US368024A

US368024A - James b

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Publication number: US368024A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-08-09
Anticipated expiration: 1904-08-09

Description

(No Model.)

J. B. SMITH.

' GLOVE 0R SHOE BUTTONER.

No. 368,024. I Patented Aug. 9, 1887.

WTTNESSES, I E T? UNITED STATES JAMEs B. SMITH,

on NEW YORK, N. Y., AssIeNon TO THE srANDAnD PENCIL COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

GLOVE oa'sHoE BUTTONER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,024, dated August 9, 1887.

Serial No. 229,572. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMEs B. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pocket Glove or Shoe Buttoners, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full and complete specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a neat, convenient, and compact pocket glove or shoe buttoner.

My invention consists in combining a closed wire loop glove or shoe buttoner of the form shown with a cylindrical case open at the ends only, into which it can be slid when not in use. A solid head is secured to the end of the case, and this isprovided with notches through which the wire sides' of the but-toning-loop pass, and these notches also serve the purpose ofstrengthening and steadying the loop when in use. The case may contain a sliding penoil, as shown.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the device with both pencil and glove-buttoner slid into the case. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the buttoning-hook fully withdrawn and the pencil partly withdrawn. Fig. 3 is a rear end view of the cylindrical body of the case. Figs. 4 and 5 are views of opposite sides of the buttoning-loop when removed from the case.

' Fig. 6 is a View of the inner body portion. Fig.

7 is a view of the buttoner closed when constructed without the pencil.

40 f, Fig. 6.

a is a plain thin tubular case flanged over inwardly at the rear end and provided with the diametrically-opposite notches a a.

I) is a globular cap having grooves upon opposite sides. One of these grooves is shown at To 1) is soldered a tube, 1), in which a spiral slot, h, is out. A pin, i, set in the leadholder Z, works in this sloth, and also in a longitudinal slot in the smaller tube, in, which turns inside of I), and itself contains the leadholder. The further description of these parts is, however, unnecessary, as they are the same as those usually employed in the construction of propelling-pencils.

c is a tip.

d is the button hook or, more properly, loop, to which is soldered at the open end a slotted hollow cylindrical piece, e, of such diameter as to closely fit the inside of the outer case. This has a slot, 6, extending completely through it, and one or more slips or saw-cuts,e,to renderitmore elastic. The metal of this cylindrical end is thin enough to'permit it to slide freely over the parts of the propelling-pencil, and yet it has sufficient elasticity to hold it in any position, either in or out, and to make the sliding motion smooth and steady.

I am aware that combinations of a buttonhook and a pencil have been made, that but tonhooks sliding into a case have been in use, and that even the combination of a loop glovebuttoner with a pocket propelling-pencil in which the wire forming the loop slid into the cylindrical case by slots in that case has been in use, and I therefore do not claim, broadly, the combination of a propelling-pencil with an adjustable buttoner; but What I do. claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is A The combination of the cylindrical case a, open at the end and provided with the notched head I) and the notches a, and the elastic wire loop (I, of the form shown and having the cylindrical end a, all constructed and operating substantially asshown.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of February, 1887.

JAMES B. SMITH.

Vitnesses: a

W. C. MAINLAND, GEO. H. SONNEBORN.