An Improved Loop or Tag for Boots, Shoes, and other Purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Loop or Tag for Boots, Shoes, and other Purposes.
I, HENRY EDWARD KING of 23 Gresham Street, in the City of London, Middlesex,
Woollen Salesman, 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 my invention relates to an improved loop or tag for boots, shoes and other
purposes, and which invention has for its object, to provide a loop or tag which will
remain always open ready for the insertion of the finger-in the case of boots and the
like, or other article when it is used for other purposes.
It is well known that loops or tags of this class as at present manufactured of
plain tape, soon become limp and soft after a little use, and in this condition it is
difficult to readily insert the finger in order to draw on the boot.
Now by this my invention, I provide a loop or tag which will remain constantly
open and thus obviate the loss of time and annoyance caused by the ordinary limp
tags herein before referred to. I accomplish this object in a simple, neat, efficacious
and inexpensive manner hereinafter described and claimed.
In manufacturing loops or tags of this class, in accordance with this invention, I
combine horse-hair with the tape or webbing usually employed for this purpose.
There are various ways by means of which I may make this combination of the horse-
hair and tape or webbing, but the two ways as follows, will be found convenient; the
result being the same in whatever manner it is performed. Firstly, I may weave-
by machinery or otherwise-the horse-hair, simultaneously and in one operation with
the tape or webbing, and secondly, I may provide tape or webbing of any convenient
length, and stitch or sew the horse-hair-by hand or machinery-into the already
woven tape or webbing in strands of convenient lengths.
If desired, I may combine the horse-hair with the tape or webbing in convenient
lengths, leaving a plain piece of tape or webbing at intervals along the whole
length, and at which intervals loops or tags of various lengths may be cut off :-that
is to say, there is first a plain piece of tape or webbing, then a length of combined
horse-hair and webbing or tape, and then a plain piece of tape or webbing again, and
so on for the whole length. Since however horse-hair is procured only in certain
lengths it may be found convenient to combine the horse-hair with the tape or
webbing in lengths equal to the strands of hair employed, leaving a plain piece of
tape or webbing between the extremity of the strands. I may however combine the
horse-hair with the tape or webbing in one continuous length for several yards when
it may be cut off in suitable lengths as required for use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination of horse-hair and tape or webbing in the manufacture of loops
and tags.for boots and shoes and other purposes, substantially as and in the manner
hereinbefore set forth.
purpose
2. Horse-hair and tape or webbing woven together in one operation for the
of making loops or tags for boots and other purposes, substantially as and in the
manner herein before set forth.
3. Horse-hair stitched or sewn by hand or machinery into the tape or webbing
already woven, in convenient lengths for the purpose of making loops or tags for
boots, shoes, and other purposes, substantially as and in the manner hereinbefore
set forth.

page_text: 4. Horse-hair combined with tape or webbing in lengths sufficient to make one
or more loops or tags and leaving a plain piece of tape or webbing between each
length, for the purpose of making loops or tags for boots, shoes and other purposes,
substantially as and in the manner hereinbefore set forth.
5. Horse-hair combined with tape or webbing in lengths equal in length to the
strands of horse-hair and leaving a plain piece of tape or webbing between each
strand, substantially as and in the manner herein before set forth.
6. Horse-hair combined with tape or webbing in one continuous length without
intermission for the purpose of making loops or tags for boots shoes and other
purposes, substantially as and in the manner herein before set forth.
Dated this 4th day of T1000
HENRY EDWARD KING.
By his Agents,
Horn & Son.
HENRY EDWARD KING.
By his Agents,
Horn & Son.