US379529A

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Publication number: US379529A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-03-13
Anticipated expiration: 1905-03-13

Description

(No Model.)

J. COSTELLO.

` BUTTON. No. 379,529. Patented Mar. 1s, 1888..

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NrTnD STATES JOHN COSTELLO, OF ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JAMES F. SIMMS, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,529, dated March 13, 1888.

Application filed July 29, 1887'. Serial No. 245,585. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN COSTELLO, of Attleborough, in the county of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hinged-Shoe Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to a collar, cuii", or sleeve button having a hinged shoe, which may be tilted at an angle to the button-head, for entering` the button in or removing it from a button-hole, and which may be placed parallel, or nearly so, with the button-head in order to lock and confine the button in a buttonhole.

'Ihe objects of my invention are to improve this class of buttons and to render the hinging connection of the same stronger and more durable.

rIo the aforesaid purposes my invention consists in the certain novel and peculiar arrangement and construction of the several parts of the button, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure l is a side View of my improved button with the lever-arms thrown downin substantially parallel relation with the button-head, and with the arms also shown in broken lines as drawn up in angular relation with the button-head; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a diminished detailed view of the several component parts of the button placed apart, though in their relative positions. Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional view of Fig. 2, the section being taken on line 4 4 thereof. Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional view of the top plate and the subjacent hingeplate detached, the section being taken on line 5 5 in Fig. 2. Figs. 6 and are sectional views of other forms of the improved parts of the device.

In the said drawings like numbers of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.

Referring to the drawings, the number 8 designates the cup-shaped cap-plate, in the concavity of which is seated the dat circular bottom plate, 9, which may, if desired, be made of resilient material. The disk -like hingeplate 10 is formed with an H-shaped central slot, 11, which is appropriate to receive the hinging T ends of the lever arms or posts l2 and 13, respectively, at the respective ends of the said slot. The hingeplate 10 is placed intermediate the bottom plate, 9, and the top plate, 14, so that the hinging ends ofthe arms may be confined in their proper positions. rIhe top plate, 14, is formed with the central opening, 15, through which the arms of the button Vmay pass, and, if preferred, this plate may also be made of elastic material in order to give a better spring action to the movable parts of the button. 'Ihe cap-plate 8 has its rim formed over upon the rim of the top plate, 14, so as to hold the three several plates together.

The lever-

arms

12 and 13 are provided with the transverse bends 16 and 17 and 18 and 19, respectively, (shown clearly in Fig. 4,) and they are also providedwith the hiuging T ends 2() and 2l, respectively, which take in the respective T-shaped ends of the slot 11 of the hingeplate 10. The lever-arm 18 is formed with the longitudinal opening 22, which is of sufficient Vsize to allow the arm 12 to pass easily therethrough. The lever-arms each have the two opposite transverse bends in them, and are hinged, respectively,upon opposite sides of the plate, and when these arms are folded down they cross the center of the plate and extend to the opposite side of the plate from where they are hinged.

In Figs. 6 and 7 the arm 13 is omitted, and the device, which in Fig. 6 forms a clasp, is constructed with the single arm or post 12.

In order to securely hold the top plate, 14, and the hinge-plate 10 in their true relative positions, I form the hinge-plate, when cutting the same out, with the perforations 22X, into which take the locking projections 23, which I construct upon the top plate by punching the material up when stamping out the plate. By virtue of such locking means, which are clearly shown in Fig. 5, the two plates are pre-- vented from moving on each other in operating the button, so that the slots ofthe two respective plates will always be maintained in the same relation.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- IOO 1. In a hinged-shoe button, the combination, as hereinbefore set forth, with the cap-plate and the bottom plate set therein, and the arms of the button provided with hinging ends, of the hingeplate suitably slotted to receive the hinging ends of the arms and formed with perforations, the top plate slotted to admit the arms and placed in contact with the hingeplate, and provided with locking projections for entering the perforations of the said hingeplate and locking the same xedly thereto, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

2. In a hinged-shoe button, the combination, with the hinge-plate 10, provided with the H shaped slot and formed with perforations, of the top plate, 14, provided with the slot 15, and locking projections 23, constructed to permanently secure the plates against rotation and secure the T-shaped ends of the levers, as described.

j 3. The combination, as hereinbefore set forth, with the cap-plate 8 and the bottom plate, 9, seated therein, the hingeplate 10, provided with the slot 1l and formed with ,the perforations 22X, and the top plate, 14, provided With the slot 15, and having the locking projections 23,for entering the said perforation 22 of the hinged plate, which is intermediate the said top and bottom plates, of the arms provided with hinging ends which are hinged within the slot 11 of the hingeplate, and which pass through the slot 15 of the top plate, 14, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

JOHN COSTELLO.

Witnesses:l

M. F. BLIGH, J. A. MILLER, Jr.