Improvements in the Mode of and Means for Fastening Boots, Leggings, Corsets, and other such like Articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Mode of and Means for Fastening Boots,
Leggings, Corsets, and other such like Articles.
I, JOHN INNES of The Limes, Alcester Road, Moseley, in the County of
Worcester Wine Merchant do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 has for its object improvements in the mode of and means for
fastening boots leggings corsets and other such like articles by which such articles
may be the more readily fastened while the addition of such improvement to
articles of this kind does not increase the cost. My fastening can be secured or
released by the simple motion of pulling a tape or cord and there are no objectional
projections to catch in other garments or in the case of boots to wear out the
trousers.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practise I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings upon
which I have fully illustrated the nature of my said improvements applied to a
boot and from which its application to other articles will be readily understood.
Figure 1, is a view of a boot having my improved fastening the boot being shown
partly open.
Figure 2 is a broken off elevation of the fastening attached to part of the front
of a boot corset or other article.
Figure 3 is an enlarged section through Figure 2 on the line 1-2.
Figure 4 is a similar section to Figure 3 but shewing a modification in the shape
of the fastening.
Figure 5 is also a similar section to Figure 3 but shewing another modification
in the shape of the fastening.
In carrying my invention into effect down each side of the opening of the boot
I attach a number of pieces of metal 13 which are turned over to form the roll or
groove . These pieces are divided into suitable lengths as shewn so as to allow
of the bending of the boot or other article and are rivetted or otherwise secured to
the inside of the material or to the front side of the lining a' of the boot. Upon
these rolls or grooves which forms a continuous slide are mounted a number of
clips E which are curled or bent in at the ends e¹ to clip the rolls B and are so
formed that they readily slide up and down the groove or rolls formed by the
rolls. Attached to each of the clips E is the band or tape T which is fixed to
the boot at a³ and connects the whole of the clips together and by pulling the end
of which they may be all drawn up so as to draw the boot together.
To the top two or three clips E I also attach a cord or tape F which passes
beneath the tape T and clips E & passes out at the bottom of the boot as shewn by
which means the top two clips may be pulled down at the same time carrying the
whole of the other clips with them and thus releasing the sides of the boot."
The outer leather of the boot may be carried over as shewn at a² so as to nearly
or quite meet when the boot is fastened.
I may vary the details without departing from the nature of my said improve-
ments as for instance the pieces B may be rolled over as at to form the railway
or turned over as at 6 or as at 63 in either of which cases the ends of the clips
are formed of a shape suitable to slide on them.
The application of my improvements to other articles will be obvious while the
easy manner in which my arrangement can be fastened or unfastened will readily
be seen

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
Improvements in the mode of and means for fastening boots leggings corsets and
other such like articles consisting of the groove or rolls B in combination with the
clips operated substantially as & for the purpose herein set forth & shewn upon
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 15th day of December 1891.
JOHN
KENDRICK,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent.