US230196A - Glove-buttoner - Google Patents

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(No Model) J. W. PARTRIDGE. Glove Buttoner.

No. 230,196. Patented July 20,1880.

N-PETERS, PHOTO-LITNOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D C NITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JOHN W. PARTRIDGE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GLOVE-BUTTONERQ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,196, dated July 20, 1880. I

I Application filed June 9, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. PARTRIDGE, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Glove-Buttoners, of which the following is a specification.

This improvement relates to that class of glove-buttoners known as double glove-buttoners-t'. 6., those having two loops adapted for buttoning purposes; and the nature and objects of theimprovement are fully described below.

In theaccom pan yin g drawin gs,in which similar letters ofv reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a View of my improved glove-buttoner. Fig. 2 is a "iew of the same with the buttoning loops spread by pressing the thumb and finger upon the ball and central loop.

The glove-buttoner consists of a ball, a, aml a single piece of wire, whose free ends are secured in said ball. This wire is bent, as shown in the drawings, to form two buttoning-loops, b b, and the small central loop, 0, all of the shape shown.

The central support, a, may be a ball, as shown, or it may vary somewhat from a perfectly spherical shape, but must be capable of holding securely the ends of the wire, and may be ornamented in any manner.

The central loop, 0, mayhave a safety-chain attached to it.

By means of the central loop, 0, and the crossing-wires, which, crossing at x and a,

form a diamond-shaped central opening, a most excellent spring is provided, so that when the buttoning-loops bl) are desired to be enlarged the thumb and finger may be placed upon the ball a and loop 0, as in Fi 2, which are thus pressed together, guided by the crossing wires, and the buttoning-loops spread to receive a large button. Of course, asmall button requires little or no enlarge ment of the loops.

By means ofthe peculiar shape of this buttoner, and especially on account of the wire crossing and bracing atx' 3 great stiffness and strength are secured even in a line wire. These are important advantages in a glovebuttoner, where it is desirable to use as fine wire as possible.

The simplicity of the device allows it to be made at slight expense.

Having thus fully described my improvement, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The hereinbefore-descri bed improved double glove-buttoner, constructed of a piece of wire whose free ends are secured in the ball a and bent, as shown and described, to form the buttoning-loops b and I), and central elastic or spring portion, for the purposes set forth.

J OHN W. PARTRIDGE.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, GEORGE V. MALLON.

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