US578228A - String-ball for lacings of gloves - Google Patents

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(No Model.) W. F. POSTER.

' STRING BALL FOR LAGINGS OP GLOVES.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. FOSTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.; LIVINGSTON GIFFORD, BERTHA M. FOSTER, AND T. N. FOSTER, EXEOUTORS OF SAID WILLIAM F. FOSTER, DECEASED, ASSIGNORS TO THE FOSTER, PAUL & COMPANY, OF NEW JERSEY.

STRING-BALL FOR LACINGS OF GLOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 578,228, dated March 2, 1897.

A u i m June 20,1893. Serial N6. 478,280. (NomorleL) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM F. FOSTER, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in String-Balls for the Lacings of Gloves, of which the following is a specification.

Heretofore string-balls have been constructed of sheet metal, cup shape in form,

and perforated through the base, the cord being threaded endwise through the perforation, then knotted on the end, and the knot drawn back into the ball.

The object of my invention is to facilitate and cheapen the application of the balls,

which I do by splitting them from the perforation out to one edge, thereby enabling the application of the ball by forcing the string or lacing laterallythrough said split into the perforation through the base.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a bottom view of my string-ball detached from the string. Fig. 2 is a side View of the same attached to the string. Fig. 3 is an isometric View with the string-ball in central longitudinal section and the string shown in dotted lines. Fig. 4 is a side view illustrating the string-ball in the act of being applied to the string.

a is the base of the string-ball, containing the perforation b, of proper size to accommodate the string.

0 is the side of the string-ball, which is shown as hexagonal in form, but may be of 3 5 any other desired form.

01 is the string or lacing.

e is a slot or split narrower than the diameter of the perforation b and extending radially from the perforation out through the base a and through the side 0.

the edge of the side 0 the sides of the slot or split preferably diverge, as at f, forming an angular notch,which may be repeated around the edge of the side, so as to produce a fluted edge, as shown in the drawings.

As it reaches sufficiently elastic and yielding to admit of this being done; but upon the string reaching the perforation b it and the slot in the ball will return to their normal size sufficiently to 0ppose any ordinary forces tending to cause the escape of the string through the slot, while the knot on the end of the string within the ball will prevent its escape endwise.

The notch f, having its apex at the slot, serves to lead the cord into the slot, and thus greatly facilitates the application of the ball.

I claim 1. As an article of manufacture, a stringball, cup shape in form, having a baseextending transversely to the sides of the ball and formed with a perforation, the side walls and the base being each formed with a split smaller than the diameter of said perforation, the split in the base leading from the perforation therein and connecting with the split in the side, substantially as and for the purposes described. I

2. As an article of manufacture, a stringball, cup shape in form, having a base extending transversely to the sides of the ball and formed with a perforation, the side wall and the base being each formed with a split, the split in the side extending from the base to the outer edge of the side where the sides of the split are caused to recede from. each other, and the split in the base leading from the perforation therein and connecting with the split in the side, substantially as and for the purposes described.

WILLIAM F. FOSTER.

Witnesses:

FRED S. KEMPEE, J. E. GREER.

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