US2993250A

US2993250A - Fabric faced button

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Publication number: US2993250A
Application number: US833244A
Authority: US
Inventors: William H Decker
Original assignee: MAXANT BUTTON AND SUPPLY CO
Current assignee: MAXANT BUTTON AND SUPPLY CO
Priority date: 1959-08-12
Filing date: 1959-08-12
Publication date: 1961-07-25
Anticipated expiration: 1978-07-25

Description

July .25, 1961 w. H. DECKER FABRIC FACED BUTTON Filed Aug. 12, 1959 l/VVENTOR cUzllmm H Decker- 2,993,250 FABRIC FA'OED BUTTON William H. Decker, Chicago, Ill., assignor to Maxant Button & Supply Company, a corporation of Illinois Filed Aug. 12, 1959, Ser. No. 833,244 4 Claims. (Cl. 24-113) This invention relates to metal-framed, fabric-faced garment buttons.

With certain types of feminine garment, the desire is for buttons faced with the material from which the garment is made, or from a fabric of selected contrast to the garment material. The types of fabric-faced buttons, obviously, vary, and often are influenced by general conditions in the nation. For example, during a war, buttons, even for feminine garments, take on a military character.

Where feminine garments are custom made by dressmakers or as in-the-home projects, the making of fabricfaced buttons presents quite a problem. Various attempts have been made to provide such dress-makers with the facilities for making on-the-job fabric-faced buttons. However, such facilities as heretofore provided have not been of a sufliciently facile use as to make them widely acceptable.

The main objects of this invention are to provide an improved form of pro-shaped, interfitting, metal parts for the facile forming of fabric-faced garment buttons; to provide an improved form of two pre-shaped interfitting metal parts for making either flat or convex fabric-faced garment buttons; to provide an improved form of preshaped, interfitting metal-frame parts so relatively shaped and dimensioned that with the interposed fabric the two parts are easily assembled and assume an interlocked nested relationship that precludes subsequent separation of the two frame-parts resulting from the normal use of the button; to provide an improved form of two such frame-parts which permit the fabric to be placed around either a flat or a convex or dome-shaped element insertable between the two frame-parts; and to provide an improved form of two pre-shaped frame-parts of this kind of such simple construction as to make them very inexpensive to manufacture, their on-the-job assembly extremely facile, and the finished button highly ornamental and durable.

In the adaptation shown in the accompanying drawmgs: 7

FIGS. 1 and 2 are front and back perspectives respectively of a convex type of fabric-faced button constructed in accordance with this invention;

FIGS. 3 and 4 are similar views of a flat type of fabricfaced garment button;

FIG. 5 is an exploded view of the pre-assembled parts of the button shown in FIGS. 1 and 2;

FIG. 6 is a similar view of the pre-assernbled parts of the button shown in FIGS. 3 and 4;

FIG. 7 is a much-enlarged, exploded, cross-sectional view of the two primary frame-parts used in the formation of either type of button shown in the other figures;

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of the type of a finished button shown in FIGS. 1 and 2; and

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view of the type of button shown in FIGS 3 and 4.

The essential concept of this invention involves two primary parts, a ring and a disk, in the form of a metal stamping with opposed perimetrical flanges of very slightly overlapping diameters which parts upon being pressed into nested relationship with an interposed fabric-covered element, are locked together against separation by any ordinary use to which garment buttons are subject.

An assembled, fabric-faced garment button, embodying the foregoing concept, comprises a ring 11, a disk 12, a

Patented July 25, 1961 piece of fabric 13 and a holding element 14. All of these parts, except the fabric, of course, generally would be either metal stampings or molded parts. However, the flat form of the element 14 might be either metal or molded.

The ring 11 is substantially L-shaped in cross-section having a flat axial or stem part 16 and a more or less flat radial or transverse part 17. These

parts

16 and 17 are formed with integral

perimetrical flanges

18 and 19, respectively. The flange 18 extends inwardly and axially upwardly at an angle of approximately 45 degrees to the plane of the stem part 16. The flange 19, likewise, extends inwardly and axially upward in the same general direction and angle as the flange 18. There thus is formed a circular opening 21 through which the fabric 13 is exposed in the assembled button, as shown in FIGS. 1, 3, 8 and 9.

The disk 12 has a circular depressed portion 22 offset from the central flat portion 23 and terminating in a perimetrical flange 2.4. This flange 24 extends outwardly and axially upward above the plane of the flat portion 23 of the disk 12 at an angle approximately of 45 degrees. A U-shaped wire fastener 26 here is shown secured centrally to the disk 12 in a conventional manner, as for example by having the bent ends of the wire extending through small apertures in the disk 12. For some garments a tuft of cloth might be substituted for the wire fastener.

An important feature of the ring 11 and disk 12 is the relative perimetrical diameters of the flange 18 on the ring 11 and the flange 24 on the disk 12. As FIG. 7 so clearly shows, the perimetrical diameter of the flange 24 is slightly greater than that of the flange 18. As an example, there is here shown approximately about .005 of an inch overlap in the relative perimeters. It is these relative diametrical dimensions that insure the nested interlocking of the disk 12 and ring 11 when the disk 12 is pressed into the ring 11 with the interposed fabric 13 embracing the element 14.

