US142043A

US142043A - Improvement in button-fastenings

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Publication number: US142043A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1873-08-19
Anticipated expiration: 1890-08-19

Description

U. H. REID.

Button-Fastenings.

N0. 142,043. Patented August19,i873.

1/ 1/ k 1 7 y l E I v UNITED STATES CHARLES H. REID, OF DANBURY, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTON-FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.

142,043, dated August 19, 1873; application filed July 16, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. REID, of Danhury, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Button-Fastenings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device in operative position. Figs. 2 and 3 are plan and perspective views of my device detached. Figs. 4 and 5 represent the same in plan as it is cut from the blank, and of modified form.

The object of my improvement is to produce a cheap, durable, and efficient fastening for buttons, whereby they can be attached to any fabric with ease and dispatch; and it consists of a metallic clip suitably formed, with a neck to pass through the shank-eye of the button, and projecting points to penetrate the material to which the button is to be attached, and, being bent down and clinched, to hold the same firmly secured.

That others may fully understand my invention, I will particularly describe it.

A is the button, which must be provided with a shankeye, B. O is the fastening-clip. This clip is formed of some suitable metal, such as brass, rolled to a proper temper. At its central part it is formed with a sort of neck,

a, to rest in the eye of the button-shank, and

at each end there are sharp tangs b b, to penetrate the cloth or other material to which the button is to be attached. I form two of these points I; b at one end, and one of the same at the other end, as shown. When made ready for use, the clip is bent at its central part or neck a, so as to form a loop, as shown, within which the shank-eye of the button rests.

\Vhen ready for attachment, the points I) b are bent down at right angles to the surface to which the attachment is to be made, and, being forced through the fabric, they are again bent and clinched down upon the under surface thereof.

If necessary, are-enforce piece maybe placed next to the surface of the fabric, and under the clinched points I).

In placing the fastening, the end of plate 0, having two points, b b, will, of course, be set opposite the direction of strain, while on the side of the strain the single point will be sufficient.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new is- The clip 0, formed with looper-neck a and the points I) b, disposed as described, to form a fastening for eye shanked buttons.

CHAS. H. REID.

Witnesses:

WM. A. MOORE, OLIVER A. G. Toni).