Improvements in Fastenings for Gloves and other Articles of Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1892-Accepted. 17th Dec., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by THE CONSOLIDATED FASTENER COMPANY, of
Portland, County of Cumberland and State of Maine, United States of
America, Manufacturers of Buttons and Fasteners.]
Improvements in Fastenings for Gloves and other Articles of
Wearing Apparel.
I HENRY HARRIS LAKE of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co. Patent Agents
45 Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex 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 spring or snap button fasteners for gloves and garments,
and consists mainly in the manner of riveting or clinching the parts of the fastener
to the material. Fasteners of this class, consist of two members, a button or stud
member mounted on one flap of the glove or garment, and a button hole or socket
member mounted on the opposite flap thereof. Each member is ordinarily sent
out to the trade in two parts which, in attaching to the glove or garment, are
clinched together through the material thereof. To this end one part of each
member is ordinarily provided with a riveting portion, which passes through the
glove material and co-acts with certain clinching devices contained in the other,
part, a common construction being to provide for this riveting portion a tubular
eyelet projecting from one part, which cyclet is rolled or turned outwardly, by an
anvil contained in the opposite part, and thus serves to clinch the two parts;
together through the material.
It often happens that this clinching, or outward turning of the tubular eyelet is
so slight that the parts are imperfectly held together, so that they become separated
when subjected to wear. Such a tubular eyelet cuts out a hole through the glove
material, thereby weakening it to some extent and when clinched together the
whole fastener may be turned around in the fabric thus wearing the hole larger
and larger and causing the fastener to become loose.
Moreover, when the riveting eyelet in the button hole member is made, integral
with the stud enclosing chamber, which is a common construction, it becomes,
necessary to make the whole chamber of a grade of brass or other metal suitable
for clinching, which makes the cost higher than would be necessary were the rivet,
made separate from the chamber, and the chamber itself of cheaper material. In
my improved fastener, I am enabled to make the stud receiving chamber of tin or
low grade brass, while I employ a separate two pronged steel rivet of peculiar
shape, adapted to be used in both the button and the button hole members of the
fastener, for securing the two parts together. The construction is such that
imperfect clinching of the parts is impossible as the two prongs of the rivet are so
far turned outward as to render the separation of the parts impossible. With such
a rivet, moreover, none of the material is cut away, but is simply punctured by the
two prongs of the rivet, so that the whole fastener when set cannot be turned in
the leather and can never wear loose. The details are as hereinafter set forth.
Referring to the accompanying drawings:-
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Fig. shows in section the two main parts of the button hole member of a
fastener embodying my invention in position for being clinched together with the
material of the glove or garment between them.
Fig. 2 shows the complete button hole member mounted in place on the material.
Fig. 3 shows the two main parts of a button member adapted to engage with
said button hole member, said parts with the material on which they are to bo
mounted, being shown in proper relative position for clinching together.
Fig. 4 shows the complete button member, with parts clinched together.

page_text: Fig. 5 shows in section the rivet, and
Fig. 6 shows a modified form of button..
E is the stud receiving chamber which may be made of tin or low grade brass
and as shown in the drawings has a flaring mouth over which is clinched the
flanged stud grasping lip F, preferably of brass.
The rivet portion consists of a separate flanged two pronged rivet L preferably
made of steel in the shape shown in Fig. 5. The head or flange of the rivet is
dished or concaved, while the two prongs 1, which are flat and taper slightly from
the head to the ends thereof, are bevelled or faced off at on the inner faces
thereof, so that when they come in contact with a convexly rounded anvil they
will spread or roll outward. The top of the chamber or socket E is provided with
an opening of such size that the rivet L may be driven or forced therein and is
held tightly when once in place, the curve of the head or Hange of the rivet,
conforming to the inner curve of the chamber top as shown in Fig. 1.
The pieces E, F and L put together in the manner described constitute one main
part of the button hole member. The other part, or that which rests above the
material R of the glove has a cover A which contains suitable anvil and retaining
devices for acting on the prongs of the stud.
