Patent ID: 6049955
Filing Date: 2000-04-18
Classification: A43C,Y10T

Abstract:
A shoe fastening device for directing together dual opposing flap portions of a shoe incorporating device whereby said device comprises two elongate alignment members essentially parallel to each other and laterally spaced apart at a fixed distance whereby both lie in and define a first plane and each of said alignment members defining at least one surface or component thereof parallel to and facing a longitudinal median situated between them, and two elongate flap members each longitudinally securable to an opposing flap of said shoe whereby both lie in and define a second plane and each of said flap members defining at least one surface or component thereof parallel to and facing away from said longitudinal median whereby said longitudinal median is concurrently a longitudinal median of said elongate flap members, and an axis of rotation defined where said first plane and said second plane intersect said axis being perpendicular to said elongate alignment members and essentially perpendicular to said elongate flap members and whereby said axis of rotation traverses through near similarly located longitudinal ends of said elongate alignment members and through near similarly located longitudinal ends of said elongate flap members and about which said elongate alignment members and said elongate flap members are pivotally secured and whereby at said axis the distance between said surfaces or components thereof of said elongate alignment members that are parallel to and facing said longitudinal median is greater than that between the surfaces or components thereof of said elongate flap members that are parallel to and facing away from said longitudinal median.