A New or Improved Appliance for Use in Fastening Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 5th June, 1899-Accepted, 22nd July, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Appliance for Use in Fastening Boots and Shoes.
I, JEAN LOUIS EDOUARD BOURBAUD, of Stawell, in the Colony of Victoria,
Clerk, 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:-
The invention is designed to provide an improved lace appliance or guide
for boots or shoes. In the use of the present hooks the lace becomes frayed
or cut owing to the friction of same against the edges of the hook in the action
of walking. By the use of my invention this objection is obviated, the laces
made to last longer and greater freedom of movement given to the wearer's feet.
The essential feature of the invention consists in the employment of small
pulleys or rollers upon which the laces will bear, such pulleys or rollers being
set within frames or in some cases the present plate hooks may be utilised to
form such frames; there are thus no sharp angles or edges against which the
lace will wear so that the life of a lace will be lengthened. The bending of
the boot in the action of walking will allow the partial rotation of the rollers
or pulleys and a "give" or movement of the laces on same will afford a more
free action of the foot, and consequent comfort to the wearer.
In order to make my invention clear I will now refer to the accompanying
sheet of drawings in which-
Figure 1 represents the front view of one form of my appliance or guide
attached to the flap of the boot.
Figure 2 is a section of same and
Figure 3 a side view thereof.
Figure 4 shows the upper portion of a boot with my appliance or guides
attached,
Figure 5 shows a sectional view of another form of my appliance attached
to a boot or shoe the casing in this example being dispensed with, whilst
Figures 6 and 7 show front and side views respectively of construction of
an alternative arrangement of my appliances.
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In these drawings "A" represents a hooked frame or casing through which
a tubular spindle B" passes, upon this spindle (within the frame "A") is
loosely mounted a small grooved pulley wheel or roller "C." "D" represents
passes
the leather or other material of the boot or shoe, the spindle tube "B"
through the material "D" and has one end flared or turned over to form a
stop E" (see Figures 1 and 3) against the hooked frame "A," the other end
being split and turned over to form flange "F" (Figures 2, 3 and 5) which is
A is by this means securely
tightly pressed against the material. The frame
held against the material of the boot "D)." The small pulley wheel or roller "C"
has its peripheral face grooved out and is made of sufficient width to receive the
lace, the wheel is set upon the spindle so as to rotate freely as aforesaid.
I may in some cases dispense with the frame "A" (as in Figure 5) in this
example the pulley wheel or roller "C" is set upon the spindle between a

page_text: flange "b" formed on it and a flared stop "E" as before, the spindle being
secured against the material of the boot by the outer flange "F."
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The hooked frame A may be extended at a "(Figure 1) to form a slight
lip the pulley wheel "C" being thus made to lie more within the said frame "A."
Figures 6 and 7 show how the frame "A" may be made of one piece of thin
metal plate and bent. so as to form bearings for the spindle "B" and be per-
forated and secured by the eyelet or rivet "." These figures also show my
appliances placed opposite to one another the lace G" passing through the
frame "A"(but not touching the latter) and along or partly around the grooved
roller or pulley C." In this construction the spindle may either be part of
the roller pulley "C"; or be hollow and secured by flaring at the top and bottom;
or be independent, solid, and rivetted at top and bottom to the frame A."
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I do not confine myself to the exact details of construction herein described,
for example the hollow spindle might give place to a solid spindle with stops of
any approved form set at either end; nor to the precise placing of one relative
to the other respectively of the appliances on a boot.
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. In fastenings for boots and shoes:-
In combination a pulley wheel or roller a spindle on or around which it may
revolve and means for securing the spindle or its bearing to the boot or shoe
substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
2. In fastenings for boots and shoes:-
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In combination a hooked frame as "A" a roller or pulley wheel as "C" set
within same upon a spindle and means for securing hook to boot substantially
as and for the purposes set forth.
3. In fastenings for boots and shoes: -
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In combination frame as A" a hollow spindle as "B" passing through
same, secured to the material of the boot or shoe and carrying a loose pulley
wheel or roller substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
4. In fastenings for boots and shoes:-
A pulley wheel or roller having a grooved periphery and set loosely upon a
spindle affixed to the material of a boot or shoe substantially as described with
reference to and illustrated on Figure 5 of the accompanying sheet of drawings.
5. In fastenings for boots and shoes:-
In combination a bent plate frame having perforations therein to form bearings
and the ends being arranged to meet together, a roller set in said frame and
means for securing said frame to the boot or shoe substantially as and for the
purposes set forth and in manner illustrated in Figures 6 and 7 of the drawings.
6. In fastenings for boots and shoes:-
The combination and arrangement of parts as and for the purposes herein
described with reference to Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the accompanying sheet
of drawings.
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MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and,
25, Cross Street, Manchester, Agents.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and,
25, Cross Street, Manchester, Agents.