Improvements in or relating to Fastenings for Shoes, Gloves, and other Artioles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1899
COMPLETE
BPEULNICATION
Improvements in or relating to Fastenings for Shoes, Gloves, and
other Artioles.
A communication from GEORGE SAMUEL WEBBER, Engraver, of Chicago, Illinois,
United States of America
1, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 111, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement..
01
This invention relates to unprovements in the construction of fastenings
wherein the separable edges of the articles to be closed on clamped by the fastening
sockets
are provided with longitudinally extending engaging shouldeis
forming a guide or run-way for a sliding clasp, and while this improvement 18
intended for use more especially in shoe fastenings, it may be employed in other
connections as fastenings for gloves or other articles, wherever its use may be
found desirable.
The object is to provide guides or engaging shoulders each formed of a con-
tinuous length of wire bent to afford attaching means at more or less close
intervals, and practically smooth and continuous guiding and engaging edges,
whereby the guides or engaging shoulders are rendered strong, durable and easy
to apply, as well as flexible, and therefore comfortable to the wearer of the shoe
o other article to which they are applied
In the diawing—
Figure 1 18 a perspective view of a shoe provided with this improvement;
Fig. 2, an enlarged broken perspective view of the improved bent wire guide in
its preferred form as used in connection with the upper of a shoe, the attaching
portions being unclinched, Fig 3, a similar view with the attaching portions
bent to their clinched form, Fig 4, an exaggerated section on line 4 of Fig. 1,
the slide being diawn up to the closing position; and Figs 5 and 6, views corre-
sponding to Figs. 3 and 4, but of a modification of the construction.
A, A are fastening members attached to the outer surface of the upper B of
the shoe, on opposite sides of a shit therein, and preferably parallel with the
edges of the slit Said members A are each formed of a continuous length of
small gage metal wire bent to afford free elevated projecting portionss, affording
practically continuous shoulders which seive to engage a companion fastening
member on the slide, curved double we shank portions which serve to support
said shoulders above the surface to which the fasteners are applied, and attaching
means at the bases of the shanks serving to secure the fastening members to
the part to which they are applied
In Figs 1 to 4 inclusive the attaching means are extensions of the shanks s¹
bent upon themselves to afford a portion, which rests upon the outer surface
of the upper, and portions which are passed through perforations in the upper
and clinched on the under side
In Figs 5 and 6 the attaching means takes the form of eyes, which are

page_text: practically incurved extensious of the shanks s', expanded to receive the attaching
thread r.
The portions 2, shanks s¹ and shoulders & form a substantially continuous
socket-piece. The members are fastened to the shoe upper preferably by inserting
the parts through perforations arranged parallel with the edges of the slit, and
clinching them
C is a slide which may he of leather, soft rubber or other flexible material
Guide-pieces A like those described are fastened to the under side of the slide
at the side margius
In the 'drawing the guides are shown as fastened by
clinching the portions being left exposed for greater clearness. In practice
the guides may either be applied in this manner and entirely concealed by a
covering of thin material applied to the outer surface of the slide, or the form of
fastening shown in Fig. 6 may be adopted for. the slide The guide-pieces upon
the shoe upper are so fastened that the sockets which they afford face outward
while the guide pieces which are fastened to the slide are so placed that the
shoulders which they afford face toward each other.
In use the slide is drawn down to the position shown in Figs 1 and 2 permitting
the shoe-upper to be opened at the slit and the foot to be inserted into the shoe
The shoe is fastened by diawing the slide upward causing the guides A¹ on the
slide which fit into the guides on the shoe upper, as shown in Fig 4, to draw the
meeting edges of the upper toward each other. Any suitable means may be
provided to secure the slide when closed, as for instance, the usual buttons and
sockets pl Provision nav be made for limiting the movement of the slide, such
as a loop n applied to the upper, and shoulders p, 2 on the slide foi engaging
the loop.
The gist of the invention lies in the construction of the guides A, A', and
any suitable means may be employed to fasten the slide when it is drawn up, and
to prevent the slide from being pulled out when it 18 drawn down
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, & in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim 18.
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1--In a fastening for shoes or the like, the combination with a guide-equipped
slide, of guides upon the shoe, on the like, compusing a single continuous length
of flexible we bent to form the practically continuous projecting guide edges,
the supporting shanks s, and attaching means comprising extensions of said
shanks bent to the desued form, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2-In a fastening for shees, or the hike, the combination with a guide-equipped
slide, of guides upon the shoe, or the like, comprising a single continuous length
of flexible wire bent to form the practically continuous projecting guide edges s,
the supporting shanks, and attaching means comprising extensions of said
shanks bent to afford the portions resting on the outer surface and the
portions inserted through perforations and clinched, substantially as described
Dated this 28th day of December 1898
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant