Improvements in Garment Fasteners.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1896-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1896
Improvements in Garment Fasteners.
I, OTTE VAN OOSTRUM, Inventor, of Portland, in the County of Multnomah
and State of Oregon, United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of
my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of the invention is to provide an improved fastener adapted for
fastening gloves, suspenders and various other articles.
The invention consists in the novel features hereinafter particularly described
and defined in the claims.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
in all the figures.
Figure 1 is a plan view of what I term the socket member of the fastening ;
Figure 2 is a plan view of the stud member applied;
Figure 3 is a sectional elevation of the socket member taken on the line 3-3 in
Figure 1 before being clamped to the garment;
Figure 4 is a sectional elevation taken through both the stud and socket members
showing the same in the fastened positions ;
Figure 5 is a plan view of the socket member with the cap plate of the casing
in section;
Figure 6 is a perspective view of an interior plate forming part of the socket
member;
Figure 7 is a rear view of the stud member;
Figure 8 is a vertical sectional view of such stud member;
Figure 9 is a similar view showing the stud member secured to the garment or
fabric;
Figure 10 is a perspective view of the stud member;
Figure 11 is a front or face view of a slightly modified form of the stud member
with the cap plate removed;
Figure 12 is a vertical sectional view of the same with the cap plate in
place; and
Figure 13 is a perspective view of a modification of a part of the socket member,
which will be hereinafter referred to.
It will be understood that the special form of parts illustrated is designed to
show a preferred construction, and the details may be varied in practice. As
illustrated there is a stud A, and what I term a socket member B into which the
stud head enters and in which it is permitted lateral movement, the socket member
having a spring acted follower for preventing retrograde movement of the stud.
The socket member has a tubular part b flanged at the top and bottom when in
place, as in Figure 4, providing essentially an eyelet form, the bottom or inner
flange b' serving to clamp the part to the fabric or garment at the inside, and in
connection with this tubular part b a bottom plate c and a cap plate d are employed.
The bottom plate c has a flange cat right angles or approximately so which is
parallel to and within the tubular part b and the extreme edge is offset forming a
flange parallel with the body of plate e and resting on the upper or outer flange b
of tubular part b, and the edge d of cap plate d is inturned and clamps both

page_text: flanges, 6, and completes the connection of the socket member of the fastener to
the fabric or garment C. The bottom plate c and cap plate d thus may be said to
form a casing which is held in place by the tubular part or eyelet b.
The cap plated in this construction is made to provide the surfaces with which
the stud member A engages by forming said cap plate with an opening of key-
hole or equivalent shape, through which the head a of the stud may enter the
socket member B and in which opening the stud may have a sliding movement,
that is a movement in the direction of the plane of the socket member after the
head of the stud has entered the socket by a movement at right angles to the
said plane.
Within the socket member B there is arranged a spring acted device which has
a movement, or yields, in the plane of the socket member or approximately in said
plane upon the entrance of the stud and acts as a lateral follower for the stud head
in the lateral locking movement of the stud, and which yields again to permit a
retrograde or releasing movement of the stud. In Figures 1, 3, 4 and 5, this
follower device consists of a slide e which rests on a plate which lies on the
bottom plate c and this plate f has integral tongues f¹ punched up to project above
the surface of the plate, said tongues serving to retain in position a spring 9, the
ends g' of the spring being curved toward each other and bearing against the back
of the slide e and serving to maintain its front edge in line with the larger end of
the key hole orifice d2 of cap plate d. In this position the slide e is arrested by
the tongues f, or any other stop device. The frout edge of slide e where it is
adjacent to the orifice d' is beveled as at el and also preferably it is concaved at the
beveled portion, as clearly shown, this formation serving to facilitate the sliding
movement of the stud.
In Figures 7 to 10 is shown one form of the stud and in Figures 11 and 12
another, but the head of the stud and its relation to the shank is the same in both
cases. Thus the head a in Figures 8 to 10 is formed integrally with a tubular
shank a¹ which in turn is integral with the base plate a which is formed with
tongues or spurs a³ at its edge; the said tongues being bent at right angles to the
base plate are passed through the fabric or garment C, and then bent down on the
latter, the points of the tongues being bent downward into the tubular shank.
