An Improved Fastening Device for Boots, Shoes, Goloshes, Gaiters, and for other Articles of Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Aug., 1891-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fastening Device for Boots, Shoes, Goloshes, Gaiters,
and for other Articles of Wearing Apparel.
I RICHARD BRUZON, of 200, Green Lanes, Finsbury Park in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention for an improved fastening device for boots and shoes, goloshes,
gaiters and other articles of wearing apparel, has for its object to provide an
elastic and flexible fastening principally for securing the boot or shoe on the foot
after the foot has been inserted therein; and is especially designed as a substitute
for eyelets and buttonholes which are ordinarily let in or cut through the part of
the leather or cloth forming the fastening edges of a boot, shoe, goloshe, gaiter or
article of wearing apparel, and this invention consists essentially of a strip of india
rubber, preferably encased in leather or some other suitable texture, which may be
secured by sewing or otherwise to a suitable part of the boot, shoe, goloshe, gaiter
or other article of wearing apparel to form the free fastening edge, and provided
with holes or loops capable of being forced or pressed over the heads or tops of
suitable studs or buttons fixed on a corresponding part of the boot, shoe, goloshe,
gaiter or other article of wearing apparel, or part to be joined.
The said strips may be made in any convenient lengths or number of loops. Any
portion of a length may be cut off as required for the article to be fitted with the
fastening.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawing four different patterns of
fastening strips are represented.
Fig. 1 being a strip of multiple loop fastener;
Fig. 2 a single loop;
Fig. 3 a double loop;
Fig. 4 a strip of multiple wide scallop hole fastener;
Fig. 5 a strip of narrow scallop fastener and
Fig. 6 a strip of two hole fastener.
In applying this invention to boots, shoes, goloshes, gaiters and other articles of
wearing apparel the base strip a is secured by sewing or other suitable and well
known means to the fastening edge of leather or other fabric to be connected, while
the loop or eyelet part b is secured by the holes c to studs or buttons on the corre-
sponding part to be joined.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is: :-
1. The employment of india rubber strips formed with holes or loops suitable
for adaptation to boots, shoes, goloshes, gaiters and other articles of wearing apparel
as an elastic fastening device constructed substantially as described.
2. The employment of the said india rubber strips formed with holes or loops as
a single, double or multiple loop fastening device capable of being pressed over the
heads or tops of studs or buttons in the place of the eyelets and buttonholes
ordinarily let in or cut through the fastening edges of a boot, shoe, goloshe, gaiter
and other articles of wearing apparel substantially as described.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.