US1187536A - Tack-fastened button. - Google Patents

Description

G. A. KING.

TACK FASTE'NED BUTTON.

APPLICATION man MAY I9. 1913.

l 1 87,536 Patented June 20, 1916.

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GEORGE A. KING, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SCOVILL MANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CON- NECTICUT.

TACK-FASTENED BUTTON.

p Y Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 20, 1916.

Application let May 19, 1913. Serial No. 768,530.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. KING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Tack-Fastened Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of tack-fastened Ibuttons in which the tack itself is permanently applied to the button, and the button attached or set by clenching the tack point in some sort of receiving medium.

The invention consists of a tack-fastened button, having a hubbed back, and a cap closed down over the back, the hubbed back and the cap constituting the button-head, and a tack arranged within the button-head and between the hubbed back and the cap before the cap is closed down upon the hubbed back, said tack having an extended flat head resting on the back and its upper portion supporting the Cap, and its point projectingJ through the bottom of the hub in such way as to prevent the relative independent turning of the tack and the button-head, and in a position and to an extent to enable such point to be passed through a garment and clenched on or in a suitable washer, as I will proceed now to explain and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a cross-section of the cap. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the tack. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the hubbed back. Fig. 4 is a plan view of one form of washer, and Fig. 5 is a cross-section of the same. Fig. 6 is a sectional elevation of the parts of Figs. 1, 2 and 3 assembled in a finished button. Fig. 7 shows the button of Fig. 6 attached to a piece of fabric. Fig. 8 is a longitudinal section of a modified form of button. Fig. 9 is a cross-section of a modified form of washer.

The cap or front 1 may be of any usual metal, and construction. The tack 2 has a laterally extended flat head 3, and an angular pointed shank 4. The back of the button comprises the flanged back 5 and the hub 6, the latter made with a hole 7,- which l may b e preformed and of less diameter than the tacks shank and thereafter appropriately enlarged and shaped to hug the shank of the tack, by driving the tack through it, thereby positioning the tack in the back of the button and restraining it and the button-head from independent turning or aXial movement. These three parts are assembled as indicated in Fig. 6, with the bottom of the head of the tack resting on the back of the button and its fiat top or face supporting the cap l, which is closed down upon the back. Such a button is applied to a garment, 'which may be represented at 8, by

placing the button on one side of the garmenty and forcing the point of its tack through the garment and through the hole 9 in the washer l0, and clenching the point of the tack as indicated at 11.

If for any reason it be advisable to conceal the clenched end of the tack, a hollow washer, such as shown at l2, in Fig. 9, may be used. This washer may be made in any suitable way, as by folding a piece of metal upon itself, or using a covered washer, or counter-boring a solid piece of metal; the illustration in Fig. 9 being suggestive rather than illustrative of any particular co11struction.

As shown in Fig. 8, the hub may be constricted at 13, so as to form a small waist and a relatively large base 14, both of which features are desirable in some classes of work.

In the preferred construction, a hole of smaller diameter than the larger diameter of the shank of the tack is first made in the bottom of the hub of the button, as indi-- cated at 7 in Fig. 3, and then the point of the tack is driven through the hole, thereby enlarging the hole and frictionally holding the tack in position and preventing it and the button-head from turning independently. The closing in of the front or cap of the button completes the retention of the tack in position. The head of the tack takes the place of the ordinary flat filler or anvil, and distributes the `pressure in set ting the button over the front or cap, so that such front or cap is not materially marred in the act of setting the button. Obviously, it is desirable that the button back and the head of the tack should be' so protom ofthe hub vand held therein so las tov prevent relative turning of the tack and hubbed back, and a cap closed dovvn over the back and supported by the head of the tack.

2. A tack fastened button, having a hubbed back, a tack provided with a laterally extended flat head arranged' Within the hubbed back and resting upon the back and having a point projecting through the bottom of the hub in angular engagement therewith so as to prevent relative turning of the tack and hubbed back, and a cap closed'down over the backjand supported Y b v the head of the tack.

3. A tack fastened button,l having a hubbed back, a tack provided with a'laterally extended flat head arranged within the hubbed back and resting upon the back and having a point projecting through the botf tom of the hub andy held therein so -as to prevent relative turning'of the tack and hubbed back, and a cap closed down over the vback and supported lby the head V'of the tack, the hub constricted laterally to produce va relatively large base for engagement withV the material to which the button is applied.

4L. A tack fastened button, having a -hubbed' back, a tack provided with a laterally extended flat head arranged Within the hubbed back and resting upon the back and having a point projecting through the bottoni' of the hub and held therein so as to prevent lateral. turning `01'? the'tack and hubbed back, anda cap'closed down over the back and supported by the head of the tack, combined With a Washer engaged by the upset point, of the tack'in setting the button. Y v 1 "In testimony whereof I have liereuntoset my Khand this 16th lday'of May A. D. 1913.

- GEORGE A! KING.

lVitnesses: y

' PERCY'VARNER,

E. A.' HYDE;

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Correction 'm Letters Patent No. 1,187,536.

lt is hereby eertied that in Letters Patent No. 1,187,536, granted Juno 20, 1916, upon the application of George A. King, o Waterbury, Connecticut, for en improve- Taok-Festened Buttons, mi error appears in the printed specification ment in requiring correction as follows'. Page 2, line 44, claim e1, for the Word lateral77 read relative; und that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the seme may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Ofiee.

Signed and sealed this 18th day of July, A. D., 1916.

n [SEAL] R. F. NHlTEHEAD,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

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