US1179425A

US1179425A - Machine for fastening buttons on shoes.

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Publication number: US1179425A
Application number: US748715A
Authority: US
Inventors: Isaiah I Guttman
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1915-02-11
Filing date: 1915-02-11
Publication date: 1916-04-18
Anticipated expiration: 1933-04-18

Description

I. l. GUTTMAN.

MACHINE FOR FASTENING BUTTONS ON SHOES. APPLICATION FILED FEB.II.19!5.

Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

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I. I. GUITMAN.

MACHINE FOR FASTENING BUTTONS 0N SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. II. I915. 1,179,425.

Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

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MACHINE FOR FASTENING BUTTONS ON SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 11, 1915.

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MACHINE FOR FASTENING BUTTONS 0N SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. II. 1915.

Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

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MACHINE FOR FASTENING BUTTONS 0N SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 11. 1915.

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UNITED s'rA'rEs PATENT OFFICE.

ISAIAH I. GUTTMAN, F IYIINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

MACHINE FOR FASTENING BUTTONS ON SHOES.

Application filed February 11, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ISAIAH I. GUTTMAN, a subject of the King of England, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Fastening Buttons on Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to machines for fastening buttons on shoes, and has for its object to provide such a machine in Which the rivet-s are contained in a magazine of the machine in the form of straight wires each of a length exactly right to provide a fastener, together with means to feed the straight fasteners through the eye of the button, which has previously been brought into position, and thereafter to form the fastener, first into the form of a staple and then to clamp the fastener through the material of the shoe to secure the but ton in position thereon.

The full objects and advantages of my invention will appear in connection with the detailed description thereof and are particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, illustrating the application of my invention in one form,Figure 1 is a side elevation view of a machine embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a front elevation view of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view partly in section of the parts shown in Fig. 1 with said parts in a different position. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3 viewed from the other side of the machine. Fig. 5 is a complete sectional view of the machine as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a front part-sectional view similar to Fig. 2. Figs. 7, 8 and 9 are fragmentary sectional views showing the successive different positions of the staple forming and fastening mechanism whereby the straight wire fastener is formed into the staple and is fastened with the button upon the shoe. Figs. 10 and 11 are rear views of the machine showing the parts for inserting the wire fastener members through the button-eye in two different positions. Fig. 12 is a view of the fastener members before operation within the machine.

My invention comprises a casing 15, which may be a single member formed with upper

separated plates

16, 17 with a space 18 between the same from which extends a channel 19, as best shown in Fig, 5. The

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

Serial No. 7,487.

23, adapts the machine to be secured to a table or counter. Upon the front wall of casing 15, which is shown as slightly oblique to the vertical, is a channel member 21 having a central slot 25 through I which the eyes of buttons 26 project. The

channel guides the buttons into position, as best shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The buttons are in general fed down by gravity. Having reference to Figs. 3 and 5, the means of releasing the buttons one at a time and of holding them in position during the staple-inserting and form-operation will be apparent. As indicated in Fig. 5 the parts are in normal position. The release member comprises a lever 27 fast on a pivoted shaft 28 which is formed with a concaved head 29 adapted to receive the body of the shoe button, as shown in Fig. 5, and restrain forward movement along the slot 25 of such a button. Pivoted to lever 27 is a clamping arm 30 which is provided with a head 31 having a curved face 32 engaged by a roller 33 on a spring 34:, which, as shown in Fig. 2, is carried around a. pair of

