Improvements in the Construction, Lacing, and Securing of Boots, Shoes, and other Foot Coverings.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 8th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction, Lacing, and Securing of Boots,
Shoes, and other Foot Coverings.
I, MARY BOTTERILL, of Sutton-on-Derwent, near York, Spinster, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in the method of lacing or securing boots
and the like foot coverings.
I form the front edges of the boot tops with alternate portions cut away at the
edges or meeting part, and corresponding portions on the other edge of the boot
projecting to fit or key into the openings cut away on the other side of the boot
front, each projecting part having a vertical pipe or eye (metallic or otherwise)
through the same; a lace is thread through each pipe or eye from top to bottom,
the lace being fixed at the bottom and secured at the top in the ordinary manner;
by this means when once thread the two sides only require drawing apart to allow
of taking off the boot, to lace the boot the lace is simply pulled or tightened.
Dated
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JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.
COMIDELE DIECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction, Lacing, and Securing of Boots,.
Shoes, and other Foot Coverings.
I, MARY BOTTERILL, of Sutton-on-Derwent, near York, Spinster, 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:
My invention relates to improvements in the method of lacing and securing boots,.
and the like foot coverings.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, is a view of boot constructed according to my invention, showing it open.
or unlaced.
Fig. 2, is a view of such boot closed or laced.
Fig. 3, is a section of loop with eyelet.
According to my invention I form the front edges of the boot tops A with
alternate portions B cut away at one edge of the meeting part, and corresponding
portions on the other edge of the meeting part, so forming projecting pieces D
to fit or key into the openings cut away on the other side of the boot front, each
projecting part D forms a loop and has a pipe or eye E (metallic or otherwise)
through the same to strengthen it. A lace is threaded through each pipe or
eye E from top to bottom of the boot, the lace being fixed at the bottom and
secured at the top in the ordinary manner.
By this means when once threaded the two
sides only require drawing apart to
allow of taking off the boot, to lace the boot, the lace is simply pulled or
tightened.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
:—
1. A method of lacing boots, shoes, and the like foot coverings, in which the
lace is secured at the bottom of the meeting part of the boot, shoe, or the like foot
covering, and passed through a series of loops formed by interlocking portions in
the meeting part of the boot, or the like foot covering, which can be brought
together by the tightening of the lace, substantially as set forth.
2. A boot, shoe, or the like foot covering, having the meeting parts of the tops
constructed with a series of interlocking portions forming loops through which a
lace is threaded, substantially as and for the purposes shown and described.
3. In the construction of boots, shoes, and the like foot coverings, the com-
bination of cut away portions B and C and projecting pieces D, for interlocking
the edges of the meeting part, with a lace F, substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 7th day of December 1893
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.