US1251927A - Button. - Google Patents

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P. SCHNEIDER.

BUTON.

APPLICATION may MAY 12, 1916.

1925199270 Patented Ja. 1,1918.

PHILIP? SCHNEIDER, 0F ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BUTTON. 1

Specification of Lettersv Patent.

Patented Jan. 1, 1918.

Application filed May 12, 1916. Serial No. 97,039.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, PHILIPP SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in buttons and is especially directed to the separable element variety whereby it may be removed from a garment for purposes of laundrying, cleaning and the like.

The obj ect of my invention is to construct a buttonof simple inexpensive and neat design which may be readily placed iny position for use and removedV for purposes of laundering, cleaning and the like and which may be employed either with a loop which I have designed as a companion piece for the button per se or a thread or cloth loop permanently secured to the garment.

With the above and other objects which lwill be hereinafter made clear, my invention consists in the novel details of construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter fully, clearly and concisely set forth in myspeciiication, specifically designated in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an inside face view or inverted plan of the head or body of my improved button;

Fig. 2 is a plan of the lockingtongue employed in connection with the head or body of the button;

Fig. 3 is a plan of a loop which may be detachably secured to a garment employed in connection with the button proper;

Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional elevation of the head or body of the button taken on the line 4--4 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is an edge view of the tongue element of the button;

Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the loop employed in connection with the button proper;

Fig. 7 is an inside face View or inverted plan of the head or body of the button with the spring tongue shown in place therein in an open position ready to be inserted into the loop secured to a garment;

Fig. 8 is a View similar to Fig. 7 showing the tongue moved to a locking position;

Fig. 9 is a transverse sectional elevation taken on the line 9 9 of Fig. 7 showing the tongue in a position to be inserted through a loop secured to a garment; and

Fig. 10 is a view similar to Fig. 9 taken on the line 10-10 of Fig. 8 showing the tongue in a locked position and a loopl arranged to be secured to a garment held by said tongue. v v

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings, 11 designates the body portion or head of my improved button and which body portion or head as shown is of substantially disk shape, but I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to such a shape as I contemplate the making of buttons in an infinite variety of ornatedesigns and colors whose general contours may be in infinite variety, such as rectangular, diamond, oval, and otherwise as desired and as fashion dictates. y

Upstanding from the body 11 there is an annular flange 12 overhanging the body of `the button which flange'has free ends which are spaced apart for a reason hereinafter eX- plained. While my vdrawing shows this liange as being an integral part of the buttonI do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to such a structure as I now consider that such a flange` constructed as a separate element and secured to the button proper lies within the scope of my invention.

The numeral 13 designates a tongue which is arranged to be extended diametrically of the button proper and is preferably normally sprung so that its free end lies in a plane removed from the plane of the body of the button proper. I prefer to construct such a tongue of wire and extend the wire from the body of the tongue to form on either side of the tongue segmental wings 14 whose free ends are brought into proximity with the tongue and said wings are arranged to be sprung into position within the overhanging flange 12 of the button and are preferably arranged to be sprung outwardly in order to frictionally engage the iange and thus tend to prevent the rotation of the tongue and its wings relative to the button, yet be capable of ready manual rotation.

The numeral 15 designates a loop, the body of which is substantially U-shaped having at itsyfree ends the heads 16. Such a loop is designed to be inserted through an opening such as a button hole in a garment, the heads 16 limiting the insertion and preventing complete extension through the opening, button hole, through the garment,

and the body 15 vthereof extendsasufcient" distance beyond the garment to permit'the body 15 to be engaged between the vtongue 13.,

and the body of the button 11, it being understood that the free end of the tongue oocupies a position between the ends of theM flangegas shown .indFigyZ at the-.timevthe loop is placed as just described. ln order to lock the body 15 of the loop to thetonguel and bodyof the button, the Jr'ree end of the tongue is sprung tothe plane or" thebodyo'f the `button as shown in F ig. lOfand'the'nro'- tated so that the freeend of the tongue will beA brought to a position beneath 'the overhanging flange 12 as shown in F ig. 10there' by holding the loop 15 against lremoval from the button proper. ln order to'permit a freedom of movement between :the button` propenand the loop 15 and to provide clearancefor a secondseetion of the garment containing a second button hole,yl provide the tongue 13 with anoff'set portionor hump 17 into which theloop 15 is Abrought when the button isin actual service.

It is obvious from such a structureY that l have .provided at aminimum of cost, a but# tone-,Which may be readily placed in 4position for use, and-in this connection -l wish it to be understood that the use referred to cov-` ers' the employment of my button in `oonnection with the metallic Vloopl shown andv described as well las a thread, cloth or other' similar loopsecured `permanently to a garment. vlin the placing of the button itself,

the tongue-referredto should bein a posi# tion relative tothe ends of the flange on the buttonpermittmg its bemgfreey at 'its` end so that the V-loop may be extended 'between thelange ends and o-ver ythe tongue, after which the tongue andits securing 'element in the ange of the button such as the' wings may .be lturned so that the free end of .the

tongue will be depressed and held under theflange thus Vholding-,the loop against 're-A moval from the button.

l contemplate the use .of my buttonin connectiony with 7^ all kinds.' garments and believe that it will be particularly Valuable `in.,lzeonn'ection`l with'lwash goods wherein the buttons are removable for purposes of wash U ing as well as use in connection with the ordinary apparel collars such as linen col- Having thus described my invention what I claim as`newtherein and desire to secure by Letters-Patent of the United- States, therefore is:

1.V A butto-n Vv; 11avi1ig "'a loo'p j en'gaging tongue', 'normally sprung from the plane of' and'lnov'able` withl relatioi'iy to -thebodyof thel F button' andan element, having spaced" ends on the button lying in ythe path' of' movement of said tongue"for the retentiontof'ksaid tongue in thepla'ne of the' bodyol: the Vbutton. v 2. In: a button' a' headhaving'an annularangeprovi'ded" lwith spaced "ends, an ele Inent "rotatably secured 'to j the head, and 'a tongue carriedA -by "Said element arranged to be secured a'gain's'trnovementby saiidftlange.

Sulna' button a head comprising anannular` flange having spacedfends, an^elef ment haVmgsegmental lmargins for ,posi

tioningwithin said'flange ywhereby the element vmay be rotatably fand detachablyseopies of this patentmay be obtained for five cents cach,'ibyactdressngthe Commissioner-f Patents Wa shi-ngton, 13.5 C1.

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