US1871373A - Method of making attaching members - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
- B21G—MAKING NEEDLES, PINS OR NAILS OF METAL
- B21G3/00—Making pins, nails, or the like
- B21G3/005—Nails or pins for special purposes, e.g. curtain pins
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
- B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
- B21D53/00—Making other particular articles
- B21D53/46—Making other particular articles haberdashery, e.g. buckles, combs; pronged fasteners, e.g. staples
- B21D53/48—Making other particular articles haberdashery, e.g. buckles, combs; pronged fasteners, e.g. staples buttons, e.g. press-buttons, snap fasteners
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
- Y10T24/45—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock]
- Y10T24/45225—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock] including member having distinct formations and mating member selectively interlocking therewith
- Y10T24/4588—Means for mounting projection or cavity portion
- Y10T24/45906—Means for mounting projection or cavity portion having component of means permanently deformed during mounting operation
- Y10T24/45927—Means for mounting projection or cavity portion having component of means permanently deformed during mounting operation and inserted into or through cavity or projection
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- My invention aims to provide improvements in attaching members and the method of forming the same and is adapted particularly to improvements in sheet metal rivets or tacks for attaching buttons, snap fastener elements and the like to their carrying mediums.
- Figures 1 through 7 show a plan and crosssection of a step in the process of forming my device from the iiat disc tothe complete sharp pointed tack;
- Fig. 8 is an enlarged elevational view of the device shown in Fig. 6, and showing the aperture in the shank of the tack;
- Fig. 9 is a view of the complete tack showing the aperture closed
- Fig. 10 is a view showing the die means for pointing the apertured end of the shank of the tack just prior to compressing the ma- Fig. 11 is another view of the means shown in Fig. 10 after the dies have been forced together and the end of the tack has been pointed;
- Fig. 12 includes a section of a socket member of a snap fastener and a section of a stud member of a snap fastener, each fastener member being secured to a carrying medium by my improved attaching members.
- a self-piercing rivet or tack which is formed from a single piece of sheet metal.
- the tack may bemade of brass, steel or the like in a suitable machine by passing a piece of metal beneath a series of pressing dies in a step by step manner as will be readily understood from an inspection of the figures of the drawing by anyone skilled in the art.
- Figs. 1 through 5 are so obviously illustrative of the steps of one method of forming my sheet metal tack that they need no description and therefore I shall continue from that point to describe my invention so that it will be readily understood by anyone skilled in the art.
- VIn Fig. 6 ⁇ I have shown a tack having a base 1 and a hollow shank 2. The shank has been cut away on a line extending at an angle to the axis of the shank to remove some of the lmetal .adjacent to the end thereby forming an aperture 3.
- any suitable method may be used to cut away a portion of the end of the shank but I have provided an attachment on the machine which operates transversely'to the aXis of one of the dies and cuts awayv a portion of the end vof the shank after the blank has assumed the shape shown inFig, Y' Y 1
- the blank After the blank has been formed and cut as shown in Fig. 6 it is forced into a female forming die A by a male die B, as shown in Fig. l0, Where the end of theshank is pressed into a symmetrical sharp pointed portion 4, as shown in Figs. 9 andll.
- the opening inthe shank adjacent to the endV is closed Fig. 9) to provide a smooth substantially continuous outer surface and the tack is ready for use.
- My improved rivet or tack is particularly adapted asa means of attaching snap ⁇ fastener members'to their carrying mediums, as shownin Fig.- 12.
- a socket 5 attached by a tack which has pierced the carrying medium 6 and has itsV end upset against a reinforced portion 7 of the socket which vsurrounds the aperture 8 through which the shank 2 passes.
- a stud 9 is also shown, in Fig. 127 secured to its carrying medium 10 in substantially the same manner as the socket 5.
- tacks are not adapted to be used as rivets because in many instances the ends are broken when they are upset and 1f the riveting operation kis successful the metal is so weakened that the upset portions will break loose under ordinary strains exerted upon the fastener installations.
- Vhen round ended sheet metal rivets are used a hole must be previously formed in the material before the rivet can be inserted.
- My sheet metal sharp pointed tack is easy to make and has proved successful against every test when used as a rivet for attaching buttons, fasteners and the like. Many tests have been made on installations similar to,l
- the method'of forming a sheet Vmetal tack having a head, a shank and a sharp point on the end of the shank, which com ⁇ prises.y pressing Y a hollow rounded end shank from a sheet metal blank, cutting away a portion of the shank adjacent to the rounded end in a plane at an angle to the aXis of the shank, and thereafter'press ing the rounded end of theshank into a suitable die by longitudinal approaching movement of 'one toward the other to compress the substantiallyvv
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ug. 9,' 1932. G. JOHNSON 1,371,373
METHOD OF MAKING ATTACHING MEMBERS Filed Feb. 21, 1950 Patented Aug. 9, 1932 GUSTAV JOHNSON, F WEST ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGrNORy TO .UNITED-CARR FASTENER CORPORATION, 0F CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS METHOD 0F MAKING ATTACHING MEMBERS Application filed February 21, 1930. Serial No. l130,366.
My invention aims to provide improvements in attaching members and the method of forming the same and is adapted particularly to improvements in sheet metal rivets or tacks for attaching buttons, snap fastener elements and the like to their carrying mediums.
Reference is hereby made to my divisional application Serial No. 494,031, filed November 7, 1930.
