US699869A - Shoe-lacing. - Google Patents

Description

No. 699,869. Patented May l3, l902.

H. w. HILLER.

SHOE LACING.

(Applicatioh filed July 27, 1901 (No Model.)

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HATTIE IV. HILLER, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

SHOE-LACING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 699,869, dated May 13, 1902.

Application filed July 27,1901.

T0 aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HATTIE W. HILLER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Shoe-Lacing, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to shoe-lacings, with the object in View of providing a shoe-lacing capable of being tiedin a multibow or rosette knot at the front of the shoe or Wherever the lacing may be employed.

My invention consists, broadly, in a shoelacing composed of a plurality of separable longitudinal sections extending; along that portion of the lacing which is intended to be used to form the knot.

A practical embodiment of myinventionis represented in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents the lacing as it appears when in use on the front of a shoe. Fig. 2 is a plan view, and Fig. 3 is an edge view.

The separable sections extend along the end portions or along that portion or those portions of the lacing which is or are intended to be used to form the knot and are preferably united at their outer ends either temporarily or permanently by means of tips for conveniently passing them through the eyelots.

The shoe-lacing, as represented in the several figures, comprises a central body portion a, formed of a single or non-separable part, and end portions composed of a plurality of longitudinal parts or sections, in the present instance three parts each, those of one end portion being denoted by b b b and those of the opposite end portion being denoted by c 0 0 These several parts at the end portions of the shoe-lacing are shown united at their outer ends by means of tips cl and 6.

Serial No. 69,895. (No model.)

These maybe stripped from the ends after the lacing has been once inserted in the shoe, or they may remain in their position on the ends, as preferred.

When the lacing has been inserted, the double-bow knot will be composed of six loops, which may be arranged by a little skill in tying to stand radiating from a common center, as shown in Fig. 1, presenting a rosette appearance.

It is obvious that the number of parts may be increased or diminished at pleasure and that the width and thickness of the several parts may be made a matter of selection. Hence I do not wish to limit myself strictly to the structure herein shown and described; but

WVhat I claim is 1. A shoe-lacing separated throughout a portion of its length into a plurality of longi- Eudinal parts or sections, substantially as set orth.

2. A shoe-lacing comprisinga central nonseparable body portion included between portions separated into a plurality of longitudipal sect-ions or parts, substantially as set orth.

3. A shoe-lacing comprising a central nonence of two witnesses, this 26th day of July,

HATTIE W. HILLER.

WVitnesses:

FRIEDA SOHRADER, I-Ineo L. HILLER.

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