US786262A - Badge-button. - Google Patents

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G. H. BROOKS.

BADGE BUTTON. APPLIUATION FILED DEC. 21, 1903.

. WITNESSES .INVENTOH ATTONE) PATENTED APR. 4, 1905.

UNITED STATES Patented April 4, 1905.

PATENT OEEIcE.

GEORGE HENRY BROOKS, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO ABRAHAM KNOBEL AND F. H. KAPPA, OF

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

BADGE-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 786,262, dated April 4, 1905.

Application filed December 21,1903. SerialNo. 186,058.

T0 all whmn it may concern.-

Be it known thatI, GEORGE HENRY BRooxs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Badge-Button, of which the following is a specification. 4

My improvement relates especially to attachin g-pins for badge-buttons which have the back closed by aplate called the button-backf and the objects of my improvement are to provide a pin for fastening badge-buttons to the garment of the wearer whichshall be securely and firmly locked in the button-back, so that it does not flop out of its normal place into the way when the button is being put together in the button-machine, to provide a pin which is firm and easily stuck into the cloth of the garment, secure fastening to the garment, ease of placing the point of the pin in its keeper, thorough protection of the point in the keeper, so that it will not catch the cloth and tear the fiber, ease of forming the pin, ease of threading the pin into the button-back, and saving of wire. These objects I attain by means of the devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figures 1 and 4 are plan views of the button-back with the pin inserted. Figs. 2 and 5 are plan views of the inside of the button-back, showing the pin in place; and Figs. 3 and 6 are perspective views of the pin.

Similar reference-numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

Considerable difiiculty has heretofore been experienced by button-makers from loose or semiloose pins flopping into the way when placing the shells and backs into the crimpingmachine, causing damage to the pins and other parts of the button, and much loss of time. I have overcome this diificulty by means of my device herein described.

The conventional button back 1 has the usual depressed edge, raised rim, and flat circular depressed portion in the center. A perforation 8 for the pin 2 is pierced in the raised rim, and at the point diametrically opposite the metal of the body of back 1 is struck up to form a tongue or keeper for the point of the pin, extending from the raised rim somewhat toward the center of the back. The portion of the pin 2 that is inserted in the garment extends normally diametrically across the back from pin-perforation 8 to keeper 7 The extension of the pin-shank passes through pin-perforation 8 to the inner side of the back, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5, thence passes across the inner side of the fiat depressed central portion of the back, returning to the inner side of keeper 7. Here the blunt end 6 makes a sharp turn and passes through the opening formed by striking up and severing the inner end of keeper 7 and reappears through said opening on the outer side of back 1 at the base of keeper 7. The inner shank of pin 2 does not extend, diametrically straight across the flat circular portion of back 1, but is formed zigzag or otherwise, so that at least three points on the shank not lying in the same straight line bear firmly against the back or some portion of the button, thus giving the pin stability, so that it will not tilt or fiop or drop out when the point is out of its tongue or keeper or at any other time after the pin is once threaded into the back. I prefer to form the pin as shown in the drawings, where the inner shank is represented in zigzag form. Of course the same effect may be obtained by enlarging the curves and angles or multiplying them; but in that case the principle involved is identical. Figs. 3 and 6 differ but slightlyfrom one another. In Fig. 3 the blunt end 6 is approximately or quite straight and parts t and 5 are angular, whereas in Fig. 6 the blunt end 6 is bent in the opposite direction to 5 at 9 and portions l and 5 are more regularly curved.

The curves or angles, as the case may be, I, 5, and 9 are all in thesame plane, represented in the drawings as in the plane of the paper, and bend 3, which passes through perforation 8, is perpendicular to the plane of the paper.

The pin is easily threaded into the back by inserting end 6 through the tongue-perforation, inserting the point of the pin in the pinperforation 8 and pushing itth rough till parts 4 and 5 bear firmly against the inner side of the button-back, and then pressing the pin down till the point is under keeper 7.

There are several circumstances that conspire to make the pin firm in the back. The side of the right-angle keeper-perforation adjacent to the center of the button-back 7 being transverse to the intersecting diameter of the button-back, when end 6 is inserted therein and swung round in order to poke the point out through perforation 8 the part 5 6 cramps in the keeper-perforation and sinks firmly into the angles of the perforation, and the slight bend of the wire at 9 gives it a hook effect, and when the point of the pin 2 is bent down after threading through the bending of the wire at angle 3 tends to shorten the portion 3 6, so that parts 3 and 5 6 are drawn together, causing them to bear against the inncrsides of perforation 8 and the keeper-perforation, respectively, and this force also tends to unbend the bend 4, so that, the wire being springy, when the point of pin 2 is released the device is not loosened, but, on the contrary, the bend 4 endeavors to resume its normal shape and shortens portion 3 6, thus causing the pin to remain firm and erect.

It will be understood that the under side of the shank of pin 2 where it passes in through perforation 8 presses on the outer surface of the button back 1, and end 6 also presses against the outer surface of back 1 after passing through the keeper-perforation,and there fore portion 3 5 hugs the inner side of the backl firmly, preventing tilting of the pin at 3, 4, and 5, three points. Neither the front shell of the button nor any padding of any kind is relied upon for this result, but the combination of the pin and back herein described alone.

I am aware that the button-back that I use with my improved pin is common in the art, and I do not desire to claim any of its featurcs; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s-

1. In a badge-button, the combination with a back-plate having a pin-perforation near its periphery and an angular perforation formed by striking up the keeper for the point of the pin diametrically opposite said pin-perforation, of a securing-pin comprising a pinpointed shank protruding from said pin-perforation, and an integral erective and tensionspring portion extending in zigzag form across the inner side of said back-plate, the blunt end of Which passes through said angular perforation formed by striking up the keeper for the point of the pin and having its blunt end lying on and pressing against the outer side of said back-plate, substantially as specified.

2. In a badge-button, the combination of a back having a perforation for the pin, and a tongue or keeper for the point of the pin struck up in the body of said back, a perforation formed by striking up said tongue or keeper, and a pin havingits blunt end portion bent at an angle and passing through said perforation formed by striking up said tongue or keeper, a zigzag portion lying close to and across the inner side of said back, and a pinshank portion protruding from the said perforation for the pin, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. In a badge-button, the combination of a button-back having a pin-perforation and a keeper-perforation, and a pin having at its blunt end an angular cramping member for cramping in said keeper-perforation, an erective member extending in a zigzag fashion closely across the inner side of the central depressed portion of said back, said zigzag erective portion forming also a tension-spring for holding the shank of the pin firm in said perforations, and a pointed protruding pin portion, substantially as specified.

GEORGE HENRY BROOKS.

itnesses:

F. 1'. KINeirroN, A. KNoBuL.

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