Improvements in Fastenings for Shoes, Boots, Gloves, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left. 16th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by SCHNEIDER BROTHERS, of 14, Siebenbrunngasse,
Vienna, V, in the Empire of Austria, Manufacturers.]
Improvements in Fastenings for Shoes, Boots, Gloves, and the like.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improved fastening for shoes, boots, gloves and the like, which is made
according to the present invention, consists of a lug through which a cord or lace
is drawn. This lug is closed at its front part, where the cord or lace bears against
the same, by a small pulley adapted to turn upon an axis, and the upper protruding
edge of which prevents the cord or lace slipping sideways. In use the said roller
enables the cord or lace to slide in the lug wherein it may always remain, and the
article provided with the improved fastening can be opened by simply drawing
apart the flaps or the like, and closed by drawing the ends of the cord or lace.
Dated this 17th day of May 1892.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings for Shoes, Boots, Gloves, and the like.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45 Southampton Buildings, 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 :-
This invention relates to fastenings for boots, shoes, gloves and the like as herein-
after described.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a front elevation showing the application of my invention to gloves
or the like and
Figure 2 is a section through one of the studs
The improved fastening consists of a hook-shaped lug A rivetted or otherwise
secured to the glove or other article. Upon the said lug A is arranged a small
pulley C adapted to turn upon an axis secured to the said lug the upper flange of
which together with the hooked part of the lug A prevents the cord or lace B
slipping sideways.
In use the said roller C enables the cord or lace to freely slide in the opening
formed by the hooked part of the lug and the groove of the pulley, the said lace
being retained within the said opening. The article provided with the improved
fastening can be opened by simply drawing apart the flaps or the like, and closed
by drawing on the ends of the cord or lace B and tying the ends thereof together.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
A fastening for boots, shoes, gloves and the like, in which the lugs A provided
with a hook shaped part and attached to articles, form, in combination with the
groove of a fixed or rotary pulley C, an opening through which the cord or lace B

page_text: is passed, so that when the said articles are opened and closed the said cord or
lace will be simply displaced in the longitudinal direction in the said opening
without leaving the latter.
Dated this 16th day of January 1893.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.