An Improvement in Fastening Devices for Boots and Shoes and other Outfittings.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Jan., 1894--Accepted, 23rd June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Fastening Devices for Boots and Shoes and
other Outfittings.
OTTO WEBER Manufacturer 24 Cotleigh Road West Hampstead London do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To fasten boots or shoes and outfittings with wheeles or a kind of rollers on a
stripe of metal or other suitable material provided with sewing holes or eyelets
or attachment pins.
The object is to provide means so that when the adjacend edges of boots or
shoes or outfittings are to be closed together, they will be in a smooth and
unwrinkled manner and the articles of which they are fastened will always be
without blets. There will be not any trouble in opening or closing the articlés.
By pulling the cord it will close quite easely.
On the opening of the boots or shoes or outfittings there will be a flat piece
of brass or any suitable article containing on the top two rounds in the shape
of a half moon or half cut studs and on the other side it contains a curved,
piece with a fastening hole and clasp. There is a rod or shaft of metal one
slot on the left and the second on the right side are cut in projections to allow.
to clear the brackets or extensions on the frame with reverse on the edges.
There can be on the openings of the boots or shoes a piece of twisted wire with
a certain strenght of a spring with a ring to fasten the usual holes or with
elastique with buttons or without.
Dated thi。 Sirth dox of Sentember 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Fastening Devices for Boots and Shoes and
other Outfittings.
OTTO WEBER Manufacturer 14 Great Titchfield Street Oxford Street
London W. 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 an improvement in fastening devices for boots and
shoes and other outfittings, such as corsets, gloves, and the like, in which laces are
employed as the securing or fastening medium, and has for object by such
improvement to construct in a simple strong, and economical, manuer the runners
or eyelets through or around which the laces are caused to pass, and which runners
or eyelets constructed in accordance with this invention are easily and securely
attached to the boot, stay, or other garment.
The invention consists essentially in constructing the runner or eyelet in a novel
and peculiar manner to be hereinafter more particularly described by which
absolute freedom of travel to the lace is ensured, the operation of drawing tight is
enabled to be performed at one operation, and withal when once attached to a boot
or other garment the runner or eyelet is not liable to become displaced, pulled off
or otherwise rendered inoperative.

page_text: And in order that this my invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect I will now proceed to describe same with reference to the accompanying
sheet of drawings and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.
Constructed in accordance with this invention and as illustrated in Fig. 1, 14,
2, 24, 3, 34 and 4, 4* the eyelet or runner consists of three portions viz.: A frame
or carrier, a fixed or revolving. roller and a bearing pin carrying the roller in such
frame or carrier fixed in such manner as to form an eyelet through which the lace
passes.
e e are
In Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings a is a view in plan of the frame or
carrier, as stamped out ready for being folded to form bearings for the pin 6 which
is to carry the roller c. This latter may be a fixture upon the pin 6 or it may be
placed loosely upon the pin to admit of its revolving as the lace is drawn through
same. d is a section of the metal strip through line D D of plan view.
holes or apertures drilled or pierced through the metal strip a to form bearings for
the pin or axle b. ff are similar holes or apertures by which the device is
attached (by sewing or otherwise) to the boot, dress, glove, or other garment or
article. Fig. 1 shews in perspective view the device fitted together and ready for
attachment to the boot, dress, or other article. Figs. 2. 24 of the drawings
illustrates the eyelet or runner device, the carrier or frame of which is stamped
out of a strip or piece of metal of different shape or configuration to that illustrated
in Figs. 1 and 1ª.
In Fig. 2 a is a plan view of the metal stamped ready for folding, 6 the pin or
stud and c the roller, e e are the holes pierced in the metal a so as to form bearings
for the pin b and ff are the holes by which the device may be attached by an
ordinary eyelet or otherwise to the garment, boot or shoe. In Figs 3 and 3ª are
similarly represented the eyelet or runner and the separate portions thereof, but
which eyelet or runner is capable of attachment to the boot or other article by
means of the tags g formed upon the metal carrier or frame a. These tags g when
in position shewn in Fig. 34 may be caused to pierce the leather or other material
and then opened out so as to securely attach the device to the boot, dress, or other
garment. The letters a, b, c and el refer to like parts as in the previous figures.
Figs. 4 and 4 shew the device as manufactured of hot pressed metal with one
eyelet for fastening to the garment. In these figures a is the metal carrier or
frame, b the pin or spindle, c the roller, ee the bearings for pin b, and h the eyelet
for affixing the device to the boot or other article. This eyelet h may be formed
in one with the plate a or if desired it may be a separate piece and soldered or
otherwise attached to the metal plate or carrier a.
In Figs. 5 and 6 are represented modifications of my fastening device in which
the head a is preferably made of cast metal hollowed out as at b in the shape
of a jaw in which the fixed and revolving roller c is mounted in such manner as to
allow space through for the insertion of the lace."
To the head a I have the neck d soldered or so formed in one therewith. The
length of this neck d, will be made proportionate to the thickness of the leather or
other material to which the device is to be affixed. As shewn in Fig. 5 I may
have a peculiar and novel method of attachment to the boot or other article con-
sisting of the disc e connected to the lower portion of the neck d:, The disc e is
split as at e and the pointed portion is made to pierce the garment and is then
turned round like a screw. It will thus be caused to work through the material
when it may be flattened down and made to resemble the underpart of a stud.
Fig. 6 the neck d of the device pierces the leather or other material and is then
flanged or spread over at the lower edges by means of a punch to form a secure
attachment.
ln
Fig. 7 illustrates another modification in accordance with which the runner or
eyelet is made of wire and which requires no soldering or rivetting. The wire A
is bent to four parallel lines and the tube B (to form a runner and facilitate the
travel of the lace) is fixed upon the two central lines. The frame is then bent so
that whilst the roller B is vertical or nearly so, the portion of the frame A. below

