EP0140248A1 - Knopf für Kleidung - Google Patents

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EP0140248A1
EP0140248A1 EP84112263A EP84112263A EP0140248A1 EP 0140248 A1 EP0140248 A1 EP 0140248A1 EP 84112263 A EP84112263 A EP 84112263A EP 84112263 A EP84112263 A EP 84112263A EP 0140248 A1 EP0140248 A1 EP 0140248A1
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button
anvil plate
cap
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peripheral wall
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Takeo Fukuroi
Keiichi Inazawa
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Nippon Notion Kogyo Co Ltd
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44B—BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
    • A44B1/00—Buttons
    • A44B1/18—Buttons adapted for special ways of fastening
    • A44B1/28—Buttons adapted for special ways of fastening with shank and counterpiece
    • A44B1/34—Buttons adapted for special ways of fastening with shank and counterpiece with snap-action counterpiece
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44B—BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
    • A44B1/00—Buttons
    • A44B1/08—Constructional characteristics
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44B—BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
    • A44B1/00—Buttons
    • A44B1/18—Buttons adapted for special ways of fastening
    • A44B1/44—Buttons adapted for special ways of fastening with deformable counterpiece

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  • the present invention relates to a button comprising a capped button body for attachment to a garment by means of a tack adapted to be joined with the button body, and more particularly to a button assembled of a button body, a cap fitted thereover and an anvil plate interposed between the button body and the cap.
  • a typical prior button for attachment to a garment by means of a tack comprises a mushroom-shaped button body, a cap fitted over the button body and an anvil plate held stationarily in position between the button body and the cap.
  • the tack is forced through the garment fabric into the button and anchored in place as it is deformed against the anvil plate.
  • Buttons of this type have a drawback in that the anvil plate is apt to shift out of place within the button under the influence of pressures exerted peripherally to the button.
  • Some of garments such as denim jackets or denim pants, are washed with pebbles or small stones in a turbulent stream of water or a detergent solution for processing the same into a finished product deliberately having a worn-out surface appearance.
  • pebbles impinge upon the button head and thereby deform the same with the result that the anvil plate is loosened to move randomly within the button.
  • the present invention seeks to provide a button having a resiliently deformable means capable of absorbing externally applied impact forces thereby maintaining its plate part in position against displacement which would otherwise result in objectionable noise.
  • the present invention further seeks to provide an button structure which will find useful application particularly with denim type garments which are finished by stone washing.
  • a button generally designated A comprises a metallic button body B having a double-tubed hollow hub 10 and an annular flange 20 extending outwardly from an end of the hollow hub 10, a cap C mounted on the annular flange 20 of the button body B, and an anvil plate P held resiliently in position between the annular flange 20 and the cap C.
  • the hollow hub 10 has inner and outer tubes 11, 12 extending coaxially and an annular bottom 13 extending between respective lower ends of the two tubes.
  • the inner tube 11 receives the shank of the tack as hereafter described and has an inner rim 14 rolled outwardly in its upper end.
  • the annular flange 20 has a flange base 21 extending outwardly from an upper end of the outer tube 12 of the hollow hub and a first peripheral wall 22 flaring upwardly around the flange base 21.
  • the flange base 21 has outer and inner annular troughs 23, 24 and an annular rib 25 formed into an annular raised wall disposed between the annular troughs 23, 24, all of which are disposed concentrically with the hollow hub 25.
  • the annular rib 25 defines a top flat face of the flange base 21.
  • the first peripheral wall 21 shown in Figures 1 and 2 forms a wall slanted preferably at 15 degrees with respect to the axis 28 of the button A.
  • the cap C has a circular top wall 30 and a second peripheral wall 31 disposed around the top wall 30 and turned downwardly.
  • the second peripheral wall 31 has a tab 32 extending from a portion of a periperal edge thereof for indexing a direction in which the cap should be-attached to a garment.
  • the top wall 30 shown in Figures 1 and 2 has a substantially flat surface, which otherwise may be a spherical or convex surface (not shown) with radius of curvature larger than the diameter of the top wall 30.
  • the anvil plate P is formed into a disc, the maximum outside diameter D1 of which is smaller than the inside diameter D2 of the first peripheral wall 22 of the annular flange 20 and larger than the outside diameter D3 of the annular rib 25 of the latter 20.
  • the anvil plate P has a thickness Tl greater than the distance T2 between a distal edge 26 of the first peripheral wall 22 and the top surface of the annular rib 25.
  • the anvil plate P may be formed into a polygonal plate (not shown).
  • the button A When assembled as shown in Figures 2 and 3, the button A receives therein the plate P placed on the annular rib 25 and then the cap C is fitted over the annular flange 20 by deforming the second peripheral wall 31 radially inwardly by a presser means (not shown) for engaging the second peripheral wall 31 with the first peripheral wall 22 of the annular flange 20.
  • the assembled button A shown in Figure 2 has the anvil plate P urged against the top wall 30 of the cap 3 by the annular rib 25 of the annular flange 20 for being held resiliently in position therebetween, and an annular cavity 27 disposed around a peripheral end face of the.plate P and enclosed by respective peripheral wall portions of the cap C and of the annular flange 20.
  • the annular cavity 27 includes a first space dl disposed between the peripheral end face of the plate P and the inside of the first peripheral wall 22, and a second space d2 disposed between the distal edge 27 of the first peripheral wall 22 and the inside of the top wall 30 of the cap 3.
  • the button A is constructed to provide a hollowed peripheral portion therearound, wherein the first and second peripheral walls 22, 31 can be respectively deformed or flexed inwardly when an external force or pressure is applied thereto, and then return to its original position upon the removal of the pressure.
  • the button A can absorb the external force exerted on the peripheral edge portion and maintain the plate P resiliently in position.
  • the button A is attached to a garment fabric F by a tack 40 which has a head 41 and a shank 42 projecting centrally thereform and having a free end portion 43, whereupon the shank 42 is pierced through the fabric F into the inner tube 11 of the hollow hub 10 and forced against the anvil plate P for thereby bending the end portion 43 in one direction as shown in Figure 4.
  • the deformed shank firmly engages with the inner rim ' 14 of the hollow hub 10 and hence secures the button A to the garment.
  • the end portion 43 of the shank 42 may be constructed to be deformed radially outwardly, instead of being bent, into locking engagement with the entire circumference of the inner rim 14 of the hollow hub 10.
  • buttons are washed with pebbles in a turbulent stream of water or a detergent solution for producing a finished product of garment having a worn-out surface appearance.
  • the button A is subject to an externally applied impact force or pressure in a direction indicated by an arrow G in Figure 2 due to the pebbles impinged on the peripheral edge portion of the button head.
  • the button A absorbs such impact force G by being resiliently deformed in its peripheral portion for thereby maintaining the anvil plate P in position, wherein the first peripheral wall 22 is resilienty flexed towards the plate P, or otherwise the deformable peripheral portion of the button head is resiliently deformed outwardly about the annular rib 25 in an alternative direction indicated by either arrow gl or g2 in Figure 2 in such a manner that the space between the flange base 21 and the top wall 30 does not substantially spread.
  • the cap C nor the anvil plate P is loosend from its tight engagement, established by assembling the button A, respectively with the button body B and with a combined retaining structure of the cap C and the button body B.

