US863161A - Collar-fastener. - Google Patents

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W. R. DUTEMPLE. COLLAR FASTENBE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24, 1906.

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,W'ILLLAM R. DUrEMrLn-or AUBURN, RHODE ISLAND.

COLLAR-VFASITENER.

No.38sa161:

' To altauhowiit majcomerrt:

Be it'kn'ownthat I, WILLIAM'R; D UTEMPLE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Auburn, in the'county-of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar-Fasteners, of which the following is-a specification. s 7

My invention relates to improvements in collar- 'fasteners or lace-pins, that is devices for fastening together the ends of lace collars or other articles .of

ladies wearing apparel, and it consists essentially in" the combination with a front or body member, of a fastening device rigidly secured thereto, the samecom consists of the usual swinging or hinged pin-tongue and l v v, I

In-pins or articlesof jewelry of the class above re-.

catch members.

I fer-red to the same when provided with my present improved fastening device are rendered both stronger and safer, while at the same time adapted to beatkgneinty.

tached to and detached from the fabric with greater In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is affront orplan view of a lace-pin provided with my 7 improved fastening device. Fig. 2 is a corresponding sidezfview. Fig.3 is an inverted or bottom planview,

aridFigs'. {to- 10, inclusive, represent, in enlarged scale, various steps in tl 1e production of the fastening device, as anart'icle of manufacture.

A, again referring tothe drawing, designates a lace pin or other analogous article of jewelryembodying my invention, or fastening device B, 'thelatter being secured in any suitable way, asfor example by solder, to the underside of the front or ornamental body mem herb, and as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3. In the production of the said fastening device B the completed base 8 thereof is or may be made from a substantially square thin sheet-metal blank a (Fig. 4) having oppositely formed slotted openings (1 therein; the blank is next by means of suitable tools corrugated, at c,

and the sides a bent, as shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7. The double-pointed .pinsp are next inserted endwise in the respective grooves c of. the incomplete base or I holder (Fig. 7) after which the said sides 1 pressed and co'rrugate -to snugly engage said pinsand the 0P1. posite-portion ofz'the base, followed by soldering th'p Specification'of Letters Patent. Application filed May 24,1906. Serial No: 318,616.-

Patented Aug. 13,1907.

pins, exposed through said openingsa to. the stock,

thereby securingthem in position both longitudinally and axially, the parts then appearing substantially as represented in Fig. 8. The sharpened free ends or projecting portions'ofthe pins p are then bent downwardly andinwardly toward, one another to form the attaching hooks or prongs d, the points 10 being still further bent and lying comparatively close to the base,

thereby to some extent protecting the entrance to the eyes of the .open hooks. Thethus completed fasten- .ing device B is represented, in' enlarg ed scale, in Figs.

9 and 10, the latter figure being a cross-sectional view taken on line a: a: of Fig. 9. 'It will be seen that the base incloses the pin members for practically their entire extent between the regions where their end portions are bentvto form the hooks, thus providing for a very secure holding of the pins and insuring that their shanks will not become bent during use. -Were the base to inclose only the central portions of the shanks of the pin members, leaving considerable por-' tions of these straight shanks, as well as the hooks, ex-

posed, there would be great liability of the shanks becoming bent, so as to derange the fastener and also, v

of the points bf'thehooks. Another material advantage obtained by extending the base in each direction to the points where the curvature of the hooks com-' mences, is that the points of the hooks overlie and cooperate with the base. secure fastening of the collar is possible than were the latter held merely between the points of the hooks and the shanks of the pins. The finished fastening device B may be readily secured'by solder to the back of the body b'of the collarfastener A, as represented in Figs. 2 and 3 the openings a coming next to the body b in order to conceal the solder. Itwill be noted that the body b extends at all sides beyond the fastener proper so that the fastener is entirely concealed. In. other words the base and pins are entirely within the pe riphery of the body. In using my improved'fastening the wearer-simply hooks'one endof the device into an end or edge of the collar or other article of apparel, the parts of which the wearer desires to close or fasten together, followed by readily inserting the'opposite hooks of the device into In this way, a much more the other or corresponding part of the collar, thereby closing the opening in an expeditious manner. By

becoming accidentally detached and lost is prevented. It may be added that the smooth round and sharpened prongs employed do hotcut or injureth: fabric.

I would further state thatwhile I havefhapresented the fastening device .asfhsving four'double-pointed 9; plane c'mrnon tofalhitis obvious tbata gr eater or and bent pins-p parallel with one another in less number of pins may. be used, although I prefer to employ at least two, since a plurality of pins impart greater stability to the fastener when in use than one alone.

I claim as new and desire to secure by United States Letters-Patentz 1 A fastening device comprising a base ln the form of :1 flattened sleeve provided with substantially parallel corrugations forming phH'eceiving channels, and pins ex- I tending through said channels and hiiving theinend p01- 10 Signed at Providence, R. 1., thls 22nd day of Mziy, 1906. 5

WILLIAM- R. DDTEMPLE. Witnesses:

J. 0. GARDINER, GEO. II. REMINGTON.

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