Improvements in Spring Buttons for the Fastening of Garments, Purses, or the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 28th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spring Buttons for the Fastening of Garments,
Purses, or the like.
I, PIERRE ALBERT RAYMOND, of Grenoble, (Isère) France, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to spring buttons for fastening together the parts or
flaps of gloves, boots, gaiters and garments generally or of purses, portfolios
and the like articles to which spring button fastenings can conveniently be
applied.
A spring button fastening according to my invention consists of two parts each
fixed to one of the parts or flaps that have to be fastened together. One of these
parts consists of a flat knob or button which may be of ivory, horn, celluloid, or
any other suitable material, or may be of hollow metal presenting any desired
pattern or design on the outer surface of the flap or fabric. Froin this button
there projects through the flap or fabric what may be termed a tenon, being a stem
with an enlarged rounded head.
This tenon is preferably hollow so that it can be made by stamping it out of
sheet metal, as a disc with a central projection which is swelled out to form the
tenon.
The
The button being on the one side of the fabric is fixed thereto by the disc part
of the tenon which is on the other side of the fabric by means of a tubular rivet
driven through the button so that its end is made to swell out in the interior of the
enlarged head of the tenon. Or this rivet, instead of passing through the button,
may be made in disc form with a projection like the tenon, the disc part attached
to the button and the projection swollen out within the head of the tenon.
other part of the fastening is attached to the other of the two flaps or parts that
have to be fastened. It consists of a metal disc, which may be ornamented pre-
senting itself on the one side of the flap and another disc with a central hole
presenting itself on the other side, these two discs being held together and to the
fabric by means of a tubular rivet the edges of which are by pressure made to
swell outwards into recesses within turned in lips of the discs.
The discs and rivet holding them together are so shaped as to present within
them a space in which a third disc is accommodated.
This disc has a triangular hole through its middle and is cut from one of
the angles of the hole to the circumference; it is made of elastic metal so that
it acts as a spring capable of having its hole opened a little wider and of springing
back.
When the two flaps or parts that have to be fastened are brought together,
the tenon projecting from the one flap is pushed into the central hole of the disc
on the other flap, and the enlarged head of the tenon entering the triangular hole
of the internal disc swells it out and passes through it, the disc then springing in to
embrace the smaller neck of the tenon. The two flaps or parts are thus held
ogether, but they can be separated by applying sufficient force to pull the head of
he tenon through the triangular hole.
Dated this 4th day of February 1891.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Spring Buttons for the Fastening of Garments,
...Purses, ror, the like.
* N
I. PIERRE ALBERT RAYMOND, of Grenoble, (Isère) Erance, Manufacturer, 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 relates to spring buttons for fastening together the parts or flaps of
gloves, boots, gaiters and garments generally, or of purses, portfolios and like articles
to which spring button fastenings can conveniently be applied..
The accompanying drawings represent various forms of spring buttons according
to my invention and of the parts of which they consist. As shown in the section
Fig. 1 and separately in Figs. 4 and 5 a hollow tenon A having a flange is attached
to the leather or fabric B by a tube D Figs. 6 and 7 having a flange a, which tube is
passed through a button C of metal, or of ceramic or other material, and has its lower
end swelled out by pressure so as to fill the interior of A as a rivet. Fig. 2 shews
the upper member of the fastening complete.
2
The other part of the fastening includes a cap E, Figs. 8 and 9, containing a
dished washer F, Figs. 10 and 11, which is held in E by burring over the edge of E
as shown in Fig. 12. Another washer G, Figs. 13 and .14, with tubular boss like an
eyelet, receives in a recess of its upper part a spring H, Figs. 15 and 16, having a
triangular slot open at one corner, and this is held by a dipped washer tÍ, Figs. 17
and 18, the lip of which is turned in under the edge of G as shewn in Fig. 19. When
the tubular boss of G is inserted through the leather or fabric into the interior of E
its lower edge is by pressure curved inwards and forced outwards so as to constitute
a rivet under the central hole of the washer-F,: the lower member octhe fastening
then appearing as in Fig. 3.
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As shewn in the modification Fig. 20 the fixing of A to C is effected by a
tube D Fig. 23 having a wide flange a' which is engaged in an undercut recess
of Cthe part G is shaped as shewn in Figs. 26 and 27. and has its lower lip d
spread out within the lip.c of a cap J Fig. 28. In the modification shewn in
Fig. 21, the part C' is a lipped disc. Figs. 24 and 25, having its lip turned.in-to
engage the edge of the flange at as shewn in Fig. 22. The fastening may be inverted
as shewn in Fig. 29, the spring H being held by the parts.Land G to the button C',
and the tenon A being held by D to the leather or fabric B. According to any of
the constructions. shewn the two parts of a garment or other article are fastened by
pressing the tenon A through the triangular hole of H, which, after yielding
sufficiently to allow the enlargement of A to pass, retains it unless some force is
applied to withdraw the tenon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A spring button for fastening two parts of garments or the like, by means of
a tenon attached to the one part having the enlargement passed through .the
triangular slot of a spring washer attached to the other part.
2. Fixing the tenon to the button by means of a tube having its end
expanded by pressure so as to act as a rivet within the tenon, substantially as
described.
3. The combination of the triangularly slotted spring 'H the eyelet 'G and the
lipped washer having its lip burred in, with the cap E and washer For with the
cap J, substantially.
'as described.
Dated this 09th dan of Ontabox 1001
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.