US1811197A - Button loop - Google Patents

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June 23, 1931. e. B. HEATHER BUTTON LOOP Filed Feb. 20, 1950 R n T E V N I GEDHGE B HEATHER ATTy Patented June 23, 1931 UNITED STATES A PATENT OFFICE GEORGE LB. HEATHER, OF WEST HAVEN,

CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WIRE NOVELTY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORH PORATION OF CONNECTICUT BUTTON LOOP Application filed February 20, 1930. Serial No. 429,947.

Q to be clipped over a button the shank of which may be urged from a button-receiving loop into a smaller retaining loop from which it cannot be unintentionally withdrawn.

The objects of the invention are to provide, by bending a piece of resilient wire, a re versible button loop of which each of the wire ends carry a pin for sliding engagement Within a slot of an enclosing member; and to provide a clip adapted to secure the wire ends for a limited relative movement along the plane of the loop and against relative movement out of said plane. With these and other objects in view, as may become apparent from the within disclosures, the invention consists not only of the particular form herein pointed out and illustrated in the drawings but readily admits of certain modifications within the scope of what hereinafter may be claimed.

The character of the invention may be best understood by'reference to one illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by the accompanying drawings in which the Figure 1 is an upright elevation of an incomplete device; the Figure 2 is a sectional view on the line 22 of the previous figure; the Figure 3 is an upright elevation of the complete device of which a reversed view would be identical therewith the Figure 4 is a side elevation of the next previous figure; and the Figure 5 is a plan view of the blank from which the clip member is formed.

The device is preferably made from a piece of resilient wire of which a middle portionis bent to provide the suspension loopl and the arms 2 and 3 depending therefrom to provide the associated loops 4 and 5 in axial alignment and having an intermediate normally contracted throat 6, as illustrated by the Figure 1. The wire end portions 7 and 8 are flattened in the plane of the loops and each flattened portion is provided with a fixed pin 9 extending in a perpendicular direction to the plane of the loops and the pin of one flattened portion extending in anopposite direction to that of the pin of the other flattened portion, as best illustrated by the Figure 2. While the flattened end portions 7 and 8 are illustrated as normally overlapping they may normally abut or be relatively spaced in the same plane. The clip 10 is made of sheet metal and is provided with the staggered slots 11, as best illustrated by the Figure 5, and when the clip is folded upon.

the dotted lines 12 and over the end portions 7 and 8, as illustrated bythe Figures 3 and 4, the slots 11 are each engaged by a pin 9 adapted to slide therein as the button loop is made to expand and contract by the passage of the shank S of a button through the throat 6.

The button loop being reversible is adapted to be mounted upon a strap to prominently display the front elevation thereof, as illustrated, or an opposite elevation not illus trated by reason of the fact that both elevations are identical.

I claim A button loop comprising spring arms cooperating to form associated loops in axial alignment and having an intermediate normally contracted throat, the ends of the arms overlapping and each carrying a fixed pin extending outwardly in a perpendicular direction to the plane of the loops; a clip member securing the overlapped ends against relative movement out of the planeof the loops; and slots provided by the clip member to receive the pins thereby limiting the movement of the overlapped ends in the plane of the loops.

GEORGE B. HEATHER. V

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