US367334A

US367334A - Walter e

Info

Publication number: US367334A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-07-26
Anticipated expiration: 1904-07-26

Description

(No Model.)

W. B. BENNETT.

METHOD OF ATTAGHING BUTTONS.

N0. 367,334. Patented July 26', 1887.

N, PETERS. Phulmlhhognphar, Washinginn, D-C

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FEIcE.

wALTEa EBENNETT, oEEosToN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR To THE MOR EY BUTTON SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, or sAME PLACE.

METHOD OF ATTACHING'BUTTONS' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,334, dated July 26,1887.

Application filed March 30, 1887. Serial No. 233,005. (1\ o model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER E. BENNETT, of the city of Boston, in the county-of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Method of Attaching Shank-Buttons to Boots, Shoes, and other Fabrics; and I do hereby declare the following to beafull, clear, and exact description of the stitch which secures the button to the fabric and the manner of forming the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to secure shanlcbuttons to boots, shoes, and other fabrics by means of a cord or thread in such a manner as to insure both strength and neat ness, and I attain this result by manipulating the thread, as follows: first drawing a loop of thread through the fabric outside of the button-eye, then forcing said loop through the button-eye and fabric, then drawing another loop of thread through the first loop while under the fabric, then drawing the second loop of thread through the fabric outside the button'eye and throwing it over the body of the button, after which the slack thread under the fabric is pulled with sufficient force to draw the loops snugly through and about the fabric and button-eye, all of which will hereinafter be fully explained.

I will now describe the formation ofmy improved stitch with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Figure lrepresents the first loop of thread drawn through the'fabric outside the button- .a completed stitch.

view of a strip of fabric upon which a few buttons have been secured and then bent C- shaped, so as to clearly show the appearance of my improved stitch upon both sides of the material. I

A represents the fabric upon which the button is secured. Bis the button. 0 is the first or primary loop of thread, and D is the secondary or looking loop.

In securing a button to the fabric I place it upon the material in an inclined position, so that both the body and shank may rest upon the goods, as shown in the drawings' I then pull a loop of thread, 0, through the fabric a short distance outside the button eye, as shown in Fig. 1. I then force said loop through the buttoneye and fabric in the manner shown in'Fig. 2. I then pull the loop back a short distance past the first hole made in the mate'- rial, as shown in Fig. 3. I then pull another loop of thread, D, through loop 0, as shown in Fig. 4, after which I pull loop D through the fabric outside the button-eye in about the same place loop 0 was drawn through, as

shown in Fig. 5, after which I pass loop D over the body of the button, as shown in Fig. 6, the stitch being completed and the button neatly and strongly secured to the fabric by exerting sufficient force upon the thread which is under the material to draw the lattermentioned loop snugly about the two threads which composed the first loop, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, loop 0 having pre- .viously been drawn snugly about the base of loop of thread through the material outside