Improvements connected with Fasteners for Boots and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 3rd Dec., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Fasteners for Boots and the like.
I, JOSEPH HOLDENRIEDER, of 10, Hallmaierstrasse, Munich, in the Empire of
Germany, Modeller, 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 for improvements connected with fasteners for boots and the like,
has for its object to provide a device for facilitating the fastening of boots, the
device being distinguished from those hitherto known, by the ease with which the
fastening can be affected by its use, as well as by its durability, flexibility, elasticity
and neat appearance; and consists essentially of an india-rubber inset, which is
inserted in the overlap of the upper part of the shoe and tapers towards the front of
the shoe. The inserted piece can be considerably stretched during the putting on of
the shoe. In this way, the laying of the overlap, in which are the button heads, on
to the underlap, in which the button shanks are inserted, and the fastening of these
two parts together, is rendered very easy.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings:
Fig. 1 is a side view of a boot made in accordance with this invention, and fastened
or buttoned up.
Fig. 2 represents a part of the boot to which the fastening device is applied, not
fastened, or buttoned up.
On the two halves of the upper part of the shoe 1, the heads and shauks of the
buttons or button-studs are fastened in some suitable manner, and as a matter of
course, the part of the fastening contrivance bearing the heads of the buttons lies
over the part in which are the shanks. These two parts are indicated in the drawing
by the Figures 2 and 3 respectively. Immediately in front of the overlapping part of
the boot upper which carries the button heads in an india-rubber inset 4, which
tapers at the lower end, corresponding with the shape of the shoe. By means of
this inset, the overlap can be drawn out somewhat when the shoe is being buttoned
up and the heads and shanks of the buttons be easily snapped one into the
other.
Instead, of German or French buttons, with heads and shanks snapping one into
the other, any other fastening device may be employed.
The shape or style of the boot, or the manner in which it is produced may be varied
according to the purpose for which it is to be used, without in any way affecting the
scope of the invention.
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 :-
The improved device for facilitating the fastening of boots, the distinguishing
feature of which is that, in front of the overlap carrying the heads of the German or
French snapping buttons, or other like parts belonging to the fastening arrangements,
an india rubber inset 4 is inserted, this inset tapering at its lower end, for the

page_text: purpose of enabling the overlap to be stretched when the shoe is put on, or buttoned
up, so that the different parts of the fastening arrangement, heads and shanks of the
buttons for instance, may be brought into engagement with each other.
Dated this 29th day of October 1898.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.