US1289136A - Package of snap-fasteners. - Google Patents

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W. E. ELLIOTT. PACKAGE 0F SNAP FASTENERS.

APPLlCATlON FILED MAR. 2&1916.

Patented Dec. 31, 1918.

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WILLIAM E. ELLIOTT, 0F GRAN D RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN BUTTON & FASTEN'ER COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

PACKAGE 0F SNAP-FASTENERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 31, 1918.

Application filed March 28, 1916. Serial No. 87,214.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, WILLIAM E. ELLIOTT, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packages of Snap-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. This invention relates to packages of snap fasteners of the type, comprising two separable parts, which is commonly used upon articles of wearing apparel. One object of the invention is to devise a package of snap fasteners mounted upon a narrow strip of flexible material in such a way that a large number of fasteners are positioned with their parts in alinement upon opposite sides of the mounting strip and thus may be carried to an attaching machine wherein the parts of the fasteners may be consecutively stripped from the mounting strip with the operation of the machine and attached to articles of wearing apparel.

In another aspect, the invention provides a novel package of a series of snap fasteners occupying a small space and adapted to be transferred in this form to an attaching machine.

A feature of the invention relates to the provision of a mounting strip for snap fasteners arranged to retain one element of the fastener upon the strip by the co-action of the strip with said part of the fastener and to retain the other element of the fastener upon the strip by its co-action with the first part when dispdsed upon the opposite side of the strip from the first-mentioned part and secured thereto in the usual fashion.

The invention will be readily understood from a consideration of the following specification in which is described one precise embodiment thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a package containing a large number of snap fasteners mounted consecutively upon a. narrow mounting strip.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section of one type of fastener which may be used; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view somewhat en larger]. of a' portion of the mounting strip having av number of fasteners secured thereon.

Like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawing.

The mount on which the fasteners are secured consists, preferably, of a thin, narrow. elongated strip of paper 1, which is flexible and may be easily rolled into small compass. This strip of paper is provided with substantiallyequally spaced perforations 9 and preferably one or more radial slits 10 are formed around these perforations in order to allow the insertion of a member having a slightly greater diameter than the normal diameter of the opening without tearing the paper. The snap fasteners used are of any preferred type. I have shown one type in the drawing though it is to be understood that the specific construction of the fastener used is not material to this invention. The fastener illustrated consists of two separable parts, one of which includes a base 2v having projecting centrally therefrom a rounded head 3 connected to the base by a neck portion 8 of reduced diameter. The perforations are preferably formed of such a size that their diameter is slightlv less than the diameter of the rounded head 3 of the fasteners. On account of the radial slits provided adjacent the perforations, however, this enlarged head may be readily pushed through the opening in the strip of paper,

whereupon the paper will spring back into place and engage the reduced neck portion thereby to hold this element of the fastener in position upon the strip. The opposite member of the fastener consists of a cuplike body 4 of circular outline. a hole being formed at its center for the passage of the head 3 over which hole an inclosing member 5 is positioned into which the head may enter. The member 5 is slotted at either side to permit the passage of arms 6 formed atthe extremities of a spring 7 of wire and received within the member 4 of the fastener, these arms engaging against the reduced neck 8 below the head 3 and yieldingly holding the parts of the fastener together.

Inmounting fasteners of this or any other similar type on the strip the head 3 is forced through the strip, the base 2 lying at one side of the strip while the head 3 is on the oppositeside and in position to receive the other member of the fastener. It should be noted that this element of the fastener is retained in position upon the strip, as previously described, by the co-action of the paper with the reduced neck portion of the fastener and may, therefore, be left in this relation until it becomes desirable to attach the other element of the fastener. The other element is then attached to the strip by causing it to engage the upstanding head in its customary fashion and isretained upon the strip only byvirtue of such engagement. A large number of'these fasteners are attached in this manner consecutively on the strip as indicated in Fig. 3 and the strip With the attached fasteners is Wound into a package like a belt with the heads of the fasteners projecting toward the inside of the roll, the resulting package occupying comparatively little space: and being easily unwound as it is fed to a machine which uses fasteners of this character, itfbeing: understood that as the strip goes to the machine the fastener parts are separated from. each other and from the strip and guided into suitable raceways which carry them'to the articles to which they are to be attached. without destroying the mounting strip.

1 claim t-- 1. A package of two-part snap fasteners arranged in a series, comprising a narrow, thin, elongated strip of paper, and a plurality of snap fasteners each comprising two elements, one of the elements being constructed with a base and'an upstanding head having an enlarged portion connected to said base by a neck portion of lesser size, the head portions of. said' elements being passed through said strip in consecutive spaced relation, said strip being provided topics of this patent may be obtained for with radial slits surrounding the point at which the head portions are passed through the strip whereby these elements may be inserted in the strip without danger of tearing the same and are retained therein by engagement of the strip with the neck of the fastener, the other elements of said fasteners being arranged to pass over the head portions of the first named elements and resiliently engage the neck portions, said strip with the fasteners mounted therein being wound in a roll. 7

2. A package of the character described, comprising a narrow, thin, elongated strip of paper provided with a series of substantially equally spaced perforations, radial slits in said paper around said perforations, a plurality of snap fasteners each comprising two elements, one of the elements being constructed with a base and an upstanding head having an enlarged portion and a neck portion of lesser size and the other element being arranged to pass over the head portion of said fastener and resiliently engage. its neck portion, said perforations being of slightly less diameter than. the diameter of the enlarged portion of the head ofthe fasteners, said first-named elements having their head portions pushed through the perforations in said strip of paper-wherein they are retained by the paper, said other ele-. ments being engaged with the projecting head portions of the fasteners whereby they are held upon the strip, and said strip with the fasteners mounted thereon being wound in a roll. with the heads projecting toward the inside of the roll. y

In testimony whereof I afix my signature.

WILLIAM E. ELLIOTT.

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