CA2406556A1

CA2406556A1 - Art button fastener

Info

Publication number: CA2406556A1
Application number: CA002406556A
Authority: CA
Inventors: Michael Tom Groves
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2002-10-21
Filing date: 2002-10-21
Publication date: 2004-04-21
Also published as: US20040088832A1

Abstract

A button fastener of plastic material, which can be quickly, attach onto clothing and material. The button fastener has a pointed, ribbed or toothed, free-end strap leading downward from the underside of the fastener. The point of the strap is inserted into and drawn through pants, clothing or material and the strap is then inserted through an opening in the fastener leading to a passageway through the fastener.
Situated above the opening in the fastener is a flap, which is folded in onto the body of the fastener. The flap has art shapes, icons or emblems molded into the outward side of the flap.
An angled lip on the inside of the flap is bent out of position and is inserted into an underside indent in the fastener, locking the flap onto the fastener body and securing the position of the strap within the passageway.
An alternative embodiment of a button fastener is designed with a pointed, ribbed strap that is inserted through a passageway within the shank of a button fastener. The shank contains a locking cache within the passageway that is sized to the ribbed strap and which prevents the withdrawal of an inserted ribbed strap from being withdrawn from the fastener. The shank button fastener can have art icons molded onto and into the face of the button from a side molding technique.

Description

SPECIFICATION
A button fastener of plastic material, which can be attach onto clothing and material. The button fastener has a pointed, toothed, free-end strap leading downward from the underside of the fastener. A
short, jab-point of the toothed and ribbed strap is inserted into and drawn through pants, clothing or material and the strap is then inserted into an underside opening in the fastener, the opening leading to a passageway through the fastener. The size and width of the attaching strap can be smaller than the pointed head of the strap. Appro.x. 2,~ MM
Situated above and before the said opening in the fastener, is a flap that is folded in onto the body of the fastener. The flap has ar-t shapes, icons and emblems molded into and onto the outward side of the flap.
The center of the inward side of the flap has an extended-insert that is shaped to fit into the passageway through the fastener. When the said flap is folded in onto the body of the fastener, holding teeth on the extended-insert, inter-locks with the ribbed, toothed, strap and/or the extended insert pushes the ribbed toothed strap into two toothed caches located at the beginning and at the end of the passageway through the fastener.
An angled lip on the inside of the flap is bent out of position and is inserted into an underside indent, pushing the said extended-insert into the passageway through the fastener and locking the flap onto the fastener body. The strap within the passageway is held in place. The button fastener has been attached.
Seefig.1,2,3,4,5&6 The art icon flap rests upward from the closed body of the fastener and is molded with a backward angle of lean. The flap is not perpendicular to the base of the fastener because the angle of lean by the flap, sets what angle the inward, pointed lip on the inside of the flap will be molded at.
Consequentially, when molding a fastener, the said lean of the flap produces an "angled edge" within the molded art on the flap of the fastener. (n order that the button-art remains unencumbered in its design, the "molding edge" is re-angled. The outcome being that the art icons on the buttons have fat lines of definition.
An art button fastener can be quickly attached onto clothing for the fashion on the art icon button and/or in the replacement of a missing button. A button fastener can be attached onto an object by wrapping the strap around the object before inserting the ribbed strap into the fastener for closure.
With inventive sewing and utilization, two or three button fastener can substitute the replacement of a zipper. The button fastener is sized for ornamentation and fashion or for a fastening use on a large, carry-sack.
A shank button, an alternative embodiment of the invention An alternative button fastener shall be titled a shank button. The fastener has an entrance and an exit through the shank that is sized to a pointed, ribbed strap. The shank of the alternative button fastener has a pointed, ribbed strap leading off from the bottom side. A strap in the shank fastener has the same thickness as the head of the strap. There are one or two locking caches on the wall or the floor of the said passageway. When the strap is inserted through the passageway, the caches) bends) back from the pressure of entry and edged indents in the strap receive the extensions) of the cache, preventing the withdrawal of the strap from the passageway. The strap can be ribbed or side toothed.
The button head of the shank button fastener is solid. The art head of the shank button fastener is molded with side-molded art icons. Side molded art has a variable of possible designs such as a cross, a six-pointed star or a twelve-pointed sun. if a face were molded on a sun or star, the centre of the mold would be raised within a dome shape and the said dome shape would have the facial designs.
The shank button fastener is strong in design. A shank button can have a full detail, art flap, which is folded in onto a flat body of the shank fastener. The art flap has an inward pointing lip and the body of the shank fastener has an indent in the underside of the fastener.
Within a shank button design, the passageway for the strap can be molded through the head of the button fastener, the bottom of the passageway being sealed See Fig 7, 8, 9 & 10 A two piece button fastener A two-piece button fastener consists of an art icon flap having two C-shaped extensions located on the underside edge of a flap, where-in the C-shaped extensions on a separated "art icon flap" are slipped under a hinge on the body of a fastener and the art icon lever is folded down onto the flat surface of the body of a fastener. The body of the fastener has an indent in the underside of the fastener and the flap having an inward pointing lip, which is turned into the indent in the fastener. The sales market would target the selling different art icon for pre-attached button fasteners.

