US328365A

US328365A - Button-setting machine

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Publication number: US328365A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-10-13
Anticipated expiration: 1902-10-13

Description

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J. VINTON.

BUTTON SETTING MACHINE.

Patented Oct. 13,1885.

siren S'rrrrns PATENT OFFICE JOHN ll.) VlN'lUlii, Oil BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE PENIN- SULAR NOVELTY COMPANY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

liiUTTON SETTING MACHINE.

Ei I-ECIPICATXON forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,365, dated October 13, 1885.

Application filed February 24, 1885.

T0 (0 whom 712; may concern.-

Be it known that .11, {ions II. VINTON, of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Button-Setting lllachines, of which the following dcscriptioinin connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings i-cprosentin g like parts.

This invention has :l'or its object to improve the construction of that class of machines represented in United States Patent No. 312,987, dated February 2-1;, i685,especially in the construction of the mechanism to control the passage of the staples and attmilunl buttons, one at a tiine,l'rom the stai ilo-ehute into the guide of the staple-carrier. l have also provided the carrier with a saddle tor the logs of the staple, and with a spring to act aginst the end of the shank or eye of the lu'itton and arrest or hold it midway the said guidr until acted upon by the driver or former. '7

Figure 1, in side elevation partially broken out,rcprcsents a sullicient portion of a buttonsetting apparatus of the class referred to to enable myinvention to he understood, the carrierand driver being shown as descendiug,the driver being just ready to force the staple from the carrier into the material. Fig. 2 is an inside elevation of the carrier alone; Fig. 3, a button and staple attacl1ed,ready to be placed in the staple-guide; Illig. 4-, a dot ail of the driver or 'l'ormcr alone; .l ig. 5, a top view of the staple-holding tube and part 01' the chute. Fig.6 is a detail of the hi cti on device removed, and Fig. 7 is a cross-section of Figs. 1 and 5 in the dotted lines 1 7 The main or stationary Iranie-work A, the anvil c, the horn A, the rod D, its attached arm D the driver mand the carrier, to be referred to, are substantially as represented in the patent referred to.

The staplechutell"s connected with a plate, 1%,attz'tchcd to the i'r; .vork by screws 22.

The slide-bar d, to which the slot-led guide (I attached, the said bar and guide constituting the carrier, is guided in the hearing or box A of the frame-work A, and in the bean ings 57 and 59 ofthe arm I).

The spindle 23, attached to the upper end of the bar (1, is extended through a spiral spring, 21-, then through the hearing or box 59 of the arm D and the friction device 60 thereon, and thence through a spiral spring, 25, above which the spindle is provided with a check-nut, 26, the spring 25 acting normally to lift the carrier, and the spring 2-l to permit it to be depressed in a yielding manner to enable the lower end of the carrier to strike against the material on the anvil in advance of the contact of the lower end of the driver or former with the head or crown of the staple to be driven, the carrier when arrested by the material on the anvil stoppi ng,\\'hile the driver or former continues to descend to drive the staple from the carrier.

in accordance with my invention I have provided the lower end ol' the slide-ba1.(l', within the carrier and opposite the open end of the staple-chute B, with a saddle-piece, 27, astride of which the staple s will land as it leaves the chute B and enters the carrier, the said staple descending in the said carrier with its legs properly dircelinldownward,and with the center of the crown of the staple in the eye of the button I), the staple hanging vertically.

Below the saddle I have provided the slidebar with a button-holding spring or prcsser, 28,which acts against the end of the eycof the button a little below the center of the button, thus checking or holding the button in the slot of the carrier midway thereof, while the latter descends to place its lower end against the materiahand while the driver or former is descending to strike the staple.

The staples 3, having buttons 0 attached, are preferably first fed by hand into a tube, T, which may be readily attached to the upper end of the chute ll in position to let the staplcs pass freely into the staple-chute ii, the said staples, with attached buttons, sliding down the staple-chute until the shank of the button comes in contact with the detent M, pivoted at 3i, and acted upon by a. spring, 32, the latter normally keeping the point of the detent in the slot of the chute 15.

A let-oil, L, is pivoted at 8t on an car, 35, of the plate B a spring, 36, acting on the letofl, normally keeping its point in the slot of the staple-chute below the said detent.

The drawings show but one staple and atiached button as held by the detent, another staple and button having passed the detent and being held by the let-off, while a third 5 staple is shown as within the guide of the staple-carrier, the button being outside the said guide.