As shown, C is a doubly flanged retaining piece around the outer flange of which
the cover A is rounded in, while B is an anvil piece having the central rounded
anvil nipple b, said anvil piece being interposed between the pieces A and C
leaving a space c within which the prongs of the rivet turn.
The two parts of the button hole member being forced together between suitable
dies, the prongs are driven through the material S simply puncturing said material
like needles without removing any of the same thereby differing from the tubular
eyelet ordinarily employed which cuts out quite a large hole in the material
thereby weakening it in many cases considerably.
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The bevelled portion on the prongs 7 meeting the curved anvil surface of the
piece B cause said prongs under continued pressure to spread widely outward
within the retaining space e, holding the parts firmly together as shown in Fig. 2
beyond any possibility of being pulled apart, or being turned in the material.
Referring to the button miember, I have shown in Figs. 3 and 4.one form of
flanged resilient stud Hadapted to engage with the chamber or socket E of the
button hole member which is unresilient.
Within the stud H is the supporting eyelet K, with its flange against the bottom
of the flange of the stud H.
The rivet L is placed with its flange against the bottom of the eyelet K, and the
parts K, H, and Lare held together by the collet M.
The clinching and retaining part in this case consists of the anvil piece G
provided with the central nipple g, the outer portion of the anvil piece being
clinched in around the retaining washer G, and the two main parts of the button
being clinched together in a similar manner to the parts of the button hole
member.
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It is immaterial to my invention which member of the fastener is resilient. If
the stud be unresilient instead of the socket, a resilient socket must be employed,
in which case the lip F may be slit or cut to give the desired spring.
In either case the body of the socket E may be made of tin or cheaper metal,
while the lip only, need be made of brass since the lip is the only part of the
chamber that comes in contact with the stud.
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A simpler form of stud H provided with the cut slit is shown in Fig. 6 wherein
the flange of the stud is bent inward directly under the flange of the rivet L, while
the prongs of the rivet are rounded out on the under side of the glove material S,
without the employment of a washer. This manner of turning the prongs of the
stud directly against the glove material may be advantageously used when the
said material is very thick and heavy.
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In the stud the concavity of the rivet head is useful when the edge of the rivet
head comes opposite the rolled in neck of the stud all around, as shown in Figs. 3, 4

page_text: and 6 as it acts in such a case to greatly strengthen the stud during the process of
clinching the parts together.
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. A spring button fastener member assembled in two parts, one of which is
provided with a separate flanged two-pronged rivet, while the other contains
suitable clinching and retaining devices, substantially as described.
2. The button hole member of a spring fastener assembled in two parts one of
which consists of a stud receiving socket provided with a separate flanged two-
pronged rivet, while the other part consists of a cover provided with anvil and
retaining pieces, substantially as described.
3. The button hole member of a spring fastener assembled in two parts one of
which consists of a stud receiving bell-shaped socket provided with a stud grasping
flanged lip and having a separate flanged two-pronged rivet, while the other part
consists of a cover provided with anvil and retaining pieces, substantially as
described.
4. A spring button fastener member provided with a separate flanged rivet L
having two wedge shaped prongs faced off at on the inner faces thereof,
substantially as described.
5. The button member of a spring fastener assembled in two parts one of which
consists of a flanged stud provided with a separate two-pronged flanged rivet,
while the other part consists of an anvil and retaining washer, substantially as
described.
6. A button member of a spring fastener consisting of a flanged stud in com-
bination with a two-pronged flanged rivet secured to the flange of said stud,
substantially as described.
7. A spring button fastener consisting of a stud member and a socket member,
the stud member consisting of a flanged stud provided with a separate two-pronged
flanged rivet and the socket member consisting of a socket provided with a
separate flanged two-pronged rivet, and a cover provided with an anvil and retain-
ing piece, substantially as described.
Dated this 25th day of October 1802
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.