In the drawing which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention Figures 1 through 7 show a plan and crosssection of a step in the process of forming my device from the iiat disc tothe complete sharp pointed tack;
Fig. 8 is an enlarged elevational view of the device shown in Fig. 6, and showing the aperture in the shank of the tack;
Fig. 9 is a view of the complete tack showing the aperture closed;
Fig. 10 is a view showing the die means for pointing the apertured end of the shank of the tack just prior to compressing the ma- Fig. 11 is another view of the means shown in Fig. 10 after the dies have been forced together and the end of the tack has been pointed; and
Fig. 12 includes a section of a socket member of a snap fastener and a section of a stud member of a snap fastener, each fastener member being secured to a carrying medium by my improved attaching members.
Referring to the embodiment of my invention selected for illustration in the annexed drawing I have shown a self-piercing rivet or tack which is formed from a single piece of sheet metal. The tack may bemade of brass, steel or the like in a suitable machine by passing a piece of metal beneath a series of pressing dies in a step by step manner as will be readily understood from an inspection of the figures of the drawing by anyone skilled in the art.
The various forms shown by Figs. 1 through 5 are so obviously illustrative of the steps of one method of forming my sheet metal tack that they need no description and therefore I shall continue from that point to describe my invention so that it will be readily understood by anyone skilled in the art. VIn Fig. 6 `I have shown a tack having a base 1 and a hollow shank 2. The shank has been cut away on a line extending at an angle to the axis of the shank to remove some of the lmetal .adjacent to the end thereby forming an aperture 3. Any suitable method may be used to cut away a portion of the end of the shank but I have provided an attachment on the machine which operates transversely'to the aXis of one of the dies and cuts awayv a portion of the end vof the shank after the blank has assumed the shape shown inFig, Y' Y 1 After the blank has been formed and cut as shown in Fig. 6 it is forced into a female forming die A by a male die B, as shown in Fig. l0, Where the end of theshank is pressed into a symmetrical sharp pointed portion 4, as shown in Figs. 9 andll. Thus the opening inthe shank adjacent to the endV is closed Fig. 9) to provide a smooth substantially continuous outer surface and the tack is ready for use.
My improved rivet or tack is particularly adapted asa means of attaching snap `fastener members'to their carrying mediums, as shownin Fig.- 12. In that figure I have shown a socket 5 attached bya tack which has pierced the carrying medium 6 and has itsV end upset against a reinforced portion 7 of the socket which vsurrounds the aperture 8 through which the shank 2 passes. A stud 9 is also shown, in Fig. 127 secured to its carrying medium 10 in substantially the same manner as the socket 5.
I am aware of the fact thatfastener members have been attached by tacks .and by tubular rivets but so far as I have been able to ascertain no one has been successful in making a tack of sheet metal and with a sharp point so that it can pierce its own way through cloth, leather, cardboard or the like. I-Ieretofore, the tacks which have been used for attaching buttons, snap fasteners vand the like were of the type commonly called cut tacks having solid Shanks. Those tacks are not adapted to be used as rivets because in many instances the ends are broken when they are upset and 1f the riveting operation kis successful the metal is so weakened that the upset portions will break loose under ordinary strains exerted upon the fastener installations.
Vhen round ended sheet metal rivets are used a hole must be previously formed in the material before the rivet can be inserted.
My sheet metal sharp pointed tack is easy to make and has proved successful against every test when used as a rivet for attaching buttons, fasteners and the like. Many tests have been made on installations similar to,l
those shown in F ig. l2 and the carrying med-iumV tears or cuts loose from the fastening when great stress is exerted without in any way breaking or loosening the shankof the tackfrom its grip on the fastener member.
While there are several ways in which I may accomplish the pointing of my sheet metal tack I have found that the method described above and illustrated in the dra-wings accomplishes the desired result in a very efficient and simple manner. It is particrounded end of the shank and form a sharp pointed portion.
In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.
` GUSTAV JOHNSON.
ularly adapted for quantity production methods. Therefore while I have illustrated and described a preferred embodiment of my invention and a method of producing'the same,I
the amount of material at the end and thereafter closing said aperture and forming the blunt end of said shankinto a-relatively long tapered sharp-pointed portion. f"
2. The methodof forming a sheet 'metal tack having a head, ashank and a sharp point on the end of the shank, which comprises pressing a hollow shank froma sheet metal blank, cutting away a portion of the shank in a plane at an angle to the axis ofthe shank adjacent to its end and thereafter forming the remainder of the materialof said shank adjacent to the cut end intoV a sharp point.'V Y v 3. The method'of forming a sheet Vmetal tack having a head, a shank and a sharp point on the end of the shank, which com` prises.y pressing Y a hollow rounded end shank from a sheet metal blank, cutting away a portion of the shank adjacent to the rounded end in a plane at an angle to the aXis of the shank, and thereafter'press ing the rounded end of theshank into a suitable die by longitudinal approaching movement of 'one toward the other to compress the substantiallyvv
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US2649218A (en) * | 1951-12-19 | 1953-08-18 | Alfred A Timlin | Hydraulic elevating and transport trailer |
US2690605A (en) * | 1951-04-06 | 1954-10-05 | United Carr Fastener Corp | Fastening device |
US4699212A (en) * | 1982-06-18 | 1987-10-13 | Alfa-Laval Thermal Ab | Plate heat exchanger |
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US2690605A (en) * | 1951-04-06 | 1954-10-05 | United Carr Fastener Corp | Fastening device |
US2649218A (en) * | 1951-12-19 | 1953-08-18 | Alfred A Timlin | Hydraulic elevating and transport trailer |
US4699212A (en) * | 1982-06-18 | 1987-10-13 | Alfa-Laval Thermal Ab | Plate heat exchanger |
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