Improvements in Buttons and Fastenings therefor.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by THE SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, of
Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.]
Improvements in Buttons and Fastenings therefor.
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 performeil, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being made to
the accompanying drawings forming part of this Specification, and in which :-
Figure 1, represents a side view of a button having a tubular shank contracted so
that the fastening device may be integral with the button.
Figure 2, side view of the socket for the attachment of the button.
Figure 3, central section through the socket as applied to the material to which
the button is to be attached.
Figure 4, vertical section through the button of Fig. 1, as attached through the
socket.
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Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8, represent modifications in the construction of the fastening
devices.
This invention relates to an improvement in device for attaching buttons to
wearing apparel, and for like purposes, and particularly to that class of buttons in
which a shank passes through the garment or material to which the button is to
be attached, as a means for securing the button, the shank in some cases being
formed upon the button, and in others formed upon a fastening which introduced
on the reverse side from the button, enters the button; this makes a metal
connection or fastening through the garment.
Generally this fastening has been introduced directly through the fabric, and so
as to bear upon opposite sides of the fabric, the fabric itself forming the sockot
for the support of the button, and so that the strain upon the button is brought
directly upon the fabric, in such case it frequently occurs that the fabric gives
way and the fastening pulls through.
To obviate this difficulty is the object of the present invention, and it consists
essentially in providing a metal socket through the fabric, made fast in the fabric
independent of the button, and through which socket the shank or fastening devico
passes, and so as to take a bearing within the said socket.
In carrying out the invention various constructions of button or fastening
devices may be employed.
The socket through which the button is secured is made in the form of a metal
tube a, Fig. 2, constructed with a flange b, around one end, and substantially in
the forin of a metal eyelet, the internal diameter of this tube corresponding to
the diameter required for the socket. This tube is introduced through the material.
to which the button is to be attached, c, Fig. 3, representing this material, a hole
being first made through the material for the introduction of the tube, and so
that the flange b, will come to a bearing upon one side, then the other end of
the tube is spread to form a similar bole made in the material, and the two
flanges bd firmly grasp the material between them. This secures the socket in
the material, and prepares it ready to receive the button.
As represented in Fig. 4, the button e, is constructed with a tubular shank f, this
shank is secured to the button by closing the metal which forms the button around a
flange g, formed on the upper edge of the shank f; the shank f, is of larger diameter
than the diameter of the socket a, but toward the lower end of the tube it is contracted,
as at h, to a diameter substantially the same as that of the socket, but of a length
greater than the distance through the socket. The reduction of the shank forms

page_text: substantially a shoulder i, which is adapted to rest on the face side of the socket, the
contracted portion extending through the socket, as represented in broken lines Fig. 4,
and so as to bring the shoulder i, to a bearing upon the other side of the socket, the
projecting end of the shank is then spread and closed upon the socket, as clearly seen
in Fig. 4, which firmly secures the button in place.
Or, the construction may be as seen in Fig. 5, in which the button e is constructed
with a shank f, formed with a flange l, around its lower end to rest upon the face side
of the socket, then a fastener composed of a tubular shank m, of an external diameter
corresponding to the internal diameter of the socket and of the shank f, and provided
with a head n, at one end, considerably larger than the opening through the socket,
and so that the shank of the fastener may be introduced from the reverse side of the
socket, and pass into the shank of the button, the upper end of the shank being
deflected by an anvil o, within the button, so as to turn that end p of the shank
between the said anvil and the back of the button, all as clearly seen in Fig. 5.
Or, the button may be made as seen in Fig. 6, the button and shank f made in one
and the same piece of metal, there being a hole through the shank corresponding to
the hole through the socket, and the fastener in this case is in the form of an eyelet r,
introduced through the face side of the button and through the socket, bringing the
button to bear upon the face side of the socket, while the other end of the shank is
closed upon the socket, all as clearly seen in Fig. 6.
Or, the shank similar to that seen in Fig. 4, may be introduced into a button made
in two parts, as seen in Fig. 7, A, representing the face and B, the back of the
button, the face of the button being constructed with a concave recess in its centre
forming a convex anvil C, upon the inside of the button, the back of the button having
a corresponding hole through it, the shank having a flange upon its end, is introduced
so as to bring the flange between the back and the anvil C, and the. button is applied
the same as seen in Fig. 4.
In Figure 8, a covered button is represented, D, representing the face of the
button, the solid black lines representing the covering. To secure the covering a
disk E is introduced upon the inside of the face of the button, the back B, which is
the same as the back of Figure 7, is constructed with a like central hole in it, and the
shank, is arranged through that opening, as in Figure 7, but that the disk E may
bear firmly upon the turned in edge of the fabric, a flanged plug F, is introduced,
the body of the plug corresponding to the internal diameter of the shank f, and the
head, so as to bear upon the disk e, and so that when the parts are closed together,
the disk will firmly grasp the turned in edge of the covering material.
The head n, of the fastener, Fig. 5, may be covered in the usual manner for covering
buttons, if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondents I declare that what I claim is :-
In a button fastening, the combination of a button having a shank adapted to take
a seat upon the surface to which the button is to be applied, with a metal socket such
as described introduced into the fabric independent of the button and so as to form a
metal bushed hole through which the button may be secured, and a fastening device
substantially such as described adapted to take a bearing upon that side of the socket.
opposite the bearing where the button is applied, and so as to secure the button
through the said socket, substantially as described.
Dated this 4th day of November 1890.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.