Improvements in Sockets for Holding Ball or other Shaped Articles, and in Studs Adapted to be used therewith.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 18th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 1st Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sockets for Holding Ball or other Shaped
Articles, and in Studs Adapted to be used therewith.
I, WILLIAM RIGHTER COMINGS of 49 and 51 Fann Street in the City of London,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to sockets for holding ball or other shaped articles and is
particularly adapted for glove fasteners of the "Lock Button" type, although such
sockets may be used for other purposes. It further relates to studs adapted for
use with the said sockets.
According to my present invention I propose to form the sockets with a corrugated
or spring opening either of plate metal, wire, or other elastic substance, and to
secure them in a head or outer covering when necessary, by washers, flanges, screw
joints, or by pressure. The outer face or flange may be corrugated when desired.
and the opening instead of being a continuous ring may consist of a number of
points.
The method of fastening may be adapted for plain or uncorrugated material, and
various substances such as glove material may be inserted between the socket and
the head either with or without perforating the same.
The stud is preferably made hollow, and the flange may be corrugated as with
the socket, and the interior be provided with saw teeth, screw thread or projections
or holes by which the under or inside fastener or rivet may be secured to the top
stud and to the material.
In some cases I make the under stud or rivet with a large flat head and small
tack or pin shaped shank which is caused to lock into the top stud.
Dated this 18th day of Amil 1080
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sockets for Holding Ball or other Shaped
Articles, and in Studs Adapted to be used therewith.
I, WILLIAM RIGHTER COMINGS formerly of 49 and 51 Fann Street but now of
Brewhouse Yard 172 & 174 John Street in the City of London Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
:-
This Invention relates to sockets for holding ball or other shaped articles and is
particularly adapted for glove fasteners of the "Lock Button" type, although such
sockets may be used for other purposes. It further relates to studs adapted for use
with the said sockets.
According to my present Invention I propose to form the sockets with a corrugated
or spring opening either of plate metal, wire or other elastic substance and to secure
them in a head or outer covering when necessary by washers flanges, screw joints or
by pressure. The outer face or flange may be corrugated when desired, and the
opening instead of being a continuous ring may consist of a number of points.
The method of fastening may be adapted for plain or uncorrugated material, and
various substances such as glove material may be inserted between the socket and the
head either with or without perforating the same.
The stud is preferably made hollow, and the flange may be corrugated as with the
socket, and the interior be provided with saw teeth, screw thread or projections or

page_text: holes by which the under or inside fastener or rivet may be secured to the top stud
and to the material.
In some cases I make the under stud or rivet with a large flat head and small tack
or pin shaped shank which is caused to lock. into the top stud.
To clearly explain the nature of my Invention reference is made to the accom-
panying drawings the Figures in which illustrate my Invention and are hereinafter
described.
Fig. 1 is a view in sectional elevation of a corrugated socket a secured in a
material which may be the leather of a glove. The corrugations in said socket are
deepest at the mouth or contracted portion where the stud or ball enters and die
away as they terminate in the tubular part of same. For holding the socket I employ
a cap or cover c in which is secured by the bending over of the edges of same an
annular ring d. This ring has an outer and an inner wall but the latter is cut away
with the exception of two inclined portions e e. Two slots or openings ff are also
formed at opposite points on same and midway between the inclines. This ring dis
illustrated below detached and turned around so as to show clearly the inclines and
slots. In connection with the above parts I employ a hollow eyelet or rivet g having
on its inner end two lugs or ears hh which are adapted to engage with the inclines e e
as shewn in Figure 2, which is a plan view looking down on Figure 1 with the cap c
and socket a removed. To secure the parts together the socket a is placed in the
cap c and the ring d is secured in place. The cyclet g is then inserted from the
inside of the glove material, its lugs h h passing through the openings ff. It is then
turned causing the lugs to rise up the inclines e e until it binds the material tightly
thus drawing said eyelet with the glove material close up to the cap c in which
position the mouth of the socket a will be flush with the flange of said eyelet.
Figure 3 shows a modification of this device. Fig. 4 being a plan of same looking
down with the cap c and socket a removed.
In this case I form the socket a with a wide flange and slip over the tubular part
of same a loose washer i which has slots f'f' therein. The eyelet g is provided with
two outwardly turned inclined ears which engage with the slots in the washer
and as the eyelet is turned, draw the parts together, the tubular part of the eyelet by
reason of the loose fit of the washer passing between it and the socket.
In Figs. 5 and 6 an arrangement very similar to Fig. 1 is shewn but the shape of
the ring d is altered as shown by the detached view of its section. In this case the
inclines e e are formed by turning in ears of metal from the outer wall up which the
lugs h h ride.
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Fig. 7 shows another form of fastening for the socket a. Fig. 8 being a plan view
of the latter looking down on same. In many fastenings of this class it is desirable to
have a good thick cap or button on the outside of the glove and to this end loose
washers or discs may be placed inside same, but I prefer where possible and as in the
present case to corrugate the outer flangej of the socket a which will assist in filling
up the head and will at the same time give an increased spring to the mouth of the
socket and facilitate both the entrance and the hold upon the stud or ball as also
facilitating the spreading of the barrel of the fastening eyelet when driven in.
The method shown in Fig. 7 for securing the parts together consists in forcing the
eyelet g between a washer and the flange j of the socket the pressure employed
expanding same outwardly between the two.