Detail descriptions of the drawings The parts of a fastener;
1 ) A ribbed, free end strap leading oft from the underside of a fastener 2) A large, pointed head of a strap.
3) Art Icon shapes.

4) A flap, which is folded in onto the body of the fastener for closure.

5) An extended-insert located on the inside edge of the flap.

6) An inward pointing lip on the underside edge of a flap.

7) caches) located within the passageway of a fastener.

8) Inter-locking teeth on an extended insert 9) A shank with an opening and an exit through the shank, which is sized for a ribbed strap.

10) A uniformly sized ribbed strap.
Fig 1 shows a side-view of an open, art button fastener.
Fig 2 shows a side-view of a closed art button fastener. The strap has then been drawn through a passageway and a flap has been closed in onto the body of a fastener.
Fig 3 shows a top view of a closed button fastener.
Fig 4 shows a top view of an opened button fastener.
Fig 5 shows a art icon Fig 6 shows an art icon.
Fig 7 shows a front view of a "shank button" with a ribbed, pointed strap leading off from the bottom of the fastener.
Fig 8 shows a side view of a "shank button" with a ribbed strap leading off from the bottom of the fastener.
Fig 9 shows a side view of a "shank button" with a ribbed strap inserted through an opening in the fastener Fig 10 shows a side-molded, cross on the surface of a button.
Fig 11 shows a top view of a shank button references applied Canadian Patents or Canadian applications 2, 236, 516 H. Tanikoshi, T.
Tevjin 2, 242, 839 C. Dechenes, J.
Jantz 2, 068, 783 Watanabe, Hirokazu 2, 164, 735 M., Groves 2, 236,642 R. Candotti 2, 466 80 M. Folkman United States patents 4, 137, 606 Wood 4, 214, 349 4, 062, 312 P. Brillard 85870 F. Bignert Germany 2,409, 145 Brailard Canadian patent 2, 164, 735 is a Button Mending Kit, which claims a new attaching method for a plastic button fastener. The toothed strap of a fastener is attached onto an needle and the strap and needle perforates a material and the strap is then inserted into and locked in a lever latch.
Canadian patent 2, 242, 839 shows a fastener for the attachment of buttons.
The fastener is composed of a U-shape loop and when a button is attached to clothing, by the fastener, the button appears to have been attached by thread.
Canadian patent 2, 236, 516 is the embodiment of a snap button consisting of a button cap and a rear attachment plug. The snap button has a clench portion and a plurality of rotation preventing projections extending outward from the base of the flange.
Canadian patent 2, 068, 783 is a snap button, which has a ring shaped spring engagement.
The button cap, which has ornamentation, is attached to the filan ge of the caulking member.
This advantage allows the ornamentation on the snap button, to be independently changed with a permanently adhered, rear attachment of the button, for a customer's selection of ornamentation.
Canadian patent 2,154, 642 is a snap type of button, which has a rear attachment consisting of a nail plug, the metal head of the said button is dome shaped.
United Stated 4, 063, 312 is a button attaching fastener, which has a spacing piece with a toothed line that is drawn through material, looped through two button holes and inserted into a locking cache in the spacing piece.
United States patent 4, 137, 606 is a webbed, harnessing device consisting of a locking head and a webbed strap. The locking mechanism incorporates a two-sided locking cache.
United States patent 4, 214, 349 is a tie strap having a toothed strap extending from a head section. The tie strap has an opening to the said attaching strap and a pawl for discerning the holding of the strap. The strap is prevented from entering the fastener in a backward direction.
United States patent 85870 is a button fastener consisting of a cured needle bent into a G shape. The location of pressure onto the curved needle prevents the fastener from unwinding on a garment.

