Improvements relating to Fastenings for Button Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, and other articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 29th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 28th Apr.,
1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Fastenings for Button Boots, Shoes, Gaiters,
and other articles.
. I WILLIAM GEORGE STONEHAM of 8 Datchet Road, Windsor in the County
of Berkshire Bookseller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Essentially, the device according to my invention consists of an upper and a
lower member. It may be used for 1, 2; 3 or more buttons to one fastener. The
button by which the fastening is effected-generally the centre button-has a hook
or catch attached to a plate or frame on lower member of the device, said plate
or frame being turned up at the back, acts as a fulcrum upon which plate or frame
attached to the upper portion of the upper member works, thus serving the function
of a lever to fasten or close the article to which my improved device is adapted,
say for instance a boot or a shoe, and dispensing with the trouble of buttoning as
usually occurs under the ordinary mode of fastening such articles as herein referred
to, and consequently also dispensing with the necessity for using a button hook.
Date - £ A 1001
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, W.C.,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Fastenings for Button Boots, Shoes, Gaiters
and other articles.
I, WILLIAM GEORGE STONEHAM, of Datchet Road, Windsor, in the County
of Berkshire, Bookseller, 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 :—
My invention relates to an improved fastener for button boots whereby the
tedious process of buttoning boots such as heretofore used is dispensed with and
replaced by an easy and expedious mode of fastening. With this fastening the
inconvenience resulting from buttons coming off and being lost or having to be
resewn is fully obviated whilst the upper edge of the button carrying part or flap
of the upper is allowed to retain its shape being no more subjected to the wear and
tear due to pulling the buttons off and through the button holes when quickly
unfastening a boot or the like.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is view showing my improved fastener applied to a portion of a boot
upper and in an open position, while
Figure 2 is a similar view showing the fastener closed.
The
According to my invention the button holes generally formed in the upper part
or flap a of the boot upper are dispensed with and replaced by a number of iron
frames c attached to the same part or flap now the under flap, the inner edge of
these frames being bent over to form a hook and furnished with a roller r.
buttons hitherto sown on the under part or flap 6 of the boot upper are passed
through a hole formed in the said flap now the upper flap, their loop or eye
being secured to a wire frame d which has the shape clearly shown in Figure 1,
and is attached exactly opposite and above the frame c. There are as many.
frames d as frames c, each frame d carrying two ordinary boot buttons ef. one at.
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page_text: each end as shown, there being attached midway between these two buttons
another button which passes through an opening formed in the said flap b, is
secured to the frame d in the same manner as the ordinary buttons e and, and
terminates with a small hook h. The outward appearance of the flap carrying the
buttons is the same as that of an ordinary button boot, the head of the button
being similar to that of the buttons e and f
g
To fasten the boot the under and straight part of the frame d of the upper flap
is hooked upon the frame c of the other, the button g is held in the finger and the
frame d is turned down until the hook can be fastened to the bar c' of the frame c
when the fastening is completed. To unfasten the boot the hook his turned 1
off the bar c¹ and the frame a becomes easily disconnected from the frame c.
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 :-
The improved fastening means for button boots, shoes and the like arranged, 1
substantially as herein described and shown.
Dated this 28th dex of January 1809
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agent for Applicant.