US1225818A - Snap-button or fastener. - Google Patents

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E. A. JANTZER.

SNAP BUTTON OR FASTENER- APPLlCATION FILED JULY 7. 1915.

1,225,818., Patented May 15, 1917.

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.ELSIE A. JANTZER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SNAP BUTTON on FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1917.

Application filed July 7, 1915. Serial No. 38,508.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELsin A. JAnTznR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certaln new and useful Improvements in Snap Buttons or Fasteners, of which the followlngis a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing. I

This invention relates to an improved snap fastener. The object is to provide a fastener having a male element and a female element which can be readily attached respectivcly to sections of fabric or similar material, attached without requiring stitching or needle work, and can be readlly detached when desired.

Figure 1 is a plan View of the wire fastener part of the female or socket element.

Fig. 2 is a plan of the sheet metal section.

Fig. 3 is a perspective showing the sheet metal part and the wire fastener attached together.

Fig. 4 shows the female member secured to a fabric.

Fig. 5 is a plan of the wire fastener for the male element.

Fig. 6 is a top View of the sheet metal for the male element.

Fig. 7 shows the sheet metal of Fig. 6 secured to the fastener and having the point ed wires turned downward.

Fig. 8 shows the male or stud element secured in position on the fabric.

Fig. 9 is a section on a larger scale showing the two elements secured together.

In the drawings I have illustrated the parts on an enlarged scale so that the de tails can be readily shown and understood. The articles are ordinarily about one-fif' teenth the size indicated in the drawings.

Each element of the fastener comprises a binding or securing device to engage with a fabric and a sheet metal section secured thereto.

The female or socket element of the fastener or snap is shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4. Fig. 1 illustrates the binding part, composed of four wire sections 1, 2, 3, at, and arranged in such way as to form at the center a square or rectangle, the ends of each of the wires projecting beyond the rectangle. The inner end parts of each wire are indicated by 6, and the outward projecting parts are indicated by 5. These are secured together at the contacting or intersecting points by solder, as at 7, or in any other suitable way. 8 indicates a'section of sheet metal, illustrated as square. At the center it is stamped or otherwise formed with an aperture 9, The metal at the edge of the aperture is pressed away from the plane of the sheet to form an elastic concavo-convex rim. In Fig. 2 the dotted lines indicate the lines along which this sheet is to be subsequently bent. This sheet 8 is laid upon the rectangular part 6 of the wire fastener in such way that the diagonals of the sheet 8 will each be at right angles to two of the end bars 6. The projecting parts of the sheet are then bent at the lines 11, each being carried around one of the end bars 6 of the wire. The section 1?. lies under the central square part lat of the sheet. The extreme point or tip 13 at each corner of the sheet is carried up to the aperture 9, and then bent outward and down under the square part 14. After the sheet part 8 is secured in place upon the fastener the projecting end parts 5 of the fastener are then bent at right angles to the plane of the sheet 8. The device can now be attached to a fabric 15. The points 5 are thrust through the fabric and are then bent at right angles to their second position, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 4. This firmly fastens the female element to the fabric.

The male or stud element and its parts are shown in Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8. Here a four point fastener is provided substantially the same as that in Fig. 1 for the female element. A square section of sheet metal 18 initially similar to that indicated by 8 is taken, and a button head 19 is formed by swaging or spinning, this being shaped to have a reduced neck at 20. This sheet 18 is then laid upon the fastener illustrated in Fig. 5 and the corner parts are bent around the inner ends of the wires 23. The part 26 is turned under the square central part and the corner points at 27 are turned up into, and clenched at, the inner end of the button part 1.9. Then the projecting pointed ends 24: of the fastener are turned down as indicated in Fig. 7 so that they can be forced through a fabric 28. After passing through the fabric they are bent up so as to clench tightly the plate 18 with its button head, the pins lying on the under side of the fabric.

It will be seen that both elements of the fastener can be readily attached to any ordinary fabric and are therefore available for use in snap fastening the overlapping or ad jaceut edges of garment fabrics. Either e ement can be detached when desired and replaced by another.

N0 stitching or cutting of the thread is required for either securing them in place or removing them.

What I claim is:

1. In a snap fastener, a socket element for receiving and engaging with the stud element,co=mprising a securing device formed of wire arranged to provide a rectangle with sides 6, 6, rigidly secure/l together an d points 5 projecting from the of the rectangle, a socket plate 8 formed with a central socket aperture and fitted to the said wire rectangle and having its corner portions bent around said sides 6 and brought to the edge of the said central socket aperture and the extreme corner tips bent outward from said edge, and a stud element having a contracted neck and an expanded sheet metal head adapted to be passed through the opening in the socket element and to engage with the bent corner parts of the plate thereof.

2. The herein described snap fastener having in combination a socket element and a stud element each formed of a securing device and a rectangular plate, each securing device having a wire rectangle formed of wires rigidly secured together with the pointed ends of the wires extending laterally from the corners of the rectangle, and said rectangular plate being arranged to have its sides respectively inclined to the sides of the rectangle and having its corner portions bent around the side wires of the rectangle, the projecting wire points at the corners being adapted to be bent so as to project at right angles to the plane of the plate, the plate of the socket element having a central aperture with the extreme corners of the plate bent in to the edge thereof, and the stud element having a central integral narrow rock and. a wider button head, substantially as set forth.

3. A snap fastener having two elements adapted to detachably engage with each Copies of this patent may be obtainedfor five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

other, one of said elements comprising a wires being adapted to be bent to lines approximately at right angles to the plane of the sheet metal to permit insertion into a fabric and adapted to be clenched on the side of the fabric opposite to the plate.

'41:, A snap fastener having two elements adapted to detachably engage with each other, one of'said elements comprising a multiple pointed frame of diverging wires each wire having its inner end rigidly secured to an adjacent wire and all the wires adapted to have their diverging pointed ends passed through a fabric for clenching, and a sheet metal plate secured to said frame having a passage through the plane of the plate, said plate being secured to said frame by bends in the sheet metal carried around the wires, and having projections adapted to be bent inward to the edge of the passage and then bent outward to position the bends therein at points adjacent said edge. 7

5. A snap fastener having two elements adapted to detachably engage with each other, one of said elements comprising a multiple pointed frame of wires each of said wires having its inner end rigidly secured to an adjacent wire and all the wires adapted to h ve their pointed ends passed through a fabric for clenching, and a sheet metal plate secured to said frame by bends in the sheet metal carried around the inner ends of the frame wires, and said plate being formed with means for engaging a companion element.

in testimony whereof, I affix my signa ture, in presence of two witnesses.

ELSIE A. JANTZER. Witnesses:

THEODORE JANTZER, V HORATIO G. KING.

Washington, I). C.

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