US892003A - Button and button-fastening. - Google Patents

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No. 892,003. PATENTBD JUNE 30, 1908. G. W. MoGILL.

BUTTON AND BUTTON FASTENING.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 7, 1903.

e Y U Mmmm v wlINEssEs: INI/Enma GEORGE W. McGILL, OF RIVERDALE, NEW YORK.

BUTTON .AND BUTTON-FASTENING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 80, 1908.

Application filed February 7, 1903. Serial No. 142,315.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MCGILL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Riverdale, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons and Button-Fastenings, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to an improvement on the invention patented to me December 16th, 1902, by United States Letters Patent, N o. 716,267, which has for its object the attaching of ordinary buttons such as barbuttons, loop eyed buttons, and buttons of similar construction, to clothing and other fabrics by fastenings wherein there is no direct connection between the button proper and the fabric, the button proper being secured direct and undetachably to an intervening attaching member, and such intervening attaching member, having a button permanently secured to it, in this manner eing later secured direct to the fabric, to the end of providing always a swivel or flexible linked connection between the button proper and such intervening attaching member independent of the manner by which the latter may be secured to the fabric, and my present invention consists in a novel and convenient way of securing said intervening attaching member to such fabric.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, and in which simiar reference letters and numerals indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1, shows a side elevation in vertical section of the button proper connected movably and undetachably with the intervening attaching' member of the device. Fig. 2, represents a side elevation of the device showing a modification in the interior arrangement of its attaching member, the latter being shown in vertical section. Fig. 3, is a vertical sectional side elevation in perspective showing one half of a socketed riveting bur or anvil collet.

Fig. 4, is a vertical sectional view showing the lower surface of such anvil bur collet inclosed in a metal case. Fig. 5, is a transverse section in perspective of such incased anvil bur collet having' its case covered with cloth or leather. Fig. 6, is a side elevation of the device showing a still further modiiication in the construction of its attaching member, and showing the tubular rivet, depending from the base of such attaching member, inserted through a fabric the attaching member and the fabric being shown in cross section. Fig. 7, is a view similar to Fig. 6, showing the socketed riveting bur or collet illustrated in Fig. 4, cngaging as intended the depending tubular rivet of the attaching memberl in securing the, device to a fabric, the lower part of such tubular rivet, the engaging socketed riveting bur, and the fabric clamped between them, being shown in transverse section. Fig. S, is another view in perspective of a cross section of the riveting bur uncased and showing a modification in its construction, and Fig. 9, represents a vertical section of the two pieces forming the modified construction of the bur shown in Fig. S, before being secured together.

In the figures of the drawing, A, represents the button proper, forming what I designate the button member of the device, and a, its eye-bar.

B, represents the flexible button linking member, and B B, the same member made of metal and non-flexible.

C, represents the intervening attaching member of the device, c, the case of such member, and (Z, a packing or clamping plate used therein. e, represents a flanged tubular rivet forming the base of such member, and f its tubular depending stem.

G, represents the socketed riveting bur or anvil collet forming the riveting member of the device, -while H, represents a fabric to which the device may be attached,

In Fig. 1, of the drawing an eye-bar button is shown connected with the intervening attaching member C, by a linking member B, made of flexible material. The case c, of the attaching member is provided with an aperture 1, in the center of its crown, and its base part consists of the flanged tubular rivet e, secured therein at the flanged end of the latter, with its tubular stemf, outwardly depending therefrom. The socketed riveting bur, or anvil collet, constituting the riveting member G, consists of a metal disk fashioned in manner to provide its center with a rentrant cavity or socket, 4, the floor or bottom wall, 5, of which has a concavoconvex formation roviding its inner surface with an anvil.face of conoidal configuration projected towards the mouth, 4', of the cavity or socket, with the side wall, 5, of the cavity occupying a )lane adjacent to and substantially parallel with such anvil surface and providing between such anvil surface and the wall an interveningvand corres ondingly diverging groove or space, 6, wit said wall continued upward above the apex of the anvilsurface and forming the contracted mouth, 4, of such rentrant cavity or socket, 4, and thereat folded outwardly into a broad bearing or clamping flange, 2, of single thickness set rectangular with the axis of said socket, 4. This iiange maybe provided with a depending outwardly flaring rim, 3, as shown in Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 7, or without such dependent rim, as shown in Figs. 8 and 9.

