IMPROVEMENTS RELATING TO LACING HOOKS OR STUDS
Year: 1885

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I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature
of invention for "IMPROVEMENTS RELATING TO LACING HOOKS OR STUDS and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to lacing studs for use upon gloves, and to the manner of
applying them thereto; and it consists in the combination with a lacing hook or
stud, of a concavo convex washer provided with a central aperture to receive the
shank or fastening portion of said stud or hook, said washer being applied with its
concave side towards the head of the hook, and with its outer rim beyond the
base of the stud peripherally and enclosing and surrounding the base of the same,
and pressing the material all around said base above the outer face thereof as
hereinafter more fully described.
In the accompanying drawing:-
Figure 1 is a plan of a lacing stud.
Figure 2 is a central longitudinal section of the same.
Figures 3 and 4 are respectively a plan and a central section of the washer.
Figure 5 is a central longitudinal section of the stud and washer applied to a
piece of glove-kid or other material, and
Figures 6 and 7 are respectively a side elevation and a central longitudinal
section of a modified form of the stud, in which the central aperture in the outer
head is dispensed with.
All of the figures are drawn to a scale several times larger than the natural size
of the article for the purpose of more clearly representing the construction of the
several parta
This stud and its washer are designed especially for use upon gloves and
consequently are of necessity much smaller than studs and hooks for use upon
boots and shoes, and in order to obviate as far as possible the danger of laces and
fringes catching upon the hooks it is necessary that the space between the outer
head and the inner collar should be less at a point in their peripheries opposite the

page_text: neck than next to the neck. In order that the small stud used on gloves may be
readily set without disturbing the position of the outer head relative to the base or
inner collar or head, the outer head may be perforated so that a projection of the
anvil may pass through said perforation, and bear directly upon the outer surface
of the inner collar or head and thus receive the blow of clinching the shank.
In the drawing a is the outer head, having a convex outer surface, and provided
with a central perforation a¹ which serves to lighten the stud, and also, as a means
of enabling the anvil used in setting the stud to bear directly upon the outer
surface of the inner head b, and sustain the shock of the clinching blow, without
danger of displacing the outer head a by bending the neck o which connects the
heads a and b at one side in the usual manner.
The shank & has formed therein the conical recess d¹, which extends nearly the
whole length of the shank and is of such a diameter at its outer end as to reduce
the end of the shank to an annular knife edge adapted to cut its own way through
the material as shown in Figures 2 and 7.
This stud is made from a single piece of wire, and the conical recess is formed
by pressure at the same time that the outer head and neck are swaged, thus
Baving the after operation of drilling, which is a great advantage especially in
such small studs as are desired for use in gloves.
The washer is made from thin sheet metal and is pressed by suitable dies into
the desired concavo-convex shape and is provided with the central aperture e¹ to
receive the shank d of the lacing stud, said washer being applied to said stud with
its concave side towards the heads of the stud, with its outer rim projecting beyond
the periphery of the base collar, and with the material f to which the stud is to be
attached interposed between it and the inner head or base collar b of the stud, as
shown in Figure 5. The effect of this arrangement is to throw the material
upward all around said base collar, so that its outer surface is above the level of
the outer surface of the head b, or in other words to cause the embedding or
sinking of the head b below the level of the outer surface of the material so as to
diminish the projection of the studs and thus improve the appearance of the glove
and at the same time reduce the danger of laces and fingers catching in the
lacing hooks, and also to render the lacing cord less liable to slip and become slack
when the glove is laced, by virtue of the friction of the kid upon the cord.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated
to me by my foreign Correspondent, I declare that what I claim is
In combination with a lacing stud or hook, a concavo-convex washer provided
with a central aperture to receive the shank or fastening portion of said stud or
hook, and applied thereto with its concave side towards the head of the stud or
hook and with its outer rim beyond the base of the stud peripherally and enclosing
and surrounding the same and pressing the material all around said base above
the outer face thereof, substantially as, and for the purposes, described.
Dated this 97th Int of Ontahan 1805