An Improved Fastener for Boots and Shoes, Gloves, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Jan., 1893-Accepted, 11th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by LOUIS GAY and PIERRE GOURAUD, both of
Lyon, in the Republic of France, Manufacturers.]
An Improved Fastener for Boots and Shoes, Gloves, and the like.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This improved fastener comprises two plates of metal which are hinged or
articulated together in any suitable manner at one of their extremities and free
from each other at the other extremity.
Each of these plates has upon the sides which come in contact when the fastener
is closed a bent part forming a guide upon the entire length. In these guides can
be adjusted the bent extremities of a ring or movable part of any suitable form.
By displacing the said ring along the guides and turning it down, the boot or
shoe, glove, gaiter, or other article to which the fastener is adapted can be opened
more or less.
In order that this ring shall then remain in the desired position various modes of
construction of the ring and fastener may be used.
For instance the extremities of the ring engaging with the guides, instead of
being round, may have any eccentric form so as to constitute a spring upon the
guides and the plates when the ring is turned down, and hold the plates of the
fastener in this position.
Or the guides may have several undulations, each undulation corresponding to a
greater or smaller degree of opening of the fastener.
Or the upper part, the side or interior of the guide may have several notches or
cavities in which the ring when turned down may rest in order to prevent the latter
from descending under any pressure. For nearly closed position knobs or projec-
tions of various forms may be provided at the extremities of the fastener so as to
constitute a stop for the ring.
Or any other kind of stop may also be employed.
This fastener may be attached by sewing, riveting, eyelets or otherwise in any
suitable manner to the boots or shoes, gloves, gaiters or the like upon which it is
used, the part by which it is fixed being constructed to suit the varying conditions.
When the article to be closed is too large for a single ring to ensure the closing
of the same along the entire length, use may be made of several rings on one
fastener, and of several fasteners on the same article.
According to the applications of this fastener it is constructed to present the
desired undulations and the forms of the articles with which it is designed to be in
contact.
It may be decorated or ornamented in any desired manner.
The advantages which result from its employment are numerous; it will be
sufficient to mention the following.
Instantaneous removal or putting on of the article to which this fastener is
secured.
Instantaneous tightening and relaxing of the part to the desired degree.
Total suppression of the numerous inconveniences resulting particularly from
the employment of laces and the like for boots and shoes, and completely obviating
fatigue and loss of time.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fastener for Boots and Shoes, Gloves, and the like.
-I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 improved fastener comprises two plates of metal which are hinged or
articulated together in any suitable manner at one of their extremities and free
from each other at the other extremity.
Each of these plates has upon the side which come in contact when the fastener
is closed, a bent part forming a guide upon the entire length. In these guides can
be adjusted the bent extremities of a ring or movable part of any suitable form.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 represents by way of example a plan of the improved fastener adapted
to be used for boots and shoes, gloves and the like, this fastener being shown in its
open position.
Figure 2 represents the same fastener in its closed position, that is to say the ring
moved from the position shown in Figure 1 to the extreme position at the free
extremities of the said plates.
Figure 3 is a section on the line 1-2 of Figure 1, the ring shown being turned up
and ready to slide. This figure shows more clearly the construction of the guides
and the mode of mounting, and of operation of the movable ring.
Figure 4 shows an elevation of a modified arrangement of the fastener.
Figures 5 and 6 represent the improved fastener mounted respectively upon a boot
or shoe and upon a glove.
A A designates the two articulated plates of the fastener; a a the bent parts of
these plates for forming upon each a longitudinal guide; B the ring adapted to be
displaced in these guides in order to constitute a closing device and maintain the
desired distance between the plates A A.
By displacing the said ring along the guides and turning it down, the boot or
shoe, glove, gaiter or other article to which the fastener is adapted can be opened
more or less.
In order that this ring shall then remain in the desired position various modes of
construction of the ring and fastener may be used.
For instance the extremities of the ring engaging with the guides, instead of
being round, may have any eccentric form so as to constitute a spring upon the
guides and the plates when the ring is turned down, and hold the plates of the
fastener in this position.
The guides may have several undulations, such as those shown in Figures 1
and 2 each undulation corresponding to a greater or smaller degree of opening of
the fastener.
Or the upper part, the side or interior of the guide may have several notches or
cavities (see Figure 4) in which the ring when turned down may rest in order to
prevent the latter from descending under any pressure. For nearly closed positions,
knobs or projections D of various forms may be provided at the extremities of the
fastener so as to constitute a stop for the ring.
Or any other kind of stop may also be employed.
This fastener may be attached by sewing, riveting, eyelets or otherwise in
any suitable manner to the boots or shoes, gloves, gaiters or the like upon which it
is used, part by which it is fixed being constructed to suit the varying conditions.
When the article to be closed is too large for a single ring to ensure the closing
of the same along the entire length, use may be made of several rings on one
fastener, and of several fasteners on the same article.
According to the applications of this fastener it is constructed to present the

page_text: desired undulations and the forms of the articles with which it is designed to be
in contact.
It may be decorated or ornamented in any desired manner.
The advantages which result from its employment are numerous it will be
sufficient to mention the following
The instantaneous removal or putting on of the article to which this fastener
is secured.
The instantaneous tightening and relaxing of the part to the desired degree.
The total suppression of the numerous inconveniences resulting particularly from
the employment of laces and the like for boots and shoes; and the complete
avoidance of fatigue and loss of time.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A fastener for boots and shoes, gloves, gaiters and the like comprising two
plates AA connected at one of their extremities by an articulation, each of these
plates being fixed to one side of the two parts to be joined together, and provided
with a guide a a formed by a bent edge a groove or the like, substantially as and
for the purposes hereinbefore specified.
2. The combination, with the two plates A, A, of a sliding ring or clamp B
adapted to engage with the guide a a substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described.
3. The details of construction for stopping and fixing the sliding ring or clamp B
when it is turned down, substantially as herein before described.
a a
4. The combination of the articulated bent plates A, A, having guides
with the sliding ring or clamp B, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described with reference to the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1892
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant."