US228946A - Feiedeich schulz and august schulz - Google Patents

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(MOGBL) F. & A. SOHULZ.

Shoe Fastening.

No. 228,946. Patented June15,1880.

E ERS. PHOTO-LIIMOGRAPNER, WASNINGYON n c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRIEDRICH SOHULZ AND AUGUST SGHULZ, OF BERLIN, PRUSSIA, GERMANY.

SHOE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,946, dated June 15, 1880.

Application filed March 1, 1880. (ModeL) Patented in Germany September 26, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRIEDRICH SoHULz and AUGUST SOHULZ, residents of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, and doing business under the firm ofFR. 85 AUG. SOHULZ, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Locks, of which the foL lowing is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in buckles or devices for fastening shoes, applicable also to wearingapparel, and has for its object to avoid the usual mode of lacing and to provide for im mediate tightening or connecting two parts of a garment.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an under-side view, showing the fastening device open. Fig. 2 is-a like view, showing it closed, and Fig. 3 is a detail View.

A represents a carrier or button, of any preferred or desired shape and material. It is provided with two studs or pins at points equidistant from its center, upon which are. pivoted two curved arms, B, with their curved portions facing in opposite directions. The outer end of the arms B is enlarged to form a bearing provided with slots 1), and said outer ends are sewed to the opposite ends or edges of the shoe-vamp in such a manner that when the fastening device is in the position shown in Fig. 1 the foot may be readily slipped into the shoe. If the button or carrier A is now rotated the arms B, at their pivoted end, are swung around until the curved parts I) of said arms are interlocked one with the other, as shown in Fig. 2, and the opposite edges of the leather drawn together.

Owing to the fact that the arms B, when in the position shown in Fig. 2, have passed the (lead-points of their respective fnlcra, any

strain upon said arms will only tend to lock them more firmly together, and they cannot be released except by rotating or turning the carrier or button in a reverse direction.

The arms may be made of any suitable material. In practice I stamp them out of thin flexible sheet metal, especially when employed on shoes, so that the said arms may readily adapt themselves to the shape of the instep of the foot or other part thereof.

WVhen the device is employed upon garments one of the latches or arms B only is sewed or otherwise permanently connected to one part thereof, the adjacent part being provided with the hook O, which, when the two parts of the garment are to be fastened or connected together, is hooked in the arm B that is free, and when it is desired to bring said parts of the garment closer together the button or carrier A is rotated,as before described.

Having now described our invention, what we claim is- 1. The combination of the carrier A, carryin g the pivots a at points equidistant from its center, with the curved arms B, provided with slots I), substantially as shown and described, and operating as set forth.

2. The combination of the carrier A and its pivoted curved and slotted arms B with the hook 0, all constructed and operating as set forth.

In witness that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 23d day of January, 1880.

FRIEDRICH SOHULZ. AUGUST SOHULZ. Witnesses:

GEORGE LOUBIER, BERTHOLD B01.

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