The arm I) has an car, 37, provided with a projection, preferably an adjustable screw,

: 38, which, during the descent of the said arm from its position, Fig. l, which is nearly its lowest position, strikes the projection 33 of the let-off L, turns it, and permits the staple held by it and its attached button to slide down the staple-chute; but at this time it will be noticed that the driver 6 is in the carrier and about to drive the staple therefrom, and that the said driver then acts to close the opening through which the staple must pass :0 to enter the carrier from the end of the chute.

Just as the let-off is operated to permit the staple held by it to descend by gravity in the staple-chute, the driver or former 6 acts to drive the staple under it from the carrier in and through the material supported on the anvil a, thus clinching the points of the sta ple.

After the staple has been driven and clinched the arm I) is raised, and with it the 50 driver 0, and the carrier is lifted until the upper end of the guide (I meets the boX or hearing A" of the rigid arm of the frame-work, after which, in the further ascent of the said arm D the spring is compressed, and

55 while the said guide d remains at rest the driver or former is raised sufficiently to uncover the end of the staple-chute B and the entrance into the carrier-guide, and during the yet further ascent of the arm D and the to lug 37 the latter strikes the pivoted block of the detent M, lilting it in the direction of the arrow thereon, but without turning the detent M on its pivot.

In practice the end of the car 37 passes 5 above the portion 30 of the detent M, and when the arm D is again depressed the said ear strikes the block 30 and turns the detent before the screw or projection 38 meets the let-oil" L, such movement of the detent during the descent of the arm D permitting the button held by the detent to descend against the let-oft, which holds the staple and button-eye above it until in the further descent of the arm D the projection 38 strikes the portion 33 of the let-oll', the movement of the latter permitting the staple and button held by it to pass the let-oil and slide down the chute against the driver.

The saddle 27 may be a separate piece, as

53 shown, or be integral with the spring 28.

The tubes T (a number of which are employed with each machine) may be filled and kept ready to be applied to the upper end of the chute 13, a filled tube being applied to 55 the chute whenever necessary. The tube T is slotted from end to end at its lower side,

(see Fig. 7 and has at its ends spring steps or catches it, portions of which normally enter notches in the tubes and act to retain. the staples in the tubes while the latter are being handled.

The spring t has a projecting finger, 58, which as the tube T is applied to the open upper end of the chute I3 rides upon the cam 39 at the upper end of the detent, as in Fig. 1, the said cam lifting the spring and removing its lip or projection 40 from the tube, permitting the staples and buttons to readily pass into the chute, one staple and button being shown by dotted lines.

The friction device 60, made as a slotted block held in place by the bearing 59, may be made to pinch the rod 23 more or less snugly by turning the adjusting device (Shown as a screw, see Figs. 1 and 6.) This friction device may be made to pinch the rod sufficiently close to enable the latter by the I friction device to travel in unison with the arm I) as it rises and falls, so long as the movement of the carrier is not arrested by some device not a part of the said arm D as, for instance, when in the descent of the arm D the lower end of the carrier meets the material 011 the anvil the carrier is stopped, and thereafter the arm I) and the friction device slides down upon therod 23, and it slides upward on the said rod after the carrier, in its upward movement with the said arm Dflstrikes the box A*.

The hinged block 30 prevents the turning of the detent as the driver rises, and obviates accidental forcing of the staple above it and lessens the liability of getting two staples and buttons at one time in the guide.

I claim 1. The chute, the detent, and the let-off, combined with the movable arm, and its ear and screw or projection to act upon and turn the detent and the let-off, substantially as described.

2. In a button-setting apparatus, the staplechute, the bar d, and its attached slotted guide (Z, provided with the saddle astride of which the staple passes as it leaves the chute, combined with. the spring to act upon the eye of the button, substantially as described.

3. In a button-setting apparatus, the staplechute, the bar (1, and its attached slotted guide, combined with the spring attached to said guide, to act upon the eye of the button, substantially as described.

4.. The independent tube T, slotted at its under side, and provided at its ends with catches, combined with the chute, to operate substantially as described.

5. The tube T, slotted at its under side, and provided with the stop or catch t, combined with the chute B, and a cam or projection to lift the stop or catch and permit the passage of fastcnings and buttons from the tube into the chute, substantially as described.

6. In a button-setting machine, the arm D the driver, and the carrier, combined with the the projection to operate the said dete11t,snb-

IO springs

24 and 25, to operate substantially as stantially as described. described. In testimony whereof I have signed my name 7. The arm D", the driver, and the carrier, to this specification in the presence of two sub- 5 combined with the friction device to act against scribing witnesses.

the rod of the carrier, substantially as de- JOHN H. VINTON. scribed. WVitnesses.

8. The chute and the detent provided with G. \V. GREGORY, a hinged or pivoted block, 30, combined with EDWARD O. ELY.