posts

35 and 36 and anchored at 37 and 38 to the casing 15. The head also has on the underside thereof a stop finger i0, and by means of the spring 33 said head and the stop finger 10 are held in engagement with the button 26, which has been released by operation of lever 27, and hold this button clamped in position to receive the straight metal fastener, as clearly shown in Fig. 5. When the parts are moved, as hereinafter to be described, from the position shown in Fig. to that shown in Fig. 3, the socket 29 on the end of arm 27 will be oscillated so as to free a. button 26. In the meantime, the shoulder 11 at the point of junction of head 31 with arm 30 will have engaged a cam surface 42 on an extension 43 of the guideway 24, which will have lifted this shoulder out of the path of the descending button, the stop finger 'being engaged by the button, which holds the same from further downward movement, as shown in Fig. 3. Upon return movement of the parts, effected by spring 34, the button will be moved into position and clamped between stop piece and shoulder 41, as indicated in Fig. 5. In this position the eye of the button 26 is held to receive one of the fastener members 44, indicated in detail in Fig. 12. These members are pieces of wire of the requisite length to form a complete fastener which are provided with pointed ends and a diminished central portion 46. The fasteners are contained in a magazine 47 at one side of the machine, as best indicated in Figs. 4 and 6, and the wires are inserted through the eye by means of a push rod 48 operating laterally in the bottom of receptacle 47 and s0 timed that upon the return movement of the parts heretofore described to the normal position, shown in Fig. 5, the push rod 48 is actuated to forward a fastener 44 through the eye of the button, in general practice. It will thus be seen that in the practice of the invention when the parts are in the normal position shown in Figs. 1 and 5, a button is in position to be fastened and a fastener has been inserted through the eye of the button by the previous operation of the machine.

As best shown in- Figs. 10 and 11, the push rod 48 is secured by means of a fastener 49 to a head 50 on a cylindrical slide 51 which operates in a guideway 52 positioned at the side of the machine. A lever 53 engages between projections 54 on the slide 51 and is actuate by a spring 55 normally to force the slide and push rod connected therewith into its inner position, where said push rod will have entered through an aperture 56 the bottom of the hopper or receptacle 47 and have engaged with its end one of the fasteners and have forced said fastener into operative position through the eye of the button. As shown in Fig. 4, the hopper 47 is V-shaped in cross section and has at the bottom a projecting element 57, between the face of which and a wall of the hopper is a channel passageway 58 only with enough to permit a row of fasteners 44 to pass downward, and the aperture 56 is in line with the bottom of said channel and in line with another aperture 59 leading into the passageway 19 in the casing 15, so that when the fastener 44 is pushed through the last-named aperture it passes into

channel

60 and 61 in a bifurcated plunger member 62 and through the eye 63 of the button, where the same is held upon the top of an anvil bar 64 extended within passageway 19, as best shown in Fig. 7. The arm 53, which controls the push pin 48, is pivoted at 65 to a stand connected with the frame and is integral with another arm 66 having thereon a roller 67 adapted to be engaged by a cam bar 68 secured to and movable with a slide member 69 which is rigidly connected with a plunger 70 which slides in a guideway formed in the

passageway

18 and 19 and in the plunger member 62. The cam bar 68 is provided with a roller 71 which engages the side of the casing 15. As will later appear, the cam bar is of such shape that it immediately engages roller 67 and operates the same so as to withdraw the pusher pin 48 from the bottom of the hopper channel 58 and holds it so withdrawn against the force of spring 55 until the end of the movements of the various instrumentalities for forming and securing the fastener upon the shoe and feeding forward and positioning the next button to be fastened, the return of the pusher bar 48 under the influence of spring 55 operating to pass a new fastener wire through the button eye 63 and into position for the next operation.

As shown in Figs. 4 and 6, the cam bar 68 is connected with the head 69 by means of a strap 72 which has a portion 73 extended through a slot 74 in the wall 16 which is secured to said head and to the plunger 7 O, the portion 73 extending across the space 18 and through another slot 75 in wall 17, where it is connected with a rigid finger 76 adapted to engage a toe 77 fast on the shaft 28, by which said shaft and the button feeding and holding

members

27, 31, 40 are operated when the head 69 and parts connected therewith are forced downwardly. A roller 92 on a stud 94 is so positioned that the bar 76 after passing the toe 77 engages between said roller 92 and said toe, thereby firmly holding the parts during the button-fastening action of the members. Head 69 carries a pin 78, surrounding which is a spring 79 which is seated at its lower end in a socket 80 in the casing 15 and which operates to normally hold the slide head 69 and parts connected therewith in elevated position. A hand lever 81, pivoted at 82 between the

plate

16 and 17 and having thereon a cam face 83 engaging the head 69, operates to force the same downward when a fastening operation is undertaken, a shoulder 84 on said cam head being engageable with the angle 85 of the slide head 69 to hold the parts in normal position, as indicated in Fig. 5. The cross member 73, operating in

slots

74 and 75, also effectivelv guides the slide head 69 and the parts connected therewith in a vertical line as required.

