US799814A - Shoe. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED SEPT. 19, 1905.

H. c. WELGH.

SHOE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.16, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 19, 190.5.

7 Application filed January 16, 1905. -Serial1l0. 241,166.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HEZEKIAH G. WELCH, of Haverhill, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Shoes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of shoes known as highout shoes, and has for its object to provide a high-cut shoe which is adapted to be-placed upon the foot and secured with'the ease and facility of a low-cut shoe and is adapted to fit the ankle of the wearer closely above the point at which it is secured by fastenings. l accomplish this object by means shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows in side elevation, and Fig. 2 in front elevation, a shoe made according to my invention.

The shoe illustrated is provided with quarter-pieces a a, which extend from the vamp Z) upwardly to the top of the shoe, the edges of the quarter-pieces in front being approximately parallel and meeting or nearly meeting from a point at the middle of the vamp to a point approximately half-way to the top of the shoe or just above the instep and providing an opening to be laced, the edge portions of the quarters adjacent said opening being provided with eyelets having a lacing c therein.

The quarter-pieces are so formed that their edges diverge from the upper end of the lacing-opening and extend about and toward the back of the shoe nearly horizontally for a short distance and then extend divergent] y upwardly to the top thereof. The upwardlyextending edges are equidistant from the middle line of the shoe and are joined by an elastic goring d, which is sewed thereto. The upper end of. the goring d is continuouswith the upper edge of the quarters, and its lower end terminates at a short distance above the lacing-opening or the horizontally-running edges of the quarters, so that a finger-aperture e is provided therebetween. A tongue f extends from the vamp upward across the opening a and terminates a short distance 5 above the lower end of the goring.

In placing the shoe upon the foot the lacing is loosened and the laced edge portions are separated, and then the shoe is preferably drawn on the foot by inserting the fingers in the opening 6 and pulling on the tongue and on the loop at the back of the shoe simultaneously, the elastic goring d permitting the foot to pass through the upper portion of the shoe. The lacing is then drawn tight and tied. The upper end of the tongue f is tucked in under the goring, the opening 9 enabling the wearer to do this conveniently, as well as enabling him to pull on the tongue conveniently in drawing on the shoe or to pull the tongue up into position. The uppermost eyelets are closely adjacent the opening e, so that the bow knot in the lacing will cover the opening to a considerable extent. Vhen the shoe is to be removed, the knot in the lacing is untied, and then the wearer may insert his fingers in the opening 6, grasp the edge portions of the quarters between the lacing and goring, and pull them apart as easily as if the goring were not employedthat is, the goring is so located that it closes the main portion of the shoe-opening above the lacing and yet does not interfere with the fastening or unfastening of the shoe,

this being accomplished as readily as if the shoe were an ordinary Oxford.

The above-described shoe possesses practically the most desirable advantages of both a high and a low cut shoe without the disadvantages of either, as the shoe has the appearance of an Oxford in front and may be secured to the foot with as little or even less difliculty than an Oxford, and yet is in reality a high shoe. The shoe can be manufactured at practically the same cost as an ordinary shoe.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A shoe comprisingquarter-pieces extending from the vamp to the top, the front edges of said pieces being equidistant from the middle of the front of the shoe, the lower portions of said edges extending adjacent and approximately parallel to each other, and a lacing for drawing them together, said edges extending divergently about the shoe from the upper ends of said laced portions and then upwardly to the top of the shoe, an elastic goring connected to said upwardly-extending edges and closing the space therebetween from the top tO-tiiis specification in the presence of two subto Within a short distance of said diverging scribing Witnesses.

portions providin a fin er-aperture there- 1 1 between: and a tongue con nected to the vamp, HEZEKIAH 5 and extending to said finger-aperture, sub- Witnesses:

stantially as described. L. H. HARRIMAN,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name H. B. DAVIS.

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