In Figure 9 I show a similar arrangement to Fig. 7 but the socket a has its
corrugated flange portion j on the inside of the material 6 the corrugated shoulder x
being the point which grips the stud or ball. The upper part is in the first instance
tubular in shape but is expanded as shewn when forced into place between the
washer and the cap c. Fig. 10 is a plan view looking down on the socket. In
place of the corrugated socket I may employ a wire ring bent or corrugated into form
as shown in Figs. 11, 12 and 13 in which Fig. 11 shows the plain ring and Fig. 12
its shape after having been corrugated and made conical in elevation to form the
jaws zzzz.

page_text: To secure this wire socket I force it from the inside of the material b as shown
in Fig. 13 into the cap or head c so that it carries the material in with it, the parts
assuming the position shown in dotted lines. I then apply pressure to the jaws z
with the result that the outer portion of the ring or socket is forced out laterally into
the cap, carrying the material with it while the jaws are brought together leaving a
spring opening of the desired size for the stud to enter.
In Fig. 14 the socket a has the corrugated mouth and flange ; but the tubular
portion is screwed as at the eyelet g being similarly screwed so that when inserted
from the inside of the material and rotated the parts will be drawn together.
In Fig. 15 the socket a is cup shaped and is secured to the cap c by the eyelet m
which is rivetted over the two. The material is in this case as in Fig. 13 forced into
'the cap with the socket.
In Figs. 16, 17 and 18 I show the other member of the fastener,-viz. a stud or
ball which is adapted to be used with any of the sockets before described said stud
having a corrugated flange n. I secure this stud to the glove or other material 61
as shown in Fig. 18 by forcing the under studs through the material into the hollow
stud or ball t on the upper side, the stud s expanding and filling the same as shown,
while the corrugations are embedded in the material and help to hold the stud member
in same.
The under stud is of the form shown in Fig. 17 and is provided with a corrugated
flange n¹ the corrugations preferably being carried about half way up the barrel or
they may be carried all the way with a gradually diminishing depth disappearing at
the top the object being to get a stiff base with a point or top of less rigidity in order
that it may be expanded without causing any buckle or bending at the base. This
corrugating of the harrel may also with advantage be applied to open ended studs or
eyelets.
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In Fig. 19 the upper stud is secured to the material b₁ by a rivet having
large flat head s². This rivet should be of a comparatively soft metal and its point
may be slightly turned as shewn in Figure 19 so that when forced into the stud tit
will be assisted in bending or rivetting over which it does until it fills the stud tas
shown in Figure 20 and holds the same. The heads of this rivet may be corrugated
if desired.
In Figure 21 the under stud s is corrugated so as to form saw shaped teeth which
as it is forced into the stud t engage with the shoulder u of same.
In forming the corrugated sockets a of the class shown in Figure 15 I prefer to
stamp them up by means of a punch and die from a scallopped blank as shown in
Figure 22 into the form shewn in Figure 23 the result being a corrugated cup shaped
piece having a number of teeth w drawn up from the scallopped edges. These teeth
are then bent inward or turned over by suitable closing dies on the lines A-A
Figures 23 and 24 and the socket is bent inward into the shape shown in the latter
Figure. In this way a thickened, smooth and rounded edge is given to the mouth
of the corrugated socket allowing of a very thin material being used for making same,
which without would (apart from its liability to scratch and tear articles brought in
contact therewith) soon wear away when in use. In place of the scallopped blank a
plain one may be employed and in this case if it is desired to produce the teeth w the
punch and die should be made to fit tightly at the point where the teeth will come so
that a "smearing" or drawing effect will be produced which will bring the metal at
that point into teeth or a rough fringe.
It will be obvious however that a thicker material may be employed in which case
it will not be necessary to turn up the edges as described. The sockets shown in
Figures 1, 3, and 5 are without these thickened edges while in Figure 7 a turned in
edge is shown and this may be conveniently made by first stamping the corrugated
barrel with a closed end as shown in Figure 25 said end being then stamped in as
indicated in Figure 26 and the centre cut out and the edges turned in as indicated in
said Figure 7. In place also of the regular corrugations shown only a few jaws teeth
or points need be formed on the mouth of the socket.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
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1. A socket member having a socket portion with a corrugated mouth or opening
substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. A socket member having a socket portion with a corrugated mouth or opening
and a corrugated flange substantially as and for the purpose described.
3. A socket member having its socket portion of wire bent into the form of jaws
substantially as described.
4. A socket member having a socket portion with a corrugated mouth or opening
a cap carrying a ring having inclines formed thereon and a hollow eyelet having ears
adapted to engage with said inclines and secure the parts to the material substantially
as described.
5. A socket member having a socket portion with a corrugated mouth or opening
and with or without a corrugated flange and secured in the material substantially as
shown in Figures 3, 7 and 14 of the drawings.
6. A socket member having a socket portion with a corrugated mouth or opening
formed by a shoulder and a corrugated flange j substantially as described.
7. A stud or ball member having its upper and under portions formed with corru-
gated flanges substantially as and for the purpose described.
8. A stud or ball member having its upper portion formed with a corrugated flange
and its under formed of a rivet adapted to be turned over in the upper stud said
rivet having a flat head corrugated or not substantially as described.
9. A stud or ball member having its upper portion formed with a corrugated flange
and its under of a saw toothed stud with a corrugated flange substantially as
described.
10. A stud or eyelet formed with a partially corrugated barrel substantially as
described with reference to Figure 17 of the drawings.
Dated this 18th day of January 1890.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Applicant's Agent.