US293233A

US293233A - Button-fastener

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Publication number: US293233A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-02-12
Anticipated expiration: 1901-02-12

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

CHARLES H. EGGLESTON, OF 'MARSHALL ASSIGN OR 'OF OND-HALF TO EDWARD O. FLY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

BUTToNFAsTENER- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,233, dated February 12, 1884.

` i Application filed June 29, 1883.

(No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern Be it known that I, GnARLns H. EGG-Lnsl TON, a citizen of the United States, residing lat the city of Marshall, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented a ,new and useful Shoe-Button Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in rnetallic fasteners'for attaching buttons to leather or other substances; and the objects of my invention are, first, to so construct the fastener that the strain will be'borne by the fasteningprongs equally; and, second, to construct the fastener and button together, so that the fastener cannot become detached from the button. I attain these objects by means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan View of the fasteningprongs as cut from the metal and before they arebent into the form they assume when attached to the eye of the button. Fig. 2 is an end view of the fastener vwith the button attached, and Fig. 3 is a side view of the same with the button attached.

Similar letters referto similar parts through- -out the several views.

In Fig. 1 the form of the fastener before bent is clearly shown. It may be cut from a piece of sheet metal, and have' four prongs, a c a a. The center between the prongs is contracted, asshown at B, in order to forni a staple for holding the eye of the button.

u A shows 'the button having an eye, c, which is attached t the button in any suitable manner. The points c a on each end of the blank may be slightly bent toward each other, so that when the prongs are forced through the leather they may the more easily be bent down,

,fastener cannot become detached.

in the form shown in Fig. l, the blank designed to form the button-eye is placed under and bent around the narrow neck B, until the ends4 ofthe eyeblank meet, and so closely that the Y The fastener- 2 4and 3; or the blank may be bent before the eye is attached to the button, if found prefe'ra` ble. Then the fastener is attached and the button completed with the eye in place, tl1e The two sets of prongs may be opposite each other, as shown in Fig. l, or may be so placed that when bent they will fold by each other, if preferred.

I am aware that metallic fastenings for shoe- 4buttons have been in use prior to my invention, and I do not broadly claim the same; but I am .not aware that any buttoirfastener has ever been made with a contracted neck between the sets of prongs to form a staple to receive the eye of the button, so that the attachment is equally strong on each side of the button-eye; nor am I aware of any button-fastener in use so constructed that the fastener is permanently attached to the button, the eye be ing attached to the fastener before the eye is attached to the button.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to have invented, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with the bntton-fastener cHARLEs II. ncennsron.`

Witnesses GnARLEs E. GILL, OLIVER O. PERRIN.