US346983A - Catch-plate for shoe-clasps - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

S. A. CHAPMAN.

GATGH PLATBI'OR SHOE GLASPS.

\ l 1%. 346,983. Patented'Aug. 10,1886.

EM ss-y a. PETERS. mwulmnbben wmm m", 0.x:

UNITED mares ATENT trier.

SAMUELA. CHAPMAN, OF \VATERBURY, ASSIGNOR TO J. C. HAMMOND, JR., OF ROCKVILLE, AND T. E. KING, OF \VESTPORT, CONNECTICUT.

CATCH-PLATE FOR SHOE-CLASP'S.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 346,983, ated August 10, 1886.

Application filed June 5, 1886. Serial No. 204,198. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL A. CHAPMAN, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Catch- Plates for Shoe-Clasps, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,whereby any one skilled in the art can make and use the same.

My improvement relates more particularly to the class of shoe-clasps ordinarily used on overshoes of the style called. arctics, on brogans, and on like articles of foot-wear.

The object of my improvement is to provide 1 a wire catch-plate or take-up for use in shoeclasps; and to this end my improvement consists in a take-up made of wire bent to and fro across the length of the device to form crosswise holding bars, the parts being held together bystraps or lengthwisestrips of metal folded upon or about them, as more particularl y hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of part of one form of myimprovement, showing the wire bent to form the crosswise holding bars. Fig. 2 is a plan view of this wire frame with the metallic strips or hem secured thereto. Fig. 3 is a view in cross-sec- 0 tion of the take-up on the plane denoted by line a m of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view in longitudinal section of the takefup on the plane denoted by line y y of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a plan view of a modified form of my improvement, the frame being formed in this instance by inturned bends of the wire on opposite sides of the frame. Fig. 6 is a view in cross-section through the holding-strap of'the frame on plane denoted by line 00 w of Fig. 5.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter a denotes one form of my improved catch-plate or take-up, in which form the strap-loop b and the cross bars 0 are formed by bending the wire, thatis of convenient size as to cross-sec- 5 tion and is preferably of iron, brass, or steel,

back and forth across the length of the plate, while the side parts (Z d of the frame of the take-up are composed of strips of thin metal arranged 'one on each side of and along the frame. These side parts (I d, or hems, as they may be termed, are made of comparatively narrow strips of thin metal bent first to C shape, so that when either piece is slipped upon the edge of the take-up one branch of the hem lies along the edge upon the upper side of'the take-up and the other on the under side of the edge. By means of suitable tools, that are of ordinary construction, this hem or binding-strip is closed down upon the frame, preferably so as to clasp the several cross-bars c and the bends between them, as illustrated in sectional view in Fig. 4. The function of these side parts is to give to the take-up a certain rigidity, strength, and power to resist a pulling strain, such as would naturally result from the use of the take-up in a shoe -clasp where it and the tongue are fast to opposing parts of the shoe, and bring, when hooked together, a lengthwise strain upon the take-up.

WVhen the take-up is made in the form above described, it is obvious that the intervals between the cross-loars may be very small, limited only by the thickness of the tongue, and this forms one advantage of my improvement. A further advantage is due to the fact that there is no waste of metal in making such a take-up, the wire being preferably a continuous piece, while the form of the side strips enables them to be cut from sheets of metal with absolutely no waste, and this enables me to pro- 90 duce a very cheap device, as compared with sheet-metal catch-plates or take-ups, in which the opening for the loop. and for the entrance of the tongue are formed by cutting out pieces of metal, that are wasted, no less than forty per cent. of the metal in the latter case being wasted.

In-the modified form of my improved takeup shown in Figs. 5 and 6 the frame 6 is made of wire, with the cross-bars formed onehalf on the opposite sides of the center line of 0 the take-up by inturned bends from the side parts 6' e of the frame. In order to give rigidity to this framework, I make use of the clasps f, that are closed upon and bind firmly together the adjacent ends of the loops g, that 9 5 are bent inward from the opposite sides of the frame. In this modified form of my improvement the cross-bars cannot be arranged as near together as in the form first described; but it of wire, with the integral strap-100p at one end has the advantage of not requiring the side of the device, and crosswise holding bars parts or hem necessary to the first form. formed of the back-and-forth bends of the wire I claim as my improvement across the width of the frame. the edges of the i5 5 1. In a shoe-clasp, a take-up 0r catch-plate frame having the hem or stiffening strip of made of wire, with crosswise holding bars sheet metal clasped upon the wire, all substanformed by bends in the wire, the bends being tially as described.

held in place and made rigid by stiffening SAMUEL A. CHAPMAN. strips 01' bands of metal, all substantially as de- Witnesses: [O scribed. M. S. CROSBY,

2. Theimproved tak e-up 0r catch-plate made CHAS. W. GILLETTE.

Images