US2391429A - Device for interchanging bows or ornaments on shoes - Google Patents

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Dec.25, 1945. 1 UPAR. v 2,391,429

DEVICE FOR INTERCHANGING BOWS ORORNAMENTS ON SHOES Filed June 9, 1945 INVENTOR.

BY (9 6 r TOR/YE) piece of cloth for attachment to either the shoe Patented Dec. 25, 1945 UNITED; STAT E :f-f.

DEVICE FOR INTEROHANGING BOWS R ORNAMENTSLON snons Evelyn z. Lipari, New York, N. ,Y. Application June 9, 1943, Serial No-. 490,160 3 Claims. 2- -245) This invention relates to new and useful im-' provements in a device for interchanging bows or ornaments on shoes or other articles.

More specifically, the invention proposes the construction of a device whereby ornaments may be removably mounted upon the vamp portion of a shoe in a manner to permit the ornament to be interchanged with other ornamenta or to' permit the ornaments to be temporarily removed when it is desired or necessary to wear rubbers 0 or other rain foot'gear over shoes. Removal of the ornaments is particularly advantageous when wearing rubbers over the shoes as it is extremely diificult to engage these rubbers over the shoes with the ornaments in position; and frequently the ornaments are torn from the shoes while donning or removing the rubbers; Removable mounting of the ornaments permits them to be removed from the shoes-before the rubbers are" donned and alleviates these objections.

It is proposed to characterize the device by a or the ornament and to which a second piece of cloth is attached at spaced points so as to have relatively free portions which may befilexed'a' short distance from the adjacent face of the first piece of cloth and which may'be'provided with buttons or buttonholes to be cooperative with buttons or buttonholes'formed on a third piece of cloth which is attached to either the shoe 'or 9 the ornament, depending upon the object to which the first piece of cloth was attached, in a manner to permit the buttons or buttonholes to be interengaged for mounting the ornament in position on the shoe. I

It is a further object of 'thisinvention to provide various means of attaching the two pieces of cloth together in a manner to provide differently shaped free portions and arranged to facilitate the engagement of the buttonsand button? holes, depending upon ones preference- 'It is another object of this invention-to provide a means for adjustably mounting the buttons relative to the shoe in a manner to permit the position of the buttons to be shifted relative to the shoe so that when they are with the button.- holes they will hold the ornament in a desired shifted, position upon the shoe.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention-are more particularly set forth.

5 :ornament in e position thereon,

In the accompanying drawing forming a material part of this disclosure: v

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a lady's shoe provided with a device for removably mounting an cording to this invention.

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but ornament removed. V a

Fig. 3'is a rear perspective view of the ornament, per se. 1

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional view taken substantially on the line 44 of Fig. 3. V

Fig. 5 is a rear perspective view similar to Fig. 3

' but illustrating a modification of the invention.

Fig. 6-is a perspective view of a shoe similar to Fig. 2 but illustrating astill further modification of the invention. I

' Fig. 7 is a rear perspective view of the bow for 'use in the modification of the invention shown in Fig. 6.' I

Fig. 8 isa front elevational view of a shoe con-. structed in accordance with a still further modification of the invention. V Fig. 9 is a rear perspective view of the ornament for use on the parts shown in Fig. 8.

Fig. 10 is a view similar to Fig. 8 but illustrating I a still further modification of the invention.

Fig. 11 is an enlarged vertical sectional view .taken substantially on the line Il.ll of Fig. 10. Fig. 12 isa sectional view taken on the line l2-l2 of Fig. 11.

Fig. 13 is a perspective View of the strap used in the latter modification of the invention.

Fig. 14 is a rear perspective view of the ornament per se.

The device for, interchanging bows or ornaments on shoes, or other articles is to be used'in combination with a pair of articles, such as a bow Ill or' other ornament and a shoe l l. The

attachment means'consists of a piece of cloth 12 mounted upon'oneof the articles. The piece of cloth l2 in this first form of. thejinvention is attached to the rear of the ornament I 0 by means of stitches l3. A second piece of cloth I4 is super imposed on and'in face contact with the first,

piece of clothlj and is attached at spaced points thereon .so as to. have relatively free portions which maybe flexed a short distance from the adjacent face of the piece of cloth [2. ,More specifically, the piece of cloth I 4 has its oppo itely constructed acwith the be engaged with complementary buttons ll. These complementary buttons H are mounted on a third piece of cloth 18 which is attached along its vertical center to the vamp portion of the shoe I I by a line of stitches [9. The layers of material l2, I4 and I8 have been specifically defined as being pieces of cloth, but they might also be formed of leather, oil cloth, plastic material, or other similar materials which may be flexed to accomplish the engagement of the but tons I! with the buttonholes I6.

