CHAUSSURE

BOOT OR SHOE

Revendications

Claim lst A button-hole strip or lace-hole strip provided with button-holes or lace-holes, and having its inner edge split to form attaching flaps, substantially as and for the purpose specified. 2nd A button-hole strip or lace-hole strip having attaching-flaps along its inner edge, one of which is wider than the other, substantially as and for the purposes shown. 3rd A button-hole or lace-hole piece, or strip having its inner edge split to form flaps, the inner or rear one of which is wider than the other, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. 4th In combination with the piece containing the button-holes or lace-holes, provided along its inner edge with at¬taching-flaps, the shoe-quarter and suitable stitching securing the flaps to the quarter, substantially as and for the purpose described. 5th In combination with a button-hole or lace-hole strip, provided with two flaps along its inner edge, the quarter of a boot or shoe hav¬ing its edge connected by stitching with the front flap, and a line of stitching fastening the rear flap to the quarter on the inner side thereof, substantially as and for the purpose specified. 6th In combination with a button-hole or lace-hole strip, provided with two flaps along its inner edge, the front one being narrower than the other, the quarter of a boot or shoe having its edge connected by a seam with the front flap, and a line of stitching connecting the rear or inner flap to the quarter on the inner side thereof, substantially as and for the purpose shown. 7th. In combination with the quarter of a boot or shoe, the combined fly and button-hole or lace-hole strip having the narrow front flap and the wider rear flap along its inner edge, stitching joining the front flap to the edge of the quarter stitching passing through the quarter, and the flap projecting under the same, and stitching passing through the two flaps, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. 8th In combination with the quarter of a boot or shoe, a button-hole or lace-hole strip having attaching-flaps along its inner edge, stitching fastening the front flap to the quarter edge, and stitching fastening the rear flap to the quarter lining, substantially as and for the purpose described. 9th In combination with the quarter of a boot or shoe, a lining and a button-hole or lace-hole strip split so as to have front and rear or inner flaps along its edge, stitching fastening the strip to the quarter edge, and stitching fastening the lining to the rear or inner flap of the strip between such flaps and the quarter edge, substantially as and for the purpose specified. 10th In a boot or shoe, a button-hole or lace-hole strip having attaching flaps, along its inner edge stitching fastening the quarter-edge between these flaps, and stitching fastening the rear flap to the lining-edge, substantially as and for the purpose shown and described. 11th A button-hole fly in one piece having its inner edge or margin split or divided longitudinally forming two flaps, in combination with a quarter or quarter and lining of a shoe, the front or outer flap on the finished side being united to the quarter or quarter and lining by a line of stitching forming a seam, which is afterwards turned in such a manner as to be covered by the rear or inner flap which forms a strengthening-stay and makes a smooth finish on the under side of said seam, substantially as and for the purpose shown and described. 12th The method of attaching a button-hole or lace-hole strip to a boot or shoe quarter, which consists in providing the strip with two flaps along its inner edge with the inner or under flap wider than the other fastening, the narrow front flap to the quarter-edge and fastening the wider flap to the under or inner side of the quarter, substantially as and for the purpose shown.