US1273160A

US1273160A - Button.

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Publication number: US1273160A
Application number: US17401817A
Authority: US
Inventors: William E Edwards
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1917-06-11
Filing date: 1917-06-11
Publication date: 1918-07-23
Anticipated expiration: 1935-07-23

Description

W. E. EDWARDS.

BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE II. 19H.

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Patented July 23, 1918 WILLIAM E.. EDWARDS, OF BCRJGJOKLYN, NEW YDEEHE.

BUTTON.

Application filed June 11, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM E. EDWARDS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buttons adapted to be slipped into and held in a buttonhole, and particularly that form of button which is used for holding insignia or ornaments in the lapels of coats.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide an inex lensive form of such button. Another object of the invention is to provide a form of button in which the back can be made cheaply in large quantities so that the front portion can be readily attached when desired.

Another feature of the invention is that while my novel invention is inexpensive to manufacture, it .is, at the same time, of substantial construction, and also provides a post arranged so that the button face cannot readily be turned out of its correct position.

-With these and other objects in view, my invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as will be morefully described and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing, Figures 1, 2 and 3 repre sent one form of button which I have adopt" ed for purposes of illustration of my invention, Figs. 1 and 2 being side elevations, and Fig. 3 a plan view of the button back with the front removed.

Figs. 4:, 5 and 6 represent a second form of my invention, Figs. 1 and 5 being side elevations of the same, and Fig. 6 a plan view with the front removed.

The corresponding parts are referred to both in the drawing and specification by similar reference characters.

In the drawing, referring now to the form shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, 10 is the back from which are cut or punched and bent up the two

members

12 and 13, which form the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 23, 1918. Serial No. 174,018.

post of the button. To the top of this post is soldered or fastened in any preferred form the front portion 11, which of course may bear any emblem or ornament that is desired. formed integrally from a flat sheet by punching or cutting the two members 12-43 therefrom from opposite sides of the plane into which the two members are to be bent to form the post. This not only forms a symmetrical construction of pleasing appearance, but also distributes the cut-out port-ions of the back so as to produce a sub stantially uniform and symmetrical distribution of the metal.

In the form illustrated in Figs. 4, 5 and 6, the structure is substantially the same as that shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, except that the post members 17-18 are straight instead of curved, and the members 17-18 are formed so that the upper ends to which the front 19 is fastened are thicker than the base, and this construction is brought about by first striking up the back 20 in a suitable die so as to produce a greater thickness at one partthan the normal thickness of the back 20. Then the members are cut and bent as described above, and the front 19 fastened to the end of the members 17-18.

I claim:

1. A button comprising a sheet metal back and a post integrally formed from the material of said back, and a front attached to the top of said post, said post comprising a pair of thin flat members in the same plane at right angles to the plane of said back, and symmetrically disposed on opposite sides of the center thereof, the tops of said members being disconnected from each other and adapted for the attachment of the button front.

2. A button comprising a sheet metal back and a post integrally formed from the ma-' terial of said back, and a front attached to the top of said pOSt, said post comprising a pair of thin fiat members in the same plane at right angles to the plane of said back, and syn'imetrically disposed on opposite sides of the center thereof, the tops of saidmembers The back 10 and the post 12 are being disconnected from each other and to the plane of said back, and symmetrically tlnc-ker than then' bases and adapted for the dlsposed 0n opposlte sldes 0f the center of attachment of the button front. said back and their tops adapted for the at- 3. As an element of an ornamental buttaclnnent of it button front thereto. 5 ton, a, sheet metal back and it pair of thin, WILLIAM E. EDWARDS.

flat members integral with said back and Vitnesses: disconnected from each other, said members HARRY P. DICKINSON, extending in the same plane at right angles JAMES T. RILEY,

'Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.