Patent ID: 7251865
Filing Date: 2007-08-07
Classification: A44B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A button comprising: a button body; and a fixture for fixing the button body to a fabric from the opposite side to the button body with the fabric there between, wherein the button body comprises a shell member constituting an outer shell of the button and an accommodation member stored in the shell member, the shell member includes a button cover and a neck cylindrically formed on a back side of the button cover and having an opening at an outer edge thereof, the accommodation member includes a shaft accommodated in the neck with a portion thereof protruding from the opening and an insert hole formed on a protruding end face of this shaft for the fixture to be inserted therein, the accommodation member being made of a material softer at least than that used for forming the neck and allowing for outer expansion of an external form of the shaft to a position outer from the inner contour of the opening when the fixture is inserted into the insert hole, crimping parts are formed on an inner periphery of the opening at specified positions with a prespecified space therebetween in the circumferential direction so as to crimp into an outer peripheral surface of the shaft, and the crimping parts are a plurality of convex parts formed at prespecified positions with a prespecified space therebetween along the inner periphery of the opening.