The head a it will be observed projects at two sides only of the shank, the latter
being flattened, the said projecting sides being adapted for engagement with the
cap plate d at the sides of the narrowed portions of the key hole orifice d² while
there will be no shoulder or projection at that side of the head facing the back
edge d³ at the enlarged portion of the orifice, the head at such side being flush
.with the shank or substantially so, and thus it cannot engage with the edge d when
the stud is being released.
The stud shown in Figures 11 and 12, it will be understood has a tapering
shank a and has an annular groove providing a head a projecting at two sides
only, the same as just described, but the head and shank are solid. The back of
the base a is covered by a cap plate as which is clamped at the edge to the said
base by means of a washer a' which is forced onto the tapering shank a.
In Figure 13 the plate f2 is designed as a modification of plate f, and it is formed
with a tongue 3 shown stamped up therefrom, and this tongue is bent to present a
side surface to the head, and it is shaped to give it a bevel and a curve as shown,
the construction being such that the tongue will range transversely of the socket
member, and flex in the plane of the latter or approximately so and serve the
purpose of the spring slide e as a follower for the stud head in the lateral locking
movement of said stud.
It will be observed that the socket member and its plate fare shown oval
instead of round, this being designed as a simple means of preventing rotary
movement of said plate. In practice the cap plate d is slightly dished to guide
the head of the stud A into the perforation of said cap plate and assure strength to
the latter.

page_text: 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. A fastener for wearing apparel, comprising a headed stud and a socket.
member having an orifice for receiving the head of the stud and which permits a
sliding movement of the stud in said socket member in the plane of the latter, and
a spring acted follower for the head, the follower having a movement approximately
in the plane of the socket member, the stud acting to move said follower both in
being entered and disengaged from the socket, substantially as described.
2. The herein described fastener for wearing apparel, comprising a stud having
a head projecting beyond the shank, and a socket member having a key-hole orifice
and a spring acted follower at the larger end of said orifice, the stud being movable
into the narrowed portion of the orifice and the follower exerting a pressure
toward said narrowed portion of the orifice, substantially as described.
3. The herein described fastener for wearing apparel, comprising a stud and a
socket member having an orifice, in which said stud has a sliding movement in the
plane of the socket member, and a spring acted follower having a beveled surface
adjacent to the orifice, the follower having a lateral movement toward and from the
orifice, the stud acting to move said follower both in being entered and disengaged.
from the socket, substantially as described.
4. The herein described fastener for wearing apparel, comprising a stud having
a flattened shank and projecting head, and a socket member having a key hole
orifice for receiving the stud and in which the latter has sliding movement, for
engaging the head with the socket at opposite sides of the narrower part of the
orifice, and a spring acted follower serving to press the stud into the narrowed part.
of said orifice, substantially as described.
5. In a garment fastener, a socket member having a casing formed with a key-
hole orifice, a follower plate within the casing, and a bowed spring having its free
ends inturned toward each other and pressing on the back of the follower plate,
said spring normally maintaining the follower plate partly across the key-hole
orifice of the casing substantially as described.
6. In a garment fastener, a stud comprising a head, a hollow shank and a base,
the hollow of the shank extending through the base, and the base having peripheral
flexible tongues of a length greater than the distance from their base to the hollow
shank, substantially as described.
7. In a garment fastener, a socket member of eyelet form, having a front plate
formed with a key-hole orifice, a plate back of the front plate and spaced from the
latter, a spring-acted follower between said plates for engaging a stud entering the
key-hole orifice, and a tubular member having at its front or upper edge a flange,
said flange and the edges of the two plates being clamped together, and the inner
or opposite edge of the tubular part forming a second clamping flange for
completing the eyelet and securing the socket member to the garment, substantially
as described.
8. The key-hole opening and spring follower when provided in a socket member
of eyelet form, substantially as described.
9. The stud member as shown in Figures 11 and 12, the same having a washer
clamping the device to the fabric in the manner described.
Dated this 23rd day of June 1896.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53 Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.