US699990A - Shoe-lacing hook. - Google Patents

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Patented May l3, I902 F. E. VANDEBCOOK.

SHOE" LACING HOOK.

(Application filed. Oct. 17, 1901.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK E. VANDERCOOK, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN MEYER, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

SHOE-LACING HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 699,990, dated May 13, 1902.

Application filed October 1'7, 1901. Serial No. 781967. (No model.)

Lacing Hooks, of which the following is aspecification. I

My invention relates to improvements in lacing-hooks around which a lace is drawn for securing together adjoining edges of a covering, and is particularly designed for use upon shoes, whereby the same may be closed and secured together upon the foot of the wearer. v

The object of the invention is to provide a device whereby the throat of the hook is antomatically closed with the insertion of the lace, thus preventing any engagement of said hook with the clothing of the wearer, as is the case with the majority of the lacing-hooks now employed upon shoes; further, to accomplish the above in a simple, inexpensive, and practical way.

Upon the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, similar characters of reference indicate like or corresponding parts throughout the several figures, and of which Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a lacing hook made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective view of my improved protector. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the hook and protector illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the protector designed to be made of rubber tubing and applied similar to that shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

While the devices illustrated differ slightly in the matter-pf detail of construction, yet the essential features thereof are common namely, that of attaching the protector to the lower portion of thehook; further, in that In the first three figuresof the drawings I have illustrated what I now consider the most desirable construction, since it is simple and inexpensive to manufacture, may be used in connection with any of the hooks now upon the market, and will not require any special change for its use. The device,'as will be apparent, is designed to be made of sheet metal 'and may be stamped out or struck up in two consecutive operations and afterward united with the hook when the latter is applied to the shoe.

Referring in detail to the characters of reference marked upon the drawings, A represents a lacing-hook which is designed after those commonly upon the market, consisting of a base eyeleting portion B and a hook portion C.

D indicates my protector as a Whole, which comprises a sheet-metal ring having a flexible tapering projection E from one edge thereof. In manufacturing this protector the central opening through the disk portion would be made of a size equal tothat of the eyelet of the hook over which it is placed, as shown in Figs. land 2, and so adjusted that the flexible extension thereof will substantially regis ter with the outer edge of the hook in a manner to form a guard for the same and prevent its catching or engaging anything With which it comes in contact. It will be obvious, of course, that the extension of this protector is sufficiently flexible to permit the lace to be drawn in against the shoulder of the hook, whereupon said extension will quickly snap back to its normal position in line with the front edge of the hook, as will be apparent from Fig. 1. The above remarks concerning the operation of this protector will equally apply to the construction shown in Fig. 4, wherein a rubber tubular device is illustrated and which in'practice is attachedsimilar to the previously-described devices.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A shoe-lacing device comprising an eyelet and hook portion, a protector made of flat spring material and secured to the base of said hook and normally extending upward across the opening of the hook and having its rection with the insertion or removal of the end substantially at the edge of the hook and lace. designed to automatically spring open or close Signed at Waterbury, in the county of New with the passage of the lace thereunder. Haven and State of Connecticut, this 12th day 5 2. A protecting device for a shoe-lacing of October, A. D. 1901.

hook conslstlngofa sheet-nictalring-hke part 7 FRANK E. VANDERCOOK having an upwardly-deflecting flexible extension fitted onto the base portion of the hook \Vitnesses:

so that said extension will normally close the CHARLES E. MEIGS, 10 month of the hook but will yield in either di- FREDK. M. PEASLEY.

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