US1050716A - Fastener for buttons and other articles. - Google Patents

Description

0. D. BELL. FASTENEB FOR BUTTONS AND OTHER ARTICLES.

APPLIOTIOR FILED AYE. 24, 1912.

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one D. BELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FABTENER FOB BUTTONS AND OTHER ARTIQLEB.

Specification 0! Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1913.

Application ma April a4, 1912. Serial No. 092,019.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Q'ris D. Benn, a c1t1- zen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn,

ject of the invention is to provide an improved arrangement of the fastening cord and friction disks whereby the button may be conveniently and firmly fastened to the garment without sewing, and without the liability of the button becoming loose.

The invention will be partlcularly explained in the specific description hereinafter to be given.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in. which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my 1mproved fastener; Fig. 2 is a sectional view through the fastener and through a button and a portion of a garment; and Fig. 3 is a rear or inner side view of the fastening disks and cord in the fastened position.

The cord, forming part of my fastening means, is doubled on 1tself at substantially its center of length, into aloop 10, which loop is passed around the article to be fastened, or through the same. In Fig. 2 the bend of the loop lies against the face of a button 20, the sides 11 of the loop being passed through eyes 12in the button. The cords at the inner side of. the button are brought into close relation and passed through the arment 25 to the" rear side of the fur or abric forming saidj. garment. The cord is passed from the loop through an eyelet 13 which secures together a plain base disk 14 and an outer notched cord-lockin disk 15. The locking disk 15 is formed wit diametrically opposite notches 16 in the peand involves a cord having looped en-.

- riphery, and the ends of the cord are passed from the eyelet 13 radially, as at 17, over the rear face of the locking disk 15 in op-. posite directions and inward through the notches 16. The free ends of the cord are then wound one within another to formalternate convolutions 18, 18, as close to the eyelet as the friction between the disks will permit. It will be observed that the eyelet 13 forms an eye common to both of the disks, and a means for fastening the disks together. Thus the ends of the loop in the cord run freely from the loop engaging the but-ton or other article, throu h the eyelet -to the back of the notched locking disk, and

reliance is had on the tension of the cord to hold the button or other article without sewing or tying. The button thus has such flexible connection with the garment as to permit of the button being engaged with a button hole conveniently, and yet the button is held so firmly as to not pull out or strain the fabric, since the strain will come on the eyelet, the outer end of which lies tightly against the back of the fabric 25.

I The plain base disk 14 is of larger diameter than the notched locking disk 15, and with thedescribed arrangement of the cord, having the loop freely passing through the eye common to both disks, when the ends of the cord have been passed through the notches 1.6 to the space between the disks, the wider disk supports the two ends of the cord, and either end may, be grasped and wound around the eyelet between the disks, the cord thus grasped serving to carry the other end around with it so that the two ends of the cord will be wound in alternate convolutions. The described arran ement of the disks and cord results in firm y fastening the button in position without sewing or without the formation of knots, and the convolutions of the cord between the disks lie in thesame plane, each convolution or partial convolution addin its frictional bite against the portions 19 o the cord that lie between the disks and range tangentially to the eyelet and extend'to the notches, thus faces of the disks, will lie substantially smooth and the button-fastening means will produce no ronounced protuberances,

1 Having t us described my invention, I

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claim as new and-desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The herein-describel fastening means for buttons and other articles, consisting of a plain base disk, an outerdisk of less diameter than the plain disk and having pelripheral notches at two diametrically OPPO,

site points, a central eye and fastening device common to the two disks, anda cord doubled on itself forming a substantially central fastening loop for embracing the button or other article to be secured, both lengths of the cord adjacent to the loop pass ing through the central eye common to the two disks and freely sliding therein, the

cord extendin from said central eye radiouter-disks to the space betwtfiftlfe disks, adapted to be allyoutw (1 1n opposite directions and inward through t eperipheralnotches of the the ends of the cord being wound in a similar direction in alternate convolutions over inwardly extending tangential portions of the cord, the convolutions being in the same plane and being frictionally held between the opposed surfaces ofthe disks.- v a 2. The herein-described fastening means for buttons and other articles, consisting of a base disk, an outer disk of less diameter than the base disk and having two notches in its periphery, the disks having a central eye passing through both, and a cord doubled on itself forming a substantially central fastening loop for embracing the button or other article, both stretches'of the cord adjacent to the loop assin throu h the eye common to the disks to ave 9. rec movement therein, the cord extending from the eye outward to the periphery of the smaller disk and through the notches therein to the space between the disks, the two ends of the cord being adapted to be wound into convolutions lying in the same lane between the disks and frictionally hel by said disks.

i In testimony whereof, I have signed my

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