Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Jan., 1887
Complete Left, 18th May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 21st June, 1887
I THOMAS ROWE WESTON 131 Saint Thomas Road Finsbury Park London Agent
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This improved lace and tag for fastening boots, shoes, gaiters, leggings, stays and
other articles is composed of one or more wire threads or strips of copper, brass, steel,
iron or other metal or metallic compound which if more than one thread or strip is
used they shall be woven plaited twisted laid or such like together These metallic
wire thread or threads, strip or strips may be interwoven or such like with silk,
cotton, leather or any kind of material or substance-1 also make a
tag or tags of the
end or ends of the metallic wire thread or threads or such like of which the lace is
composed and thus dispensing with the necessity of attaching to the lace one or more
separate tag or tags if considered desirable so to do.

page_text: I, THOMAS ROWE WESTON, Clerk, of 131 St. Thomas Road, Finsbury Park, N.,
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:-
My Invention consists of a lace and tag for fastening or lacing up or bringing
together the several parts requiring to be closed of boots, shoes, gaiters, leggings,
stays, belting, sacks, harness and other such like articles being made any length and
being composed of one or more round, flat or other suitable section wire threads or
strips of copper, brass steel, iron, or any other metal, or metallic compound which if
more than one thread or strip of round flat, or other suitable section metal or metals
are used, these said strips of metal may be, woven, plaited, twisted, enclosed, or boundl
round, by either of such metals; or any of the aforesaid metals, may be interwoven,
woven-over, plaited, twisted, or bound round together, or such like with silk, cotton,
leather, cat-gut, flax, or any other soft material; or the laces may be a mixture of
either of the metals and the silk, cotton, flax, or any other soft material, the whole
being woven, plaited or twisted together with the metallic portion worked up towards
the end or ends of the lace to form the tag; the wires being either pressed, soldered,
braized or twisted together at the extreme end to form the point of the tag, which
obviates the necessity of attaching a tin cover or tag at the end of the lace, as in the
ordinary way of those in present use.
I prefer to construct the lace, round, flat, twisted, woven, plaited, or any other shape,
either entirely of round, flat, or any other shaped, copper, brass, steel, iron, or other
metal wire, or of a mixed combination, of either of these metals, with a softer
substance or material, such as silk, cotton, leather, flax, or other material of similar
nature, or the copper, brass, steel, or other metallic compound may be woven, twisted,
plaited, or otherwise attached to the ends of the lace of the softer material to form the
tag only.
At one or both ends of the lace I prefer to form or construct the tag or tags, by
drawing out or pressing together the metallic wires, interwoven in the laces, these
wires being woven, twisted, pressed, soldered, or otherwise clutched together and
terminating with a tag either with a spike, loop, loop and spike, round, flat, oval,
eyelet or thimble, or any other shape, fixed or spliced together to form the tag or ends,
to insert in the eyelet holes of boots, shoes, stays, belting, harness, or any other such
like articles, where laces are neccessary to bring to or close together two or more
separated forms.

page_text: My invention has for its principal object, to provide a lace with a tag combined and
made of different sizes and shapes, of having the advantage of very great strength,
and of lasting in constant wear, much longer in use than any of the laces or tags,
which are at present used, and will prove a great boon as a boot or other lace
particularly to the members of the Army, Navy, Police Forces, Navies, and the great
mass of the working classes, or made very light for ladies use.
And in order that my Invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawings thereof, reference being had to letters and figures
marked thereon.
Figures 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21, represent the lace woven, plaited,
twisted, enclosed or bound round, either the whole of metal, or a combination, silk,
cotton, leather, cat-gut, flax, or any other soft material or substance and metal, or the
lace may be made of silk, cotton, leather, cat-gut, flax or any other soft material and
the metal fibres worked or woven in at the ends to form the metal tag, being either
pressed, soldered, braized twisted or otherwise pointed at the end, to any shape or
any size.
Figures 7, 8, 27 and 28 denote the formation of loops worked up, with eyelets or
thimbles, woven, plaited, twisted, enclosed or bound round either the whole of which
to be constructed of round or flat strips or wires of copper, brass, steel, iron, or any
other metallic compound, or a combination of the aforesaid metals and silk, cotton,
leather, cat-gut, flax or any other soft material, the metal portion being worked up or
drawn together at the ends, and the loop and point formed from the ends of the metal
worked up in the formation of the lace, or any foreign portion of metal may be
inserted to form the tag of any shape or size, or the lace may be formed of silk,
cotton, leather, cat-gut, flax or any other soft material or substance and the wires of
metal woven or otherwise inserted in the ends and worked up into any shape loop,
eyelet or thimble, either to form a tag or loop.
Figure 2 denote the section of figure 1 with the metal wires in the centre and the
sofi material woven round the metal.
Figures, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26 are the corrisponding
sections of the laces shewn on Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21.
I do not limit myself to the particular plait or twist of the aforesaid materials, or
the particular sectional shape of either the lace, tag or loop as shewn in the drawings,
as they may be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention, provided
they be of such a nature as herein before described.
Like letters refer to like parts in each figure.
A, the point or end of the tag pressed or soldered into a solid piece from the metal
wires.
B, the tag formed of metal wire or strips.
O, the loop constructed at the end of the lace.
D, the lace shewn in different shapes and sizes.
E, the.flat or round metal wire or wires formed inside outer cover of silk, cotton,
leather, cat-gut, flax or other soft material, or combined with metal or metallic
compounds.
F, the eyelet or thimble spliced or worked in at the end.
Having now particularly described the nature and object of my Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I claim as new and novel the
following:
First. The combination of the lace D, constructed of one or more round, flat, or
other shape wire threads of copper, brass, steel, iron, or other metal or metallic
compounds; or either of these metals mixed with silk, cotton, leather, cat-gut, flax or
any other soft material, or alone of silk, cotton, leather, cat-gut, flax or any other soft
material and the metal wires worked in the ends of the lace, the whole woven, plaited,
twisted, enclosed or bound round together or otherwise worked up, so that the metaĺ
portion B, is woven, twisted, pressed, soldered or otherwise clutched together and

page_text: terminating with the end A, of the tag B, either of a spike, loop, loop and spike, round,
flat, oval, an ordinary tag; or any other shape formed for use of inserting in the eyelet
holes of boots, shoes, stays, belting, harness, sacks, gaiters, leggings or any such like
articles, substantially herein described and according to the accompanying drawings.
Secondly. I claim the combination of the lace D, with the tag B, the point A, the
loop C, eyelet F, to be made any size, shape, length, breadth or thickness, and of any
metal and soft material combined or otherwise substantially herein described and
according to the accompanying drawings.
Thirdly. The tag B, constructed by drawing or pressing together the metallic wires
of any shape or size, interwoven in the lace, or partially interwoven from the ends, or
otherwise attached to the ends only, these wires being woven, twisted, pressed, soldered
or otherwise clutched together and terminating with a point A, any shape or size, the
tag B, being either a spike, loop, loop and spike, round, flat, oval or any other shape
fixed together to form a tag, that will pass through any eyelet or hole, any size, or
shape, substantially herein described and according to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 18th day of May 1887.