US1409514A - Cuff button - Google Patents

Description

" C. AYMAR.

CUFF BUTTON.

APPLICATION man FEB. 25, 1921.

1,409,514. Patented Mar. 14, 1922.

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CUFF'IBUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented 113 14, 1922',

Application filed February 25, 1921., Serial No. 441636;.

To all'whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, CARL AYMAR, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Providence, in the county of Providence, State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gulf Buttons, of which the following is a'specification. i

This invention relates to improvements in cuff buttons and particularly to that type of button composed of two separate members which are adapted to be retained in the button holes of the cuff and snapped together or separated, as desired.

It is the object of the invention to provide a button of this character which is sim ple in construction and which can be easily and cheaply produced and one which at the same time is strong and durable and which has few parts liable to become injured or broken.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevaton of my improved button, the members being shown connected;

Figure 2 is an elevational view looking toward the inner end of the bead or male member of the button;

Figure 3 is a similar view of the socket or female member;

Figure 4 is an enlarged sectional view on the line l4 of Figure 1. 1

Referring to the drawings in detail, A represents the bead member of the button and B the socket member, these members being so constructed that they may be retained in the flaps of the cuff and connected or disconnected as desired.

The socket member B comprises a base portion 10 which may be of any desired configuration and to which the shank 11 is secured; The end of this shank is hollow as shown at 12 to provide a space for receiving the head of the other member and such hollow portion is preferably surrounded by a flaring wall 13. A socket plate 14 is secured to the outer margin of the flaring wall 13 in any suitable manner, the margin of said socket plate preferably being clamped beneath a portion 14 of the flaring wall 13 which is bent over into contact with the outer surface of such plate.

The socket plate 14 is provided at its central port-ion with a circular opening 15 to receive the head on the member A and this plate is also cut away at a plurality of points 16, such cut-away portions being curved and extending outwardly from said openin 15. The result is that the socket. plate 14 has a series of independent fingers. 1.? which ex-v tend from near the margin of said plate spirally inwardly to said opening 15. The inner end of each of said fingers 17 is curved, such curved ends together forming the wall of the circular opening 15.

This construction provides a .series of arms which are of greater length than would be securedif'the same extended outwardly in a radial direction from the central opening of the socket plate and such arms therefore possess considerable resiliency which facilitates insertion and withdrawal of the bead carried by the other 'member. of the button. Such resiliency is also increased by the fact that the inner ends of said curved arms are independent of each other so that they are free to move and release the bead when pressure'is applied.

The bead member A of the button also comprises an outer or base portion 20' which may be of any desired shape or contour and a shank 21 is secured to the member 20, the

outer end of this shank carrying the bead 22 which is adapted to cooperate with the opening 15 of the socket member. 7 The bead member is also provided with a plate or disk 23 which is rigidly secured to the shank 21 V in any suitable manner. The plate 23 is also cut away at a plurality of points 24 so that a series of spaced curved fingers 25 extend from the outer portion of said plate inwardly toward the center thereof. These curved arms serve to give resilience to the plate or disk 23 so that the same will yield when pressure is applied thereto and thus permanent bending or breaking of the same is prevented. The yielding of the plate 23 also facilitates removal of the socket' member B from the head since it permits the shank 11 of the member B to be turned at an angle to ing a shank adapted to be received in an,

opening of the cuff, said shank having on one end a base adapted to lie on one side of the cuff and a hollow flaring socket portion on the other end adapted to lie on the other side of the cuff, a single plate arranged over said hollow portion of the shank, and rigidly secured at its outer margin to the outer edge of the flaring portion of the shank, the inner portion or" said plate being cut away at intervals to form a plurality of independent curved resilient fingers which extend spirally inwardly from a point adjacent the outer margin of the plate, the inner ends of said fingers being curved and spaced apart to form between the same a circular opening to receive a bead on a mating member of the button, said fingers being free to bend inwardly or outwardly as the bead of the other member is inserted in or removed from the socket plate.

2. In a two-part cufi" button, a bead memoer comprising a base, a shank secured thereto, a bead rigidly secured to the end of said shank, a plate having its central portion rigidly secured to the shank at the rear of the bead, said plate being cut away at intervals to provide a series of spaced curved resilient arms which extend spirally inwardly from a point adjacent the outer margin of said plate to a point adjacent said shank, for the purpose described, the outer margin of the plate being free to bend toward or from the base.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

CARL AYMAR.

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