Improvements in and connected with Button Fasteners and Tools for Applying the same.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Oct., 1899
Complete Specification Left 3rd July 1900-Accepted 18th Aug. 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Button Fasteners and Tools for
Applying the same.
I, JOHN LUCKING, of 104, Leonard Street, Finsbury, in the County of London,
Manufacturer's Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a com-
munication to me by Gustav Pabst, of 25, Besenbinderhof, Hamburg, in the
German Empire, Manufacturer,) to be as follows:―
This invention relates to improved button fasteners which are connected to the
buttons so that they cannot be readily detached therefrom whereby the buttons
with their fasteners are always ready for use. The invention also relates to a tool
for attaching buttons provided with the improved fasteners.
According to the said invention the fastener which is formed of wire is provided
with an eye which is closed on to the shank of the button and is formed with
two prongs which before the button is applied may lie close together, so that they
can be separated when the fastener is being applied, or at some distance apart
so that they can be clinched towards one another. When the prongs of the
fastener are arranged to lie together I advantageously make them of wire semi-
circular in transverse section.
The tool for applying the improved fasteners has a clamp for holding the
buttons with the fasteners upon them and an anvil having inclined surfaces which
when the fastener is forced against them clinch or turn the ends of the fasteners
in the desired manner.
Dated the 3rd day of October 1899
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in and connected with Button Fasteners and Tools for
Applying the same.
I, JOIN LUCKING, of 104, Leonard Street, Finsbury, in the County of London,
Manufacturer's Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a com-
munication to me by Gustav Pabst, of 25, Besenbinderhof, Hamburg, in the
German Empire, Manufacturer), and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
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This invention relates to improved button fasteners which are connected to the

page_text: buttons so that they cannot be readily detached therefrom whereby the buttons
with their fasteners are always ready for use. The invention also relates to a tool
for attaching buttons provided with the improved fasteners.
According to the said invention the fastener which is formed of wire is provided
with an eye which is closed on to the shank of the button and is formed with
two prongs which before the button is applied may lie close together, so that they
can be separated when the fastener is being applied, or at some distance apart
so that they can be clinched towards one another. When the prongs of the
fastener are arranged to lie together I advantageously make them of wire semi-
circular in transverse section.
The tool for applying the improved fasteners has a clamp for holding the
buttons with the fasteners upon them and an anvil having inclined surfaces which
when the fastener is forced against them clinch or turn the ends of the fasteners
in the desired manner.
In the accompanying drawing :-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a fastener made according to the invention.
Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2 Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 1, but shewing the fastener applied to
a button.
Figure 4 a side elevation of my improved tool for applying the improved
fastener.
Figure 5 a plan thereof.
Figure G is a sectional side view of the upper jaw of the tool.
Figure 7 is a front view thereof;
Figure 8 is a sectional front view shewing both jaws and button and fastener
in position; and
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Figure 9 is a view similar to Figure 8 but shewing the jaws closed.
Figure 10 is a view similar to Figure 1 of a modified form of fastener.
Figures 4 and 5 are drawn to a smaller scale than Figures 1 to 3 and 6 to 10.
« is the fastener which is formed of wire and provided with an eye b which is a
closed on to the shank c of the button d; the wire which forms the fastener is in
the arrangement shewn made of semi-circular cross section so that the said two
prongs can lie close together.
The improved tool for applying buttons having my fasteners to a boot, for
example, comprises the two parts e and f respectively which are hinged together
at g and are formed at one end with handles e¹ and f¹ and at the other end with a
jaw and an anvil i respectively.
The jaw is provided on its upper face with a recess j for receiving the button
and on its front face with a recess k for receiving the eye of the fastener the
recess being connected with the recess j by a notch into which fits the shank
or eye of the button, a notch also extending from the lower end of the said
recess k to the edge of the front face of the jaw, this notch being adapted to receive
the prongs of the fastener as clearly shewn in Figure 8.
is a cover which is pivoted at to the arm e of the tool and has a handle 73
by means of which it can be turned down into the position shewn in full lines in
Figure 4 where it covers and holds the fastener or into the dotted position shewn
in the said figure to enable the button and fastener to be inserted.
m, m are the inclined surfaces or recesses with which the anvil i is provided, the
said surfaces being adapted, when the fastener is forced against them by pulling
the handles e and f¹ together against the action of the spring n to turn over the
ends of the prongs of the fastener in the manner shewn in Figure 9 thus causing
the said ends to clinch the fastener into the material A to which the button is to
be applied.
As above described the fastener can be made with the end of the prongs some
distance apart as shewn in Figure 10; in this case the said ends will be turned
inwards towards one another instead of outwards when the fastener is clinched by
the tool in the above described manner.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. The combination with a button of a fastener having an eye which is per-
manently closed on to the shank of the said button, substantially as and for the
purpose herein before described.
2. A tool for applying fasteners of the kind described comprising a pair of
hinged levers one of which has an anvil with inclined surfaces and the other a jaw
recessed to receive the button and fastener, substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. The improved button fasteners and tool for applying the same hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 3rd day of July 1900.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
. 4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
.4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.