US326765A - Method of attaching buttons - Google Patents

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JOSEPH MATHISON, OF LYNN, ASSIGNOR TO THE STANDARD BUTTON FASTENING COMPANY, OF

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF ATTACHING BUTTONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,765, dated September 22, 1885. Application filed October 21, 1884. No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH IVIATHISON, of Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain .Improved Method of Attaching Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide an improved method of securing buttons having eyes projecting from the underside of the button to the material on which they are to be used, the invention being chiefly applicable to buttons for boots and shoes.

The invention consists in the improved method which Iwill now proceed to describe.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a partof thisspecification, Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 represent the different steps of the opera tion of securing a button by my improved method. Fig. 6 represents a perspective view of the attached button.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In carrying out my invention I draw through the material a, to which the button is to be attached, and through the eye of the button I), a loop of thread, 2, as shown in Fig. 1. I then bend said loop over and carry it down through the material outside of the eye of the button, as shown in Fig. 2. I next pass the thread from which the loop 2 is formed through said loop at the under side of the material, as shown in Fig. 3, thereby locking the loop. I then draw up a second loop, 3, through the eye of the button, as shown in Fig. 4. The secured loop 3 is then bent over and passed down through the material, as shown in Fig. 5, after which the thread is passed through the loop 3 below the material, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the loop 3 being locked thus like the loop 2. The thread passes on to the point where the next button is to be attached, and there the same operations are repeated. The button it thus securely attached, two loops passing through and outside of the eye of each button.

The described method can be practiced either by hand or by a suitably-organized machine.

It will be understood that the loops are properly drawn down or tightened and not left in the loose condition shown in the drawings. They are shown in this manner for the sake of clearness.

In Fig. 5 the loops 2 and 3 are formed so that when tightened they are substantially in line with each other and with the thread that extends from one button to the next, while in Fig. 6 the loops are formed at about right angles with each other, and at acute angles with the connecting portions of the thread.

I claim The improved method of attaching buttons consisting of drawing aloop of thread through the material and through the eye of the but ton, then drawing said loop down through the material outside the eye, then locking said loop under the material with the thread from which it is formed, then drawing a second loop through the eye of the button, and finally drawing the second loop down through the material outside the eye of the button, and

locking said loop with the thread from which it is formed, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 10th day of October, 1884.

JOSEPH MATHISON. Witnesses:

O. F. BROWN, H. BROWN.

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