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EP84112263A 1983-10-13 1984-10-12 Knopf für Kleidung Expired EP0140248B1 (de)

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JP158471/83U 1983-10-13
JP1983158471U JPS6065011U (ja) 1983-10-13 1983-10-13 被服等用釦

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JP (1) JPS6065011U (de)
KR (1) KR860000962Y1 (de)
AU (1) AU545393B2 (de)
BR (1) BR8405238A (de)
CA (1) CA1260678A (de)
DE (1) DE3468309D1 (de)
ES (1) ES281908U (de)
GB (1) GB2147794B (de)
HK (1) HK25289A (de)
MY (1) MY100033A (de)
SG (1) SG83688G (de)
ZA (1) ZA847500B (de)

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WO1998033409A1 (en) * 1997-02-03 1998-08-06 Cobra S.R.L. Button with improved device for automatically-orientated application to items of clothing
ITBO20120386A1 (it) * 2012-07-18 2014-01-19 Riri Sa Bottone o simile, provvisto di indicatore di orientazione

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JPH0111049Y2 (de) * 1985-04-30 1989-03-30
JPH0332250Y2 (de) * 1986-09-29 1991-07-09
JP2508542Y2 (ja) * 1990-12-27 1996-08-28 ワイケイケイ株式会社 釦

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FR472327A (fr) * 1914-02-02 1914-12-02 Henry Lewis Davis Bouton en plusieurs pièces
US1968221A (en) * 1933-07-18 1934-07-31 Daniel I Reiter Quick attachable button
DE2738703A1 (de) * 1977-08-27 1979-03-01 Schaeffer Homberg Gmbh Vernietbarer knopf
EP0123246A1 (de) * 1983-04-26 1984-10-31 Nippon Notion Kogyo Co., Ltd. Knopf

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JPS5560402A (en) * 1978-11-01 1980-05-07 Kaneemu Kogyo Kk Tacking button
JPS5925208U (ja) * 1982-08-11 1984-02-16 日本ノ−シヨン工業株式会社 被服用釦
GB2139868B (en) * 1983-05-16 1987-04-23 Vaasanmylly Oy Feedstuff for ruminants and a process for its production

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR472327A (fr) * 1914-02-02 1914-12-02 Henry Lewis Davis Bouton en plusieurs pièces
US1968221A (en) * 1933-07-18 1934-07-31 Daniel I Reiter Quick attachable button
DE2738703A1 (de) * 1977-08-27 1979-03-01 Schaeffer Homberg Gmbh Vernietbarer knopf
EP0123246A1 (de) * 1983-04-26 1984-10-31 Nippon Notion Kogyo Co., Ltd. Knopf

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO1998033409A1 (en) * 1997-02-03 1998-08-06 Cobra S.R.L. Button with improved device for automatically-orientated application to items of clothing
ITBO20120386A1 (it) * 2012-07-18 2014-01-19 Riri Sa Bottone o simile, provvisto di indicatore di orientazione

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DE3468309D1 (en) 1988-02-11
BR8405238A (pt) 1985-08-27
CA1260678A (en) 1989-09-26
SG83688G (en) 1989-04-14
AU3352184A (en) 1985-05-16
AU545393B2 (en) 1985-07-11
JPS6065011U (ja) 1985-05-08
KR850007928U (ko) 1985-10-26
MY100033A (en) 1989-04-20
GB8425430D0 (en) 1984-11-14
GB2147794A (en) 1985-05-22
HK25289A (en) 1989-03-31
KR860000962Y1 (ko) 1986-05-23
GB2147794B (en) 1987-01-07
ZA847500B (en) 1985-05-29
ES281908U (es) 1985-05-01

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