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S. MOORE.

. SLEEVE OR OTHER BUTTON. N 254,035. Patented Feb.21.1882.

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PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL MOORE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND,

BUFFINGTON, OF SAME PLACE.

SLEEVE OR OTHER BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,035, dated February 21, 1882. Application filed June 13, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, SAMUEL MOORE, of the city and county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sleeve and other Buttons; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to that class of buttons in which the shoe is pivoted to the post so spring is employed to retain said shoe in a plane parallel with the button-head after the button is applied, and also in a position parallel, or nearlyso, with the post when the shoe is being inserted or the button removed.

My improvement consists in pivoting the shoe upon one side of the post, locating and inclosing the spring in the button-head, and connecting said spring to the shoe by means of a link, and pivoting said link to the shoe in or near a plane passing through the longitudinal axis of the post, whereby the shoe is more securely retainedin position than in other buttons of this class.

Referring to the drawings, Figures 1 and 2 represent a sleeve-button embodying my improvement with the shoe in difterent positions,

and showing the tension-line of the spring upon the shoe. Fig. 3 shows a horizontal section through the button-head. Fig. 4 represents the button in partial vertical section, the view being at right angles to those in Figs. 1 and 2; and Figs. 5 and 6 show details of the parts.

A is the button-head. B is the post. 0 is the shoe. D is the spring, and E is the link connecting the spring with the shoe.

The post B is rigidly secured to the lower or under plate, A, of the button head, which plate is provided with a perforation, a, to allow thelink E to pass into the head and connect with the spring, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

The spring D is bent in the arc of a circle, and is loosely mounted in the button-head, between the upper and lower plates thereof, as shown in Fig. 4:-

The link E passes around the spring, depends therefrom, as shown in Fig. 5, and passes link, the said disk 0 is down through the post and into the shoe, the post being provided with a groove, 1), Figs. 4 and 5, to accommodate the link.

The shoe 0 is preferably composed of an outer shell, G, and two disks, 0 0 located therein. The disk G' is provided with recesses c, which, when the parts are combined, engage lugs or pivots b b,located upon one side of the post B and a little below its end, and thereby hinge the shoe to the post.

In order that the pivoted end of the post may be conveniently connected with the disk 0 and to allow of the movement of the link E when the shoe is turned, the said disk is cut away at c, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, and to allow the link to pass through the disk 0 and to accommodate the proper movement of said provided with a slot, 0 The disks C O are preferably punched from sheet metal in one piece, as shown in Fig. 6, and then, after the post has been connected with the disk 0 bent into the form shown in Fig. 5, with the disk G underlying the disk 0 These disks, however, may be separate pieces, if desired.

The link E is pivoted to the shoe by a pin, F, which bears upon the under side of the disk 0 and en gages shoulders 0 thereon, the said shoulders preventing any lateral movement of the lower end of the link with relation to said disk when the shoe is turned on the post.

As will be seen by an examination of Figs. 1 and 2, the line of tension of the spring upon the shoe is such as to hold the shoe in the respective positions shown. In-turning the shoe from the position shown in Fig. lto that shown in Fig. 2 the tension of the springis increased during the first half of said movement. The liability of an accidental displacement of the shoe from the position shown in Fig. 1, therefore, is materially reduced.

Although I prefer to employ the disk 0 yet the same may be dispensed with and the pin F, be secured to the disk (J by solder, or be clamped thereto by the shell G. Instead, also, of providing the post B with the groove 1), the said post may be bifurcated or made in two parts, each of which shall be supplied with a pivotal member, I).

The shoe may be secured to the post by piv- ASSIGNOR TO FRANK ots, hinges, or any form of fastening that socures a fixed fulcrum on or near the end of the post, on which the shoe can turn, and the link may be attached to the shoe at any point such that the changing of the position of the shoe from parallel with to perpendicular to the button shall carry the line of tension from one to the other side of the fulcrum. The post may also be slotted on both sides or made of parallel oblong pillars, with the shoe mounted at both ends on trunnionsin cheeks, so it will turn two ways and be held on either side of the post at right angles to the button.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A sleeve or other button with a shoe fastened to and turning on the end of a hollow post, a. spring-actuated link attached to said shoe running through said post and the bottom plate of the button to a spring located in said button, the post being rigidly attached to the bottom plate and slotted its whole length, with the link so attached to shoe at one side of the fulcrum of same on the post that the tension of the spring is made to keep the shoe in its respective positions, substantially as herein described.

2. The combination, with a button-head having a perforated plate, A, and a post, 13, secured thereto and provided with a groove, b, and pivots b I), of a spring, D, located in the button-head, alink, E, connected to said spring, and a shoe provided with a disk, 0 pivoted, as described, to the post and to the link.

3. The combination, as before set forth, with a button-head having a perforated plate, A, and a post, B,-secured thereto and provided with a groove, 1), and pivots b b, located as described, of a spring, D, located in the button-head, a link, E, connected to said spring, and a shoe composed of a shell, 0, a disk, 0 and a disk, 0, and pivoted, as described, to the post and to the link.

SAML. MOORE.

Witnesses:

S. S. LAPHAM, A. H. HARTWELL.

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