US1696133A

US1696133A - Button

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Publication number: US1696133A
Application number: US265035A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles E Young
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1928-03-27
Filing date: 1928-03-27
Publication date: 1928-12-18
Anticipated expiration: 1945-12-18

Description

C. E. YOUNG Dec "18, 1928.

BUTTON Filed March 27, 1928 INVENTOR. Charles E. Young 3Y2 ATTORNEY.

Patented Dec. 18, 1928.

UNITED STATES' CHARLES E. YOUNG, OF ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA.

BUTTON.

Application flled March 27, 1928. Serial No. 25,035.

The object of theinvention is-to provide a button which may be readily attached to wearing apparel without the necessity for the use of thread; to provide a button of this character which, when desired, may be readily detached from the goods by which it is carried, and attached elsewhere; to provide a button in which there is a positive connec tion between the button and its stem with the stem loosely engaged with the button so that there may be relative swinging movement between the two whereby the possibility of damage to the button, when attached to wash goods and when the latter is passed through a clothes wringer, is reduced to a minimum; and to provide a device of this character whichis of simple form and therefore susceptible of cheap manufacture and low marketing cost. a

With this object in view, the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which preferred embodiments are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional View through the invention.

Figure 2 is a top plan View.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on the plane indicated by the line 33 of Figure 1.

30 Figure 4 is an elevational view of the stem with the button attaching means mounted therein.

Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 1 but showing a modified form.

Figure 6 is a top plan view of the struc' ture of Figure 5.

Figure 7 is a perspective view of a tool, such as is used in the attachment of the button to goods.

Figure 8 is an actual view on the plane indicated by the line 88 of Figure 1.

In order to provide for a loose or swinging or pivotal connection between the button 10 and its stem 11, the latter, which may be of 45 pearl, rubber, celluloid, bone, metal or any other desired material and which is formed with a head 12, has the head enclosed with a cap 14 with which there are formed the wings 15. Prior to the attachment of the stem with 50 the button, the wings lie flat against the shank of the stem and the latter is inserted through the eye of the button until the cap let abuts the upper face. The wings 15 which are pliable, are bent outwardly and up around the annu- 6B lar flange 16 bounding the eye of the button on the under face. By this construction the cap becomes fixedly connected to the button and the stem is engaged with the cap, but loosely, there being suflicient play between the cap and the head 12 to permit the cap and with it the button to swing loosely on the stem.

The stem at the end remote from the head 12 is of hemispherical shape as indicated at 17, to facilitate the passage of the stem through a hole made in a garment or piece of goods for the reception of the button, the hole being perfectly made by an awl such as indicated at 18. V

The stem is shouldered back of the extremity 17, as indicated at 19, this shoulder being I.

ance spaces for the spring jaws 22 which are merely the free terminals of the spring 25 which is supported by the flange 26 of the re-. tainer which is extended downwardly to the plane of the dome of the thimble.

In Figures 5 and 6 a modification of the in- V vention is illustrated, this modification concerning only the means of attaching the stem 11 to the button 10. vention, the head 12 of the stem is made larger than the eye of the button and when the stem is inserted through the eye, it is retained in loose engagement with the button by a clip head of the button and is provided with terminal pliable ears 28 inserted through slots formed in the button at diametrically opposite sides of the eye.

The retainer used in connection with the button illustrated in Figures 5 and. 6 is identical with that used in connection with the other form illustrated.

In attaching buttons constructed in accord- Y ance with theinvention, a cloth is punctured at the desired points with the awl 18 and the buttons are attached by inserting the stems in the perforations thus made, the retainers being attached to the conical extremities of the stems after such insertion. By the use of the awl illustrated the warp and woof threads In this form of the in- 27 which diametrically spans the are separated to form the stem receiving hole and are not severed as they would be by use of a punch. WVhile the invention is illustrated as having the head of the stud and the cap above the plane of the top or outer face of the button, it is obviousthat the eye of the latter particularly where the button is made the button, and a retainer detachable engaged with the remaining end of the stem, the stem having a tapered terminal and a shoulder just back of the same, and the retainer having a thimble in which the tapered terminal is received, and spring, jaws engaging said shoulder, the spring jaws consist ing of the free terminals of a spring carried by the retainer, andthe thimble being slotted on diametrically opposite sides to provide clearance spaces for said jaws.

In testimony whereof he affixes his signature.

CHARLES E. YOUNG.