US360723A - Button-fastening for garments - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

I. NEWMAN.

BUTTON FASTENING FOR GARMENTS.

No. 360,723. Patented Apr. 5, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC NEVMAN, OF NEV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

BUTTON-FASTENING FOR GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part: of Letters Patent No. 360,723, dated April 5, 1887-.

Application filed December 2T, 1886. Serial No. E2-2,536. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC NEwMaN, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inButton-Fastenings for Garments; and I do hereby declare the following, when-taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a face view, the button-stripeonr plete; Fig. 2, a face view of the strip, the buttons removed, showing the eyelets; Fig. 3, a vertical central section through the strip, showing the buttons secured; Fig. 4, a section of one of the buttons, showing the holes as pierced through the button; Fig. 5, a section of the button, showing the holes as through the back of the button without piercing the front.

This invention relates to an improvement in fastenings forgarinents, such as waists, corsets, and like purposes, which are' naturally Vdrawn with considerable tension around the person.

In such garments the strain upon the button is very great, and it is often difficult to bring the button-hole to the button, so as to interlock the two. Again, buttons applied to such garments, the strain is often unequal, at times great upon one button, at other times upon others, and the tendency of the button to detach is very great.

The object of my invention is to so secure a series of buttons in the button-strip that a considerable degree of yielding may be permitted to each button, and yet the buttons normally stand at their place on the strip or garment; and it consists in a button-strip having a series of eyelets introduced therein, and at the points where the buttons are to stand, combined with 4flat buttons having two holes pierced in each, with a tape or cord secured by one end on the reverse side of the buttonstrip and run out through the first eyelet, thence through the two holes in the button and returned, thence through the next eyelet, the button, and returned, and so on through the whole series, and secured to the strip at the opposite end, and whereby each button is free to be drawn from its place on the strip, the cord or tape freely passing out through the button to allow such movement of the button fromits position, as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents the button-strip, or strip to which the buttons are to be attached, and which is to be secured tothe garment or made a part'of it, in the usual manner. Through the strip a series of eyelets, a a, is introduced and fixed, corresponding to the position where the buttons are to stand.

The buttons B are iiat disks, made from any suitable material and pierced with two holes, b Z1. These may be directly through the blank, as indicated in Fig. 4; or they may be through the back portion of the button without piercing the front, as in Fig. 5. Upon the reverse side of the strip a cord or tape, d, is xed to the strip, say as at e, and is run through the iirst eyelet and through the perforations in the button, thence returned to the reverse side and carried to the second eyelet, through that eyelet, thence through the next button, and so on throughout the series, and at the other end of the button-strip the tape or cord is secured,as at f. The tape not being secured to the button-strip at any point between its extremes leaves the tape or cord free from the strip, and so that a button may be drawn from the strip, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 8, to a con'- siderable distance. This drawing of the button enables the person to take the button to the button-hole in the opposite edge or buttonhole strip in the garment. Then, after engaging it, drawing upon theneXt button will return the button so introduced. This permits each button to be drawn from the strip to engage the button-hole, and then as successive buttons are secured all will be brought to place. Thus the buttoning is very greatly facilitated, and, further than this, each button yields to a considerable extent to irregular movements ofthe body, so that while making a secure fastening it is a yielding fastening, contributing materially to the comfort of the wearer.

I am aware that buttons having eyes attached thereto have been applied byinserting the eyes through the material or an eyelet therein, and then running a cord through the successive eyes upon the reverse side. I therefore do not wish to be understood as making claim to such a fastening. Such a fastening .would be useless in a button-strip for corsets and like garI roo ments, because of the eye in the button. The essential feature of my invention is in making thebuttons in the form of a flat disk, sc as to lie upon the outer surface of the garment, and the buttons constructed with perforations in the body, and the strip provided with eyelets at points where thebuttons are to be located, and so that: awcord upon the reverse side of the garment passes out through the eyelet in the garment, thence into one of the perforations of the button and out through the other, thence returned through the same eyelet in the garment and tothe next eyelet and button, so that the button being secured lies flat upon the face side'of the garment, and its security is in fact made upon the face side of the garment, and

not upon the reverse side.

TSA AC NEVMAN.

Y Vitnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, FRED C. EARLE.

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