US1136518A - Hand button-attaching tool. - Google Patents

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W. E. ELLIOTT & D. S. COLE.

HAND BUTTON ATTACHING TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9. 1913.

Patented Apr. 20, 1915.

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WILLIAM E. ELLIOTT AND DWIGHT SCOLE, F GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN; SAID COLE ASSIGNORTO SAID ELLIOTT.

HAND 'BUTTon-ATTAcHING TooL.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, WILLIAM E. ELLIOTT and DWIGHT S. COLE, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Grand Rapids, in the-county of. Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Hand Button-Atlar material by means of a metallic staple,

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taching Tools; and we do hereby declare the "following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled-inthe art to which it appertainsto makeand use the same.

I Our invention relates to improvements in hand button attaching tools, and more particularly to such tools adapted to attach shoe buttons and the like to leather or simi- 1; Fig. 3 is a'vertical section of the j aws of the device illustrating the operation of clenching the button attachingstaple; Fig.

4 shows the same before the clenchingop'em ation has commenced; Fig. 5 is an inverted sectional plan on the line 55 of Fig. 2; Fig. 6 is a transverse section through the points of the jaws taken on the line 66 of Fig. 3, and, Fig. 7 is a similar transverse section showing the jaws separatedas in .Fig. 4, andtaken on the line 7'7 of said Fig. 4. j

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This device is in the form of a hand plier consisting of two levers 1 and 2 crossed and i pivoted together intermediate their ends,

the shorter ends 1 and 2 serving as the jaws of the plier, while opposite or longer ends serve as the handle members thereof. These lever members 1 and 2 are preferably formed of sheet metal stamped into the proper channeled shape, which enables them Specification of Letters Patent. Patented App 20 1915, Application filed May 9, 1913. Serial n0. 766,555.

to be made very cheaply. A spring 3 is coiled about the pivot pin 1 of the plier, and its respective ends extend rearwardly and engage opposite handle members to normally retain theplier jaws in open position.

One of the jaws 2 is adapted to receive the button 7, together with the staple 8, and

for that purpose it is provided with a short longitudinal slot 5 in its forward end, which is the proper size to receive the eye 7 of the button, and the lower surface of the aw is provided with depressions 6 transverse of and adjacent to the said slot 5 adapted to receive the head of the staple 8. A retaining spring) extends above the upper surface of the jaw 2", and is provided in its forward end with a longitudinal slot9 corresponding and registering with the slot 5 in the button to raise the same and draw the head of the staple 8 snugly into the depressions 6 in the under surface of the j aw; l 1

The retaining spring 9 is automatically depressed by a finger 12 which projects from the handle lever 1 and engages the said spring when the jaws are wide open to press the same into engagement with the jaw 2 .but releases the said spring at the first movement of closingthe jaws.

The spring 9 extends backward from the point of the jaw 2 toward the pivot of the plier and is looped and passed through an opening in the jaw of the plier, and its lower end extends along the under surface of the said jaw toward the forward end thereof. The spring is attached by means of a screw 10, to the under surface of the jaw 2, and its lower end 11 extends forward to the transverse depression 6 and forms a stop and guide shoulder to aid in adjusting the staple to its proper operative position. By looping the spring 9 and attaching it, as

. shown, to the under surface of the jaw, the

loop of the spring is substantially in the same plane with the slotted end of the jaw so that when the slotted end of the spring 9 rises away from the upper surface of the jaw, this movement will be substantially vertical to the said end, thus raising the button in the desired direction and preventing it from moving outward in the slot.

The lower jaw 1 forms the clenching die and is provided in its upper surface with two concave depressions l8 which the points of the attaching staple enter after passing through the stock let and asthe points engage the inclined surfaces of the recesses they will be turned inward and thence, following the concave surfaces, upward again entering the leather, completely clenching the staple as shown in Fig. 6.

The principal advantages of this device, lie in the button retaining means. The usual form of construction in this type of device has been to attach a substantially flat spring to the upper side of the button holding jaw, and as such jaws were usually 1 made of cast metal they were considerably thickerthan the ones shown herewith, which brought the attaching point of the retaining spring considerably above the plane of the end of the jaw, and consequently in rising away. from the said jaw the end of the spring would also move'outward, having a tendency to carry the eye of the'button out" of the slot inthe jaw; This objectionable feature has been entirely overcome in this invention'by the form ofthe. spring 9, and the location, of the flexible portion of the same, for that, as the spring is released by the finger 12, it pulls thebutton directly upward drawing the staple firmly into the recesses 6 and against the stop and guide shoulder on the end 11 of the spring member, thus holding the staple firmly in place in position to be driven, and furthermore, the construction has been simplified-by utilizing the forward end of the lower fold of the spring as a stop shoulder, obviating the necessity and expense of forming such a shoulder on the jaw.

Copies o f this patent may be obtained for What we claim is V v 1. A buttonattaching tool, comprising a pivoted aw having an opening'therethrough f near its pivot to receive a spring a slot. 11113116 end to receive the eye of a buttonfand a spring having a slot, in the end registering 2. A button setting tool, comprising a stantially vertically to the end of the jaw.

channeled sheet metal pivoted jaw having an opening near the pivotand provided at its outer end with a longitudinal slot toreceive, the eye of a button, and a springabove 5 said jaw at one end and having: a slot regis- V tering with the slot in' the jaw, said spring also extending in a curve through the said opening and thence on the inner surface'of the jawfand secured thereto the inner end.

of the spring also extending-toe position opposite the slot in the jaw to engage and guide a staple. c

3. A button attaching tool,'co1npr.ising a pivoted and channeled jaw having an open- 1 'ing near the pivot and-adapted at its outer endto receive a button'iand stapleand also provided near its pivot with an opening, and a spring bent to extend-.tlironghcsaid opening and embracing the-jaw, one end thereofbeing adapted to engage andjlift a buttonjaway from the j aw and the-other end secured to the under side of the'jaw and V i adapted to engage and guide a staple. 1 .1

In testimony whereof we affix our signa- 1 tures in presence of two witnesses. j i i WILLIAM E. ELLIOTT.

l/Vitnessesf LUTHER MoULToN, HAROLD O. VAN} ANTWERR I DWIGHT s; COLE. I

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of. Patents,

Washington, D. 0.,

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