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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOSEPH O. LANGFORD, OF EL PASO, TEXAS.
LACING-EYELET.Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr. 8, 1919.
Application filed January 7,1918. Serial No. 210,676.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JosEPH OscAr LANG-
FORD, a citizen of the United States, residing
at El Paso, in the county of El Paso and
5 State of Texas, have invented certain new
and useful Improvements in Lacing-Eyelets,
of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to eyelet devices
for supporting lacings in shoes, corsets, leg-
10 gings and the like, and has for one of its
objects to improve the construction and in-
crease the efficiency and utility of devices of
this character.
Another object of the invention is to pro-
15 vide a device of this character which may
be quickly applied to the confronting edges
of the garment without structural change in
the garment, or injuring or weakening the
material of the garment.
20 Another object of the invention is to pro-
vide a device of this character in which the
attachments are precisely alike so that they
may be manufactured in quantities and in-
terchangeably applied to the garment, so
25 that a broken or impaired attachment may
be readily replaced, or the attachments
transferred from one garment to another. .
With these and other objects. in view, the
invention consists in certain novel features
30 of construction, as hereinafter shown and -
described and then specifically pointed out
in the claims.
The improved device may be applied with-
out structural change to various forms of
35 garments in which lacings are employed as
a fastening means, such as shoes, corsets, leg-
gings and the like, and it is not desired to
limit the invention to any specific garment,
but for the purpose of illustration the device
40 is shown applied to a shoe, and in the draw-
ings,
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shoe
with the improved attachment applied.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail of the con-
45 fronting edges of a garment opening with
the attachment applied.
Fig. 3 is an end view of one of the at-
tachments applied to one side portion of a
garment, the garment portions being in sec-
50 tion.
Fig. 4 is a transverse section on the line
4-4 of Fig. 2.
Fig. 5 is a view of one of the blanks from
which one of the members of the attachment
55 is constructed.Fig. 6 is a view of the holding. washer or
plate of the improved device.
Fig. 7 is a view of a blank illustrating a
modified form of the.construction.
Fig. 8 is a view similar to Fig. 2, illustrat- 60
ing the device constructed as shown in Fig.
7 and applied to a portion of a garment.
Fig. 9 is a section on the line 9-9 of
Fig. 8.
When constructed in: one form the iin- 65
.proved device comprises a body portion 10,
preferably elliptical in outline as shown in
Fig. 5, with projections 11 extending from
the longer ends and a -heavier projection. 12
extending from one.side. A holding plate, 70
represented as a whole at 13, is employed as
shown in Fig. 6 and provided with open-
ings 14. near the ends. The longer larger
projection 12 is bent into an eye as shown
at 15 in Fig. 4, and the projections 11 bent 75
substantially at right angles to the longi-
tudinal plane of the body 10. In applying
the device a pair of the body portions 10
are disposed upon the garment, for instance
the upper portion 16 of a shoe, at' opposite 80
sides -of the opening, and apertures formed
in 'the material of the garment through
which the projections or spurs 11 are forced,
and the anertures 14 of the holding member
13 disposed over the projecting portions of 85
the spurs and the latter bent or " clenched "
over the inner face of the member 13, and
sufficient pressure applied to firmly clamp
the body 10 and the plate 13 to the garment.
The eyelets .15 thus stand in opposite rela- 90
tion and at opposite sides of the opening in
the garment, and are thus disposed in posi-
tion to receive a lacing, represented as a
whole at 17. In applying the lacing the lat-
ter. is doubled intermediate its ends upon 95
itself and the terminals threaded through
the lowermost pair of the eyes 15. The two
parts of the lacing are then crossed and
passed through the next pair of eyes, and so
on throughout the series as shown in Fig. 1. 100
The lacings are then drawn relatively tight
and the two parts tied together as illustrated
at 18. When the garment is to be removed
the knot 18 is untied and the lacings loos-
ened by drawing them through the eyelets 105
in the same manner as an ordinary shoe lac-
ing is loosened until a sufficient slack is pro-
duced to enable the garment to be removed.
The garment may thus be "laced " by sim-
ply drawing the two parts of the lacing 1101,299,584.
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