US1343080A

US1343080A - Button

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Publication number: US1343080A
Application number: US359266A
Authority: US
Inventors: Robert W Fox
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1920-02-17
Filing date: 1920-02-17
Publication date: 1920-06-08
Anticipated expiration: 1937-06-08

Description

R. W. FOX.

BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. l?. 1920.

Patented Jun@ 8, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT QTFTTQE.

ROBERT W. FOX, OF WEST FRANKFOT, ILLINOIS.

BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 8, 192th.

To all 'u1/1,0m, it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ROBERT W. F 0X, a citizen of the United States, residing at IV est Frankfort, in the county of Franklin, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons; 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 buttons, and more especially to the fasteners by means of which the buttons are secured to the cloth or other material on which they are mounted; and the object of the same is to improve the construction of the fastener, and also the construction of the button or button head to correspond.

A further object is to produce a button and a fastener' made entirely of metal, and preferably of sheet metal in such forni that it can be stamped therefrom and its parts later bent and connected..

A further object is to produce a device of this kind which may be used as a bachelors button to be applied quickly by a man in case of emergency and without the use of thread or needle.

The particular construction of the fastener also is designed to prevent its rotation on the cloth to which it is attached, as well as to afford plural points where parts of the fas tener pierce the cloth, in contradistinction to fasteners of this general type hitherto made and which were provided with a single element which passed through the cloth at one point and connected the front and back members.

Details of construction are set forth in the following specification and claims, and shown in the drawings wherein:

Figure l is a vertical section of this eom plete button and its fastener applied.

Fig. 2 is a section at right angles to F ig. 1, showing the fastener only.

Fig. 3 is a plan View of the blank for the head of this button, and Fig. 4 a perspective View of the same when ready for use and of a small collar to be applied to its shank.

F ig. 5 is a plan view of the front plate or washer of the fastener.

yF ig. 6 is a plan View of the back plate or keeper of the fastener, Fig- 7 is a perspective View of the same with its parts partly bent yvious that the members into place, and Fig. througl'i the completed 8 is a sectional View keeper rea dy for useA The button is shown herein as made up of a disk-like head l and a pair of radial tangs 2 projecting oppositely from its periphery and adapted to be bent in under the head and then downward into a double shank as shown at 3 in Fig. l, and upward over the shank is to be slipped a small tubular collar 4. However, I would not be limited to this precise manner of forming the shank, as it is obthereof may be cut out of the material of the head or might be made in separate pieces and fastened. to the head, so long as the shank is made up of two members stamling initially alongside of or in contact with each other as seen in Fig. la The extremities of these members may be pointed or rounded, and their length sutlicient to permit the use hereinafter described.

The back of the button which will be the fastener connecting it with the cloth C is made up of two members. One of these is the front plate or washer l() shown in, Fig. 5. It is by preference a disk of metal cut with three apertures whereof one is a central slot 11 and the others are two holes 12 preferably disposed at the ends of the slot. The other member of the back or fastener is also a disk-like plate 13 formed with a central aperture in the shape of a slot 14 which is adapted to aline with the slot l1, and formed also by preference with two tangs l5 projecting from its periphery at Vpoints opposite the ends of said slot. These tangs are then bent inward under the body. of the back plate 13 as seen at 16, and their ends bent outward, which will be upward in Fig. 2, into spurs 17. At some step in the formation of this member it is by preference dished so that when in working position it is conical as best seen in Fig. 8.

In the application of this fastener to a piece of cloth indicated at C, it may be well first to make a hole H through the cloth, although this even may not be necessary if the tangs 2 are pointed or sharpened at their extremities as seen in Fig. 7. The front plate or washer l0 is then laid over the cloth with its slot 1l over such hole. The

and clenched as by bending them over as at 18. The collar 4 is now slipped onto the shank 3 as seen in Fig. l, and the tips of the tangs 2 passed down through the register.- ing holes 11, H, and 14, and then clenched within the cup of the conical keeper as by being bent outward therein as shown at 8 in Fig. y1. The `fact that the tangsfconstituting the shank are flat and are spread apart in the completedarticle, prevents the head from rotating with respect to ythe back or fastener, and the interposition of the collar 4 spaces the head from the front plate or washer 10 a distance sufficient to permit the next thickness of cloth to be applied and its button hole passed under the head. The fact that the front and

back plates

10 and 13 of the button-back are'attached to the cloth CV by two 'tangs passing through it and clenchedas explained, prevents the rotation of the back or fastener upon the cloth C, and also secures it very rigidly thereto; and the subsequent attachment of the head and spreading of the ends of its tangs as at 8 affords an additional means for attaching the device to the cloth C. Of course the plate 13 may not be dished to the extent shown, but it is preferred that it be somewhat cupped so as to inclose the spread ends 8 of the tangs 2 and prevent under garments from catching thereon. The shape and size of the two plates of the fastener are immaterial. IVhile the element 1 is spoken of as the head of the button, it may in `fact be only a plate which carries the button-head proper, as the latter could be of any material and form, integral with or entirely a separate part from the head or disk 1 itself. As above suggested, the tangs need notnecessarily be integral parts of the disk on which they are formed, but these and other details of construction may be left to the manufacturer.

IVhat is claimed as new is:

1. In a button, the combination with a fastener consisting of a front plate having a central aperture and two others, and a Yback plate having a central aperture and tangs adapted to be passed through the cloth and said other apertures in the front plate and clenched upon such plate; of a button head, and a shank composed of two tangs projecting therefrom and adapted to be passed' through the central Vapertures in said plates and clenched behind the rearmost.

2. In a button, the combination with a fastener consisting `of a front plate having a central slot and two holes, and a backl plate having a central slot and tangs adapted y to be passed through the cloth and said holes in the front plate and clenched upon such plate; of a disk-like button head, and

a shank composed of two flattened tangs projecting therefrom and adapted to be passed through the slots in said plates and spread apart behind 4the rearmost.

3. In a button, the combination with a fastener consisting of a front plate having a central slot and two holes, and a back plate having a central slot and tangs adapted to be passed through the cloth and said holes in the front plate and clenched upon such plate; of a disk-like button head, and two flattened tangs projecting from the periphery thereof, carried under the head, and thence downward in a two-part shank adapted to be passed through the slots in said plates and spread apart behind the rearmost. Y

4. In ya button, the combination with a fastener consisting of a front plate having a central aperture and two others, and va back plate having a central aperture and tangs adapted to be passed through the cloth and said other apertures in the front plate and clenched upon such plate; Iof a button head, a two-part shank depending from the center thereof and adapted to be passed through said central holes and spread apart, and a collar on the shank between the head and said front plate.

5. In a button, the combination with a head and a two-part shank; of a fastener comprising a washer-like front plate having a central aperture, a conical back plate also having a central aperture for the passage of said shank, the parts of the latter being spread apart behind the back plate, and

tangs on one of said plates adaptedto 'be passed through the cloth and through the other plate and clenched thereon.

6. A button fastener comprising front and back plates having central apertures for the passage of the .shank of the button head, the front plate also having two other apertures, and tangs on the back adapted to be passed through the cloth and through said other apertures and clenched upon the front plate.

7. In a button, the combination with a button head having a shank,'and a collar thereon; of a fastener comprising a tlat front plate having a'central aperture and additional holes, and a back plate having a central aperture and peripheral tangs, the latter adapted to be passed through the cloth and engaged with said holes and said apertures adapted to receive and engage said shank.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

. 'ROBERT W. FOX.

Witnesses: Y

M. M. Fox,

A. E. WILSON.