US757196A - Snap-fastener. - Google Patents

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No. 757,196. 'PATEN'TED APR.12,19(D4.

' T.- R. HYDE, JR- & 1). smons.

SNAP FASTENER. Arruouiox 111.31) In}. 30 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented April 12, 1904.

PATENT OEErcE.

THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, JR, AND ERNEST D. sIMoN's, or WATERBURY,

CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TO SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY OF VVATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

SNAP-FASTENE R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,196, dated .April '12, 1904:. Application filed January 30, 1904. Serial No. 191,288- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that we, TrrEormLUs R. HYDE, J12, and ERNns'r D. SIMoNs, citizens of the United States, residing at 'VVaterbury, in the 5 county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Snap-Fasteners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a 1 covered snap-fastener for use, in connection with a suitable stud, on gloves and other wearing-apparel and other objects. The invention Comprises a snap-fastener socket consisting of a combined cap and rivet and asocket-piece arranged upon opposite sides of the glove or other, object and perma nently united and adapted for engagement with a suitable head 01' stud, all as we will pro-v ceed now more particularly to set forth and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating I the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a plan view of the .blank from which the 5 combined cap and rivet is formed. Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrating the first operation on the blank. Fig. 3 is a perspective View illustrating the second operation, wherein the edge of the cap is beaded. Fig. 4 is a per- 3 spective View illustrating the third operation, in which the arms are converged. Fig. 5 is a perspective view illustrating the finished combined cap and rivet. Fig. 6 is a plan view and cross-section of a non-resilient socketpiece. Fig. 7 shows a resilient stud in eleva tion and beneath it a socket-piece in crosssection, as they appear when applied to an object. Figs. 8 and 9 are cross-sections showing the application to the combined cap and 4 'rivet of a washer for preventing the undue deformation of the combined cap and rivet in setting. Fig.- 10 is a plan view and crosssection of one form of resilient socket-piece.

Fig. 11 is a plan view and cross-section of another form of resilient socket-piece. Fig. 12

is an elevation of a solid stud.

The blank 1 is made of relatively softmetal that is to say, metal that is not necessarily resilient-and with a series of radial arms 2.

This ,blank is then cupped, as shown in Fig. 5 2, so that its arms stand at right angles to the central solid portion, which becomes the cap. The blank thus formed is then provided with ahead 3, as shown in Fig. 3, andthen the various'arms 2 are bent inwardly and convergently, as in Fig. 4, and then the outer ends of these arms are brought into cylindrical form, as shown at 4, Fig. 5, to form a hollow rivet. In order to conserve the strength of the arms 2, they are convexed transversely, and this convexing of the arms serves also to prevent undue deformation of the device in setting it} The device as thus constructed provides a closed outer end for the socket, which is adapted to receive any kind of ornamentation.

The device, Fig. 5, is used in connection with a'socket-pieCe which may be non-resilient for use in connection with a resilient stud member or may be resilient to be used in. connection with a non-resilient stud. A non-resilient socket-piece is shown in Figs. 6 and 7 and comprises a flange 5, from which projects ahollow open-ended head 6, and the opening 7 in this head is adapted to receive the cylindrical portion 4 of the. combined cap and rivet, which portion 4 is then upset within the hollow head 6 by pressure, which serves to break down more or less the conical formation of the arms 2, as shown in the cross-section, Fig. 7 Thus a socket is formed having an attached closed cap or cover member on one side of the garment or other object and a socket member proper on the opposite side.

In order to prevent undue deformation of the cap and its arms, a washer 8, of paperboard or other material, may be inserted in the blank of Fig.2, as shown in Fig. 8, and held. therein in and by the formation of the bead 3, as shown in Fig. 9, and the operation and effect of this washer is indicated in the cross-section, Fig. 7.

When the socket-piece is non-resilient, as in Figs. 6 and 7, then a stud 9, such as shown in the side elevation of Fig. 7, may be used; but, as already indicated, a resilient sockettion of these two members.

piece may be used, and in that case a solid stug, such as shown at 10, Fig. 12, may be use Referring to Fig. 10, the socket-piece has a flange 11 and an open-ended head 12, and the flange has a number of slits l3, four being shown, which extend through the flange and into the head, or, as shown in Fig. 11, t e socket-piece may havea flange 14 and an ope ended tubular head 15,with a number of radial ilitsi 16 intersecting the joint of the flange and In ail of the various forms of socket-piece the flange is provided with'a series of projections or points 17, which serve to grip the material to which they are applied, and thus assist in holding" it in place.

It will be observed that the combined cap and rivet has no function as a socket itself; but it is a device primarily-and solely used for securing a separate or individual socketpiece in place, and therefore the said com, bined cap and rivet is not made of spring metal and its parts are not resilient; but, on the contrary, it is made of metal thatmay be readily upset or clenched after the manner of a rivet or eyelet and is used as such in aflixing the socket-piece, whether resilient or non-resilient,-to the object to which it is applied.

It isto be further noticed that when the combined cap and rivet and the socket-piece are united as in the sectional view, Fig. 7, the arms 2 are bent backward and away from the material, soas to form a sort of pocket into which the open-ended head of the socket-piece is introduced, and it is understood that in the preferred construction the material of the glove or other article is perforated for the recep- What we claim is 1. A snap-fastener, comprising a socket-.

pieceto receive the stud, having a tubular hollow head and a base-flange, and a combined cap and rivet therefor, the latter composed of 45- a cap proper and arms terminating in a cylindrical portion, the arms being bent directly over the head externally and the cylindrical portion upset within the head and clenching the head directly between the arms and cylin-' drical portion to fasten the members upon opposite sides of an article.

2. snap-fastener socket-piece, to'engage cap and rivet having connecting-arms, said cap provided with an internalwasher, and the rivet portion adapted to enter the head of the socket-piece and be upset therein and the arms bent backward against the washer and about the head to clench the head directly between the upset rivet and bentarms.

4. A snap fastener, comprising a socketpiece having ah open ended head passed through an opening in the goods, and a flange to embrace the back of the goods, a combined cap and rivet having a cap proper with arms to embrace the head externally and acylindrical'portion entering the head of the socketpiece and upset therein, the socket-head being ,engaged directly'by and clenched between the arms and cylindrical portion, and a comple mental stud adapted to be engaged by the' socket-piece.

5. A snap-fastener, comprising a socketpiece to engage a stud member, having a flange provided with projections to grip the object to which it is applied, and also having an openended hollow head, in combination with a combined cap and rivet applied to the opposite side of the goods from the socket-piece and having arms bent backward over the head externally and a cylindrical portion upset within the head and serving to clench the head directly between the arms and cylindrical portion. I

Intestimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 29th day of January, A. D. 1904.

THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, JR. ERNEST D. SIMONS.

Witnesses:

J. H. FILLING,

G. F. Honens.

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