US69284A - Improvement in eyeleting machines foe attaching buttons- to gaements - Google Patents

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@eine tant *atut @fitte EZRA J. WARNER, F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

I Lettere Patent No. 69,284, dated September 24, 1867i.

IMPROVEMENT lN EYELETING MACHINES FOR ATTAGHING BUTTONS' T0 GARMENTSI Elite tlgihult referat tu it these t-Peints rztin mit limiting @mit uf tige stmt.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, EZRA J.' WARNER, of Newark, in the county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and improved Machine for Fastening Buttons on Garments; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-- Figure l is a front elevation ofv the machine, seen partly in section through the lineA :e z, iig. 2.

Figure 2 is a side elevation. I i

Figure 3 is a sectional detached view of the needle-spring guide.

Figure 4, a sectional detached view of the plunger.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

The object of this invention is to fasten 'buttons with tubular,A shanks or eyelets to garments at a single operation; and it consists of a press, provided with an adjustable die, throu'gh which passes a spring slide-bar for holding the tubular shank in proper position to bc pressed thereon, and thus fasten the button on a garment, andV which also holds a piercing-needle for making a' hole in thh cloth to receive the tubular shank, as hereim1 after more particularly described. The plunger of thc press is also provided with a spring sliding-guide to adjust automatically andkeep the button inl place when the operation of fastening it is performed.

This machine is more especially designed for the'use of tailors and wholesale manufacturers of clothing, in

- order to facilitate the operation of fastening buttons to garments with tubular shanks ofirecent invention, and

strike up or h`ead the ends thereof more perfectly than can be done by'hand.

A represents the bed of a small hand-press, to be screwed to a table, and B the handle, which operates a plunger, C, by means of a cam, a, on its end, that is so formedns to give the plunger a very rapid motion in the irst part of its d escent in the socket D on the end of the standard E, and a slow motion at the last part of its descent, where greater power is required for spreading or heading the tubular shanks to the buttons on the cloth. A'lhe cam a strikes a friction-roller, c, on the head of the plunger-C, and on an end projecting from the cam a is an adjusting-screw, b, by which the action ofthe plunger is regulated to allow it to descend more 0r less, according to the thickness ofthe cloth and the buttons that are to bc fastened. The plunger C is provided with a spiral spring, m, for elevating it. On the lowcr end of the plunger C is fitted a sliding-guido, it, to which is attached a spiral spring, c, by which the guide adjusts itself to tlic but-ton, and brings it level and even on the cloth when the plunger descends to fasten it, and thus dispenses with holding the button by the lingers, as shown in detail by fig. 4, and hereinafter described. Directly under the socket D is placed avdie, n, the form of which 1`s adapted to the head or lap. of one end of atubular shank, and which is nicely fitted in the head-of a hollow screw, F, which rests upon and passes through the bed A, secured by a nut on the under side. The die n is held in place by a set-screw, z', as sho-wn in iig. 3. In the hollow or recess in the upper end ofthe screw F a round sliding-bar, L, is placed vertically, the'upper end of which passes through thecentre of the die et, and is also madeihollow at the upper end. The lower end of the sliding-har 7L is prevented from vrising-above a certain height by a shoulder which catches' on the under side of Iche die 1t, and is provided with a spiral spring, p, which keeps the shoulder close to the die when the sliding-bar is not depressed, as shown clearly by fig. 3 in detail, and presently described.

'lo loperate this machine the tubular shank is first set on the upper end ofthe sliding-bar l1, and nfpiercingneedle is then set'upon it. This needle for piercing the.cloth may be made in two forms, either hollow, to set over the end ot` the sliding-bar like :1- capJ Figure 5, or with a shank, Figure 6, which fits into the hole in the end ofthe sliding-bar h. When either of these'needles is sot in place the cloth is then placed on the point and pushed down by hand to pierce a hole through it, so that it can go down snugly over the tubular shank, as shown in red lines in fig. 2. The needle is then removed and a button with a hole in the middle is set in its place over the tubular shank. The plunger@ is then brought down upon it, the lower end ofthe plunger beingv pointed to strike rst and bear upon the tubular shank or the end of the sliding-bar r, which recedes through the die n, in the hollow screw F, to allow the button to go down close upon the cloth. At the same time the pointed end ofthe plunger G settles in the concave centre of the button, and the sliding-guide d bears upon it and adjusts it in-a horizontalV position even with the cloth, while it also rises on the plunger and slides up out of the way suioiently to allow the point of'a die on the end of the plunger to come down solidly upon the upper end of the tubular shank and spread or head it down closely und evenly in the middle of the button, as shown clearly in fig. 1. When the cloth is removed, with the button thus fastened to it, the spring p clevutes the sliding-bmh to its old position above the die n, and the spring m raises the plunger C, while the sprins;r e also forces buck the sliding-guide el to its place 0n the end of the plunger, thus restoring all the parts to their original positions and relations for n. repetitionpf the seme operation for fastening another button on the garment.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Paltent, is-

The combination of the sliding-bnr h, the die n, the sliding-guide d, and `the plunger'V C, all arranged and operating substantially as and for the purposes herein described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 4th day of February, 1867.

EZRA `J. WARNER.

Witnesses:

WM. F. MCNAMARA, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

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