DELPETE-TYPE STRING FASTENER, CONNECTIVE ELEMENT FOR SUCH FASTENER STRINGS ENDS, SUCH FASTENER STRING GRIP AND STRING AND SUCH FASTENER FASTENING METHOD Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A43C1/06 

FIELD: personal use articles.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a footwear string fastener that has one or two pairs of string grips (each of them having a head, a neck, a base and a fixture part) and two or more eyelets as well as a string, principally - twisted, consisting of several chemical fibre strands; the string is waisted in the footwear fasteners and passed, with their end section, in a downward direction, to the outside through the eyelet pair positioned closest to the grip (so that to form a loop for cross-throwing onto the grips) and through the other eyelets; the eyelet holes size is equal to principally twice the string thickness; the string adjustment end passed through a lower eyelet is passed in a downward direction through the other lower eyelet where it is connected to the other end with their common eyelet due to the knots tied on the strings butting against the said eyelet edge; the string loose adjustment ends are drawn down between the tongue piece and the bootleg and connected there by way of the intermediate element butting against the eyelet inside; the intermediate element has connecting holes with spacers or the said string ends (or either of them), with 3-4 string coils snugly wound onto the intermediate element; the string end part is buckle-fixed in the other two holes of the intermediate element, the string grid heads are designed as shaped principally round (if viewed from above) while the string is characterised by enhanced density in the crosswise direction.

EFFECT: ensuring the possibility of one fastening footwear with one hand.