US312571A

US312571A - Albert g

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Publication number: US312571A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-02-17
Anticipated expiration: 1902-02-17

Description

(No Model.)

A. G. MEAD & E. F.5PIBRGE.

Y SPRINGSTUD FOR GLOVES, @20. 1

110.312.571. Patented Peb. 17,1885.

UNITED STATES 4 PATENT OFFICE. I

ALBERT G. MEAD AND EEWIN F. PIERCE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO MILTON A. KENT, OF SAME PLACE.

SPRING-STUD FOR GLOVES, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,571, dated February 17, 1885.

Application filed May 26, 1884. (No model.)

Z' 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALBERT G. MEAD and EDWIN F. PIERCE, of Boston, county of vSuffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Spring-Studs for Gloves, duc., of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts. f

Our invention consists in a stud-such as hereinafter described-struck from sheet metal, the same being strengthened by corrugating, and being adapted to co-operate with an eyelet or a button-head to form a fastening device. The top of the stud is enlarged to form a head, and the shank of the stud below the head is contracted to form a neck for the re ception of the eyelet or button-head.

Figure l represents a blank of suitable shape for the production of one of our improved spring-studs, the blank having been corrugated to form the spring-arms and to stiffen the shank, as will be described; Fig. 2, a section of Fig. 1 on the dotted line a: m. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the completed stud; Fig. 4, a vertical cross-section ofthe completed stud, formed by bending the arms of the blank upward; Fig. 5, a vertical longitudinal section of the spring-stud attached to a part of a glove, or it may be a piece of fabric, leather, or other material. Fig. Grepresents in plan the stud holding or fastening plate.`

The metal blank shown in Fig. 1 is composed of a base, a, and two laterally-extended arms, b b', the shank having at its ends holes d, for the reception of the prongs e of the stud holding or fastening plate f, as represented in Fig. 5, to confine the stud to the material g of the glove or other article.

The metal blank, by means of a suitable die, has its base ct and arms b b shaped as represented in Figs. l and 2, wherein it will be noticed that the base a is corrugated centrally inthe direction of its length, and that each arm is depressed centrally from the base outward, and left of such shape as to constitute one half of a hollow-headed `stud when the said arms are bent upward, as in dotted lines, Fig. 2, and by referring to Fig. 4,where one part of the completed fastening is shown in vertical cross-section, it will be noticed that Athe partial sphere of the arm b is made to somewhat overlap the partial sphere of the arm b, such construction obviating leaving a slit or gap in the top of the completed stud; and in said Fig. 4 it will also be noticed that the base is curved upwardly, thus giving not only great stiffness to the base, but also enabling it to act as a stop and support for the arms near the base of the neck a, when the upper part of the stud, formed by-bending and bringing the two arms b b nearly together, is being acted upon by the eyelet h or button-head m, to be described. The parts of the arms b b', from the base or narrowest part of the neck a to the point wh ere the arms are bent upward from the longitudinally-corrugated base, form springs to permit the upper parts of the arms, Fig. 4, to move toward each other for a limited distance and then spring apart. The ends of the base are extended laterally to form feet 4, which aid in forming a firm rest or support for the same upon the glove or other article. This spring-stud is adapted to be engaged by an eylet or hollow button made of usual construction.

We claiml. A spring-stud composed of arms b b', bent up from a base corrugated in the direction of its length and at right angles to the length of the said arms, the latter beingrcorrugated or shaped to form each one half of a headed stud, substantially as shown and described.

2. The spring-stud composed of two arms, b b', struck up from a sheet-metal base, the said arms being corrugated or bent to form each one half ofthe neck and head of a stud, one of the arms overlappingthe other at the top or head of the stud, substantially as described.

3. The spring-stud composed of corrugated arms b b', upturned from a corrugated sheetmetal base, a, to form a head and contracted neck below it, combined with a fasteningplate, and with an eyeiet or button-head adapted to be slipped down over the head of and upon the neck of the spring-stud, the 5 base having feet 4, all substantially as de- Witnesses:

scribed. l G. W. GREGORY,

In testimony whereof we have signed our B. J. NOYEs.

names to this specicabion in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

' ALBERT G. MEAD. EDWIN F. PIERCE.