US296216A

US296216A - Button

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Publication number: US296216A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-04-01
Anticipated expiration: 1901-04-01

Description

(No Model.)

I. G; PLATT.

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PATENT BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,216, dated April 1, 1884.

Application mea March 10,1883. (No model.)

. iVaterbury, New Haven county, State of Connecticut, have invented a. new and useful Improvement in Buttons; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being `had to the accompanying sheet of drawings,

forming part of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of animprovement in buttons, and the invention consists in a button with an eyelet loosely iitted to the hub of the button, and in combination with a rivet, whereby the button is secured to the garment.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure l is a cross-section of luy-button with eyelet attached. Fig. 2 is aside view oi' the rivet. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of button and eyelet and rivet, showing the manner of se curing thebutton to the garment.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several gures.

This invention relates, particularly, to that class of buttons which are designed to be secured to the garment by a metallic fastening or rivet. An objection found to exist in buttons of this4 character is the rigid attachment of thebutton, which contines the button tightly in contact with the fabric to which it is at tached, tending to eut the fabric under some circumstances. Then, again, in buttons with metallic fastenings, the rigidity of the button to its fastening device renders it difficult to button and unbutton the garment.

To avoid these objections, and make a better and cheaper button than those of ordinary manufacture, I construct the head A of my button of any desired size and from any suitable material, forming on its back a hub, o, and perforate this hub with a circular hole. Into this hole b is inserted an eyelet, C, the eyelet having aange, c, formed on one of its ends, and its other end, which protrudes through the opening, is turned over or upset around the inner edge of that opening, so that the eyelet is permanently' fixed within the hub of the button; but since it is somewhat smaller in diameter than the orifice in the hub the button can free-ly revolve on the eyelet, and also bc moved `up and down somewhat on it,

be tubular or not, as desiredfpreferably, however, tubular in form-with a. closed end. The rivet having been passed through the garment to which it is intended to secure the button, its shank e protrudes, and on this protruding shank is placed the eyelet C, the iiange c of the eyelet resting against the surface ofthe garment. The end of the rivet then being upset within thedepression of the hub over the upset end of the eyelet, the button, without further operation, is iixedin place on the garment, but while it is in this way securely iiXed to the fabric of the garment, still, since the button proper or its head is enabled to revolve and have lateral play on the eyelet C, the but ton can be with greater facility buttoned and unbuttoned, in connection with a button-hole when in use, than would be the case if its connection with the rivet was rigid, and, besides, the button is enabled to turn easily and accommodate itself to the many changes of position due to the flexible character of the material to which the button is secured.

In forming the hub of the button it is preferably drawn from the head of the button, so that the inner surface of this hub forms a depression or countersink, which not only receives the upset end ofthe eyelet within it, but also the upset end of the rivets G, leaving the face of the buttonhead with a iinished appearance, without any j agged or rough or projecting parts to interfere with the smooth working of the button in and out of the but ton-hole.

The button-head may be made from a single piece of metal, with its edge turned over against itself 5 or it may have any other construction that taste or expediency can suggest.

Ii', under some circumstances, it should be desired to use the button and its parts hereinbefore described so that they shall be rigidly instead of adj ustably attached to the garment, the construction of my button will readily admit of such rigid attachment, for it is only necessary in such a ease to upset the eyelet C within the hub of the button to a greater de- ICO l. A button constructed with an eyeletv loosely secured Within the hub of the button, in combination with a rivet within the eyelet, as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination, with a button-head constructed with a counter'sunk perforated hub, of an eyelet loosely secured therein, and a hollovsr rivet upset in the eyelet, as and for 2o the purpose described.

8. The button-head constructed with afrecessed hub, combined with an eyelet upset Within said hub, and having a ange formed ou its outer end, and a rivet With its end up- 25 set over the upset end of the eyelet and Within the recessed hub, as and for the purpose described.

IRVING G. PLATT. Vitnesses:

WM. S. PLATT, O. A. PLATT.