To assemble the parts of the device as is shown in Fig. l, of the drawing, the flexible member B, is passed over the eye-bar a, of the button proper in manner to have its center ride such eye-bar, and its arms or ends inserted in the case c, of the attaching vmember C, through the opening l, in the crown thereof, and spread apart and so held therein by the packing or clamping plate d, which is now inserted in the case in manner to bear against such spread arms, with the terminals of the latter folded toward each other on the under surface of such plate and against which they are clam ed by the flat top surface of the flange of t e tubular rivet e, which is now inserted in the case, forming the flat base of the latter, and which is secured therein by the lower rim of the case being closed, or crimped, over its periphery.

The device so constructed is fastened to a fabric by passing the tubular stem,f, of the attaching member, C, its full length through an opening made in the fabric and inserting that portion of it projecting beyond the fabric in the rentrant cavity or socket, 4, of the riveting member, G, and pressing it with suflicientforce againstthe conoidal anvil face formed by the inner surface of the wall, 5, of such cavity, to expand it thereon outwardly into the annular diverging space or groove, 6, intermediate such wall and anvil face, clenching it therein, and thereby riveting together the attaching member C, and the4 riveting member G, with the intervening fabric H, clamped between the base of such attaching member C, and the outwardly pro jecting flat flanged top of the riveting mem ber G, as shown in Fig. 7.

In Figs. 2, 6 and 7., the linking member B B, is shown made of metal which permits the packing or clamping plate d, in the attaching member to be dispensed with.

ln Fig. 6, the case c, is shown without a depending rim and the flanged end of the tubular rivet e is shown provided with a rim extending at right angles therefrom and with the top thereof flanged over the edge of the case c, securing these parts together with the spread arms of the metal linking memberB B, between them. i

The riveting member G, may be inclosed which the device may in a metal case on its closed side asis shown in Fig. 4, the numeral 7, indicating such case, and such case may be covered with cloth, leather or other material as is shown in Fig. 5, wherein 8, represents such covering. The riveting member G, may also be made as shown in Figs. 8, and 9, that is to say having its flat top, or bearing flange 2, unprovided with a depending rirn, and having its anvil part made of a separate piece of material, both parts being constructed and connected together in manner to provide the conical shaped anvil surface 5, surrounded by the annular flaring groove 6, the anvil surface projecting upwardly to the mouth of the socket with the flat clamping-fiange 2, surrounding such socket.

The clamping surface of the base of the attaching member C and the outwardly projecting iiange 2, of the riveting member, are substantially of corresponding diameter to insure a proper clamping between them of the intervening fabric.

What I claim herein as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1.- As a new article of manufacture a combined button and button fastening consisting of a button proper and an attaching member, the button proper being secured in link connection to such attaching member by means of a separate piece of material engaging centrally with the button eye, and having its end parts secured to such attaching member directly and without engaging the fabric to which the device may be attached, such attaching member being provided with independent means of securincr it to a fabric consisting of a hanged tubular rivet providing its base part, and a separate socketed anvil bur adapted to receive, upset and spread out flaringly in a diverging groove located therein, the free end of the stem of such tubular rivet, said tubular rivet enga ing with such fabric in manner to clamp theglatter between the under surface of its flanged top and the upper surface of such anvil-bur.

2. As a new article of manufacture a combined button and button fastening consisting of a button proper and an attaching member, the button proper being secured in link connectionA to such attaching member by means of a separate piece of material engaging centrally with the button eye, and having its end parts secured to such attaching member directly and without engaging the fabric to be attached, in combination with independent means provided such attaching fabric, such means consisting of a flanged tubular rivet providing its base part, with the tubular stem of such rivet projecting outward therefrom, and a separate socketed anvil-bur adapted to receive in its socketed center and to spread and fiare outwardly on its anvil face therein and into an interior annular member for securing it to a groove surrounding such anvil face, the free York and State of New York this fifth day of eng of the stem of such tabular rivet, seid February A. D. 1903.

tu 111er rivet eneafinU with such fabric in manner to eiempbtibie atter between the un- GEORGE W' MCGILL' if der surface of its ianged top and the upper Witnesses:

surface ofthe flange of such anvil-bur. W. HARRY MCGrILLI Signed at Riverdale in the county of New MARY L. H. MCGILL.

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