An. Improved Method of and Means for Securing. Buttons and the like to Wearing Apparel and other Articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1891
OUBLE DIE DI FUIFICATION
[Communicated from abroad by WILLIAM STREETER. RICHARDSON, of No. 58,
Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.]
An. Improved Method of and Means for Securing. Buttons and the
like to Wearing Apparel and other Articles.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to means for securing buttons and the like to wearing
apparel and other articles.
It is sometimes desirable to secure various articles such as buttons and the
like to material, clothing, and other things by laterally extending sections of
a fastening tube, great difficulty, however, has been experienced in the use of
such a fastening, and so far as I am aware, it has not yet been successfully
employed.
In the accompanying drawing:
Figure
is a view in longitudinal section of a fastening having a tubular or
cylindrical shank ending in a wide flange the end of the tube being closed.
Figure 2 represents in section the said fastening provided with shallow inwardly
extending recesses or indentations upon two sides thereof a little nearer the top
than the bottom of the tube.
Figure 3 is an elevation thereof representing one of said inwardly extending
shallow recesses or indentations.
Figure 4 represents the manner of arranging the fastener with the article to be
fastened, in this case shown as a ball, in relation to the material but before they
are assembled together.
Figure 5 represents them assembled but not fastened.
Figure 6 represents the fastening and the ball fastened to the material.
Figure 7 is a view in section of the fastened ball at right angle to that represented
in Figure 6.
Figure 8 is a view in plan of the flanged end of the fastening after setting..
Figure 9 is a view representing the use of the fastening in the attachment of a
button to a fabric.
Figure 10 shows the use of the fastening in the securing of another form of
button to the fabric.
Figures 11 and 12 show the tubular sections or cylinders of the fastening pro-
vided with the indentations or recesses at different points in their length.
The fastening has the tubular section a, which may or may not be closed at its
end a' and which at its other end has a flange a² of any desired extent or width,
and integral with the tube.
The tube is not entirely cylindrical throughout; but is formed with one or more
inwardly extending shallow recesses or indentations a³. Where two or more of
these indentations are used, they would be upon the same level or at the same dis-
tance from the end of the fastening and should extend from the surface of the tube
preferably a uniform depth, and this depth is of course greater at the centre of
the indentation that at either end. There will be left of the tube between the
ends of the shallow recesses or indentations sections a' of the tube practically the
same or very nearly the same bore as the rest of the tube. Now, if end pressure
be applied to the tube the tube is shortened by the further folding inward of the
sections of the tube of which the indentations a' are the beginnings, and the sections a³

page_text: of the tube which are in line with said indentations a³ are caused as the tube is
shortened to be folded or extended outwardly upon a line with said indentations so
that there is in the shortened tube upon the same line the inward extending
section or sections and the outward extending sections. This provides the fastening
with laterally extending holding sections as, there being as many sections thus
extended as there are indentations, in the side of the tube, as a rule, I prefer to
use but two, and these laterally extending sections act as anchors or heads in
securing the article with which the fastening is used in place, extending from
the bore sufficiently to lap or extend upon some surface or surfaces of said article
so secured.
Where this end pressure upon the fastening is developed inside of a hollow ball
or button, the sections which are extended outwardly, come in contact with the
inner side surface of the ball and, with the top of the tube, fills the cavity so that
it is locked or secured to the material both as against an inward movement or
movement towards the material as well as against an outward movement of the ball
in relation to the fastening material, in other words, it is rigidly secured in place.
This end pressure upon the tube when extended sufficiently developes a second line
of inward folds a' at right angle to the first named or inward folds a, and permits
the upper end of the tube to shape itself to the form of the cavity of the ball in
which it is confined. The inward fold or folds thus developed vary as to extent
according to the amount of end pressure to which the fastening is subjected, and
they act to take up the excess of metal in the fastening by such variation to
such an extent that the same fastening may be employed in securing balls, etc.
to different thicknesses of material, and this is a very desirable and important
provision.
It will further be seen that while the inward folding of the metal of the tube
acts as a compensating medium, it also causes an outwardly developing fold or
folds of the section of the tube which are not folded inwardly, the action of the
metal in folding inward causing the remaining sections of the tube to be folded
outward, and this result is invariable or positive upon the application of pressure
to the end of the tube, the tube always being extended upon the line of the
indentations and folded in sections, and this is a valuable feature of the fastening
because it ensures its perfect action in fastening an article to material at all times
and under all conditions.
The method of using the fastening embraces the passing or insertion of the tubular
section thereof through a hole in the material and a hole in the article or thing to
be secured to the material of a size to receive the tubular section of the fastening,
and then causing by pressure applied to each end of the fastening the shortening of
the fastening by the development of inwardly and outwardly extending or folding
sections thereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
First. As an improved article of manufacture, a fastening having a tubular shank
in which is formed one or more short, shallow indentations, transversely arranged
on said shank as and for the purposes described.
Second. The combination of a tubular rivet having a flange at one end and one
or more short, inward folds transversely arranged in said shank and upon the same
transverse line as the inward folds and developed by them, one or more short out-
ward folds transversely arranged in said shank, with a flanged ball, button or cap
piece surrounding the shank of the rivet and held thereon by the said short
transverse outward extending fold or folds of the shank, as and for the purposes
described.
Third. The method of fastening balls, and buttons to material comprising the
taking of a fastening with a flange at one end like a tubular rivet forming in the
tubular shank of said rivet, shallow transverse indentations, making in the article

page_text: to which the ball, button or other thing is to be secured, a hole of the size of the
bore of the rivet, forming the button, ball or other thing to be attached
with a hole of about the size of the bore of the rivet: then passing the
shank of the rivet through the hole in the material and hole in the button
or other thing and then by pressure applied to both ends of the rivet causing
the shallow indentations to be developed into deep transverse inward folds
and thereby developing deep transverse outward folds upon the line of the inward
folds which act as anchors or holding projections for fastening the ball, button
or other thing in place as and for the purposes described.
Dated this 10th day of February 1891
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.