Improvements in Fasteners for Shoes, Gloves, Corsets, and other articles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 14th May,
1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fasteners for Shoes, Gloves, Corsets, and other
articles.
I, CHARLES HENRY TESCHI, of Number 211, Grand Avenue, in the City of
Milwaukee, in the County of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, United States
of America, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
ained in and by the following statement:-
My invention has for its object to improve that class of fasteners embodying
slides that are drawn along guides arranged parallel to openings in various articles,
such for example as shoes, gloves, corsets, and other articles of wearing apparel,
and to that end the said invention consists in certain peculiarities of construction
and combination of parts, as hereinafter more particularly set forth and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 of the drawings represents a plan view of a portion of a shoe provided
with a fastener of my invention.
Figure 2, a detail transverse section indicated by line 2--2 in the preceding
figure, and
Figure 3, a plan view of a slide that may be substituted for the one shown in
the first figure.
Referring by letter to the drawings A represents a shoe provided at each side
of its longitudinal foot-opening with a series of guides arranged at suitable inter-
vals apart, each guide being entirely separate and distinct from all the others in
the series, in order that the material to which it is attached may have unimpeded
yield to the movement of a foot in the shoe when the latter is closed by a slide C
that operates in conjunction with all the guides. As herein shown each guide is
in the form of a sleeve B parallel to the foot-opening in the shoe, and each sleeve
is preferably provided with an attaching shank b, although other provision may be
A slot e is formed in each
made for its connection with the shoe or other device.
sleeve the whole length thereof to face the adjacent opening of the shoe or other
device to which my invention is applicable, and the width of this slot is less than
the diameter of the sleeve-bore for the purpose hereinafter set forth.
While the guides B are necessarily in series on opposite lines, they need not be
parallel to each other in pairs, as herein shown, it being just as practical (and
perhaps preferable in some instances) to have the guides in one series break joints
with those of the other series.
The slide C is made in such conformity with the guides as to be drawn along
the same but held thereto against lateral displacement. The form of slide shown
in Figures 1 and 2 is a strip of material having the longitudinal edges and lower
end thereof bound with a spirally run wire d, said slide being pliable throughout
its length. For a shoe it is preferable to have the body of the slide made from
O kangaroo leather, the latter being very tough and pliable.
By employment of spirally run wire instead of cord, as a binder for edges of

page_text: the slide, stitching is avoided, and there being no stitches to wear or rot, the binder
will hold its place with reference to said slide. It has also been found, by experi-
ment, that spirally run wire, as a slide-binder, is preferable to any other metal
binder, as it is far more economical and requires no rivets or other fastenings
liable to work loose. My binder being in the form of a spiral-spring it conforms
readily to flexure of the slide, this being a matter of considerable importance.
Rigidly secured to the upper end of the above described slide, by the wire d or
otherwise, are cords e, that are threaded through the guides B and serve as pulls
by which to engage said slide with said guides and thereby close the intervening
opening, these cords being matters of convenience rather than necessity, inasmuch
as any other form of pull may be employed or the slide may be devoid of any
attachment designed to facilitate its engagement with the guides.
Figure 3, illustrates the slide as being made in two sections, C¹ C₁, united by
a lace-cord f engaging suitable eyes, the outer edges of these slide-sections being
wire-bound similar to the one-piece slide in Figure 1. By having the slide in
two lace-connected sections, it may be readily adjusted in the matter of width.
The wire-binding herein shown and described, thickens the longitudinal edges
of the slide and prevents the same from pulling out of the guides in which it has
free longitudinal play, and by having this binding continued at the lower edge
of said slide, the draw of the latter in an upward direction is limited.
From the foregoing it will be understood that the slide cannot become automatic-
ally detached from its guides, should there be yield of the shoe or other device in
a direction of the opening closed by said slide.
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. A fastener consisting of guides in opposite series adjacent to edges of an
opening and having the form of longitudinal slotted sleeves, together with a
flexible slide having a binding of spirally run wire engaging the guides.
2. A fastener consisting of guides in opposite series adjacent to edges of an
opening and having the form of longitudinally slotted sleeves, together with a
flexible slide comprising lace-connected sections having a binding of spirally run
wire engaging the guides.
Dated this 29th dox of Mamah 1808
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.