Reference has been made to the plunger member 62, the plunger 70 and the anvil bar 64, which are the elements for forming the straight fastener wire 44 into a staple 86, as shown in Fig. 8, and then fastening the same, as indicated at 87 in Fig. 9. Having reference to Figs. 6, 7 and 8. it will be apparent that the plunger rod 70 slides in a channel or way 88 formed in the front of the plunger 62, or between the bifurcated portions thereof. On the side walls of this channel are a pair of grooves 89, which receive the ends of a pin 91 extending through the lower cleft portion 93 of the plunger 70. By this means the plunger 70 1s guided within the plunger 62 and has capacity for a certain amount of differential movement relative thereto so that it may move therein during the downward movement for a required distance and on the return movement must cause the plunger 6:2 to move with the plunger 70 to restore the parts to initial position. The plunger 62 is caused to move with the plunger 70 in the downward stroke for a certain distance by means of a catch 95 pivotally connected at 96 to the body of plunger 62 and engageable in a notch 97 upon the back of plunger 70, as best shown in Fig. 5, the catch being pressed by means of a spring 98 so as to force the catch against the back of plunger 70 and cause the same to drop into the notch 97 at the proper time. The catch has on each side thereof a roller 198 which rollers engage cams 99 secured to the

side pieces

16 and 17 at each side of plunger 70 so that after the plunger 62 has been caused to travel with plunger 70 the requisite distance to turn the fastener blank 41 over the anvil bar 64 and form the staple 86 with the side members thereof held in the

grooves

89 and 90, as shown in Fig. 8, and thereafter withdraws the anvil bar 64-, the plunger 62 be comes disconnected from the plunger 70 which then travels independently so that the curved ends 100 of members 93 engage the staple above the shoe fabric 101 and form it upon anvil 102 in the fastener member 87, as shown in Fig. 9. In this operation it will be seen that the button eye 63 passes between the members 93 and that the fastener is caused to turn in and grip the fabric 101 by engagement in sockets 103 formed in the top of anvil 102. It is to be noted that the anvil 102 is removably and adjustably secured upon an extensionlOt of the base plate 21, as clearly shown in Fig. 5. The removal of the anvil bar 64 is effected by downward movement of the plunger 62. As best shown in Fig. 3, the anvil bar 6t slides laterally in a guideway 105 formed in the casing 15. A pin 106 connected with said anvil bar is surrounded by a spring 107 between the end of the guide channel 105 and the anvil bar 61 and normally operates to hold the anvil bar in its projected and operative position. Rollers 108 on the sides of anvil bar 64: are engaged by cam faces 109 on the plunger 62 immediately after said plunger has reached the position indicated in Fig. 8, and continued movement of. the plunger to the position shown in Fig. 9, through action of the cam faces 109. withdraws the anvil bar 64 from the path of plunger 70, which has. by this time, become disconnected from the plunger 62 and con tinues its movement across the path vacated by the anvil bar 61 to effect the final fastening action by engaging the formed staple 86 with the anvil 102.