The operation of the invention is as follows:

Normally, the ornament IE will be in position upon the shoe H, as shown in Fig. 1. If it isdesired to remove the ornament to be interchanged with other ornaments, or to free the vamp portion of the shoe to permit a pair of rubbers to be more easily engaged thereon; it is merely necessary to engage ones fingers into the open ends of the layers of cloth material l2 and I4 to permit the buttons II to be disengaged from the buttonholes I6 formed in the layer of cloth- M. The shoe II will then appear as in Fig. 2 without any obstruction on the vamp portion thereof. To re-engage the same ornament or other ornaments on the shoe the above procedure is reversed.

In the modification of the invention shown in Fig. 5 the construction of the attachment means is similar to that previously described except, for a slightly different method of attaching the piece of cloth material M to the face of the piece of cloth material l2, This means comprises stitches l 5' comprising a line of stitches lib extended in opposite directions from the ends of the lines of stitches l5a. This leaves oppositely disposed corners and adjacent sides of the piece of cloth material I4 free of the piece of cloth material [2. Thus larger relatively free portions are provided, permitting ones fingers to be more easily engaged between the adjacentfaces of the layers of cloth m aterial I2 and lit to more easilyjen gage and disengage the buttons and buttonholes.

In Figs. 6 and? the construction of the attachment ineans is similar to that, previously described, except that the buttons I1 are mounted on the ornament l0 and the buttonholes l6are provided with four buttons [1 engageable with four complementary buttonhole openings 16' formed in the'piece of cloth material 14 mounted on the shoe II. In other respects this for-moi the invention is similar to that previously shown and like reference numerals identify like parts in each of the several views.

In the modification of the invention shown in Figs. -14 the attachment means is characterized by a disc of cloth material 20 attached to the vamp of a shoe 2| by means of stitches 22 at its center area only. The peripheral edges of the disc of cloth material 20 is provided with. oppositely disposed aligned pairs of openings 23. A strap 24 is adapted to be laced through anyone of the aligned pairs of oppositely disposed openings 23 to have free ends extended along the top face of the disc of cloth material 20, as shown in Fig. 11. These free ends of the strap 24' are provided with buttons 25 which are adapted to be engaged with complementary buttonholes 26 formed in a piece of cloth material 21. This piece of cloth material 21 is securely attached to a second piece of cloth material 28 at its center by means of stitches 29. The piece of cloth ma ,terial 28 is securely attached by means of stitches 30 to the back face of an ornament 3!. The buttons 25 when engaged with the buttonholes 26 act to maintain the ornament 3| fixedly releasably in position upon the vamp of the shoe 2|. However, if the construction of the ornament 3| and the attachment of the pieces of cloth material 21 and 28 to the back thereof is such that the buttons cannot engage with the buttonholes 26 to properly position the ornament on the vamp of the shoe, it is merely necessary to disengage the strap 24 from the openings 23 with which it is engaged, and re-engage the strap 24 with the desired groups of openings 23. This will shift the position of the :buttons 25 on the disc 20 permitting the buttons to be then engaged with the buttonholes 26 to hold the ornament 3| in position on the shoe 2| in a proper turned position.

While I; have illustrated and described the preferred embodiments of my invention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise constructions herein disclosed and the right is reserved to al1 changes and modifications Coming within the scope of the invention as dehired in the appended ciaims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patentjis: V I i} l. A device of the class described havin a pair of articles one of which comprises an ornament for the other and a cloth piece attached to one of said articles with a second cloth piece superimposed on said cloth pieceand attached thereto at spaced points providing relatively free portions and a third piece of cloth attached to the other of said pair ofarticles, adjustable means connecting together said second and third pieces of cloth for adjustably connecting said pair of articles, comprising a strap, fastening elements betweenthe ends of said strap and said second piece of cloth, and means mounting said strap in position adjustably on said third piece of cloth to hold the articles various turned positions relative to each otherin the engaged positions of said fastening elements.

2. A device of the'class described having a pair of articles one of which comprises an ornament for the other and a cloth piece attached to one of said 'articles with a second cloth piece superimposed on said cloth piece and attached thereto at spaced points providing relatively free portions and a third piece fof'cloth attached to the other of said pair of articles, adjustable means comie'cting together said second and third pieces of cloth m adjustably connecting said pair of articles, comprising a strap, fastening elements between the ends ofsaid strap and said second piece of cloth, and means mounting said strap in position adiust'ably on said third piece of cloth to hold the articles in various turned positions relati-ve to each oth'er theengaged positions of said fastening elements, said fastening elements, comprising buttons on the ends of said strap engageable with buttonholes formed in the relatively free portions of said second piece of cloth.

3. A device of the class described having a pair of articles one ofwhich comprises an ornament for the other and. a cloth piece attached to one of said articles with'a second clothpiece superimposed on said cloth piece and attached thereto at spaced points providing relatively free portions and a third piece of cloth attached to the other of said pair of articles, adjustable means conhold the article in various turned positions relative to each other in the engaged positions of said fastening elements, comprisingroppositely disposed pairs of openings formed in the third piece of cloth and through which the ends of said strap are to be selectively engaged so its ends project along the top face of said third piece of cloth. c

EVELYN Z. LIPARI.

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