US44416A - Improvement in bodkins for passing enlarged shanks of buttons through cloth - Google Patents

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- T P. W. GE'NGEMBRE'. BODKIN PoR PASSING BNLARGBDSHANKSOT .BUTTONS THROUGH cLoTH.

No. 44,416. Patented Sept-27, 1864.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP GENGEMBRE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BODKINS FOR PASSING ENLARGED SHANKSOF BUTTONS THROUGH CLOTH.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,416, dated September 27, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, PHILIP W. GENGEM- BRE, of Boston, in the county of Suti'olk'and State ot' Massachu=etts, have made a new and useful invention, having reference to the Application of Button-Fastenings to Cloth cr Other Material; and I dohereby declare the same to be fully descrilel in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l denotes a side view, Fig. 1.. an edge view, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section,

ot' applying a button-fastening to a piece of cloth.

My present invention is intended for the speedy accomplishment ot' the fixation of or application lto cloth or other material of the button-fastening on which Letters Patent, numbered 41,292 of United States patents, were granted to me on the 19th day ot' January, A. D. l864.

Fig. 4 represents a section ot' a button and its fastening, of the kind referred to, as conlbined with a piece ofcloth. In the said figure, A denotes the body of the button, whose back plate, b, is connected with the cloth B by the button fastening, which consists not only ot atubularpiece otvulcanized india-rubber, l), but a 'metallic catch, C, the said catch being constructed with a head, d, a shank, c, and a small foot or projection, e. The spring D encompasses the shank c, and is arranged between the button A and the cloth B, or material to which the button-fastening is applied. The shank c enters a slot in the back plate of the button, the said button being subsequently turned around ninety degrees, so as to connect it with-the fistening, and as a consequence to the cloth.

For theinsertion of the shank of the fastening in the cloth and in the elastic spring or guard D, I employ an 'implement made substantially as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3- that is to say, it consists of a tapering needle or piercer, E, slit. lengthwise from its head toward its point, and having an cye,f, car-A ried trans ersely across or made within it and close to its base or rear end, such needle or piercer being pointed at its frontend. The

two parts h h oueach side of the slit, should be elastic, so as to be capable of being easily sprung apart from one another, and each may be hollowed or grooved lengthwise on its invner surface, in order to readily admit the shank c and allow the projecting parts of its foot e to enter the eye or eyes f in the two parts h h. The eye or eyes f serve with the toot to so connect the piercer t0 the shank as to enable the piercer to draw the shank through a piece ot' cloth and a spring, D, when the 1 piercer may be used for the purpose. of the needle or director used in my method The mode of using this implement may be thus described: The cloth at the place where itis` to receive the button-fastening is to be punctured by the piercer, which, after having been forced nearly its entire -length through the cloth, is to have the tubular spring D pressed on it over its point and so as to encompass the piercer. the spring also being forced longitudinally on the piercer and close up to the cloth. Next the catch should have its end or part c inserted between the springs ot' the piercer, and should be pressed against the piercer so as to force such piercer entirely through the cloth and beyond the spring D. As the piercer may pass out of the spring, the latter, by its contractile power, will close `on the shank oi' thc catch and hold the catch Iirmly in place within the cloth.

The form of the eye or eyes, as well as that of the slit ot' the piercers, may be varied as circumstances may require, in order for it to receive and tit and fasten to the fastening part e 'of the shank c.

With my said implement and mode of using it the butto'n-fastenings can be applied and fixed to cloth or clothes with greateraccuracy and dispatch, or with much advantage, comparatively speaking. l do not claim a piercer having a single notch or recess in its head.

I claim as my invention- The implement or piercer made with the springs or clasps h le, and eye or eyes f, or the equivalent thereof, the same being substan tially as and for the purpose specified.

Witnesses: P. W. G-ENGEMBRE.

R'H. EDDY,

F. P. HALE, Jr.

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