Improvements in Boots, Shoes, or the like, and in the Method of Fastening same.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boots, Shoes, or the like, and in the Method of
Fastening same.
I, ERNEST COLLINS CHARD, of 33 Margaretta Terrace, Oakley Street, Chelsea,
London S.W. Artist 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in boots, shoes, or the like, and in the
method of fastening same and has for its object to provide means for securely
fastening such articles, in a simple and speedy manner, and without the aid of
laces or other analogous aids.
And, in order that my said invention may be more fully comprehended, reference
is made to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings wherein :-
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a boot, shewing same fastened according to my
invention. Fig. 2 being a side view of same while Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 shew the
invention in detail.
a is a boot fashioned with the front of the upper, (which usually provided
with eyelets), having studs or catches 6 fixed along the upright meeting edges
of such upper.
The studs or catches b, are formed with heads fashioned as
more particularly in Figs. 3, 4, and 6 and with shanks and bases ³, and will
be fastened to the upper of a boot or shoe or the like in any suitable manner.
Sewn rivetted or otherwise fixed between the lower part of the front of the
upper, and front upper part of the body of the boot, or in any other suitable
position, 1 provide a tongue or strip c of leather or other suitable material pro-
vided with two rows of perforations and sewn or otherwise fixed in around the
perforations a number of metal eyelets c¹ corresponding in position and number
with the studs or catches b. The eyelets c¹ are preferably given the form shewn
in Figs. 5 and 6. In operation the pointed fronts of the studs or catches bare
inserted into the eyelets c¹ (as shewn in Fig. 4) and the tongue or outside strip c
containing same then given an upward pull and pressed against the upper of the
boot or the like, by so doing causing the heads of the studs or catches b to
come through the eyelets c' and constitute a flange at the point and back of each
stud or catch, preventing same, thereby, from working out and consequently
securely fastening the boot or shoe or the like.
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.
1. In a boot shoe or the like studs or catches b in combination with a tongue
or outside strip c perforated and provided with eyelets c¹ substantially as described
and shewn and for the purpose set forth.
2. In a boot, shoe or the like, the combination of a perforated tongue or outside
strip c having eyelets c, with studs or catches 6 fixed in the uppers of such boots,
shoes or the like, substantially as described and shewn and for the purpose set
forth.
3. The improved method of fastening boots, shoes, or the like, substantially as
described and illustrated.
Dated this 14th day of November 1893
HUGHES & YOUNG,
12, Basinghall Street, London, E.C., Agents.