US627506A

US627506A - Button.

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Publication number: US627506A
Application number: US60818896A
Authority: US
Inventors: Samuel Kauffmann
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1896-10-07
Filing date: 1896-10-07
Publication date: 1899-06-27
Anticipated expiration: 1916-06-27

Description

No. 627,506. Patented lune 27, I899. S. KAUFFMANN. BUTTON.

(Application filed Oct. 7, 1896.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

SAMUEL KAUFFMANN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINoIs.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 627,506, dated June 27, 1899.

Application filed October 7 1896.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL KAUFFMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicage, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to buttons, and particularly to means for fastening same to garments.

The objects of my invention are, first, to provide a button which may be attached to garments without sewing, and, second, to provide attaching means adapted for buttons either with or without fabric covering. I accomplish these objects by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a button, bottom upward, constructed according to my invention, showing the pin in its locked position, as when attached to a garment. Fig. 2 is a'perspective view of the same parts with the pin open, showing the flange 5 on the cap C in its proper position before same is bent in over the member B. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the cap 0 with its flange 5 in the same position as in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the member B detached from the cap and pin. Fig. 5 is a central section of the member B through the hook l and slot 2. Fig. 6 is a similar section, including the parts shown in Fig. 1.

The pin A consists of a piece of wire bent double, with its free ends pointed.

The member B consists of a piece of sheet metal out and stamped so as to form a disk having a flange 8 for holding the body of the member B away from the body of the cap 0, having the openings 6 7, with the depressed central part 4 between same, a tongue projecting into the opening 6 and bent to form a hook or loop 1, the cut 2 forming an eXtension of the opening 7, so as to provide the latch-lips 3, which are depressed to prevent accidental disengagement of the pin.

The parts are connected by first attaching the pin to the hook 1, then pressing the member B into the cap 0, and then bending the flange 5 in upon the member B. It will be Serial No. 608,188. (No model.)

seen that a fabric cover may be put upon the cap before the flange is thus bent in, so that said cover will be retained thereby.

The button is attached to a garment by forcing the points of the pin through the material and then pressing same together and through the cut 2 and allowing same to spread apart to their normal position, so as to be held under the latch-lips 3.

The central part 4 of the member 13 is depressed to allow sufficient space for the part of the garment which is engaged by the pin.

I do not confine myself to any particular form of the hook 1, the latch-lips 3, or the pin A.

It is an advantage in the manufacture of the button to make the member B of a single piece, and I therefore prefer the construction shown.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A button, comprising a cap, a member B secured to said cap and having an opening 6 near one edge with a hook or loop projecting from said edge toward the opening, and an opening 7 near the opposite edge, with latchlips projecting inwardly from said opposite edge and having a depressed central part 4 between said openings; and a pin consisting of two pointed members hinged to said hook at their base, and adapted to have their pointed ends depressed into the opening 7 so as to be engaged by said lips; substantially as described.

2. A button, comprising the member B having a flange or projection 8 and having a de pressed central part 4, with a hook or loop on one side, and latch-lips on the opposite side and having an opening 6 between said part 4 and said hook and an opening 7 between said latch-lips in combination with a pin consisting of two pointed members hinged to said hook at their base, and adapted to have their pointed ends engaged by said latch-lips substantially as described.

SAMUEL KAUFFMANN.