IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES, BOOTS, AND SHOES, CORSETS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Denton Abel at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th July 1881. A communication
from abroad by Henry M. Peyser, of Boston, United States of America.
CHARLES DENTON ABEL, of No. 28, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in
the County of Middlesex. IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES, BOOTS,
AND SHOES, CORSETS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS." [A communication from
abroad by Henry M. Peyser, of Boston, United States of America.]
For fastening gloves, boots, and shoes and other articles of dress with laces, hooks
have been employed, fixed to and projecting from the outer surface of the leather
or other material, into which hooks the lace is laid and is then.drawn tight.
This arrangement has the objection, firstly, that the pull on the leather or other
fabric is one sided, and consequently, more particularly in the case of gloves, tends
to cockle up the leather in an unsightly manner; and, secondly, the lace is apt
to pull out of one or other of the hooks whereupon the whole fastening becomes
undone.
According to the present Invention these defects are obviated by means of the
following constructions :-
To the one edge of the glove or other article are fixed a series of books, whose
one limb is passed to the underside of the leather and is there secured by means
of two projecting spikes thereon, passing through the leather and through two
holes in a small plate placed on the upper side thereof, the projecting ends of the
spikes being then bent down flat on to the plate, which is by preference formed
with a projecting rim so as to prevent the points of the spikes catching in any
thing. The loop of the hook extends round the edge of the leather to the upper
sidė, leaving sufficient room between it and such edge to receive the lace. In the
other edge of the leather are fixed a series of closed loops, the limbs of which are
widened out to a disc shape and pass to either side of the leather. The disc
on the outer side has two spikes that pass through the leather and through
corresponding holes in the inner disc over which they are bent down, the points
being protected by projections on the disc. The lace being passed through all
the loops, it is drawn out between each two of them and passed over a hook on the
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page_text: opposite side which is fixed in an intermediate position. Thus as both the loop of
the hooks and the closed loops face the edges of the leather there is no one sided
pull upon the fabric, and as the lace is held in a closed loop on each side of
the open hooks there is little or no chance of its becoming disengaged from the
latter.
For securing the end of the lace a clip is employed, consisting of a plate having
a projecting boss with a groove in its face into which the lace is laid, and in which
it is held by a hinged spring flap. The plate is secured to the leather by spikes
passed through the same and bent over. Or the lace may be held by a clip
consisting of a piece of metal formed with a double hooked bend, so that the lace is
first drawn into the one bend so as to be nipped thereby, and is then drawn into
the other bend.