversely in relation to the fastenname to this specification before two sillyv ing device7 as herein described, so that the soribing witnesses. said eyelets or loops when fastened onto the leather or material shall be situated iu verti- GHAb GOODYEAR JR" cal planes relatively to the surface of the Witnesses: yleather or material, as set fort-h. WILLIAM MONAGHAN,

In testimony whereof I have signed my JAMES MALCOLM.

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