US1382123A - Cuff-button - Google Patents

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1. B. SAB0UH|N.

' CUFF BUTTON.

. APPLICATION FILED MARL 30, T921.

Patented June 21, 1921.

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JEAN BAPTTSTE SABOURIN, 0F NRTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 EISN- STADT MANUFACTURNG COIYENY, OF ST. LO'UTS, IVIISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

Curr-BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent. t Patented June 21, 1921.

Application filed Mal-ch 30, 1921. Serial No. 456,879.

To all fw hom t may concern: Y

lle it known that l, Jaan Bar'risrn SA- noiuuN, a citizen oi' the United States oi' America7 residing at the town of Norton, county of Bristol, citate of lllassachusetts, United States of America, have invented a certain new and useful Culi-Button, of which the following is such a full, clear, and exact description as will enable any one skilled in the art to which it -appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a cuil button of the type illustrated in Jacobs United States Patent No. 1,341,130 having two separable parts and more particularly to improved means for locking the partstogether and releasing them. The object of the invention is to provide a reliable locking device which can be positively and easily released. lVhile l have shown the invention embodied in a cuff button it can, of course, be embodied in other kinds of garment fasteners.

1n the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view partly in elevation and partly in central longitudinal section of a cuff button embodying my invention and showing the parts in locked position. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line Qf-Q of Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 is a view similar to 1 showing the parts applied to the cuff and the locking parts in released position.

1 is a barrel to which is attached the cuii enga-ging member comprising, in the form shown, two disks 2 and 3. The locking; members 4 have inturned flanges at their outer ends and are engaged at the other ends by a disk 5 movable in the barrel and impelled by the spring 6. A flanged sleeve 7 is slidably supported in the barrel and earries cuff engaging disk 8; The flange on the sleeve engages with an interior shoulder on the barrel at one side and the other side is tapered and engages with the outer ends of the lockinnr members 4. The other part of the button comprises cuff engaging disks 9 and 10 and a. locking post 11 with an enlarged head or fiange 12 which in the lockingr position of the parts is engaged by the inturned flanges on the locking' members 4.

The two parts of the button are brought into locking relation by inserting the post 1l in the sleeve 7, the flanged end of the post engaging: the inwardly ltapered surfaces oi? the locking members and forcing them downward and then apart su'lliciently to allow the movement oi the post to its locking position when the upper ends of the locking members are brought into that portion of the barrel which is et larger internal diameter than the portion occupied in the locking position. After the end oi the post has passed the locking flanges on the members 4, the springwill cause these members to return to the position shown in Fig. 1 and engage the shoulder on the post and securely hold it from withdrawal. To release the lock7 the sleeve 7 is iinpelled inward by finger pressurel on the disk 8 which operation iirst moves all of the parts relatively to the barrel and when the upper ends of the lockine; members have been passed to alinement with the enlarged portion of the barrel they are impelled outward by the tapered surface of the end of the sleeve toward position shown in Fig. 3 and out ofengagement with the locking post thereby permitting the withdrawal oi the post from the sleeve.

Having fully described my invention what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent oi the United States is:

1. A button comprising two separable parts each adapted to engage with a button hole in a garment.` one of said parts beine; provided with a lookin post and the other with a lockingP member engaging with the post. means tendine; to hold said member in locking; position and a manually operated member adapted to move said locking member to release position. y

2. A button comprising two separable parts each adapted to engage with a button hole in a garment, one of said parts being provided with a locking` post and the other with a locking` member engaging; with the post.y resilient means tending to hold said member in locking position and a slidable member adapted to move said lockingl member to release position.

3. A button havine two separable parts, one of said parts comprising a barrel carrying;V a garment engaging member and a sleeve movable in said barrel and also carrying a garment engagingr member, a locking post carried by the other part of the button and insertible in the first mentioned part through the sleeve, and locking members in the barrel' adapted to engage with the post. said sleeve being adapted to engage with the looking members to force them to release a sleeve slidable in the barrel and through position. which the looking post extends, the eX- 10 4. A button having two separable parts, tremity of saicl sleeve having,` a tapered surone part carrying a locking post, and the fac-e to engage with the locking members other parteomprising abarrel, a spring imto force them to release position.

pelled disk therein, locking members `in the n ln testimony whereof I have hereunto set barrel and engaged by the disk to hold them my hand and aiiiXecl my seal.

in lockingposition relative to the post, and JEAN BAPTISTE SBURIN- [L- S-l

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