IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF FASTENING BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hugh Glenn, 'of Anerley, in the County of Surrey, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF FASTENING BOOTS AND
SHOES."
Sealed the 28th November 1876, and dated the 3rd June 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hugh Glenn at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd June 1876.
HUGH GLENN, of Anerley, in the County of Surrey.
MODE OF FASTENING BOOTS AND SHOES."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
My Invention is intended to obviate inconveniences hitherto experienced in the
use of ordinary laced boots and shoes, and consists in substituting endless laces
for the ordinary laces with loose ends, thereby dispensing with the need of tying
the ends of the lace, and avoiding the inconvenience of long ends.
For this purpose the lace is passed through a few eyelet holes at the lower part
of the ordinary opening of the boot or shoe, and the two ends of the lace are united
by means of a buckle, swivel, or other suitable fastening, thereby forming an endless
lace, and the remainder of the lace not passed through the said cyelet holes is
secured as required by being passed round hook-formed studs, inserted or fixed in
the upper part of the boot or shoe, the top of the lace being thus caused to fasten
the boot or shoe at the top without the need of tying or fastening in the usual
manner. By means of such endless laces the use of the ordinary metal tags is
dispensed with, and the laces fixed at the lower part of the shoe are adapted in
length to the particular boots or shoes to which they are applied, thereby admitting
of boots and shoes being fastened at the top without the inconvenience of laces
with loose ends, and the liability of their becoming untied. If preferred the said
laces may be rendered endless by uniting the ends at the top instead of at the
bottom, as stated above. Also by the combination of endless laces and the upper
parts of boots and shoes formed in the manner stated economy will be effected by
increased substitution of lace fastenings for springs.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Hugh Glenn in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st December
1876.
HUGH GLENN, of Anerley, in the County of Surrey. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MODE OF FASTENING BOOTS AND SHOES."
My Invention is intended to obviate inconveniences hitherto experienced in the
use of ordinary laced boots and shoes, and consists in substituting endless laces for
the ordinary laces with loose ends, thereby dispensing with the need of tying the
ends of the lace and avoiding the inconvenience of long ends.
For this purpose the lace is passed through a few eyelet holes at the lower part
of the ordinary opening of the boot or shoe, and the two ends of the lace are united
by means of a buckle, swivel, or other suitable fastening, or by stitching, sewing,
or other convenient means of rendering the lace endless, thereby forming an endless
lace, and the remainder of the lace not passed through the said eyelet holes
is secured as required by being passed round hook formed studs inserted or
fixed in the upper part of the boot or shoe, the top of the lace being thus caused to
fasten the boot or shoc at the top without the need of tying or fastening in the
usual manner. By means of such endless laces the use of the ordinary metal tags
is dispensed with, and the laces fixed at the lower part of the shoe are adapted in
length to the particular boots or shoes to which they are applied, thereby adinitting
of boots and shoes being fastened at the top without the inconvenience of Inces
with loose ends, and the liability of their becoming untied. If preferred the said
laces may be rendered endless by uniting the ends at the top or side instead of at
the bottom, as stated above. Also by the combination of endless laces made of leather,
hide, silk, or other suitable material, and the upper parts of boots and shoes formed
in the manner stated, economy will be effected by the increased substitution of laced
fastenings for springs.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
the same is to be performed, I hereby declare that what I claim as of my Invention
is the substitution of endless laces for the ordinary laces with loose ends, whereby
the inconveniences hitherto experienced in the use of ordinary laces may be obviated
in the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hugh Glenn, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, the First day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six.
Witness,
WILLIAM SPENCE,
8, Quality Court,
Chancery Lane.
HUGH GLENN. (L.S.)