Improvements in Fastenings for Shoes, Boots, and other like Articles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application. 24th Feb.. 1894
Complete Specification Left, 20th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 22nd Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings for Shoes, Boots, and other like
Articles.
I, DÉSIRÉ GAILLARD, a citizen of the French Republic, residing at Lyon, Rue
Stella No. 6, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates more especially to an improved fastening for shoes instead
of the lace, string, or other means ordinarily heretofore used.
Supposing that my invention is to be used as a fastening for shoes, I use two flat
plates, the inner straight edges of which meet, and the front ends of which are
hinged together, one of each of these plates being rivetted or otherwise fixed to
each of the front flaps of the shoes which are to be fastened together, the hinged
junction being fixed at the point where the flaps meet the body of the shoe. The
loose ends of the plates, which are preferably somewhat widened, are provided with
a catch or fastening, one end of which is attached to one of the plates, whilst the
other end hooks over a stud or projection upon the other plate by which it is held
when the shoe is closed, but from which it can be readily released when the shoe is
to be unfastened. The catch may be provided with a spring, and the fixed end of
the catch or fastening is attached to the plate by a hinge rivetted to the latter.
The stud or hook with which the loose end of the catch or fastening engages is
rivetted to the other plate.
The fastening and other parts may be made as ornamental as desired.
The details of the improved fastening may be varied more or less as may be found
desirable, and it may be applied to the purpose of fastening and unfastening other
garments or articles as well as shoes.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Fastenings for Shoes, Boots, and other like
Articles.
J, DÉSIRÉ GAILLARD, a citizen of the French Republic, residing at Lyon, Rue
Stella No. 6, 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 and accompanying drawing, that is to say :-
This invention relates more especially to an improved fastening intended as a
substitute for the lace, string, or other means heretofore ordinarily employed for
shoes and the like.
In the accompanying drawing, which is in illustration of my invention,
Figure 1 is a general view shewing my arrangenient applied to a shoe;
Figure 2 represents an attachment made of two plates a, b, pierced with holes c
and connected by a buckle d torming a hinge; this attachment is fixed to the shoe
by means of rivets or other equivalent devices.

page_text: Figures 3 and 4 shew in perspective two metal pieces e, f, slightly curved or
arched, and provided with turned up edges or flanges g, g, h, h, and having their
ends bent over at a right angle at i and j.
These pieces e f, are of different widths, and are provided with openings or
slots k, k, l, l, one piece fitting into the other, as shewn in Figure 5. They hold
between them the spring m which is compressed by f sliding in k and e in k¹.
The slots l, are hooked upon and held by the hooks n, o, fixed to the plates a, b,
one of which n serves as a hinge, (Figures 5 and 6).
The details of the improved fastening may be varied more or less as may be found
desirable, and it may be applied to the purpose of fastening and unfastening other
garments or articles as well as shoes.
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 fastening, consisting of two plates a, b jointed to one another at
one end d, and connected together at their other end by a device consisting of two
pieces e, f, one sliding in the other and provided with a spring m between them.
Dated this 17th day of November 1894.
EDWARDS & Co.,
65 and 66, Chancery. Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.