US1025901A - Apparel-shoe quarter-closure. - Google Patents

Description

01M. DODSON.

APPAREL SHOE QUARTER CLOSURE.

APPLICATION FILED 001218, 1909.

Patented May 7, 1912.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH 60.. WASHINGTON. n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES M. DODSON, OF DES MOINES, IOWA, ASSIGNOR- OF ONE-HALF T0 H. W. PARKER, 0F DES MOINES, IOWA.

APPAREL-SHOE QUARTER-CLOSURE.

1,025,901, Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 18, 1909.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES M. DODSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at l tral portion of each e d of the body portion is a small circular raised portion 17, and the other plate comprises a fiat body portion 18 Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State having two extensions 19 at its ends subof Iowa, have invented a certain new and stantially at right angles to the body and useful Apparel-Shoe Quarter-Closure, of also having in each end a substantially cirwhich the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a device of simple, durable and inexpensive construction designed to be placed in the quarter of an apparel shoe, below the shoe lacing for the purpose of holding the quarter closed when the lacing is drawn tight and to permit the quarter to be readily and easily opened when the shoe is unlaced above the quarter, for the purpose of providing an apparel shoe that can be quickly and easily applied to the wearers foot or removed therefrom, and that will be neat and ornamental in appearance.

My invention consists in the construction of the closure device and its arrangement and combination with a shoe, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a top or plan view of an apparel shoe having my improvement ap plied thereto, the dotted lines being used to indicate its position in a shoe. Fig. 2 shows an enlarged, detail view illustrating the closing device detached. Fig. 3 shows an enlarged, detail view illustrating one of the plates, and Fig. 4 shows a like view of the opposite plate.

eferring to the accompanying drawings, I have used the reference numeral 10 to indictate an apparel shoe, of which the numeral, 11. indicates the part termed the quarter. This is divided centrally in the ordinary way so that the top and quarter will be open to receive the wearers foot. Above the quarter, the front of the shoe is provided with ordinary eyelets 12 and lacing hooks 18 to receive the shoe laces 14:, and below the eyelets 12, I have provided the following device for holding together the adjacent sides of the quarter. This device is composed of two sheet metal plates and two pieces of wire. One of the sheet metal plates comprises a body portion 15, having two extensions 16 at its ends substantially at right angles to the body portion and in the cencular depression 20, said depression being extended at 21 to the adjacent end of the extension 19, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. The margins 22 of the plate 18 are bent upward at right angles to the plate all around except at the point side of the body portion 18 opposite from the part 23, I have provided an extension 24 on the margin overlapping the body portion and entering the space between the margins 23 as shown in Fig. 2. Two wires 25 are provided and each has 011 one end a coiled portion 26. This coiled portion or loop is designed to encircle the raised portion 17, plate 15, and to lie inside of the circular portion 20 of the depression in plate 18, and the parts 21 of said depression are made considerably wider than the wire so that each wire is permitted limited pivotal movement and is firmly held against withdrawal from the plates.

In assembling the device I first place two wires on the rounded projections 17, one on each plate, and then place the plates to gether with the wires between them and I then fold the margins 22 over the plate 15, and finally fold the extension 24 over the plate 15. Obviously, all of this may be done by machinery and without hand work, and hence the device may be constructed very cheaply. I apply the closure device to a shoe by placing it between the outer layer of leather and the lining of the shoe, as shown in Fig. 1, and then securing it in place by rows of stitches 27 as shown in Fig. 1. The wires 25 are preferably made of a material that will be sufliciently rigid to hold the sides of the quarter together, and which may be bent by the operator to conform to the contour of the wearers instep so that the shoe may be accurately and closely fitted to the foot, at the point where the quarter closure is applied.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a device of the class described, two wires, each having a loop at one end, and two plates connected with each other on opposite sides of said wire loops, one of said marked 28, and on the plates being provided with raised portions to enter eachloop, for pivotally connecting the wires with the plates.

2. In a device of the class described, two 5 wires, each having a loop at one end, and

two plates connected with each other on opposite sides of said wire loops, one of said plates being provided with raised portions to enter each loop, for pivot-ally connecting the wires with the plates, and one of said plates being provided with extensions through which the body portion of the wires are passed, said extension being wider than the Wires, tolimit the pivotal movement 15 thereof.

8. A device of the class described, comprising a plate having an extension at each end, substantially at right angles to the plate, a raised portion in each end of the 20 plate adjacent to said extension, a plate having an annular depression in each end and also an extension ateach end, said extension being provided with a depression forming a continuation of said annular depression, one plate also being provided with marginal edges, designed to fold over the edges of the other plate, and also being provided with an extension to fold over the central portion of the body of said other plate, and two wires, each being provided with a loop, said loops being placed between the said plates and lying within the depressions and encircling the raised portions substantially as and for the purposes stated.

Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 9, 1909.

CHARLES M. DODSON.

Witnesses MILDRED B. GOLDIZEN, MARY VVALLAGE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, I). C.

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