US1490250A - Button - Google Patents

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April 15 1924. 1,490,250

A. -G. WETTERGREN BUTTON Filed April 5. 1923 Patented Apr. '15, 1924.

nwrrso STATES ADDICK G. WETTERGREN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BUTTON.

Application filed April 3, 1923. 7 Serial No. 629,610.

T all w ham it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Ap rox G. WETTER- GREN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My present invention relates to a button which is intended to be applicable to many and various kinds of wearing apparel, such as a vest or coat, by the manipulation of a locking member instead of by stitching or otherwise attaching. The'button is particularly useful with washable garments and can be readily detached from the garment when the latter is to be laundered and then reattached after the garment is dried, the purpose being to save wear on the buttons. The invention is especially advantageous with pearl and other expensive buttons and such as break easily in handling and if sub jected to the operation of washing the garment on which they may be placed. With these and other objects in view therefore the invention may be said to consist essentially in a button whose shank is provided with a pivoted non-detachable adjustable locking member, which can be shifted so as to allow the button to be easily engaged in the buttonhole and shifted endwise so as to allow the button to be promptly and easily disengaged from the buttonhole, all as will be set forth, and further it comprises various details and peculiarities in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts, substantially as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the annexed drawing illustrating my invention:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved button in partial section and with the locking member in the position it occupies when the button is in engagement with the buttonhole or the garment.

Figure 2 is a similar side elevation with the locking member shifted to occupy the posit-ion it assumes when the button is calculated for withdrawal from the buttonhole or insertion thereinto.

Figure 3 is a top plan View of the button when its members are in the position shown in Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a vertical section of the button when in the position shown in Figure 2, the

so that it is desirable to have a button oonstructed so that it can be removed from the buttonhole before the garment is sent to be laundered. The head 1 is provided with a shank 2 which is hollow or tubular from end to end so as to accommodate therein a spiral or coiled spring 8. The outer end of the shank 2 has a longitudinal slot 6 and in this slot. is a permanent pin 7. Obviously the length and proportions of the shank or stem 2 and its various parts may vary within wide limits and I do not wish to be restricted to any special size. Said shank may be longer or shorter and proportioned as may be desired with relation to the head 1.

3 denotes a link of a somewhat elongated or oblong form, having therein a longitudinal slot 4 running from end to end. Near the middle of this slot at it is provided with oppositely located interior notches or indents 5, preferably rounded or semi-circular, so as to readily engage the pin 7, it being noted that this link 3 is supported within the stem slot 6 between the pin 7 and the spring 8 and that the said spring presses the link against the pin 7. This link 3 serves as a locking member for the button after it has been placed in position in the garment and also it is capable of being shifted in position so that instead of lying crosswise of the stem and being locked in such position as shown in Figure 1, it may lie in an extended position in line with the extent of the stem 2 and serve as an extension thereof and so located that it can be readily passed through the buttonhole in looking the button in position or withdrawing it therefrom. It will be readily understood moreover that the proportions of the link or looking member 3 may vary within considerable limits and the length may be changed with respect to the length of the stem 2 or the diameter of the head 3. It is only necessary that this link should be slotted and notched so that it may be located in the stem wall 6 and made to engage the pin 7.

The operation of my improved button will be readily understood from the fore going description of the construction and arrangement of the parts. When the parts are assembled the locking link 3 will be in serted in the slot (3 so that the spring 8 may bear against the top thereof and then the pin 7 will be mounted firmly and permanently in place in the stem 2 as clearly indicated in Figure 4. When the link 3 is turned about so as to lie parallel with the plane of the head 1 one of the notches 5 will engage the pin 7 and the spring 8 will hold the link in such engagement. At this time it will be evident that although the link3 may rock more or less upon the pin 7 it will. maintain its parallelism with the head 1, for it will strike the bottom of the slot 6 in one direction or the other and will effectually serve as a locking member on the inside of the vest buttonhole or other sitnation so as to keep the button in position in the buttonhole. When it is desired to remove the button from the buttonhole all that the user needs to do is to press on the link 3 on its outer edge outside of the pin 7 and cause the other edge of the link to depress and compress the spring 8 sufiiciently to disengage the notch 5 from the pin 7 so that the link 3 may be shifted lengthwise preferably over the pin 7 and then reversed as shown in Figure 2 into a position where the link 3 is in line with the stem 2 as shown in Figure 2, in which position the spring 8 will serve to hold the link in this position and while in this position the link can be passed through the button hole and the button engaged or disengaged therein. Of course it is immaterial whether after disengagement from the notch 5 the link is moved in one direction or the other before it is turned on the pin as on a pivot for the purpose of placing it in its extended position, since both ends of the link will function alike when the parts are in this position and when the link is looked over one of the notches 5 will perform the same function in relation to the pin 7.

Various changes may be made in the proportion and size of the diiierent parts with out exceeding the scope of my invention and I reserve the liberty of modifying and rearranging the' same as experience may dictate.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a button, the combination with a head having a hollow stem, of a loop or link engaging said stem and adjustable thereon. together with an independent coiled spring within the stem for holding the link in position.

2. The combination with a button having a hollow stem of a pin in said stem, a locking loop engaging said pin, and an inde pendent coiled spring within the stem engaging the locking loop.

The combination in a button havinga hollow stem with an outer slot, of a locking member consisting of a loop having a longitudinal slot with median notches and a coiled spring within the stem for holding the locking loop in position.

4. The combination with a button having a hollow stern, of a link lengthwise slotted with one or more notches in said slot, a pin fast in the stem and engaging the link, and a spring coiled within the hollow stem and bearing against thelink.

5. The combination of a button having a hollow stem, of a longitudinally slotted link and an independent coiled spring within the stem bearing against said link and holding the same in engagement with the stem and allowing it to assume a locking position parallel to the button head or an extended position in line with .the stem.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aihx my signature.

ADDICK WETTERGREN.

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