US1158330A

US1158330A - Turn-button.

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Publication number: US1158330A
Authority: US
Inventors: Fred J Stulp
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1915-05-12
Filing date: 1915-05-12
Publication date: 1915-10-26
Anticipated expiration: 1932-10-26

Description

F.'J. STULP.

TURN BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 12. 1915.

Patented Oct. 26, 1915.

FRED J. STULP, OF MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN.

TURN-BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Iatented Oct. 26, 1915.

itpplication'file'd May 12, 1915. Serial No. 27,525.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED J. STULP, a citizen of the United States, resident of Muskegon, in the county of Muskegon and State of Michigan, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Turn-Buttons; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference' marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention; Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan View of a modification. Fig. 4C is a side view of the same. Fig. 5 is a plan view of a further modification. Fig. 6 is a section on the line 66 Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a section on the line 77 Fig. 5.

The invention has relation to turnbuttons, having for its object the provision of an improved spring tension button, capable of economical manufacture, adjustable to uneven surfaces and that will not work loose.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts, as-

hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, the numeral 2 designates the button, which is provided at its ends with bearing

portions

3, 3, to which are connected outwardly extending lateral

inclined arms

4, 4, converging toward each. other, the button having a depressed middle portion 5, joined to said inclined arms by

arms

6, 6, also converging toward each other, but oppositely to the first-named arms, to which they are joined by spring bends, each of the

arms

6, 6 being of opposite inclination to that and shorter than the adjacent inclined arm 4, said middle portion being perforated at 7 for a securing screw 8, and forming a bearing seat for said screw. The securing screw being tightened, the spring bends will yield, and the end bearing portions will have a more secure engagement with the work.

In the form of the invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, the button is made from a single piece of wire, without waste of material, the converging

arms

4, 4 and 6, 6 being present and in order that, when the securing screw is put under tension, there shall be no tilting of the bearing

portions

3, 3, which squarely engage the work, a coil or a plurality of

coils

9, 9 are made in the wire material of the button at the bottom of the middle perforated bearing or seat for the screw. Tension of the screw will compress these coils and strain will be distributed to the

end bearing portions

8, 3 without tilting thereof.

In the form of the invention shown in Figs. 8 and 4: of the drawings, the button is stamped from sheet metal.

In both the wire and the sheet metal buttons the body of the button, formed by the outwardly extending inclined arms, the in wardly extending shorter inclined arms and the middle screw bearing, is comparatively narrow in width and of proper height to form a good finger or hand hold in turning the button. Both of these buttons are quite flexible and elastic, and the end bearing portions thereof will accommodate themselves to abutting surfaces, as in the meeting rails of window sashes, that are not even or of the same level.

In Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings afurther modification of the invention is shown, wherein the button is also stamped from sheet metal, the outwardly extending in clined arms, the inwardly extending inclined arms, the spring bends and the bearing seat for the screw forming part of a longitudinally extending raised or bowed central portion, the button having a lateral bearing flange at each side, extending from end bearing portion to end bearing portion and separated from said raised central portion by a slit or cut 12 in the metal. In this form of the invention the bearing end portions and the lateral. bearing flanges form a continuous bearing surface for engagement with the work.

Lugs

14, 14 are struck up from the raised central portion, for use as a hand or finger-hold.

What I claim is:

1. A turn-button, comprising end bearing portions, lateral converging inclined arms, a depressed middle portion having a perfo ration for a securing screw, and shorter converging arms and outer spring bends connecting said middle portion with said lateral arms.

2. A turn-button, comprising end bearing portions, lateral converging inclined arms, a depressed middle portion perforated for a securing screw, and shorter converging arms and outer spring bends Connecting said middle portion with said lateral arms, the lateral arms and the shorter arms being comparatively narrow in width and of proper length to afford a good finger-hold.

3. A turn-button of wire, comprising looped end bearing portions, lateral converging inclined arms, a depressed coiled middle portion forming a springseat for a securing screw, and shorter converging arms 10 and outer spring bends connecting said middle portion with said lateral arms.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

FRED J. STULP. Witnesses:

FRED L. WINTER, IDA C. DANIELSO'N- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

' Washington. D. C.