The operation of my device has been fully given in connection with the detailed description thereof. ()ne of the greatest advantages thereof consists in its capacity to act upon wire blanks already formed and not cut from coils of wire during the operation of the machine. These blanks, as indi cated in Fig. 12, are specially formed so as to be pointed at the ends and oval or flattened at the centers. Or. if desired. the blanks may be flattened throughout their length. Blanks so formed make a much better fastener member than a member consisting of round wire. The perforations made in the leather are cleaner. there is less liability to tear the leather: the fastener lies closer to the surface of the leather. is less conspicuous and, holds the button better than is true of a fastener made of round wire. My machine is positive in its operation and cannot get out of order and requires no mechanical knowledge on the part of the operator. The fastener blanks may be furnished in boxes, from which they can readily be poured in parallel relation into the hopper or receptacle 47 and they will feed by gravity through the channel 55% to the delivery point at the bottom of said channel. In order to insure feed of the fasteners into the channel 58. I may provide a plunger member 110 secured to member 7 2 and provided with corrugated surfaces 111 which will be projected into the body of fasteners at each movement of the machine and will tend to assist gravity in positioning the fastener blanks and causing them to keep the feed channel 58 free.

1 claim:

1. A machine for fastening buttons upon fabric. comprising means for holdin separate straight fastener blanks. means for holding buttons and for feeding them one at a time into operative position, means for inserting a fastener blank through the eye of the button. and means for forming the fastener blank into a staple, and for securing said staple and button upon the fabric.

2. A machine for fastening buttons upon fabric. comprising a magazine for separate straight fastener blanks having a channel for permitting the delivery of the blanks successively to a fixed position, means for holding buttons and for feeding them one at a time into position with the eyes in alinement with said positioned fastener blank, means for moving the fastener blank so as to insert the same through the eye of the button. and means for forming the fastener blank into a staple and for securing said staple and button upon the fabric.

3. A machine for fastening buttons upon fabric, comprising a magazine for separate straight fastener blanks having a channel for permitting the delivery of the blanks successively to a fixed position, means for holding buttons and for feeding them one at a time into position with the eyes in alinement with said positioned fastener blank, a pusher for engaging the end of the positioned fastener blank and moving the same from the magazine through the eye of the button, and means for forming the fastener blank into a staple and for securing said staple and button upon the fabric.

l. A machine for fastening buttons upon fabric comprising means for positioning a button and means for feeding a fastener blank through the eye thereof, a bifurcated plunger for operating upon said fastener blank to form the same into a staple, having a pair of grooves on the inside of the arms of said plunger said grooves being formed with shoulders. the second plunger operative within the bifurcated plunger and having pins fast thereon extending into said grooves, means for sliding the second plunger, means connecting said bifurcated plunger to said second plunger for sliding the same in unison. means for ope 'atively disconnecting said plungers after the bifurcated plunger has formed the staple to permit the second plunger to continue its movement through and independent of the bifurcated plunger to fasten the staple, and means for restoring the second plunger, said pins in the grooves 1')erating to restore the bifurcated plunger.

5. A machine for fastening buttons upon fabric. comprising a magazine for holding a. row of buttons along which said buttons will descend by gravity. a rocking arm having a concaved head for receiving the head of the foremost button of the row and releasing the same for delivery to operative position, a clamping head pivoted to said arm for re ceiving the released button and movable by said arm to move said, released button and clamp the same in operative position, means for holding straight fastener blanks, means for inserting a fastener blank through the eye of the positioned button, and means for forming the fastener blank into a staple and for securing said staple and button upon the fabric.

6. A machine for fastening buttons upon fabric comprising a magazine for holding a row of buttons along which said buttons Will descend by gravity. a magazine for holding separate fastener blanks down which said blanks will descend by gravity, said magazine having a fixed delivery point, means for releasing the foremost button of the row for delivery therefrom. means for clamping the released button and holding the same so that the eye thereof is positioned opposite said fastener blank delivery point, and means for moving a fastener blank at said delivery point to pass it through the eye of the clamp button.

7. A machine for fastening buttons upon fabric comprising a magazine for holding separate straight fastener blanks, said magazine being provided with a channel of a size sufficient to permit a row of said blanks to descend in parallel relation along said channel to the bottom thereof, means for removing the lowermost blank from the channel and a 'ilunger reciprocating vertically in the magazine and operating to agitate the blanks therein and cause them to move into said channel to keep the row full as the blanks are successively drawn from the bottom thereof.

