New or Improved Means or Devices for Connecting Together India- rubber or other Overshoes, for the purpose of Preventing them being Exchanged or Mispaired.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 7th May, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Means or Devices for Connecting Together India-
rubber or other Overshoes, for the purpose of Preventing them
being Exchanged or Mispaired.
I, AMALIE HAHN, of Siemianowitz, Kr. Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Wife of a
Chemist, 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:-
In consequence of the slight differences in the appearance of indiarubber and
other overshoes left in cloak-rooms and other like places, they are very liable to be
exchanged or mispaired by inadvertence which leads to great inconvenience.
In order to obviate this inconvenience I connect the shoes together before they
are left in the cloak-room or other place by means of a simple and easily fastened
and unfastened connector or locking device, so that an unintentional separation
or mispairing of the shoes is avoided.
The kind of connector or locking device employed may be varied according to
circumstances, as also the position it occupies on the shoes.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings Figures 1 to 9 show three examples of
connectors or locking devices placed at the hinder part of the adjacent sides of a
pair of shoes.
In Figures 1 and 2 are shown two indiarubber or other overshoes standing side
by side, partly in back elevation and partly in section through the connector, which
latter is a spring pressure connector of the kind usually employed in gloves. The
connection of the two shoes is effected by placing them close together and pressing
the part a into the part 6 as shown in Figure 3, when this is done the shoes cannot
be separated from one another unintentionally. The owner's name, his monogram,
a number or other mark may be engraved or otherwise indicated on the plates of
the connecting parts inside the shoes to enable them to be easily recognized. The
shoes are easily separated from one another when required by drawing them apart
so as to free the spring part a from the part b.
Figures 4 and 5 show in elevation, and Figure 6 in section, another kind of
connector in which by inserting a connecting part consisting of a toothed pin a¹
(Figures 5 and 6) into a corresponding connecting part provided with a suitably
shaped perforation 61 (Figure 4) and turning the parts in opposite directions the
shoes are connected together in the manner shown in Figure 6.
A third method of connecting is shown in Figures 7, 8 and 9. A connecting
part fixed on one shoe and provided with a head a² (Figure 8) is introduced side-
wise into a slot 62 of another connecting part (Figure 7) fixed on the other shoe
so that the separation of the shoes is prevented by the projecting edges of the
head a² and of the slot 1 as shown clearly in Figure 9.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
Means or devices for connecting together indiarubber or other overshoes, which
consist of a projecting part a, a¹ or a² on one shoe, which engages with a suitable
recessed, perforated or slotted part b, b¹ or 63 on the other shoe, substantially as
described.
Dated this 15th day of January 1898.
A. HAHN,
Per W. H. Beck,
Agent, 115, Cannon Street, London, E.C.