US654297A - Badge-button. - Google Patents

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No. 654,297. Patented. luly 24, |900. B. S. WHITEHEAD.

BADGE BUTTON. (Applition ledlay 10, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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Unire BENJAMIN S. VHITEHEAD, OF NEWARK, NEV JERSEY.

BADGE-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 654,297, dated July 24, 1900.

Application filed May 10, 1900. Serial No. 16,138. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, BENJAMIN S. WHITE- HEAD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, Essex county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Badge-Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to badge buttons which consist, essentially, of an ornamented' or inscribed button-like shell provided with an attaching-pin held in separable connection therewith by springing a portion of the pinwire beneath a rim or collet at the back of the shell; and my improvements consist particularly of certain novel features in the form of the pin-wire, combined with the shell, whereby certain new and useful results are attained, as is hereinafter more fully setforth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the back of a badge-button embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same, showing the badge shell in section. Fig. 3 shows my novel form of holding-wire. Fig. et is a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing the pin-point sprung beneath the body of the holding-wire. Fig. 5 is a perspective viewY of a modification. Fig. 6 is a back view, and Fig. 7 is an edgefview, with the badge-shell in section, of another modication; and Fig. 8 is a plan view of another modication.

In all the iigures the same parts are designated by the same reference-letters.

A is the badge-body, which is formed in the usual manner of a metal shell, carrying a design on paper or similar material and a celluloid facing secured thereto by a collet B and having a disk C in the back of the shell to receive anysuitable emblem or inscription. The holding-wire, which I combine with this composite badge body or shell, is formed of a spring-wire, with a double recurved or looped body portion D, the various curves of which in the examples shown in the drawings I have designated as F G H I and which is extended at one end into a straight pinpointed portion E. The looped or recurved form of the body of the wire allows it to be sprung together somewhat as illustrated by the dotted lines in Fig. 3, so as to be slipped beneath the collet of the badge-body, Where the expansive elasticity of the spring-body will rmly hold its terminal curves F I in separable contact with the under side of the collet, the connecting-curves G H lying across the back of the button and serving as an additional guard or holder for the disk C.

J designates a rearward curve or bend of the S-shaped body portion, located in that part which is crossed by the pinpoint E, `which lies in spring contact therewith, so that when the pin is passed through cloth or other material to which the badge may be attached the material will be gripped between the bend J and the pin, giving increased security to the attachment.

It greater security is desired, the pin may be sprung sidewise, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 4, and allowed to spring under the bend J, which forms a keeper and eectually locks the pin in place.

In Fig. 5 I have shown a supplementary bend J', the accented curve of which forms a more special seat for the pin-point, if this is desired. In Figs. 6 and 7 I have shown a form in which the bend J is omitted from the body portion D of the holding-wire, which lies against the back of the shell, and the pinpointed portion is extended to engage with the edge of the shellange, and in Fig. 8 I have shown a further modification wherein the looped or recurved portion of the spring is shortened up and a long straight member K is interposed between the spring and the pin-pointed portion.

By using the looped or recurved form I secure a stiffer spring than results where the spring is a continuous curve of over half a circle and lies entirely under the collet, as in previous forms.

In the examples shown in Figs. 1 to 5 the pin portion is shorter than common, and hence stier, and it is also sustained by the locka ing-bend J. I-Ience I can use a lighter and less expensive wire than has heretofore been required and yet obtain a strong, satisfactory, and serviceable form of attachment for the badge-button shell.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

l. The combination, in a badge-button, of a rearwardly-recessed shell, provided with an inturned holdingilange, a securingwire, formed with a recurved spring body portion IOO , backward transversely of the shell and parallel with the plane thereof, and lying normally in spring contact with said intermediate rearward bend or curve of the body portion, substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination, in a badge-button, of

ra rearwardly-recessed shell, provided with an inturned holding flange, a securing Wire formed with a recurved spring body portion lying principally free from said holding-liange but adapted to be longitudinally compressed so as to permit its extremities to be sprung other end of said holding-wire being pinpointed and being bent outward and then backward transversely of the shell and parallel with the plane thereof, and lying normally in spring contact with said intermediate rearward bend or curve of the body portion,

and being adapted to be laterally deflected and sprung beneath the same, substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination, in a badge-button of a rearwardly-recessed shell, provided Withgan inturned holding-flange, a securing-Wire provided with a longitudinally compressible spring body portion embodying the curves F,

G, H, I and the intermediate rearward bend J, one end of said wire lbeing extended in a curve corresponding with that of the holdingange, and the other end, E, being pin-pointed and extended outward and then backward,

` and lying normally in spring contact with the bend J, said spring body portion being adapted to be compressed longitudinally and to engage with its curves F and I beneath the holdling-flange, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

BENJAMIN S. WHITEHEAD.

Witnesses:

EDWARD D. CONKLIN, JOSEPH B. SHORT.

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