US388232A - Button-settsng machine - Google Patents

Description

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J. H. VINTON.

BUTTON SETTING MACHINE.

No. 388,232. Patented Aug. 21,1888.

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JOHN H. VINTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR IO THE PENIN- SULAR NOVELTY COMPANY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

BUTTON-SETTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,232, dated August 2l, 1888.

Application tiled January 12, 1888. Serial No. 260,529.

To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. VINToN, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in But- 5 ton-Setting Machines, of which the following description in connection with the accompanying drawings is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

In an application filed by Edward O. Ely

1o February 2l, 1887, Serial No. 228,309, a button-setting instrument was shown embodying a movable anvil, a driver to co-operate therewith, a yielding carrier constructed and ar` ranged to receive a fastening and attached [5 button which is forced therefrom by the driver,

and a slotted raceway movable simultaneously with the said carrier and adapted to receive a series of fastenings having buttons attached thereto, said raceway being open at its lower end to deliver the said fastenings and buttons to the said carrier. Suitable retaining devices were also provided for the fastenings and buttons, which were controlled by springs and were moved aside to permit the passage of a fastening and its button by a direct pressure either upon the fastening` or upon the buttonas, for instance, by the iingers-to remove the fastening and its button from the raceway to the carrier, and by the driver to remove the 5o fastening and its button from the carrier.

This invention has for its object to construct a foot-power machine employing substantially the same button-setting devices shown and described in the abovenamed application in connection with automatic feeding devices.

The invention therefore consists in the combination, with a driver, a movable anvil, a yielding carrier located beneath the driver and adapted to receive a fastening and attached button, and a raceway sinmltaneously movable therewith, said raceway being slotted to receive several fastenings and attached buttons, and being open at its lower end to deliver said fastenings and buttons to the carrier, of two automatically-operated feed-dogs, the engaging ends of which act upon the fastenings to permit them, together with the buttons, to pass from the raceway to the carrier one at a time. 5o The carrier is arranged at an inclination, so

that the raceway may extend vertically to in- (No model.)

sure the descent of the buttons and fasteners by gravity.

Figure l shows in side elevation a buttonsetting machine embodying this invention, the main frame-work being broken away to expose the treadle and movable jaw carrying the anvil; and Fig. 2 a detail showing the carrier, raceway, and feeding devices on a larger scale, viewing the machine from the opposite side 6c shown in Fig. l.

The main vframe-work A is of suitable shape to support the operating parts.

The jaw a, carrying the anvil-block (t2, is pivoted at c to the main frame-work, one end being connected with the treadle-rod t, which is normally held in elevation by the springt.

To limit the ascent of the anvil, and thereby prevent injury to the button-setting devices, an adjusting-screw, t2, passes through the jaw 7o a, which strikes a stud, ti, as the treadle-rod is depressed. The carrier c, formed at the lower end of a bar, c', moving in suitable guides in the main frame, is suitably slotted and recessed to receive a fastening, to which 7 5 is attached a button. A raceway, c, suitably slotted and recessed to receive several fastenings and attached buttons, is secured to the bar c by a web, c; or it may be cast integral with it, so that the raceway and bar move as 8o one piece. The bar c is recessed to receive a spiral spring, ci, the normal tendency of which is to retain the said bar in its lowermost position. The carrier c and its bar c and the raceway e, attached to the bar, are substantially as shown in the application before referred to. The web c is open as at e'l, and the rear side of the raceway is also cut away to permit the engaging ends of two feed-dogs, 2 3, pivoted to the web to act upon and hold the fastenings. 9o The feed-dog 2 has an adj usti 11g-screw, 4, which, when the raceway is in its most elevated position, strikes a projection, 5, iixcd to the main framework, and thereby moves the said feeddog to disengage the fastening. rlhe feed-dog 3 has an adjusting-screw, 6, which strikes a stud or projection, 7, fixed to the main frame, (see Fig. 1,) when the raceway is in its lowermost position, thereby moving the said feeddog to disengage the fastenings. The engagroo ing ends of the feed-dogs lie one above the other7 and by acting alternately by the movel ments of the raoeway, permit the fastenings and attaehed buttons to fall by gravity one at a time, the perpendicular arrangement of the raceway best insuring this result. The driver d is secured to the main frame parallel with the slide-bar c and in a direct line with the passage through the carrier, so as to enter said passage and force therefrom the fastening and its attached button'when the said carrier is raised.

I claim- 1. In a button-setting machine, the stationary driver, movable anvil, yielding carrier, and raceway movable simultaneously With the carrier, combined with two feed-dogs, 2 3, adapted to act alternately upon the fastenings Yin the raceway at the rear side thereof, the ad-

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