Improvements in or relating to Fastenings for Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, Stays, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 30th Mar., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Fastenings for Boots, Shoes, Gaiters,
Stays, and the like.
1, MALCOLM STUART CORRIE, of 13 Larkfield Road, Richmond, in the
County of Surrey, trading as Rowland & Company, Tea Dealers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what mauner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to those boots, shoes, gaiters, stays, and the like, the edges
of which are secured together by the aid of laces, or their equivalents, and has for
its object improvements whereby the lacing and fastening of the lace, and
unfastening and unlacing may be effected with greater ease and expedition than
heretofore.
For this purpose I employ an endless lace, and substitute for the ordinary hooks,
arranged down each edge of the parts to be held together by the lace, studs having
heads, which are concave on their under sides, and convex or other convenient
form on the tops.
A clip or hook is also provided to prevent the loss of the lace when the boot or
the like is undone, whilst for the purpose of holding that portion of the lace
remaining after the parts have been laced together, I provide a disc mounted so
that it may revolve and having projecting from the face thereof four or any other
convenient number of pins provided with heads on their outer free ends.
Over any one of these pins the portion of the lace remaining after the boot has
been laced up is looped, and the disc is then revolved until the lace is pulled taut
when by simply passing the latter on to the innerside of one of the pins the disc
will be prevented from revolving into its original position.
And in order that my invention may be more readily understood and carried into
practice I will now proceed to describe the same as applied to a boot by the aid of
the accompanying drawings, of which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a boot fitted
according to my invention; Figs. 2, 3, and 4 enlarged details.
As shown in Figs. 1 and 2 studs a having heads concave on under sides and
convex or other suitable form on the tops, are provided down each side of the parts
to be held together by the lace, and around these the lace bis passed when lacing
up the boot in the same manner as with the ordinary hooks at present used. Said
lace is an endless one, and is secured in a clip or loop c attached to the vamp, or
other portion of the boot to prevent it being lost.
To one side of the boot-upper a disc d (shown in front and side sectional
elevation in Figs. 3 and 4 on an enlarged scale) is secured by means of an eyelet d',
or other suitable means, so that it is free to revolve, and from the face of this disc
project four or any other convenient number of pins d provided with enlargements
or heads d³, on their outer free ends.
When the boot has been laced up the remaining portion of the lace is firmly
held by passing it over any one of the pins 2, revolving the disc d sufficiently to
take up all slackness, and then passing the lace on to the inner side of one of the
pins das shown more clearly in Fig. 3, so preventing the disc returning to its
original position.
To undo the boot so fitted, the lace is first detached from the pins d² when a
pull in the direction shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, will disconnect the lace from all

page_text: In fitting gaiters or the like according to my invention, the position of the clip
or loop e, and in some cases the disc d', may require varying slightly, but in all
cases they are preferably placed as nearly as possible in the position above
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is:-
(1) In a boot shoe gaiter stays or the like the combination of studs a having
heads concave on their underside an endless lace a clip or loop c and disc
having pins projecting from the face thereof substantially as and for the
purpose described.
(2) In boots shoes gaiters stays and the like the combination of studs a an
endless lace and clip or loop c substantially as and for the purpose described.
(3) In boots shoes gaiters stays and the like the combination of an endless
boot lace and clip or loop e substantially as and for the purpose described.
(4) In boots shoes gaiters stays and the like a disc d having pins de projecting
from the face thereof substantially as and for the purpose described.
Dated this 22nd day of February 1895.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.