US1556455A - Button mounting for garments - Google Patents

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Oct. 6, 1925- 1,556,455

a. A. RIPLEY BUTTON MOUNTING FOR GARMENTS Filed Se t. 30. 1924 Patented Oct. 6,1925,

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE A. BIPLEY, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.

BUTTON uoomme ron amateurs... 5

Application filed September 80, 1924. Serial No. 740,707.

To all whom it'may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonon A. RIPLEY,

a citizen of the United States of America,

residing at Dallas, in the county of Dallas 5 and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Button Mountingsfor Garments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in buttonmountings for gar ments.

The method of fastening buttons on shirts, waists and other garments, which is now in commoii use, is not such as to prevent the buttons from being rather easily torn off.

For this reason very few garments survive the laundry, without losing one or more buttons.- It is the common practice to sew through the cloth and a single thickness of tape applied tounderside of the edge of the garment. I

The object of my invention is two-fold and is first, to mount the button so that it cannot be torn off even under themost severe.- cond1t1ons; and second, to provide such a.

A construction designed to carry out the invention will'be hereinafter described together with other features of the invention.

The invention will be more readily understood from a reading of the following specification and by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which an example of the invention is shown, andwherein:

Fig. 1 is a view of a portionof the front of a shirt broken away to show buttons momted in accordance with this invention,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross sectional view on-the line2-2 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings the numeral 10 designates the front of a shirt and 11 a hem which-is folded under along the edge of the fabric. A facing strip 12 has a narrow hem 13 along row of stitches 14.

mounting and practice the invention .withits outer edge complementary to the hem 11. The facing strip may be made oftape or other material and is applied to the under or inner sideof the fabric with its hem 13 in contact with the hem 11. These hems are united along the edge of the garment by a The strip 12 has a hem 15 folded inward along its inner edge and contacting with the fabric along the hem-fold by a row of stitches 16. The hem is provided with an extended ply 17 directed toward hems 11 and 13 and lying between the strip and the fabric. It will be seen'that to produce this 'extension'it is merely necessary to employ I a strip or tape sufiiciently wide to provide the extension when the fold is made. It is customary. to provide the hem 16, but not the extension and therefore only the additional material is required and the labor cost is not 7 increased. i

The button 18 is attached by passing the thread 19 through the fabric 10, the extension 17 and the-strip 12, whereby it is attached to three plies of fabric. -Actual tests have shown that the average person is un able to pull off a button mounted'in this manner. The extension provides the rein-' forcing and is the essence of the invention.

Various changes and alterations may be made within the scope of the appended claim.

What I claim, is:

Asan article of manufacture, a garment having a button mounting comprising a facing strip provided with a narrow hem along its outer edge stitched to the edge portion of the fabric of the garment at a closure thereof and an inwardly folded wider hem. forming a free extension of substantially onehalf of the width'of the strip and lying between the strip and the fabric, stitching securing both hems of the strip to the garment at their folded edges, and buttons mounted on the fabric and secured by threads passing through the three-ply provided by the fabric, the free hem extension and the strip.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

GEORGE A. I LE

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