Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Clasp – clip – support-clamp – or required component thereof – Having gripping member formed from – biased by – or mounted on...
Patent
1996-09-24
1997-12-02
Cuomo, Peter M.
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof
Having gripping member formed from, biased by, or mounted on...
24 305P, 12113, 12142LC, 36 501, A43D 900, A43D 500, B65D 7710
Patent
active
056922744
ABSTRACT:
A fastener for tying together a pair of shoelace eyelets on a shoe upper in such a way as to maintain the appropriate spacing therebetween while the shoe upper is being lasted. In one embodiment, the fastener is a unitary plastic member shaped to include an elongated flexible filament having a cross-bar at one end and a paddle at the opposite end, the paddle being provided with two or more alternative openings through which the cross-bar may be inserted to from a loop. The openings are preferably disposed at different points along the length of the paddle so that the different sized loops may be used for different eyelet spacings. In another embodiment, a feed bar is severably connected to the fastener for use in positioning the paddle so that the cross-bar may be aligned with and easily inserted into a desired cross-bar opening. Alternatively, the paddle may be provided with registration means. To attach the fastener to a pair of eyelets of a shoe upper, the paddle is positioned so that a desired opening is aligned with one of the eyelets. The filaments is then drawn over the upper to the other eyelet, and the cross-bar is inserted first through the pair of eyelet and then through the desired opening in the paddle.
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Augry Dennison Corporation
Cuomo Peter M.
Sandy Robert J.
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