US1425485A - Fastening device for wearing apparel and the like - Google Patents

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s. E JOHNSTON.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR WEARING APPAREL AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE14. 1921.

1 3425,4185 Patented Aug. 8, 1922.

UNITED STATES SAMUEL EVERETT JOHNSTON, 0F EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR WEkRING APPAREL AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug.8, 1 922.

Application flledIune 14, 1921. Serial No. 477,523.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL EVERETT JOHNSTON, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at 21 Castle Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, have invented a new and useful Improved Fastening Device for Wearing Apparel and the like (for which I have filed applications in England April 19, 1920, and October 4. 1920), of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fastening devices and particularly but not exclusively to those used for fastening articles of wearing apparel. Various devices have been used hitherto for this purpose such as hooks and eyes and press studs but these fastening devices have been subject to certain disadvantages such as the tendency of hooks and eyes to become disengaged when the strain on the co-operating members becomes relaxed. Furthermore press studs although free from this disadvantage .of hooks and eyes frequently tend to tear the material to which they are sewn when being unfastened or become so weak as to come undone with the least strain whilst the fact that the thread securing the members of a press stud to a garment passes through punched out holes in the metal causes this thread to becomeworn through very quickly.

It is the object of the present invention to obviate the disadvantages above referred to andprovide a fastening device in which the mutually engaging members are so constructed that they cannot become disengaged by relative movement or strain on the parts of a garment or the like which they are intended to secure together.

The fastening device constructed according to the present invention consists essentially in a retaining device and a stud adapted to co-operate therewith, the retaining de vice including a pair of spring members normally separated by a distance less than the diameter of the stud shank whilst the construction of the retaining device is such that the stud is retained therein on being forced between the spring members.

Reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the retaining member of a fastening device constructed in wire in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the device shown in Figure 1 and a stud member en gaging therewith.

Figure 3 is a plan view of a modified form of the retaining device.

Figure 4 is a plan view of a further modification.

Figure 5 is a plan of a blank from which a retaining device may be made in sheet metal and Figure 6 is a plan of the finished device in sheet metal.

The drawings illustrate several forms of what is in effect the eye portion of a .fa'stening device the place of the hook being taken by a stud member having an enlarged head and provided with a suitable base to enable it to be attached conveniently tov a garment or the like. The devices shown are drawn to an enlarged scale for the sake of clearness.

The members illustrated in Figures 1 to 4 are all formed from spring wire by bending, the essential feature of construction in each case being the members a and b which by the head 6 in the direction of the axis of I the stud and by the normal position of the members a and b in the direction at right angles to said axis. The device can only be unfastened by forcing the shank c intentionally between the members a and b. It is to be noted that the members a and I) should be curved upwardly as shown in the elevation Figure 2, whereby they can spring apart without movement of the inturned ends and to allow room for the head 6 of the stud to move between them and the surface of the garment.

To enable the device illustrated to be secured to a garment or the like loops 7 are formed between the transverse member d and the members a and b and by the inturned ends 9 of the latter. These loops which should lie in the same plane serve for attachment to a garment or the like by sewing.

The modifications illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 differ in detail only from the form shown in Figiires 1 and. 2, the members (t and b functioning in the manner already described.

The device shown in Figure 6 is formed from a sheetmetal blank of the form shown in Figure 5 by bending the portions a and Z2. along the dotted lines towards the centre of the device whereby their curved edges occupy the same relative positions asthe members a and 7) in Figures 1 to l. The portion (5' is then bent over portions (4 and l) as shown and the device can be attached to a garment or the like by sewing utilizing the perforations i which are punched in the blank before bending. In bending the portion d into position additionalpressure is exerted on its perforated ends in order-g that they may lie in the same plane as the: perf o rations atthe opposite end of the device. The metal usedin constructing this form of the invention must be of a gauge and quality to impart sufficient elasticity to the members a and b toenable them to resume their normal positions after the stud has been forced between them. 1

It will be obvious that various constructional modifications other than those illustrated may bemade without departing from the essential features of the invention.

I claim a V i .1. In a fastening device, in combination, a stud member, a socket member, spring gripping members forming part. of said socket member and havingnpwardly curved mutually approaching surfaces. a transverse member formed integral with said spring. members and extending transversely across the same and means for attaching said socket member to ,a garment by sewing. 2.. In a fastening device, in combination, a stud member, a socket member spring gripping members forming part of said socket member and havingupwardly curved mutually approaching surfaces. a transverse member formed integral withsaid spring members andextending transversely across the same and means disposed in a plane below saidspringnianters for attaching said socket member toa garment by sewin r 3. Ina fastening device, in combination, a stud member a socket member, spring gripping" members forming part of'said socket member and having upwardly curved mutually approaching surfaces, a transverse member integral with said spring members and extendingtransverse'ly across the same and disposed at one end thereof, eyes formed at the ends of said transverse member and eyes formed integral with said spring members at the end remote from said transverse member. 1, e v

n 4.1 In a fastening device, in combination, a stud member a socket member, spring gripping membei's forming part of said socket member and having upwardly curved mutually approaching surfaces, a transverse member formed integral with said spring members and extending transversely across the same at one end thereof, eyes formed between said transverse member, and said spring members in a plane below the latter andv extensions of said spring members formingloops at theendsremote from said transverse member and converging towards the'latter in a plane beneath said spring members. v e a a 5.. Ina fastening device, in combination, a stud member, a socketmember formed from one piece of metal, spring" gripping members forming part ofsaid socket member and having upwardly curved mutually approaching surfaces, a transverse member integral with said spring members and extending transversely across the same and disposed at one end thereof, eyes formed at the ends of said transverse member and eyes formed integral with said spring members at the end remote from said transverse memher all of said eyes being disposed in a plane beneath said spring members. v V

a In witness whereof I affix my signature.

by SAMUEL EVERETT onNsToN;

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