AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MANUFACTURING HORN OR OTHER BUTTONS HAVING METAL PLATES STAMPED OR PRESSED ON SAME
Year: 1884

page_text: I CARL BEHER, Button Manufacturer of N° 16 Hütten in the Town of
Königstein in the Kingdom of Saxony and German Empire do hereby declare the
nature of my Invention for AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MANUFACTURING HORN
OR OTHER BUTTONS HAVING METAL PLATES STAMPED OR PRESSED ON
SAME and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:―
THE
This Invention relates to a method of manufacturing horn and other buttons so
that the same can be covered by a metal or metallic plate or so that a metallic
plate can be pressed in or onto the said button of horn or other material.
The difficulties heretofore experienced in carrying out this apparently simple
operation, laid in the variation in the density inherent to horn as the said
horn must be taken from different parts of the hoof and varies considerably in
hardness.
.
In consideration of these circumstances I employ a novel arrangement or device
which forms the characteristic part of the present Invention.
Figure 1 represents my said improved device in section.
Figure 2 represents the rear side of the button.
Figure 3 is a section of the finished button.
Figure 4 a section of the horn dise and Figure 5 a section of the metallic plate b
showing the flange c. The bottom or inner surface of the double form die or
matrix a a is provided with a suitable engraved or other ornament above or over
which a thin sheet of metal b is laid the edges of which said thin sheet of
metal are so bent over that they form a kind of hook or inwards projecting
flange c.
The disc or plate of horn d is of suitable size so that little play is left between
the edge c of the metallic plate b and the dise or plate of horn & which is now
laid over the said metallic plate.
The said double form, die or matrix a is now closed by inserting the piston or
anvil e which is provided with suitable recesses ƒ for forming the shanks to the
buttons.
The double form die or matrix with the metallic and horn plates or discs and the
piston or anvil is or are now placed in a suitable stove or oven and heated up to
about 90° Centigrade or 194 Fabrenheit in order to render the mass of the horn
soft and pliant.

page_text: The said double form, die or matrix, piston or anvil and the contents of the said
form die or matrix is or are now placed in a suitable press, subjected to pressure,
and the horn or hornyinass so pressed between the hooked or flange like edge c of
the metallic plate b and above the same, so that the said metallic plate is firmly
fixed in the said horn or horny mass when the same has been allowed to cool.
The design in the form die or matrix a presses itself simultaneously into the
metallic plate b and the horn disc d so that the said metallic plate is still further
connected to the horn.
The horn and metal parts are, as shown in Figure 3 so firmly connected that
they cannot be separated. If the metallic plates were to be provided with a simple
edge bent over the periphery of the button the various densities of the horn which
are rendered even more prominent by the heating operation would render it
probable that the pre-sed flange or edge would not sit firmly on the horn mass so
that the metallic plate would readily separate itself from the horn and be lost.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The method of manufacturing horn buttons with sheet metal coating or covering
characterised by the simultaneous impression of the device engraved in the forms,
dies or matrices a into the metallic plate b and the horn disc d and also by the
firm connection between the metallic covering and the horn which said firm
attachment is attained by means of the bent Hange c of the said metallic plate b
which said flange catches or hooks itself into the mass of the horn and is covered
by the same substantially as described in the foregoing Specification and shown in
the accompanying Drawing.