Safety clasp for the string of footwear

Claim 1

A safety clasp for the string of footwear comprising a fastening member and a knot member, said knot member having a lower portion transversely perforated with a hole, an extending rod portion, and a flat protruding head the height of which is larger than the diameter of said extending rod portion, said extending rod portion being between said lower portion portion and said flat protruding head; said fastening member comprising a tube having two bores, a compression spring within said tube, a pin at each end of said tube biased by said spring, and each pin having a bore substantially corresponding in size to said bore of said tube, and a mount perpendicular to said tube, said mount having a shaped perforation corresponding in size to the thickness of said flat protruding head and to the diameter of said extending rod portion so as to receive said flat protruding head and extending rod portion of said knot member therethrough as in the form of a keyed rod, whereby a knot is obtained by passing the opposite ends of said string of the footwear through the aligned bores of said tube and said pins upon said pins being depressed in said tube and further passing said ends in an opposite direction through the perforation in said lower portion of said knot member, and still further inserting said head of said knot member through the perforation of said mount; and said knot member being detachable from said mount by adjusting said flat protruding head in alignment with said shaped perforation of said mount.