US220697A - Improvement in dress-buttons - Google Patents

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R. E. BROOKES. Dress-Buttons.

No. 220,697. Patented Oct. 21, I879.

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.PEfE-RS. PHOTd UT I' kOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D C.

UNITEDSTATE'S PATENT OFFICE.

ROSE E. BROOKES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

-iM PROVEMENT' IN DRESS-BUTTONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 220,697, dated October 21, 1879; application filed a March 22, 1879.

V a dress-button or fastening embodying my invention Fig. 2, a section in the plane of the line 90 m; Fig. 3, a bottom view of the laterally-extended removable shank; Fig. 4, a representation of the removable screw for connecting the shank to the head of the button;

and Fig. 5, a face view of the eye for receiv= ing the head of the shank. I

Like letters of reference indicate like parts. A A represent portions of the goods to which the buttons are applied. B is the head of the button, which has a central opening from face to face, as shown in Fig. 2. G is the shank of the-button. This shank is made separately from the head B, is headed 011 its lower end, as indicated at a, and has the long lateral extensions a a, each about equal in length to the radius of the head B.

D is a headed screw-pin adapted to enter and to be suspended in the central opening of the head B. The lower or threaded part of the pin D is long enough to pass through the goods and enter a female screw in the central part of the upper or inner face of the shank O, as indicated in Fig. 2.

E is the eye to receive the head of the shank O. This eye has acehtral opening, 6, to receive the head a, and'the opening 0 opens into a narrower or contracted opening, 0, large enough to receive the neck of the shank C, but not the head a, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2.

In order to apply these buttons to the goods, the head B is arranged outside and near one edge of the goods, as indicated in Fig. 1. The shank G is arranged on the inner or under face of the goods, andso as to receive the screw or pin D when the latter is passed through the head B. The-screw should then be screwed into the shank, and the shank left at right angles to the edge of the goods. as is clearly shown in Fig. 2, the head B and the shank being thus firmly fastened to the goods.

The eye E is fastened to the other edge of the goods, and arranged with the contracted part of the opening toward the button and directly opposite its shank, as indicated in Fig. 1.

To admit of the eye E being attached to the goods with facility, I deem it best to make in the eye one or more openings, 0 6, large enough to admit a needle, so that the fastening may be done by sewing; but the openings 6" e are not absolutely essential.

To button the goods together, it is only necessary to draw them together and pass the head a through the opening 6, and then release the goods, when the neck of the shank G will pass into the opening 0, and the head a be prevented from being withdrawn until it is pushed back to the opening 0, which may be done in order to unbutton the goods, it being understood thatthe goods, when on the wearer, will be drawn apart sufficiently to draw the neck of the shank into the opening 6, and that theymaybe drawn together sufficiently at any time to be unbuttoned.

The head B may be covered in any suitable vmanner.

I am aware that buttons have heretofore been made with removable headed shanks, and that the latter have been passed through the goods from one side into a head on the other. I am also aware that the shank has heretofore been made in two parts, so as to make a self-fastening button 5 but in none of these cases, so far as I am aware, have the shanks had the laterally-extending wings a a, and consequently the edge of the goods to which these buttons were applied would not be held closely to the heads of the buttons, excepting at or near the necks of the shanks.

As I use, by preference, a very slender screw, it is unnecessary to make button-holes in the goods even for receiving the shank. An opening for that purpose may be made either by the screw itself or by an ordinary eyelet-punch. p

In using ordinary hooks and eyes, the edge of the goods is liable to be drawn up or to be prevented from lying down smoothly.

I am aware that self-fastening buttons have heretofore been made with a view of avoiding some of the objectionable features resulting from the use of hooks and eyes, and for preextensions or wings a a, and of a shank-fastveutin g the injury to goods resulting from the ener, forming a neck between the head or body practice of making button-holes for receiving B and the extensions 0/ a, all adapted for arthe heads of the buttons, and I do not here inran gemeiit together and for co-operation with tend to claim such broadly; but, an eye for receiving and engaging the head of Having thus described my invention, what I the shank removably, substantially as and for claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters the purposes specified.

Patent, is- ROSE EMMA BROOKES.

A button or fastening consisting of the Witnesses:

head B and of the removable shank O, headed F. F. WARNER,

on its lower end, and provided with the lateral H. U. BALLARD.

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