US129178A - Improvement in gaiter-boots - Google Patents

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J. SCHROEDER.

Improvement in Gaiter-Boots.

No. 129,178. Patentedluly16,1872.

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PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN SOHROEDER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAlTER-BOOTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,178, dated July 16, 1872.

Specification describing an Improved Gaiter- Boot, invented by JOHN SOHROEDER, of Oin= cinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio.

This invention relates to that class of gaiterboots which have an elastic openingto admit the foot, so as to require no additional fastening.

The improved gaiter is closed and held on the foot by one or more elastic straps of proper tension passing around the back of the ankle, above the heel, between the lining and the outer leather, and the seams are so arranged as to present the appearance of a long boot. The side openings serve effectually to ventilate the foot. Apeculiar metallic clasp is employed to secure the elastic straps at one or both ends when preferred, so as to provide for adjusting or renewing the same by the wearer.

Figure l is a side elevation of a gaiter-boot illustrating the invention. Fig. 2 is a similar View of a higher gaiter illustrating the employment of a plurality of straps. Fig. 3 is a plan view and horizontal section on the linez, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the metallic clasp for securing the ends of the clastic straps.

the scams 1), and to the counter also, and unit ed by one or more elastic straps, f, passing through holes gin the back a, and around the back of the ankle above the heel, between the back a and its lining h. By this arrangement the elastic f is entirely concealed, and, at the same time, so arranged as not to come in contactwith the stocking or foot. An equal strain on the front is also secured, and the side openings are perfectly closed, but not so as to exelude air, and the same serve efiectually to ventilate the foot. The gaiter may be furnished with the usual pull-straps i, by which to draw it on.

To admit of the ready adjustment or renewal of the elastic straps f when worn, I propose attachin g the same to the front, at one or both ends, by metallic clasps k, one of which is shown in perspective in Fig. 4. This clasp is composed of a square sheet-metal disk, 1,with downturned edges to embrace the ends of the straps, and wire prongs 2 to penetrate the straps and the leather and be clinched securely on the inside; but the elastic straps may,if preferred, be sewed or otherwise permanently attached at both ends.

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