US2701400A

US2701400A - Fabric covered button

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Publication number: US2701400A
Application number: US181803A
Authority: US
Inventors: Sonderby Aage
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1950-08-28
Filing date: 1950-08-28
Publication date: 1955-02-08
Anticipated expiration: 1972-02-08

Description

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2 JGZ J 1f 1f e INVENTOR @aye 5071 ery ATTORNEY United States Patent O FABRIC COVERED BUTTON Aage Snderby, Oslo, Norway, assignor to Ole Olsen Bull, Oslo County, Norway Application August 28, 1950, Serial No. 181,803

2 Claims. (Cl. 24113) This invention relates to fabric-covered buttons, and one object thereof is to provide a button basically consisting of only two elements of different natures, one of which may be adorned at the will of the user, and is adapted to be essentially manually separably assembled with the other elements through a particular reaction therebetween to form a circumferential separable joint.

Another object of the invention is to reduce to a minimum the separation of the elements during the normal act of bnttoning and unbuttoning a garment carrying the buttons while still possessing the advantage of the separable joints therebetween.

A button within this invention consists of an outer member in the form of a ring, and a unitary inner member, disk-like in form having a diameter corresponding in form and size to that of the said ring, adapted to be sewn to a garment, one of said members having a stiff nature, and the other having an elastic nature, the edge of one member having a circumferential groove therein. and the circumferential edge of the other member formed to fit said groove, the internal diameter of said ring permitting the said inner member to be passed into and removed from said ring through either side thereof, as hereinafter more particularly explained.

Fig. l is a side elevation of the preferred form of the button, partly in section.

Fig. 2 is a front or top view of the button.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but showing a modified form of inner circumference of the ring and a modified form of the outer circumference of the inner membe".

In the drawings like characters of reference refer to the same parts.

The numeral 1 designates the disk-like unitary inner member of the button made of elastic material such as rubber or rubber compound, and the numeral 1d designates a concave groove formed in the outer circumferential edge of this member. The character 1a designates the convex form of the inner edge of the unattached ring 2, which is made of suitable non-elastic material such as wood or suitable plastic material. This ring has an internal diameter providing an unobstructed passage through the ring so that the member 1 which has a diameter corresponding in form and size to that of the said ring may be readily passed into and out of the ring through either side of the ring.

lf a fabric covering 3 is desired to be used with this button the top or outer side of the button will be made convex in form.

To assemble the preferred form of button with a fabric covering, the ring 2 is held in horizontal position and then the member 1, with the fabric draped thereover with the fringe le thereof extending below the groove 1d, is passed into the ring through the under side thereof. This movement will deflect the fabric-covered upper 1in 1c of the groove circumferentially and downwardly longitudinally of the button as it is passed through the ring in contact with the convex inner edge 1a of the ring 2, thus stretching the fabric and bringing it closely over the Whole surface of the member 1 until the middle of the groove registers with the convex edge of the ring thus securely clamping the fringe 1e of the fabric in place. Obviously during this seating operation the lower lip 1f of the groove in the member 1 will be displaced chiely by the thickness of said fringe as the member Fice 1 is finally coupled to the ring. Thus it will be seen that the lips of the groove 1d are displaced to jointly function to a common end but to a different degree during the placing of the inner member in position within the ring to the formation of a separable joint that will firmly hold the two members together whether a fabric covering be used or not.

In the modified form of button shown in Fig. 3 with a fabric covering 3 thereover, the ring 2 is made of material suiciently elastic to permit the internal diameter thereof to be circumferentially expanded, and the inner side or edge 2a thereof is provided with a concave groove. The outer circumferential edge 1b of the member 1 is convex in form. In this form of this member it is made of nonelastic material of any suitable kind.

As the member 1' is being passed into the ring 2 the apex of the convex edge 1b covered by the fringe of the fabric, if used, will contact the annular lip 1g of the ring 2 through the fabric and circumferentially radially stretch said ring until this convex edge has become fully seated in the concave edge or rim of said ring. During this seating operation the fabric covering, if used, will have been evenly stretched over the member 1 and its fringe clamped in place.

The disk-like middle member of this button may be adorned in any suitable manner not necessarily of the nature of a fabric, and hence the top of the middle may be at and the button marketed without a fabric coverlng.

Both forms of the inner member of the button are provided with a stem at the inner side thereof through which is formed a hole 4 for the thread.

In the preferred form of the member 1 the lips 1c and 1f are substantially in alignment longitudinally of the button, and hence their engagement with the ring 2 will offer resistance to any force brought into play during the bnttoning and unbuttoning of a garment tending to displace the ring. Likewise in the alternative form the lips 1j and 1g of the groove in the ring 2 are in the same relative positions as the lips 1c and 1f to the longitudinal axis of the button and will coact with the convex edge of the member 1 for the same purpose.

I claim:

1. A separable button framework adapted to be sewn to a garment and surfaced with a changeable fabric facing including an inner resilient disc having a uniformly curved circumferential edge portion with axially aligned opposite lip edges and provided with an integral convex surface on one side and a perforated fastening stem on the opposite side, the said convex surface and the said perforated fastening stem being separated by the said uniformly curved circumferential edge portion, and a non-resilient outer ring member having its inner diameter substantially of the same diameter as the said circumferential edge portion and having an inner face curvature uniformly tting against the said curved circumferential edge portion of said inner disc and removable from either side of said disc, the inner peripheral face of said ring further being of the same thickness as said circumferential edge portion.

2. A separable button framework as claimed in claim 1 provided with a fabric covering on said convex surface and clamped between the said uniformly curved circumferential edge portion of said inner disc and the inner face curvature of said non-resilient outer ring member.

References Cited in the le of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,056,020 Graham Mar. 18, 1913 1,124,540 Simmons Ian. 12, 1915 1,164,460 Bradley Dec. 14, 1915 1,399,730 Abe Dec. 13, 1921 FOREIGN PATENTS 206,509 Germany Feb. 4, 1909 384,018 France Ian. 23, 1908 821,447 France Aug. 23, 1937