Improvements in Fastening Devices for Buttons and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastening Devices for Buttons and the like.
I, ERNST VIKTOR NORDLING, of Upsala, in the Kingdom of Sweden, 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:
My invention has for its object a simple arrangement or device by which buttons
coat-hangers and the like may be easily fixed to cloth, skin or other soft materials
and when desired as easily detached therefrom.
The accompanying drawing shows three modifications of my device applied to
buttons.
The said invention consists in providing the under side of the button or the under
side of a plate or foot a fixed to the button-head with two or more spirals 6 of
equal length, parallel one with the other and having pointed ends, the said spiral
being made of steel or other suitable material. By arranging the spirals at the
same distance from the centre of the foot and making them of equal length, the
pointed ends will be directed one against the other. If therefore the spirals are
screwed into a soft material as for instance, cloth or skin in a direction contrary to
the direction of the spirals and up to their fastening point, the button will be firmly
secured to the said cloth.
In order to prevent the button from loosening itself and sliding out of the cloth
various devices may be provided. In the drawing are shown three arrangements
for this purpose.
On the button shown in Figures 5 and 6 the spirals are provided with barbs c
arranged in such manner that they do not prevent the screwing in of the spirals,
but on the other hand prevent their screwing or turning in the other direction. If
the button however is to be fixed in such a manner that it may be easily removed
one of the arrangements shown in Figures 1 and 2 or in Figures 3 and 4 may
be used.
According to Figures 1 and 2 two or more nails or spikes d are rigidly fixed to
the bottom plate of the button in a direction contrary to that of the spirals, and as
shown in Figures 3 and 4 nails or spikes d' are secured to the bottom of the button
but these are movably fixed on a pivot or the like, so that after the screwing in of
the spirals they may be inserted into the cloth.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination of a button head with two or more spirals of equal length
parallel one with the other and fixed at the same distance from the centre of the
button head and having pointed ends.
2. The combination of a button head with two or more spirals of equal length
parallel one with the other and fixed at the same distance from the centre of the
button head and having pointed ends and barbs.
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3. The combination of a button head with two or more spirals of equal length
parallel one with the other and fixed at the same distance from the centre of the
button bead the said button head having nails or spikes rigidly or movably applied
to it close to the fastening points of the spirals.
Dated this 30th day of October 1892
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.