Improvements in Hand Button Setting Implements.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1896-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in Hand Button Setting Implements.
A communication by the MCKENNEY BUTTON FASTENING COMPANY, of
Detroit, in the County of Wayne and State of Michigan, United States of
America.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester both in the County of Lancaster, 118 New Street, Birmingham in
the County of Warwick and 322 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, Civil
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 an improved hand button setting implement, and it
consists of the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter
specified and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-
Figure 1 is a view of the implement in side elevation, the device being in
inoperative position.
Fig. 2 is a view in front elevation.
Fig. 3 is a view of one of the jaws partly in vertical section.
Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of the button holder.
Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line 5-5, Fig. 4.
Fig. 6 is a side elevation showing the parts in operative position, a portion of
the handle of the lever being in section.
Fig. 7 is an inverted plan view of a portion of the device.
Fig. 8 is a detail view of the seat for the fastening, the same disclosing a
modification.
Fig. 9 is a view partly in longitudinal section, on the line 9-9, Fig. 8.
Fig. 10 is a view in cross section, on the line 10-10, Fig. 6.
Fig. 11 is a detail view showing a die face on one end of the spindle.
Fig. 12 shows the spindle with a die setting face on the opposite end.
This invention is designed to provide a hand button setting implement of simple
and economical construction and of superior efficiency, whereby buttons of various
sizes and kinds may be secured by a suitable staple upon any article of apparel or
any article to which buttons are applied.
This invention is particularly designed to apply to all varieties of commercial
buttons, the same not being limited to any specified form or style or construction
of a button.
The invention is carried out as follows:
In the drawings, A represents a jaw provided with a handle and having at one
end thereof two arms A 2 and A 3. B is an operating lever fulcrumed intermediate
its ends upon the jaw A, as shown at A 4. The lever is preferably forked at its
outer extremities, the two forks b and 61 embracing the adjacent portions of the
jaw A. The lever B is preferably fulcrumed to the jaw A rearward of the
arms A 2, A 3. The jaw A 2 carries, or is formed with a seat for a fastening,
indicated at A 5, which may be of any desired construction within the scope of
the invention. In Figures 2 and 3, a single seat is shown, and in Figures 8 and 9,

page_text: an adjustable. slide movably engaged with the arm A2 is shown. Thus, the
slide A 6, as shown in Figures 8 and 9, may have a dove-tailed or other suitable
sliding engagement with the arm A 2. This slide A 6 is formed with a series of
graduated seats A 5. The under face of the slide A 6 may be screw tapped at
various points, as indicated at a, to receive a set screw a 1 passed through the
arm A 2 and holding the slide in place in any given position of adjustment. The
use of the slide A 6 with the graduated seats A 5 thereon is designed for various
sizes of fastenings. At the sides of the arm A 2 are located clamps C, C1, for
holding a fastening upon the seat. These clamps consist of spring arms pivotally
connected at their rear extremities to the arm A 2, as indicated at c, the clamps
having an oscillatory engagement with the pivots at c, so that the forward ends of
the clamps may have a vertical movement while at the same time they are per.nitted
to spring laterally. The lateral faces of the arm A 2 adjacent to the seat are
preferably beveled, as indicated at a 2 and a 3, the adjacent surfaces of the clamps.
being similarly formed, whereby the pressure of the work may force the forward
ends of the jaws downward and laterally apart and away from the seat of the
fastening, so as to release the fastening when it has been set upon the button. The
upper edges of the clamps are constructed and arranged to act over the head of
the fastening.
D indicates a suitable two pronged fastening. In Figure 9 the slide A 6 is
shown in position for a fastening to be held upon the middle seat A 5 in full lines,
the dotted lines indicating an adjusted position. The clamps C, C1 are preferably
provided with lugs or spurs, indicated in Figure 7 at cl and c2, projecting into
corresponding recesses in the under side of the arm A 2. These spurs c1, c2 hold
the clamps from displacement, permitting them to spring downward preventing
their springing upward beyond their normal position.
The jaw A 3 is constructed with a vertical orifice, indicated at a 4, through
which is sleeved a die spindle E, provided with a suitable die setting face at its
lower end. The upper end of the die spindle E is connected by a yoke F with the
forward ends of the forks b, b1 of the operating lever B. The yoke may have
any suitable connection with one end of the die spindle, as shown at f. By forming
the spindle with die setting faces at each eud, as indicated in Figure 11, it may
readily be reversed for use with fastenings of different sizes. It will be evident
that the die spindle is reciprocated through the forward end of the arm A 3 by the
movement of the operating lever B.
G denotes a button holder which is shown supported upon an arm G 1, as by
means of an adjusting screw G 2 passed through said arin, by means of which
screw the button holder may have a vertical movable engagement with the
arm G 1 simply by the rotation of the screw which is preferably provided with
a nut g.
The
The arm GI is carried by two spindles H, H1 sleeved through the forward
extremity of the arm A 3, whereby the arm G 1 may have a vertically reciprocatory
movement. The spindle H is provided with a retracting spring H 2.
spindles H and H 1 are provided with a pressure arm H 3, whereby said spindles
may be reciprocated through the arm A 3 independently of the die spindle and
independently of the action of the operating lever B.
The button holder plate G is made oscillatory upon the screw G 2 and is pro-
vided at its forward edge with a series of button holding recesses of different sizes,
indicated at g 1, for various sizes of buttons. Said plate is also provided with a
device, indicated at g 2, for holding a shoe button or other shank button. The
recesses g 1 are designed more particularly to hold flat, eyed, or bar buttons.
The device g2 shown herewith for holding a shank button, may be of any
suitable construction, but, as indicated in the drawings, consists of a bar g 3
constructed with an orifice g 4, through which the die spindle may project, the
bar G 3 being provided with spring clamps g 5 to engage the shank of the button.
The plate G is preferably formed with a series of orifices g 6, and the adjacent
portion of the arm G 1 is formed with a stop indicated in Figure 3 at g7,