Summary The art icon button fastener is an improved embodiment over the button mending kit patent. A 2.5 MM wide, pointed head of a ribbed or toothed attaching strap can easily jab-pierce through a pair of jeans or cotton pants. Some pants takes percisants, but the enlarged pointed head of the strap will eventual penetrate throigh most material. A pointed head of button fastener strap ends in a fine percise point.
The improved embodiment of the button fastener has an art icon flap. Folding in the said art icon flap pushes an extended insert on the inside of the flap, into a passageway where the attaching strap has been placed. An angled edges on the extended-insert, engages the ribbed or toothed strap and/or the extended insert pushes the ribbed strap into one or two locking caches in the passageway through the fastener, The extended insert directly or indirectly engaged with the attaching strap.
The slight, backward lean of the full detail art flap provides the molding angle for an inward pointing lip locvated on the inside of the flap. The outward side of the flap faces into the mould of a molding machine. A one-pie<;e fastener can be molded with full detailed art and emblems.
Within an alternative embodiment of a button fastener, a shank of the fastener is emphasized as a route of insert for a pointed, ribbed or toothed, attaching strap. The head of the shank button fastener is rigid. A side-molding technique incorporates a variable of art design that may be molded to the button fastener.
The art icon flap can be molded, separately for joining onto a reciprocal fastener body. The independent art icon flap has an inward pointing lip for closure onto the reciprocal body of a button fastener, The art-button fasteners are an improvement in self-attaching buttons that can be quickly attached.

Claims

1) A button fastener of plastic material, which is composed of one-piece of plastic and has a pointed, and ribbed or toothed, free-end strap leading off from the underside of the fastener;
an opening to the fastener that is sized to an enlarged pointed head of the said strap:
a passageway through the fastener that is sized to the said ribbed or toothed attaching strap:
a flap that bends in onto the body of the fastener:
a flap containing full detailed art that is molded into and onto the outward face of the flap:
a flap that has a backward angle of lean, to allow for the molding of an inward angled lip on the inside of the flap:
an extended-insert on the center inside of a flap that is sized to fit into a passageway through the fastener;
an angled edged located on an extended insert of a flap and/or a tooth-edged cache located at the beginning and/or at the end of a passageway through the fastener:
an inward, angled lip on the inside of a flap;
an underside indent in the fastener that is sized to receive an inward angled lip.

2) A button fastener of plastic material which is composed of one-piece of plastic and wherein a shank on the bottom of a fastener has a passageway through the shank, with an opening and an exit sized to a pointed, ribbed or toothed, free-end strap that leads off from the bottom-side of the said shank and in which an inserted, ribbed and toothed strap is prevented from withdrawal from the passageway by one and/or two locking cache(s) located within the said passageway.

3) A button fastener as depicted in claim 2, which has "side-molded art"
molded into and onto the surface face of a shank button fastener.

4) A button fastener as depicted in claims 1 & 2, which is a combination of an art icon flap having an inward pointing lip and a fastener body of a shank style button:
the said fastener having a shank with a passageway through the shank that is sized for a ribbed or toothed strap:
a pointed, ribbed or toothed free end strap that leads from the underside of a fastener:
a locking cache located within a fastener passageway that is sized to a ribbed or toothed attaching strap:
an art icon flap that bends in onto the body of a fastener an indent in the underside of a fastener:
an inward pointing lip on the inside of a flap that is bent out of position and is inserted into an indent within the bottom side of a button fastener

5) A button fastener as depicted in claims 1 & 2, which is composed of two separate pieces having a separate, detachable, art icon flap that can be hinged onto the body of a button fastener, the said art icon sleeve having two or more C shapes on the underside edge of the flap, the tip of which can be inserted under a hinge molded onto the body of a fastener and wherein the art icon flap is folded in and locked onto the fastener body.

6) A button fastener as depicted within claims 1 to 5, which is sized for ornamentation, fashion and/or for being attached onto a large, carry-sack.

7) A button fastener as depicted in claims 1 & 2, wherein the face of the button fastener is not ornamented with an art icon or an art symbol.

8) A button fastener as depicted in claims 1 to 7, which is used for a sewing function.

9) A button fastener as depicted within claims 2, 4, 6, 7 & 8, wherein a pointed, toothed strap is inserted through a passageway within a fastener head, the fastener having locking caches located on the walls within the said passageway.