US1931326A

US1931326A - Collar button

Info

Publication number: US1931326A
Application number: US636533A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles G Raible
Original assignee: Fanner Manufacturing Co
Current assignee: Fanner Manufacturing Co
Priority date: 1932-10-06
Filing date: 1932-10-06
Publication date: 1933-10-17
Anticipated expiration: 1950-10-17

Description

C. G. RAIBLE Oct. 17, 1933.

COLLAR BUTTON Filed 001:. 6, 1932 INVENTOR. Giar/e: 6. PazZ/e ATTORNEY? Patented Oct. 17, 1933 COLLAR BUTTON Charles G.Raible, Shaker Heights, Ohio, as signor' to ,The Farmer Manufacturing Com- 7 pany, Cleveland, Ohi ApplicationOctober 6,

Claims.

This invention relates to a collar button or stud as an article of manufacture and toan economical method of forming and finishing the same.

More particularly this is directed to the type of '5 buttons which are used by laundries for fastening the collar bands of shirts together when they are returned to the customer. A necessary qualification of such buttons is that they be exceedingly cheap, so that they can be used in large quantities at very slight cost and thrown away after they have served their purpose. Thus cheapness of manufacture is of the utmost importance and this involves both the use of inexpensive materials and high speed production. At the same time such buttons must fulfill certain definite qualifications, the most important being that they will not mark or stain the edges of the button holes, will not corrode, will not break apart when being inserted into or removed from a stiflly starched collar band, and they must be smooth so as not to injure either the cloth or the fingers. To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, said invention, then, consists of the means hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The annexed drawing and the following description set forth in detail certain structure embodying the invention, such disclosed means constituting, however, but one of various structural forms in which the principle of the invention may be used.

In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved collar button; and Fig. 2 is a view in elevation, showing the head of the button in central section.

In detail my improved collar button comprises a metal disc or base 1 and a shank 2 projecting therefrom. This shank 2 has a bulbous head 3 at one end, so that the entire button is, in general, of conventional appearance. The bottom of the shank is slightly enlarged to fit, very tightly, as shown at 4, through a central hole in the base 1 and its lower end is headed out tightly against the base as at 5, the base being preferably slightly.

dished upward so that the head does not project below the lower outer edge of the base 1.

The material found most satisfactory for this work is strip steel of gauge .020 or thereabouts for forming the head 1 and steel wire for forming the shank 2. The thickness of the strip and the diameter of the wire will of course be adapted to the size of the button. The best results, both for cheapness and for satisfactory work, are obtained by the use of steel, but in order to avoid corrosion it is necessary to coat the steel with o, a corporation of Ohio 1932. Serial No. 636,533

some non-corrosive material. This is preferably done by cadmium plating applied directly to the button.

, Other modes of applying the principle of my invention may be employed instead of the one explained, change being made as regards the structure herein disclosed, provided the means stated by any of the following claims or the equivalent of such stated means be employed.

Itherefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as my invention: e ,7

1. As an article of manufacture, a collar button or the like formed by a thinv metallic disk head of uniform thickness and a shank of solid metal throughout, said shank projecting through and upset within and on one side of said head.

2. As an article of manufacture, a collar button or the like comprising an apertured metallic disc base, a headed shank having an end making a forced fit in the aperture in said disc and upset therebelow. 3. As an article of manufacture, a collar button having a disk shaped base and a shank, the end of the shank protruding through the base, the

protruded end of said shank beinglongitudinally upset and the portionof the shank within the base being-laterally enlarged.

'4. As an article of manufacture, acollar button having aslightly concave base of uniform thickness and a shank of solid metal throughout a bulbous head'on said shank, the'end of the shank remote from said head protruding'through the base, the protruded end of said shankbeing longitudinally upset where passing through the base