Year: 1898

page_text: I, GEORG HILLENGASS, of 62, Rheinhauser Strasse, Mannheim, in the Grand
Duchy of Baden, Germany, Master Shoemaker, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The invention concerns an improvement in buttoned boots.
Hitherto, buttoned boots have been put on or taken off by pulling or withdraw-
ing a great number of buttons on one side of the upper one by one through slits
or button-holes made in the opposite side. This in the case of diseased or tender
feet is difficult; in the case of both healthy and diseased feet is not only uncomfort-
able but, as well, consumes much time and necessitates the use of instruments.
Such button-hooks, etc., easily get lost, and often cause single buttons to be
torn off or burst off, these being awkward to replace, and when missing lessen the
elegant appearance of a boot.
Moreover the importance of being able to make speedy changes in footgear on
the stage of theatres and other suchlike scenes, as also in private life, is not to be
underrated.
Now, the object of my invention consists in my producing a buttoned boot which
only needs a slight turn of the hand to take it off or put it on without any further
trouble.
The invention consists in the construction of an elastic or springy self-acting,
tightly closing buttoned boot, in effect, by the snapping-to or closing of a so-
called pressure snap or snap fastening such as is in use for gloves, handkerchief-
boxes, etc.
In the accompanying drawing, where like letters denote like parts, Figure 1
gives a perspective view of the buttoned boot when open; Figures 2, 3, and 4
show views in different forms of the steel splint or pressure plate belonging to my
invention; and Figure 5 gives a side view of the fastened buttoned boot.
As may be seen from Figure 1, the buttons and button-holes (a a 1 a 2 ....)
have merely a seeming importance. They are only to give the appearance of a
buttoned boot. The upper (A) is made considerably wider without their use, and
thus folds well over to ensure proper fit, easy drawing on and removal, and the
preservation of the usual form of a buttoned boot. The closure requisite along the
cut left in the boot upper I obtain by sewing a steel splint (B), such as delineated
in Figures 2 to 4, into that part of the upper which is to be folded over. This steel
splint or plate is so fashioned as, after closing of the pressure snap (C) at the
top, to maintain a painless equal pressure downward along the whole of the part
which folds over and thus to hold the boot properly closed."
Therefore, by way of example, it is only necessary for taking off the bɔot to öpen

page_text: the flap of a pressure snap (C), when an eye (b) comes off a pin (c) and the boot
can be immediately changed or removed.
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Improved Fastening for Boots.
I, GEORG HILLENGASS, of Mannheim, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany,
Master Shoemaker, 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: —
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The invention concerns an improvement in buttoned boots.
Hitherto, buttoned boots have been put on or taken off by pulling or withdraw-
ing a great number of buttons on one side of the upper one by one through slits
or button-holes made in the opposite side. This in the case of diseased or tender
feet is difficult in the case of both healthy and diseased feet is not only uncomfort-
able but, as well, consumes much time and necessitates the use of instruments.
Such button-hooks, etc., easily get lost, and often cause single buttons to be
torn off or burst off, these being awkward to replace, and when missing lessen the
elegant appearance of a boot.
Moreover, the importance of being able to make speedy changes in footgear on
the stage of theatres and other suchlike scenes, as also in private life, is not to be
underrated.
Now, the object of my invention consists in my producing a buttoned boot which
only needs a slight turn of the hand to take it off or put it on without further
trouble.
The invention consists in the construction of an elastic or springy self-acting,
tightly closing buttoned boot, in effect, by the snapping-to or closing of a so-
called pressure snap or snap fastening such as is in use for gloves, handkerchief-
boxes, etc.
In the drawing left with the Provisional Specification, where like letters denote
kke parts, Figure 1 gives a perspective view of the buttoned boot when open;
Figures 2, 3, and 4 show views in different forms of the steel splint or pressure plate
belonging to my invention; and Figure 5 gives a side view of the fastened buttoned
boot.
..)
As may be seen from Figure 1, the buttons and button-holes (a a² a²
have merely a seeming importance. They serve only to give the appearance of a
buttoned boot. The upper (A) is made considerably wider without their use, and
thus folds well over to ensure proper fit, easy drawing on and removal, and the
preservation of the usual form of a buttoned boot. The closure requisite along the
cut left in the boot upper I obtain by sewing a steel splint (B), such as delineated
in Figures 2 to 4, into that part of the upper which is to fold over. This steel
splint or plate is so fashioned as, after closing of the pressure snap (C) at the
top, to maintain a painless equal pressure downward along the whole of the part
which folds over and thus to hold the boot properly closed."
Therefore, by way of example, it is only necessary for taking off the boot to open
the flap of a pressure snap (C), when an eye (b) comes off a pin (c) and the boot
can be immediately changed or removed.

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:-
Buttoned boots with mechanical fastening specially distinguishable herein that
in that part of the upper of a buttoned boot (A) to be folded over, a steel splint
or plate (B) is fixed which, through the putting and keeping together of the top
part by means of a pressure snap or snap fastening (C), holds the buttoned boot
properly closed.