US722529A - Link-button. - Google Patents

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R UN mm T Mn. 03 K m BATENTED MAR. 10, 1903.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 19,1902.

UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE W. MOREHOUSE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO BARTON A. BALLOU AND FREDERICK A. BALLOU, COPARTNERS TRAD- ING AS B. A. BALLOU & COMPANY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

LINK-BUTTON.

iiPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,529, dated March 10, 1903.

Serial No. 124,045. (No model.)

To aZZ whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE W. MORE- HOUSE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Link- Buttons, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the ac companying drawings. V

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Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved link-button. Fig. 2 is a top plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank from which the link is formed. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the bent link before it is connected with the button-heads. Fig. 5 shows in elevation my improved link-buttonin the position which it assumes in entering and passing through the buttonhole of a cuff.

My invention relates to the classof linkbuttons used to connect and fasten the outer corners of the cufi; and it consists of a jewelers finding for such link-buttons constituting the link portion thereof and also of a novel combination therewith ofthe eyes of the button-heads, whereby said buttons are confined to a single plane of oscillation, respectively,as hereinafter more fully specified.

In the drawings, A B are the buttons, ofv any suitable size andshape and ornamented as may be desired; Each button A or Bhas at its center, on the back, an eye C, fastened in position, preferably made of bent flat or struck stock and having its aperture extending in the line of the major axis of the button, if the button is elliptical or oblong in shape, as shown in Fig. 1, or in a diametrical or central transverse line if the button is otherwise shaped. The eye C, made as aforesaid, is substantially rectangular in cross-section.

The link which unites the buttons A B by engaging with the eye 0 thereofis made from.

b c are preferably square and plane and separated from each other a distance slightly in excess of the width of the button-eye C, so as to enable the ready insertion of the buttoneye C between said open or spread ends b c. The space inclosed within the spread and curvature of the prongs b c is approximately heart-shaped, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The bar (shownin Fig. 3) is then bent and curved by any suitable means, as seen in Fig. 4, and then constitutes the link D of the button.

The prongs b c of the link D on one end thereof are inserted and butted (by means of pliers or other suitable tool) within the eye 0 of the button A, and the prongs b c of the link D at the opposite end thereof are inserted and butted in like manner within the eye C of the button B, as best shown in Fig. 1. By this engagement of the link D with the buttons A and B said buttons are capable of a limited oscillating movement upon the bent ends of the link D, as illustrated in Fig. 5. It is there seen that the button A is turned so as to extend parallel with the link D, and in this position it canbe easily inserted and. pushed through the buttonhole d of the cufi E. In like manner the button B can be inserted and pushed through the opposite buttonhole of the cuff. v

The stock from which the bar a is formed is of sufficient thickness to make the prongs b c stifi enough to maintain their position when butted at their ends, as above described, and shown in Fig. 1, and so it is not necessary to unite said ends with solder, and the eyes C are of such width that the line of junction of said butted ends of the prongs within them is wholly concealed.

By making the aperture between thebent prongs b c, as shown in Fig. 1, substantially triangular in shape the button-eye C being of a considerable width is incapableof any other movement on said prongs and link than alimited oscillating movement ,in a direction at right angles with said bent ends of the prongs b 0. Consequently when the button A is in the entering position (shown in Fig. 5) it is very favorably located with respect to the link D to receive a straight strong thrust to pass through the buttonhole (1, whereas if (as is frequently the case in the use of other linkbuttons having a loose connection with the link) the button were capable of a slight rotary movement on its link in different planes it is difficult to force such a button into and through the buttonhole of the cufi, especially when, as usual, such cufi is stiff and well laundered and the buttonhole small or rendered comparatively rigid by starching.

I claim as a novel and useful invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent The improved link-button herein described, consisting of two button-heads, each having a button eye or loop of flat stock, in combination with a curved link-bar having at each end two square prongs bent in divergent angles and each terminatingin an inwardly-directed curve, which prongs project through and are butted within the eye or loop of the adjacent button-head, said parts being so constructed and combined that each button-head is capa- EUGENE W. MOREHOUSE.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH R. BULLOCK, J12, HOWARD A. LAMPSLY.

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