An Improved Tag for Boot and other Laces.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 15th Apr., 1893
An Improved Tag for Boot and other Laces.
I, WILLIAM BROADFOOT MITCHELL of Carthona Darling Point near Sydney
in the Colony of New South Wales, Company Manager, 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 relates to an improved tag or point for boot laces, stay laces and
other laces or strings. This invention has been specially devised in order that the
tag will be affixed to the end of the lace and remain there so fixed as long as such.
lace will last.
Hitherto tags for laces have been made of very thin metal rolled around the lace
end or rolled to a partly opened or closed cylinder or other hollow shape into which
the end of the lace is introduced when by pressure the partly opened cylinder is
closed upon such lace end to secure said tag thereto which it does in a more or less
unsatisfactory manner or the cylinder is punctured upon the lace end or flattened
upon it for the same purpose. Now by this invention such insecure methods of
holding the tags on the lace end are dispensed with and I provide in the manu-
facture of the tag from the very thin metal as before a positive check or holding
piece for the lace end which check or holding piece is brought into use in the
operation of fastening the tag to the lace end by rolling the tag blank around the
lace end geared to or held by the check piece. My improved tag for boot and
other laces consists then in a thin metal rectangle or square blank adapted to be
rolled around a lace end and having a check or holding piece in or on said rectangle
or square blauk adapted to hold the lace end.
But in order that this invention may be clearly understood I will now describe
the same with reference to the drawings herewith.
Figure 1 is a plan and Figure 2 an edge view respectively on an exaggerated
scale of a rectangular tag blank a having two small cuts 6161 therein forming the
check piece or loop b. In use the lace end c is threaded through the loop 6 from
the end farther away and turned over towards that end which is thus made the back
end of the tag. The lace end being thus threaded through the loop the blank a is
then rolled or folded around the lace c and the turned in end c¹ and so forms the
tag with a permanent hold on the lace as shown in Figure 3 where the turned back
end c¹ of the lace is shown protruding from the back of the tag which it is easily
seen it need not necessarily do.
In Figures 4, 5, 6 still further exaggerated are shown approximate sections of the
tag completed at the points y and z respectively in Figure 3.
Figure 7 is a plan view exaggerated of a modified tag blank a having a check
piece in the form of a side slat or bar 62 preferably with rough edges formed by
serrations ³. This side slat or bar is formed by a parallel cut into the body of the
blank along one side thereof. Around this check piece or side slat or bar 62 the
lace end c is wound or twisted and the tag blank is then rolled or folded around
the said side slat or bar with the said lace end thereon and holds the tag and lace
tightly together.
Figures 8 and 9 are plan views of a tag blank a having a check piece in the form
of a protruding slat or bar * preferably with rough edges formed by serrations b³
and
Figures 9. 10 and 11 are similar views of the same in course of affixture to the
lace Figure 9 showing the blank a the protruding bar 6 with serrated edges (in
this case one of the edges of the bar is a continuation of the edge of the body of

page_text: the tag blank) Figure 10 shows the lace end c¹ wound round the bar and
Figure 11 the bar and lace end turned back over the body of the blank a while
Figure 12 shows the tag completed by rolling upon itself around the turned in
bar and lace end.
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:
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First. An improved tag for boot and other laces consisting of a thin sheet metal
blank having a check or holding piece in or on it to take or hold said lace end to
it and adapted to be rolled or folded around the so held lace end substantially as
herein described and explained.
Second. A blank such as a having cuts thereon such as 6' to form check piece or
loop such as to take therein a lace end and adapted to roll or fold upon itself and
the lace end therein to form the improved tag for boot and other laces substantially
as herein described and explained and as illustrated in the drawing.
Third. A blank such as a having a cut therein parallel to one of its edges so as
to form a side slat or bar such as with or without serrations such as 6³ adapted to
have wound upon it a lace end and have rolled or folded around itself and the lace
end the body of the blank so as to form the improved tag for boot and other laces
substantially as herein described and explained and as illustrated in the drawing.
Fourth. A blank such as a having protruding slat or bar such as 6 with or
without serrations such as 63 adapted to have wound upon it a lace end and to be
bent over with said lace end on to the body of the blank which said blank is
adapted to roll or fold upon itself around the turned in slat or bar and lace end so
as to form the improved tag for boot and other laces substantially as herein
described and explained and as illustrated in the drawing.
Dated this Third day of February One thousand eight hundred and ninety-
three.
W. B. MITCHELL.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.