Quick lace tightener for shoes

• US 4,081,916 A
• Filed: 02/03/1977
• Issued: 04/04/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Thomas Salisbury
• Original Assignee: Thomas Salisbury
• Inventors: Salisbury, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Guest, Alfred R.
• Application Number:
  US05/765,303
• Time in Patent Office: 425 Days
• Field of Search: 36/50, 24/203, 24/143, 24/73 GC
• US Class Current: 36/50.1
• CPC Class Codes: A43C 11/008 Combined fastenings, e.g. to accelerate undoing or fastening
• CPC Class Codes: A43C 11/1493 Strap fastenings having hook and loop-type fastening elements
• CPC Class Codes: A43C 11/22 Fastening devices with elastic tightening parts between pairs of eyelets, e.g. clamps, springs, bands
• CPC Class Codes: A43D 999/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

Abstract

A generally conventional shoe having flaps with eyelets therethrough has laces extending from the eyelets in one flap through the eyelets in the other. A patch of "Velcro" type fastener fabric is secured to a leather patch having eyelets receiving the laces outwardly of the other flap and may be pulled over the one flap to tighten all laces an then may be engaged with a second patch of the fabric to hold the laces in tightened but easily released condition.

Claims

1. A quick lace tightener for shoes, a shoe having adjacent closure flaps, each provided with a plurality of eyelets, comprising:

a shoe lace member laced through and extending from the eyelets of one flap and outwardly through the eyelets of the other flap;

a first patch of fastener fabric secured to the outer ends of said shoe lace members; and

a second path of complementary fastener fabric secured to the outer surface of said shoe adjacent to said one flap whereby said first patch may be pulled toward said second patch to tighten said lace and draw said flaps together and then engaged with said second patch to hold said lace in tensioned condition, said lace being threaded through eyelets in a leather patch having said first patch of said material secured thereon.

2. A lace tightener as defined in claim 1 wherein the ends of said lace are adjustably secured together adjacent said leather patch in position to be covered thereby when said first patch engages said second patch.