page_text: to enter any given orifice g6 to hold the plate G in any given position of
adjustment.
It will be perceived, especially by reference to Figure 6, that the downward
pressure of the spindle upon the button, as the die spindle is forced toward the
fastening, carries the button holding plate downward therewith in a corresponding
manner. The die spindle is automatically retracted by a retracting spring B1
exerting its tension against the jaw A and lever B.
B2 is a receptacle engaged in the lever B. The handle of this lever may be
made hollow on its under side, into which hollowed portion may be engaged a case J
provided with a removable cover J 1.
The receptacle B2 is provided for holding different sizes of interchangeable
dies. When these interchangeable dies are to he employed, they may have a
removable engagement with the lower extremity of the die spindle, as indicated in
dotted lines in Figure 6.
It will be apparent that the spring H 2 serves to hold the button holding device
with a button when thereupon, against the die, Figure 6 showing a button held
thus against the die. By this means the button is held in place during the
operation of setting the fastening in connection therewith.
In Figure 11, e indicates the die setting face at one end of the spindle A, and
in Figure 12, e1 indicates the die setting face at the opposite extremity of the
spindle.
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 :-
1. In a hand button setting implement, the combination of a jaw provided with
arms A 2, A 3, and an operating handle, a lever B fulcrumed to said handle and
itself provided with an operating handle, a die spindle having a reciprocatory
movement through the forward end of the arm A 3 and connected with the
forward end of the operating lever, a button holding device, an additional spindle
carrying said button holding device at its lower end and having a reciprocatory
movement through the forward end of the arm A 3, said button holding device
made reciprocatory independently of the reciprocation of the die spindle, and said
arm A 3 provided with a seat for a fastening, substantially as set forth.
2. In a hand button setting implement, the combination of a jaw provided with
arms A 2 and A 3, one of which arms is provided with a seat for a fastening,
clamps to hold a fastening upon the seat, said clamps being vertically reciprocatory
and laterally movable, a die spindle sleeved through the forward extremity of the
arm A 3, a graduated button holding device, a reciprocatory spindle carried by the
arm A 3 supporting said button holding device, said device made adjustable to
hold different sizes of buttons, and an operating lever fulcrumed to said jaw to
reciprocate the die spindle, substantially as set forth.
3. In a hand button setting implement, the combination of a jaw provided with
arms A 2, A 3, and an operating handle, a die spindle sleeved through the forward
end of the arm A 3, an operating lever to reciprocate the die spindle, fulcrumed to
said handle and itself provided with an operating handle, an additional spindle
sleeved through the forward end of the arm A 3, an arm G 1 carried by the last
named spindle, and a button holding device having an adjustable engagement with
the arm G 1, substantially as set forth.
4. In a hand button setting implement, the combination of a jaw provided with
arms A 2, A 3, a die spindle sleeved through the arm A 3, an operating lever
fulcrumed to said jaw, a yoke connecting the upper extremity of the die spindle
to the said lever, spindles H, H 1 sleeved through the arm A 3, an arm G 1 carried
by the spindles H, H 1, a button holding plate G having an adjustable engagement
with the arm G 1, substantially as set forth.
5. In a hand button setting implement, the combination of a jaw A provided
with a handle, and having at one end thereof arms A 2, A 3, a die spindle

page_text: reciprocatory through the arm A 3, a spindle H having a reciprocatory engagement
with the arm A 3, an adjustable button holding device carried by said latter
spindle provided with means to hold various sizes and kinds of ordinary commercial
: buttons, and an operating lever fulcrumed to said jaw and provided with a handle
adjacent to the handle of said jaw to reciprocate the die spindle, substantially as
Aset forth.
6. In a hand button setting implement, the combination of a jaw A provided
with arms A 2, A 3, a die spindle sleeved through the arm A3, an operating lever
fulcrumed to said jaw to reciprocate the die spindle, a reciprocatory button holding
plate carried by the arm A 3, said plate formed with graduated button holding
recesses and with a device to hold a shauk button, substantially as set forth.
7. lu a hand button setting implement, the combination of a jaw provided with
arms A 2, A 3, a reciprocatory die spindle, an operating lever fulcrumed to said
jaw to reciprocate said spindle, one of said arms provided with an adjustable
device having a series of seats for different sizes of fastenings, substantially as set
forth.
8. In a hand button setting implement, the combination of a jaw provided with
arms A 2, A 3, a reciprocatory die spindle, an operating lever fulcrumed to the
jaw. to reciprocate said spindle, spindles H, H1 sleeved through the arm A 3, a
button holding device carried by the spindles H, H 1, and a pressure arm H 3 to
reciprocate the spindles H, H 1, substantially as set forth.
9. In a hand button setting implement, the combination of a jaw A, a reciprocatory
die spindle sleeved through said jaw, an operating lever to reciprocate the die
spindle, and an adjustable button holding device having a reciprocatory engage-
ment with the jaw, the button holding device made reciprocatory with the
reciprocation of the die spindle and independently thereof, substantially as set
forth.
10. In a hand button setting implement, the combination of a jaw, a reciprocatory
die spindle sleeved through said jaw, an operating lever to reciprocate said spindle,
a reciprocatory arm G 1 carried by said jaw, and a button holding device having
a vertically and laterally movable engagement with the arm G 1, substantially as
...set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of December 1896.