US1483522A

US1483522A - Button-making machine

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Publication number: US1483522A
Application number: US578637A
Authority: US
Inventors: Rosen Hyman
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1922-07-31
Filing date: 1922-07-31
Publication date: 1924-02-12
Anticipated expiration: 1941-02-12

Description

Feb. 12, 1924; I 1,483,522

7 H. RQSEN BUTTON MAKING MACHINE Filed July 31. 1922 MIMHIIIII I 11v VENTOR y/IMA 770554 A TTORNE Y Patented Feb. 12, 1924.

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BUTToN MAKrNe MACHINE.

A iiafionfii'ediui 31, 1922. Seria1'N'o. 578,637.

To all whom it ma /y concern: h I

Be it known that H'YMAN Roses, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Button-Making Machines, of which the following a specification.

This invention relates to button making machines. One object thereof is 'to'prOVide a device of the character described which will produce a button having 'a short stem or projection extending from the periphery thereof.

Another object of this invention is to provide a device of the character described which will produce a cluster of buttons closely interconnected by short stems or projections extending from the periphery of the button and common to each pair of contiguous buttons.

Other ob'ects of this invention will in part be obvious and in part hereinafter pointed out.

Certain features herein shown and described are shown, described and claimed in my co-pending application Serial No. 525,999, filed in the United States Patent Ofiice on the-30th day of December 1921, and accordingly are not claimed herein. Said co-pending application has since matured into Patent No. 1,431,260, granted on the 10th day of October, 1922.

lVith the above exception, the invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter described and of which the scope of application will be indicated in the following claims.

In the accompanying drawings, in which is shown oneof various possible illustrative embodiments of this invention- Fig. 1 isa vertical cross-section of a button making machine showing the upper, lower and intermediate formers;

Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view out along line 2-2-of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of a modified form of my button making machine having a larger portion of the holder of the intermediate former cut away than shown in Figs. 1 and 2;

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3 showing another modified form in which the holder of the intermediate former-is cut away to lesser degree than shown in Figs. 1 and *2;

Fig. 5 is a view similar-to Fig. 3-'showin g still another modified form in which the holder of the intermediate former is completely cut, leaving a cylii'idric'al-die portion upstanding therefrom; and

Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view cut:along line '6-6 of Fig. '5.

Referring in detail to the drawing, 10 is the lower former having the

upstanding plug

11, and 12 is the upper former comprising the' holder 13 and plunger or follower 14 operating in the central recess 15 of the holder 13 substantially as described in the above referred to co-pendingapplicw tion. The intermediate former 16'comprises the clamping block 17' adapted alsoto serve as a holder and is provided with a follower 18 operating'in the recess 19 substantially in the same manner as described in my said co-pending application. The clamping block or holder 17 is cut away so as to provide a portion 20 depressed from the top of the holder and leaving upstanding therefrom the die portion 21 which co-operates with the upper former in closingthe two shells of the button. Extending from the periphery of the die portion 21 areradial slots22 which communicate with the recess l9- and tons. The depressed portion 20 serves, as

a support for the row or string of buttons produced by the machine by the successive closing of pairs of shells by the intermediate and upper formers, as describedin my coending application and as will appear from ig. 2.

It will be noted that by cutting theholder 17 away as shown at 20, :theradial dimensions of'the slots or grooves 22 can be made comparatively small being substantially equal to the thickness of the-wall left surrounding the recess 19, and in this way the stems 23 interconnecting the buttons .can be made very short andthe string .of buttons arranged closely to each other.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 3, a larger portion of the intermediate former has been cut away leaving the upstanding portion 24 with the die portion 25 and three spaced, radial, short slots 26 of small depth. With this form, a: button having three short stems extending from the periphery thereof may be made in the one closing of the pair of dies, while with the form shown in Fig. 2, two such stems result.

The modified form shown in Fig. dis cut away to a small degree as at Q'Z'leaving the upstanding die portion 28 with one short groove 22, and the button formed by the use of this die will have only one short stem' or projection extending from the periphery thereof.

In Figs. 5 and 6, still another modified form is shown in which the intermediate former is completely cut away leaving an annular shoulder or support 30 and a cylindrical upstanding die portion 31 having four short radial grooves or slots 22, quadrantly disposed.

.The operation of the machine is fully described in my Patent No. 1,431,260, hereinabove referred to. In carrying out with the present machine, the second operation described in said patent and illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawing thereof, the intermediate former 16 is manually or otherwise supported in centering the same on the lower former 10 and holding the same in position relative thereto, such support being made necessary by reason of the cutaway walls of the former l6.

.It will thus be seen that there is provided a device in which the several objects of this invention are achieved and which is well adapted to meet the conditions of practical use.

As various possible embodiments might be made of the above invention and as various changes might be made in the en1bodiment above set forth, it is to be understood that all matter herein set forth or shown in the accompanying drawings is to beinterpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. 1

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent w 1. In a button making machine, in combination with means for forming the parts of the button, means for assembling said parts to complete the button, said latter means adapted to position a stem to be so secured to said button as to extend from the periphcry of the button, said positioning means being reduced diametrically on one side at least to permit operation thereof in close proximity of an adjacent button.

2. In a button making machine, in combination with means for forming the parts of the button, means for assembling said parts to complete the button, said latter means adapted to position a stem to be so secured to said button as to extend from the periphery of the button, said positioning means being reduced longitudinally of said stem on one side at least to permit operation thereof in close proximity of an adjacent button.

3. In a button making machine, in combination with means for forming the parts of the button, means for assembling said parts to complete the button, said latter means adapted to position a stem to be so secured to said button as to extend from the periphery of the button, said positioning means having a wall reduced longitudinally of said stem on one side at least to permit operation thereof in close proximity of an adj acent button.

4:. In a button making machine, in combination with means for forming the parts of the button, means for assembling said parts to complete the button, said latter means adapted to position a stem to be so secured to said button as to extend from the periphery of the button, said positioning means having a wall reduced longitudinally of said stem at two or more sides to permit operation thereof in close proximity of an adjacent button.

In a button making machine, a pair of dies for assembling button parts, one of said dies having a central recess and an opening extending from the periphery of the other die to the walls of said recess adapted to receive a button stem, the wall of the other die being reduced longitudinally of said stem on one side at least, to permit operation thereof in close proximity of an adjacent button.

6. In a button making machine, a die comprising a male and female member, the latter being provided with slots extending to the outer periphery of the female memberadapted to receive a stem which extends from the periphery of the button, the wall having said slots being reduced longitudinally of said stem on one side at least to permit operation thereof in close proximity of an adjacent button.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

I-IYMAN RQSEN.