US352270A

US352270A - Button

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Publication number: US352270A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-11-09
Anticipated expiration: 1903-11-09

Description

1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MADISON D. SHIPMAN, OF DE KALB, ILLINOIS.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,270, dated November 9, 1886.

Application filed January 27, 1885. Serial No. 154.152. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 4

Be it known that I, ll/IADISON D. SHIPMAN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at De Kalb, in the county of De Kalb and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of

groove or recess in the stud; and the invention consists in the peculiar arrangement and construction and combinations of parts hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

The accompanying drawings show my improvement on an enlarged scale, the better to show the parts.

In said drawings, Figure 1 isa vertical central section of my button in position for use. Fig. 2 is a reversed plan of the cap of the button and its tube. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the same before its attachment. Fig. 4 is a section of the stud before its attachment. Fig. 5 is a section of an eyelet used for fastening the stud. Fig- 6 is a section of a washer for fastening the button. Fig. 7 is a modification of the mode of fastening the stud.

A represents the cap which forms substan tially the top of the button proper, and isprovided with a central tube, B, said cap and tube being struck up in one piece, and preferably having the tube formed thickest near its junction with the cap at the point where a round aperture or a slot, 0, is formed, through which passes one end of a spring, D, coiled roundinside the cap,which end catches into an annular groove in a stud,E. At F is shown a J shows an eyelet which is Having thus described all the parts, I will now proceed to describe the mode of uniting the same to the material. I

In securing the stud a holeis made through the material in the usual manner,and at'tenthe I stud E is passed through it the eyelet Jis slipped over the shank of the stud, and is then pressed down by a suitable punch or other device,and

'when the lower part of the eyelet strikes the enlargement I it is forced open and spreads, as shown in Fig. 1, until it extends outward under the rim h, which by the pressure of the punch is flattened down upon the lower part of the eyelet, and thus the stud is securely fastened in place.

To secure the button top A the tube B is passed through a hole in the material, and a washer, if one is used, is placed on the lower end of the same, when the force of a punch or other suitable instrument will clinch the lower part ofthe tube and spread it, as shown, and firmly secure the button top or cap to the material.

When in use,it is only necessary to press the button down over the stud, when the latter will enter the tube, and its point will push back the end of the spring D, which, when it reacts, will enter the annular groove in the stud, and thus the button and stud 'will be securely fastened together against) any ordinary strain. A sudden pull, however, in the proper direction will easily separate the button from the stud, and thus the glove or other object to which the stud and button are attached may be fastened or unfastened with the greatest ease. I

Instead of making. the stud, base, and the rim all in one piece, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4, the stud may have a base of comparatively small diameter, and a cap, L, (see Fig. 7,) with an overturned flange or rim formed on its periphery, and the whole may be united by pressingon the eyelet, as shown in said Fig. 7

It is of course obvious that the studs may be made solid or hollow,as desired; but Iprefer them made hollow, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4, and where I refer to studs in the following claims I meanto include solid'as well as holwhich together constitute a whole piece in which one portion, as the cap A, is to be secured to the fabric or material,while the other portion, as the tube B, serves as a connected and ready means for clinching the first-named portion to the material.

When the cap and tube are made separately, as has been proposed, and the stud is pushed into the tube, there is a tendency to displace the tube,and unless it is very strongly fastened below, it will in course of time be- I come loosened and be forced upward, and thus be made useless. This will not occur with mine, and, moreover,with my construction the cap and tube may be used as a shirtstud without being fastened to the cloth by leaving off the fastening-washers and simply using the parts shown in Figs. 3 and 4. If the corre sponding parts in those buttons having the cap and tube made separately were used in this way, said cap and tube would separate, and

the button thus become useless. The other advantageous results obtained are, that the cost of producing the single pieces A B will be very much less than that of separate caps and tubes, and the work and expense of assembling the separate pieces are wholly obviated, which is of great importance; and, further, themaking of the button-top proper and tube to compose outward the base of the eyelet under spurs,

which the point of the spring catches,substanwhich spurs are obviously the equivalent of the flange h shown in this application, when used in connection with the enlargement and 5 eyelet before referred to, and as covered in claim 4 in this specification.

\Vhat I claim as new is- 1. In a separable button,the hollow cap and tube A B,formed integral,the hollow cap portion being the button-top proper, and the tube portion being the means for uniting the connected button-top with the fabric or a piece on the fabric by clinching,substantially as and e for the purpose set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, aseparablebntton consisting of a hollow cap anda tube both formed in one piece, a spring having its point projecting through the tube, the cap being adapted to receive and hold the spring and the tube having a hole to receive the point of the same, and a slip-stud provided with an annular groove or notch, into tially as described.

3. In a separable button, a tube perforated at its side to receive the spring and made of increased thickness around the tube near the perforation, substantially as and for the purpose specified. 7o

4. A stud having a base provided with an inwardly-turned flange and an enlargement near the junction of the stud and base, constructed to deflect the fastening-eyelet toward the flange and under the same, substantially as described. In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses this 24th day of January, 1885.

MADISON D. SHIPM AN.

Witnesses:

H. K. HELMER, SAMUEL E. Beam.