8. A machine for fastening buttons upon fabric comprising a magazine for holding separate straight fastener blanks, said magazine being provided with a channel of a size sufficient to permit a row of said blanks to descend in parallel relation along said channel to the bottom thereof, means for removing the lowermost blank from the channel, and a plunger reciprocating in the magazine and operating to agitate the blanks therein and cause them to move into said channel to keep the row full as the blanks are successively drawn from the bottom thereof, said plunger having corrugated sides.

9. A machine for fastening buttons upon fabric comprising a magazine for holding separate straight fastener blanks, means for holding buttons and for feeding them one at a time into operative position, and means for moving the fastener blanks endwise from said magazine and inserting the same through the eye of the button while the button is held.

10. A machine for fastening buttons upon fabric comprising a magazine having parallel side walls spaced apart sufficiently to hold separate st aight fastener blanks in parallel relation within the magazine and with the ends of said blanks adjacent said walls, one of said walls having an aperture through which a blank may be delivered to operative position, means for holding buttons and for feeding them one at a time into position such that the eye of the button comes opposite said aperture, and means for moving a fastener blank through said aperture and through the eye of the button into operative position.

11. machine for fastening buttons upon fabric comprising a magazine having para].- lel side walls spaced apart sufliciently to hold separate straight fastener blanks in parallel relation within the magazine and with the ends of said blanks adjacent said walls, one of said walls having an aperture through which a blank may be delivered to operative position, a movable anvil having a grooved cap, means for holding buttons and for feeding them one at a time, said feeding means including a device for clamping the button with the eye thereof held upon and in the groove of said cap and in alinement with said aperture, and means for moving a blank through said aperture and eye and upon said anvil.

1.2. A machine for fastening buttons upon fabric comprising a magazine having parallel side walls spaced apart sufiiciently to hold separate straight fastener blanks in parallel relation within the magazine and with the ends of said blanks adjacent said walls, one of said walls having an aperture through which a blank may be delivered to operative position, a movable anvil having a grooved cap, means for holding buttons and for feeding them one at a time, said feeding means including a device for clamping the button with the eye thereof held upon and in the groove of .said cap and in alinement with said aperture, a plunger member having a grooved end forming a channel from said aperture to guide the blank through the eye, and means for moving a blank through said aperture and button-eye upon said blank and within said grooves.

13. A machine for fastening buttons upon fabric comprising a magazine having parallel side walls spaced apart sufliciently to hold separate straight fastener blanks in parallel relation within the magazine and With the ends of said blanks adjacent said walls, one of said walls having an aperture through which a blank may be delivered to operative position, a movable anvil having a grooved cap, means for holding buttons and for feeding them one at a time, said feeding means including a device for clamping the button with the eye thereof held upon and in the groove of said cap and in alinement with said aperture, a plunger member having a grooved end forming a Copies of this patent may be obtained for channel from said aperture to guide the blank through the eye, means for moving a blank through said aperture and buttoneye upon said blank and within said grooves, and means to operate the plunger to form a staple about said anvil.

14. A machine for fastening blanks upon fabric comprising a magazine for holding separate straight fastener blanks having an aperture through which said blanks may be moved endwise iito operative position, an anvil, means to feed buttons singly to said anvil and hold them thereon with the eye in alinement with said aperture, a plunger having a grooved end normally positioned so that said groove will come into alinement with said aperture and button-eye, means for moving a blank through said aperture and along said groove and through said eye, and means for operating the plunger to form the blank into a staple.

15. A machine for fastening buttons upon fabric, comprising means for holding straight fastener blanks, means for inserting a fastener blank through the eye of a button, a bifurcated plunger having grooves in the inside thereof terminating in shoulders, said plunger operating upon the fastener blank to form a. staple, a second plunger movable between the portions of the bifurcated plunger and having a guide member in the grooves thereof, and means for moving said second plunger independently of the first plunger for securing said staple and button upon the fabric, said guide member engaging the shoulders of the bifurcated plunger upon return movement of the first plunger for restoring the bifurcated plunger to initial position.

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

ISAIAH I. GUTTMAN.

VVitnosses:

F. A. VVHITELEY, H. A. BOWMAN.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.