US1381950A - Tie attachment for shoes - Google Patents

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MACMTTHUR VAN DEUSEN, DECD.

A. P. VAN DEUSEN, ADMTNISTRATRIX.

TIE ATTACHMENT FOR SHOES. APPLICATION FILED AULLZI, 1919.

Patented June 21, 1921.

' ATTORNEY- UNITED srATEsg PATENT OFFICE.

MAOARTHUR VAN DETISEN, 0F BIIDLAND PARK, JERSEY; ANNIE P. VAN DEUSEN ADIJINISTRATRIX OF SAID MAGARTH'UR VAN DEUSEN, DECEASED.

TIE ATTACHIKENT F033. SHOES.

$pecification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 21, 1921;

Application filed August 21, 1919. Serial No. 318,247.

To all w 7mm it may concern Be it known that I, MAoAnrirnn VAN Dnnsnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Midland Park, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tie Attachments for Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tie attachments for shoes, and particularly low shoes, and it has for one of its principal objects to provide a tie attachment which will present a neater and more attractive appearance than the ordinary lacing and which will further permit a flat lace to be employed and while used retained with its loops in a flat or otherwise convenient form. Another object is to provide a tie attachment which will include, with a flexible lace arranged in a tie, a stiff back having means for readily securing the attachment to a shoe, as, for example, to the lacing thereof.

In the drawing,

Figure l is a plan view of a shoe provided with my tie attachment;

Fig. 2 is a similar view, the lace being omitted and the back a. being shown partly broken away;

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the said back, with a fragment of the lace shown in place thereon;

Fig. i is a side elevation of the said back; and

Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are sectional views on lines 5-5, 6-6 and 77 of Fig. 3.

The attachment includes a lace arranged in some desirable form of tie, such. as that shown in Fig. 1, and a back of stiff material therefor to which the tied lace is secured and which maintains it in shape.

In the preferred form of the invention the back, a, aforesaid, is constructed as shown best in Figs. 3 to 7. To form this back I take a piece of sheet metal, and form it with a transverse arch from one end to the other, its length being suflicient so as to cover the full complement of lacing eyelets 7) of the low shoe 0. The longitudinal edge portions of this piece a are bent up reversely to the arch thereof, as shown best in Figs. 6 and 7, and in each of the bent up portions is formed a row of apertures (Z each elongated longitudinally of the row. Outwardly of each aperture OZ is thus formed a bar 6, the outer edge of each bar being preferably convex, as

at 7, Figs. 3 and 4, as by the piece a a fluted form.

With a view to improve the appearance of the shoe and at the same time hide the lacmg g which is passed through the eyelets Z) and secures the shoe on the foot in the ordinary way, I prefer to use in connection with the piece a a tie composed of a lace of the flat or ribbon type, as shown in Fig. 1, arranged preferably to form a series of transverse loops it, abutting or approximately abutting on each other, and a bow i. The said lace is attached to the piece a: by threading it through the apertures d in some such way as is shown in Fig. 8 so as to produce the flat loops in appearing in F 1g. 1, and when all of the apertures have been thus threaded bv the lace the ends of the latter are formed into the how i. The apertures cZ being elongated, the loops remain fiat throughout their full extent, even where they pass through the apertures; otherwise stated, each loop bears flat against two bars 6 and so is kept transversely ex tended or flat, an effect which will be enhanced if the edge of each bar is convex, as at f in Figs. 3 and 4. The device may be secured over the lac- 111g in any desired way, but I prefer to attach. it so that it may be readily applied and removed. Thus, as shown in Figs. 2 to 5, the piece a is formed at its lower end with an inwardly rebent tongue or hook j to catch in the lowest loop is of the lacing g, and near the upper end of the piece a two pairs of transverse slits Z are formed, and the mate rial between the slits in each pair is bent inwardly, as at m, out of the plane of the piece itself to form an eyelet a through which eyelets the ends of the lacing 9 may be passed. After the hook 7' has been engaged in the lacing at is and the ends of the lacing passed through the eyelets n, the ends of the lacing are tied and may then be tucked in the top of the shoe. Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. As an article of manufacture, a detachable tie attachment for shoes including, in combination, a flexible flat lace arranged in a succession of flat loops, and a stiff back for the lace having means to receive the respective loops and hold each fiat.

2. As an article of manufacture, a detachgiving the edge of able tie attachment for shoes including, in combination, a flexible fiat lace arranged in a succession 01' flat loops, and astiii? back for the lace having two side-by-sicle rows of lacing bars each arranged longitudinally of the row, the lace being laced flat around each bar and the several bars thus holding the loops fiat.

3. As an article of manufacture, a tie attecliment for shoes including, in combination, a flexible lace arranged in a-succession oi loops and an elongated stiff back for the lace having its opposite eclge portions bent up in the same general direction and having means in saicl edge portions to receive and hold the resgective loops.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

MAGARTHUR VAN DEUSEN.

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