page_text: the roller is horizontal, forming a ready means of attachment to the garment by
stitching or otherwise. In Fig. 6 which is a modification of the device shewn
in Fig. the head a is formed solid in lieu of being jaw shaped, and instead of
baving the fixed or revolving roller c I form an aperture 6 through the solid
head a and through this aperture the lace is caused to pass.
Figs. 8, 9, 10 and 11 shew modifications of the device particularly applicable for
the fastening of corsets and the like, and in which the carrier or frame is made of
the full length of the garment and so arranged as at desired intervals to allow
of the placing of rollers around which the laces are to pass.
In Fig. 8 is represented in plan view a portion of the frame stamped out in a
suitable manner and shape for the purpose required. a is the strip of stamped
metal preferably formed with slots 6 along the centre line to allow of easy folding.
Apertures c are pierced at required intervals in the plate a to form bearings for
the roller spindles. d are the rollers around which the laces
pass. e e are
apertures formed in plate a to allow of threading the laces easily. In Fig. 9 the
plate a is shown folded over and the rollers in position ready for attachment to
a pair of stays. Fig. 10 is a view in plan of a strip of metal of another shape
or configuration adapted for attachment to corsets or dresses. According to this
arrangement or modification the strip a is formed with the extensions 6 which are
folded over as seen in Fig. 11 and form bearings for the rollers c. Notches d are
preferably cut in the plate a to allow of easy threading of the laces.
Figs. 12, 13 and 14 are general views shewing the application of the fastening
device respectively to a glove, a pair of stays, and a boot.
In Fig. 15 in combination with a runner previously described is shewn a clasp
arrangement which I prefer to adopt in connection with the best two runners upon
a boot or garment. The clasp a consists of a spring pawl attached to the frame b
in any suitable manner and which falls upon the runner c in such manner as to
allow of a free travel of the lace in one direction but which will, without it is
raised hold the lace against the runner. Hence when the laces are pulled and
the boot or garment closed by the one pull as aforesaid the clasps a will hold
said lace or laces firmly and thereby facilitate the operation of tying the ends.
When it is desired to unlace the boot or other garment the clasps a are held up
and the laces may easily be slackened.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improvement in fastening devices for boots and shoes and other outfittings
substantially as and for the purposes herein before set forth and shewn in the
accompanying drawings.
2. In fastening devices for boots and shoes the particular construction and
arrangement of frames or carriers for the rollers or runners substantially as and
for the purposes described with particular reference to Figs. 1, 14, 3, 34, 4, 4, of
the accompanying drawings.
3. In fastening devices for boots and shoes and other outfittings the construction
and arrangement of the parts a, b, c, d, in combination with the split disc e as shewn
particularly in Fig. 5 of the drawings all substantially as and for the purposes
hereinbefore set forth and described.
4. In fastening devices for boots and shoes and other outfittings the combination
and arrangement of revolving or fixed runners or rollers, carriers, and means of
attachment to the garment substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described and illustrated particularly in Figs. 6, 64 and 7 of the accompanying
drawings.
5. The fastening devices as particularly applicable for attachment to corsets
substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to and shewn in Figs. 8, 9, 10,
and 11 of the accompanying drawings.

page_text: 6. In fastening devices for boots and shoes and other outfittings the combination
with a runner or roller and carrier or frame of a clasp or pawl substantially as and
for the purpose hereinbefore described with particular reference to and as shewn
particularly in Fig. 15 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1894.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.