The element 14 may be either convex or dome-shaped, as shown in FIGS. 1, 5 and 8, or flat, as shown in FIGS. 3, 6 and 9. In either case, the perimetrical diameter of the element 14 is less than the inside diameter of the stem part 16 of the ring 11. If desired, the element 14 might be enough less in diameter to permit a piece of fabric 13 to fit around the perimeter of the element 14 and be easily seated in the ring 11 to rest on the flange 19.

Where the element 14 is convex or dome-shaped, the diameter of the dome is less than that of the opening 21 in the ring 11, thus forming a flange 217 on the element 14 which seats on the flange 19 of the ring 11..

A fabric-faced button, framed by a ring 11 and disk 12 of this kind, is made in the following manner:

A circular piece of fabric 13 is cut somewhat larger in diameter than the diameter of the ring 11. This fabric may be folded around the element 14, of either of the forms shown, and set in the ring 11, with the exposed, overlapping edges of the fabric 13 tucked in under and below the ring flange 18. Or the piece of fabric may be placed on the flange 18 and the element 14 superimposed on the fabric and then pressed down into the ring. This will tend to tuck the edge of the fabric between the element 14 and the part 17 of the ring 11. Thereupon in either case the disk 12 then is set on the ring 11, with the perimeter of the flange 24 extending slightly outwardly of the perimeter of the flange 18 with the depressed portion 22 of the disk 12 disposed inwardly below the perimeter of the flange 18. Upon applying a small amount of pressure axially of the disk 12 the flange 24 will yield and allow it to pass below the flange 18. 'Ihereupon, the ring 11 and the disk 12 are locked in nested relationship with the fabric-covered element 14 interposed between the ring and the disk and the fabric 13 exposed through the opening 21 of the ring 11 framed by the flange 19 on the transverse part of the ring 11.

No ordinary use to which the button may be subjected, in wear or in cleansing, can effect a separation of the ring and disk.

Variations and modifications in the details of structure and arrangement of the parts may be resorted to Within the spirit of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A stamped-metal ring and disk for forming a fabricfaced button, the ring being of substantial axial dimension with axially-spaced inwardly-disposed continuousperimeter flanges one of which flanges is directly normal to the ring and of greater Width than the other flange, which is inclined axially away from the one flange, the disk having a flange outwardly inclined from one face of the disk and from its axis and having a continuous perimeter with a diameter just enough greater than the peripheral diameter of the ring other flange whereby upon the disk flange being seated on the ring other flange with the one face of the disk disposed outwardly of the ring the disk is pressureable into the ring to nest the disk flange in transverse contact against the under face of the ring other flange so that the ring and the disk are secured in permanently-locked relationship to retain between the ring and the disk a piece of fabric stretched over a supporting-element with a portion of the fabric exposed outwardly within the ring one flange.

2. A stamped-metal ring and disk for forming a fabricfaced button, the ring being of substantial axial dimension with axially-spaced inwardly-disposed continuousperimeter flanges one of which flanges is directly normal to the ring and of greater width than the other flange, the exposed perimetrical portion of the one flange being turned to form a narrow rim inclined axially-inward toward the other flange which is inclined axially away from the one flange so that the rim and the other flange are disposed substantially parallel, the disk having a flange outwardly inclined from the face of the disk and from its axis and having a continuous perimeter with a diameter just enough greater than the peripheral diameter of the ring other flange whereby upon the disk flange being seated on the ring other flange with the one face of the disk disposed outwardly of the ring the disk is pressureable into the ring to nest the disk flange in transverse contact against the under face of the ring other flange so that the ring and the disk are secured in permanently-locked relationship to retain between the ring and the disk a piece of fabric stretched over a supporting-element with a portion of the fabric exposed outwardly within the ring one flange.

3. A stamped-metal ring, disk and fabric supportingelement for forming a fabric-faced button, the ring being of substantial axial dimension with axially-spaced inwardly-disposed continuous-perimeter flanges one of which flanges is directly normal to the ring and of greater width than the other flange which is inclined axially away from the one flange, the disk having a flange outwardly inclined from one face of the disk and from its axis and having a continuous perimeter with a diameter just enough greater than the peripheral diameter of the ring other flange whereby upon the disk flange being seated on the ring other flange with the one face of the disk dis posed outwardly of the ring the disk is pressureable into the ring to nest the disk flange in transverse contact against the under face of the ring other flange so that the ring and the disk are secured in permanently-locked relationship to retain between the ring and the disk a piece of fabric stretched over the supporting-element with a portion of the fabric exposed outwardly within the ring one flange.

4. A stamped-metal ring, disk and fabric supportingelement for forming a fabric-faced button, the ring being of substantial axial dimension with axially-spaced inwardlydisposed continuous-perimeter flanges one of which flanges is directly normal to the ring and of greater width than the other flange which is inclined axially away from the one flange, the fabric supporting-element being dome-shaped with an external diameter at its base less than the rim of the ring one flange and having a radially-disposed flange of a diameter less than the internal diameter of the ring other flange, the disk having a flange outwardly inclined from one face of the disk and from its axis and having a continuous perimeter with a diameter just enough greater than the peripheral diameter of the ring other flange whereby upon the disk flange being seated on the ring other flange with the one face of the disk disposed outwardly of the ring the disk is pressureable into the ring to nest the disk flange in transverse contact against the under face of the ring other flange so that the ring and the disk are secured in permanently-locked relationship to retain between the ring and the disk a piece of fabric stretched over the supporting-element with a portion of the fabric exposed outwardly within the ring one flange.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Germany July 16, 1953