US666971A - Fastening device for buttons. - Google Patents

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No. 666,97l. Patented lan. 29, I90l. J. NEVINS. & J. E. WHITE.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR BUTTONS.

(Application tiled Aug. 15, 1900.)

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PATENT OFFICE.

WHITE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR BUTTONS.

SPECIFCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666,971, dated January 29, 1901.

Application led August 15| 1900. Serial No. 26,964. (No model.)

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Be it known that we, JOSEPH NEvINs, a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, and JOHN E. WHITE, a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York, State of New York, citizens of the United. States, have invented a new and Improved Fastening Device for Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a fastening device applicable to any shankbntton and which may be covered with the sameinaterial as that from which the garment is made and itself employed as a button-as, for example, upon military uniforms, where it is advisable to conceal the bright buttons on occasion, which buttons the device is especially designed to hold in place.

Another purpose of the invention is to provide a simple and effect-ive fastening device for shank-buttons so constructed that the button will not be liable to work loose therefrom, which will be economic in manufacture, and which may be quickly and conveniently applied and removed.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through a garment, illustrating the application of the holders thereto for the purpose of retaining buttons in position on said garment. Fig. 2 is an inner face or front view of the fastening device, illustrating the retaining-tongue of the device in position to receive or release the shank of a button. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing, however, a slight departure inthe construction and the retainingtongue in position to prevent the shank of a button from leaving a fastener. Fig. 4 is a section taken practically on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a section taken substantially on the line 5 5 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 6 is a plan View of the retaining-disk of the holder removed from the casing.

The fastening device consists, primarily, of a cap-casingA and a retaining-disk B, mounted to turn in the said cap-casing. The marginal dange of the cap-casing A is provided with spurs 11, adapted to be bent over the inner or front face of the cap-casing and over the retaining-disk B, preventing said disk from leaving the casing" and yet permitting the disk to turn readily within the casing. Preferably at a point opposite the spurs 1'1 a plate 12, of segmental form, is made.

integral with or is attached to the flange 10 of the cap-casing, and this plate extends over the inner or front face of the capcasing and over the retaining-disk B. This plate 12 is a keeper-plate, as will be hereinafter described, and preferably one end a is carried slightly downward to a point below the outer edge of the flange 10 of the casing A, while at the opposite end of the said keeper-plate 12 a lug Ct is formed, which extends in direction of the retaining-disk B. This retaining-disk B is shown in detail in Fig. and is provided with a central opening 13. At the central portion of this opening 13 a tongue 14 is formed, the free end whereof is usually bent more or less in direction of the front or inner surface of the casing A, as is shown in Fig. 4. At one side of the free end of the tongue 14 a slot 15 is produced in the periphery of the retaining-disk B. This slot connects with the opening 13 in the central portion of the retaining-disk, and at one wall of this slot 15 a lug 16 is formed on the front face of the retaining-disk.

In operation when the retaining-disk has been moved to the position shown in Fig. 2, wherein the tongue 14 is parallel with the inner face of the keeper-plate 12 and removed therefrom, the shank 17 of a button 18 may be introduced upon the said tongue, and the tongue is then turned to a locking position, to be hereinafter described. When the tongue 14 is in the position shown in Fig. 2, in which it may receive or discharge the shank of a button, the disk cannot be moved farther in the direction in which it was turned by reason of the plain wall of the slot 15 in the retaining-disk being brought in Contact with the depressed portion a of the keeper-plate 12; but if the lug 16 on the retaining-disk is made to travel beneath the keeper-plate 12 IOO the said lug 16 will answer the same purpose as the plain wall of the slot 15, since the lug 16 will engage with the depressed portion a of the keeper-plate from a point beneath the latter, as shown in Fig. 2, and under such construction when the retaining-disk is turned in an opposite direction its movement will be limited in such direction by the lug 16 on the retaining-disk engaging with the lug a' on the keeper-plate 12, as shown in Fig. 3, the plain wall of the slot 15 in this instance having been forced beneath the depressed portiona of the keeper-plate. 1t will be understood, however, that when the plain wall of the slot 15 is used asa stop the lug 1G on the retaining-disk Will be used as a stop when the disk is moved in an opposite direction by engagement with the outer face of the lug d on the keeper-plate 12.

Usually the keeper-plate 12 is provided with a central oijset section 12, which has a recess in its under face, so that when the tongue of the retaining-disk has received the shank of a button and the disk is so turned as to carry the tongue beneath the keeperplate then the tongue springs in the recess in the keeper-plate formed by the offset section l2n and will be locked in engagement with the keeper-plate to such an extent that it cannot be accidentally moved out from the plate. Vhen the tongue 14 of the retainingdisk is in engagement with the keeper-plate 12, the button, the shank of which is upon the said tongue, will be prevented from leaving said tongue.

We desire it to be understood that the tongue 14 of theretaining-disk need not necessarily pass beneath the keeper-plate, as illustrated; but when the tongue is in its locking position its free end may simply closely approach the inner edge of the said keeper-plate.

The cap-casing may be, and preferably is, covered with the same material as thatof which the garment is made to which the button is to be applied, so that the button, should occasion demand, may be placed at the inside of the garment and the fastening device at the outside, providing a plain finish for the garment, the fastening devices being a substitute for the buttons.

It will be observed that this fastening device is exceedingly simple, comprising but few parts, each of which may be stamped up from suitable material, and that one part readily turns in the other.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A fastening device for buttons, comprising a cap-casing having a keeper, and a disk held to turn in the said casing, provided with a tongue adapted to receive the shank of a button,which tongue is brought into locking position when its free end is adjacent to the said keeper.

2. A fastening device for buttons, comprising a cap-casing, guide devices and a keeper, and a retaining-disk held to turn beneath the said keeper and guide devices, which retaining-disk is provided with a spring-tongue whose free end in the locking position of the device is brought in close proximity to the keeper, as described.

3. A fastening device for buttons, comprising a cap-casing having spurs at its margin, and an inwardly-extending keeper, a retaining-disk held to turn in the said cap-casing and provided with a tongue arranged to pass through the shank of a button, which tongue when the device is in locking position, closely approaches the said keeper, and means, substantially as described, for limiting the movement of the retaining-disk in one or the other direction.

4. In a fastening device for buttons, the combination, with a cap-casing having inwardly-extending marginal guides, and an inwardly extending marginal keeper provided with a depression in its under face, of a retaining-disk mounted to turn in the capcasing beneath the said guides and the keeper, the said retaining-disk having a central opening and a tongue at the central portion of the said opening, which tongue in one position of the retaining-disk passes beneath the keeper and enters the depression therein, substantially as described.

5. In a fastening' device for buttons, the combination, with a cap-casing having inwardly-extending marginal guides, and an inwardly-extending marginal keeperprovided with a depression in its under face, of a retaining-disk mounted to turn in the said capcasing beneath said guides and the keeper, the said retaining-disk having a central opening anda tongue at the central portion of said opening, which tongue, in one position of the retaining disk, passes beneath the keeper and enters the depression therein, and stop devices formed partly on the keeper and partly on the retaining-disk, which stop devices serve to limit the movements of the said retaining-disk in one or the other direction, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof:` we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOSEPH NEVINS. JOHN E. WHITE.

Witnesses:

EVERARD BOLTON MARSHALL, ALFRED H. DAVIS.

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