An Improved Lace Holder or Lacing Eye.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 12th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Lace Holder or Lacing Eye.
We EDWARD FREDRICK HAYNES, of 48 and 49, Northampton Street, in the
City of Birmingham, Die Sinker, and THOMAS SINGLETON GRIESBACH, of
48 and 49 Northampton Street, aforesaid, Agent do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improved lace holder or lacing
eye for use on boots shoes corsets and other articles (the parts of which have to be
laced together) in place of the usual eyelets or lacing hooks our said improved lace
holder being so constructed as to be very readily and firmly affixed to the boots
shoes corsets or other articles and so that the friction caused by the lace or laces
passing round the lace holder will be reduced to a minimum thus enabling the two
parts of the laced article to be drawn together by the lace or laces or separated
from each other much more quickly than when ordinary eyelets or lacing hooks
are used.
Our said improved lace holder consists of two metal jaws namely an upper jaw
and a lower jaw formed together and provided with a cross pin secured to both
jaws and serving as an axis on which is threaded a pulley or roller round which
latter the lace runs when the lace holder is in use. The lower jaw is formed
with an eyelet like projecting part underneath which eyelet like projecting part is
passed through the leather or other material and clenched over underneath in the
usual manner adopted with ordinary eyelets thus securely fixing the lace holder
or lacing eye to the boot shoe corset or other article.
Our said improved lace holders or lacing eyes are fixed to the two parts of
the boot upper or shoe corset or other article in the positions usually occupied
by ordinary eyelets or lacing hooks the pulleys or rollers of the lace holders on
the two parts of the boot upper or other article being opposite each other. The
Jace is threaded through the lace holders or lacing eyes between the jaws and
passes round the pulleys or rollers which minimise the friction caused by the lace
thus enabling the whole of the lace to be tightened up by pulling at the ends of
the same.
Dated this 11th day of February 1895.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
We, EDWARD FREDRICK HAYNES, of 48 and 49, Northampton Street, in the
City of Birmingham, Die Sinker, and THOMAS SINGLETON GRIESBACH, of
48 and 49, Northampton Street, aforesaid, Agent, 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 consists of the hereindescribed improved lace holder or lacing
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page_text: eve for use on boots shoes corsets and other articles (the parts of which
have to be laced together) in place of the usual eyelets or lacing hooks our said
improved lace holder being so constructed as to be very readily and firmly affixed
to the boots shoes corsets or other articles and so that the friction caused by the
lace or laces passing round the lace holder will be reduced to a minimum thus
enabling the two parts of the laced article to be drawn together by the lace or
laces or separated from each other much more quickly than when ordinary eyelets
or lacing hooks are used.
Our said invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawing on which
Fig. 1 shews our improved lace holder on an enlarged scale;
Fig. 2 is a plan and Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of two parts of a boot upper
with some of our improved lace holders applied thereto.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts throughout the several
figures.
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Our said improved lace holder consists of two metal jaws namely an upper jaw a'
and a lower jaw a² formed together and provided with a cross pin formed with
the upper jaw a' and passing through a hole in the lower jaw a', the end of the
pin b being clenched over so as to effectually prevent the jaws springing apart.
The cross pin b serves as an axis on which is threaded the pulley or roller c round
which latter the lace runs when the lace holder is in use. The lower jaw a² is
formed with an eyelet stem d for fixing the lace holder to the boot, shoe, corset or
other article with which the lace holders are used. This eyelet like part d is
passed through the leather e¹ e² or other material and clenched over underneath in
the usual manner adopted with ordinary eyelets as shewn in Fig. 3.
Our said improved lace holders are fixed to the two parts ele² of the boot upper,
or shoe, corset or other article in the positions usually occupied by the ordinary
eyelets or lacing hooks the pulleys or rollers c of the lace holders on the two
parts ee of the boot upper or other article being opposite each other as shewn in
Figs. 2 and 3. The lace f is threaded through the lace holders between the
jaws a a² and passes round the pulleys or rollers c (as shewn in Figs. 1 and 2)
thus as the pulleys or rollers c minimise the friction caused by the lace the whole
of the lace can be tightened up by pulling at the ends of the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The hereindescribed improved lace holder, consisting of a pair of metal jaws
between which the lace can be threaded, a cross pin formed with one of said jaws
and fixed to the other jaw and carrying a pulley or roller between the jaws for the
lace to run round, one of the said jaws being made with an eyelet for fixing the
lace holder to the boot, shoe, corset or other article with which the lace holder is
to be used, substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 11th day of November 1895
EDWARD FREDRICK HAYNES.
THOMAS SINGLETON GRIESBACH.