Shoe closure

Shoe fastener mounted on a part of a shoe upper which can move in an opening direction for opening of the shoe, comprising a rotary actuating element, a winding pulley pivotally mounted on a bearing element coaxially with respect to a central axis of the rotary actuating element for winding at least one cable-like tension element thereon, a reducing gear between the rotary actuating element and the winding pulley in the form of an eccentric drive in which an external unwinding gear is pivotally mounted in a housing of the shoe closure, and means for fixing the unwinding gear in each of several angular positions thereof;

• wherein:
• the unwinding gear is in the form of a disk having a grooved outer catch rim;
• the means for fixing comprises a catch element with a catch component pointed towards the outer catch rim, the catch element being supported outwardly of the unwinding gear disk in a manner enabling the catch component to deflect transversely with respect to the central axis of the rotary actuating element, the catch element being elastically pretensioned by a tension element in a direction causing the catch component to elastically latch into a groove of the outer catch rim;
• an externally actuatable release element is arranged to act against the pretension of the tension element as a means for disengaging the catch component from the groove of the external catch rim;
• and
• the release element forms a means for moving the shoe fastener together with said part of the shoe upper on which it is mounted in a shoe opening direction;
• wherein the catch element and the tension element are formed by a catch spring provided with said catch component as part thereof;
• and wherein the release element comprises a pulling element by which the catch component of the catch spring is displaceable against the pretensioning of catch spring into a disengaged position.