An Improved Fastening for Shoes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 3rd July, 1897. .
An Improved Fastening for Shoes.
I, CHARLES VICTOR HOFFMAN, residing at Sidney, in the County of Hunterdon,
and State of New Jersey, United States of America, Book-keeper, 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 more particularly to rubber shoes, and to means for
fastening the same; and the object thereof, is to provide improved fastening
devices for shoes of this class which are formed integrally with, the material of
the shoe.
The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the
accompanying drawing forms a part, in which:-
Fig. 1, is a perspective view of an over shoe, provided with my improvement;
Fig. 2, a front view of a portion thereof, on an enlarged scale, and showing the
separate parts of the shoe connected;
Fig. 3, a similar view, showing the parts disconnected;
Fig. 4, a section on the line 4, 4, of Fig. 2; and,
Fig. 5, a section on the line 5, 5, of Fig. 3.
In the drawing forming part of this specification, the separate parts of my im-
provement are designated by the same numerals of reference in each of the views,
and in said drawing, I have shown at 7, in Fig. 1, an ordinary rubber over shoe in
the front of which is formed the usual opening 8, and the separate parts of the
front of the shoe are designated in the other figures of the drawing by the reference
numerals 9 and 10.
In the practice of my invention, I provide means for securing the separate
parts 9 and 10, of the shoe together, which consist of semi-circular heads 11, which
are formed on, or connected with the opposite sides 9 and 10, by means of necks 12,
between each of which is a semi-circular space 13, and the semi-circular heads 11,
are thicker than the material of the sides 9 and 10, of the shoe, and the semi-
circular spaces 13, are much smaller than the semi-circular heads 11, and in
practice, these semi-circular heads 11, are inter-locked in order to connect the
separate sides 9 and 10, of the shoe, and when thus connected the appearance
thereof is clearly shown in Fig. 2.
In the operation of connecting the separate sides 9 and 10, as above described,
the necks 12, by which the semi-circular heads 11, are connected with the opposite
sides pass through the semi-circular spaces 13, and in the construction shown, one
of the semi-circular heads 11, on one side and at the top thereof, is cut in half
while the bottom semi-circular head on the opposite side is similarly formed, these
particular heads being formed in the shape of a quadrant, but this feature of the
construction is immaterial, and may or may not be employed.
My improved fastening device is simple in construction and operation, and my
invention is not limited to the application thereof, to rubber shoes, and it will
be apparent that the heads 11, may be of different form if desired, and other
changes in, and modifications of the construction herein described may be made
without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-

page_text: 1. A shoe, provided with the usual front opening, at each side of which are
formed inter-locking heads, which are connected with the sides of the shoe by
necks at each side of which are formed spaces or openings which are over-lapped
by said heads, substantially as shown and described.
2. A shoe, provided with the usual front opening, which is formed centrally of
the instep of the shoe, the sides of the shoe adjacent to said opening being provided
with semi-circular heads which are connected with said heads by necks at each side
of which are formed spaces or openings, said heads being adapted to inter-lock,
substantially as shown and described.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.