Improvements in Buttons and in Attachments for Braces and other Articles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 14th May, 1888 ·
Specification Accepted, 15th June, 1888
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buttons and in Attachments for Braces and other
Articles.
I, REINHOLD EMERENTIUS RABE, of Malma, in the Kingdom of Sweden, Dentist,
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 partly to an improved button adapted to be attached without
the aid of sewing and partly to an attachment particularly adapted to the button in
question, when this is attached to the trousers.
The improved button comprises three parts, viz., the button proper and two discs to
be applied on the side of the cloth opposite to the button itself.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 is an elevation of the button proper.
Figure 2 shows in plan and section one of the said discs and
Figures 3 and 4 show in section and plan respectively the other of the said discs.
Figures 5 and 6 represent respectively the complete button viewed from the
side partly in section and from the interior with the outer disc partly removed.
Figure 7 shows a modified arrangement of the two discs.
Figures S and 9 are a section and plan illustrating another modification.
Figures 10 and 11 are an elevation and vertical section of an attachment for braces
adapted for use with the improved buttons.
The button itself (which, as well as the discs are made of metal or other suitable
material) is provided with a neck the lower end of which has a shoulder, which, when
the button is attached, rests against the outer side of the cloth or other material.
From the underside of this shoulder a number of pins a project, preferably disposed
in a circle and somewhat flattened, so that they may be bent radially with relation to
the button. The pins a are adapted to be passed through the disc b.which for that
purpose has holes corresponding to the pins.
The disc b, figures 3 and 4, has at its edge some broader pins or short flexible
metallic strips c which may be folded over the border of the disc & when this has been
placed upon the disc after the free ends of the pins a have previously been folded
outwards and against the same.
In order that the strips c, when being folded as stated, may not extend beyond
the edge of the disc d, the latter has notches e in the said edge.
When the button is to be fastened upon a garment or other article the pins a are
passed through the cloth from one side and the disc 6 is passed over the portions of

page_text: the pins projecting from the other side of the cloth. The said pins are then folded
down close to the disc b by means of some suitable instrument in the manner shown
in figures 5 and 6. The somewhat bowl-shaped disc d is next placed upon the disc b
with the convex surface outwards and is mado fast by folding the metallic
points c down over the same. The disc d prevents the pins a from bending out of
place.
The modification of the discs d and b shown in Figure .7 consists in forming a screw
threaded stud at the centre of the disc and a corresponding screw threaded hole in
the disc d and in forming two or more holes in the disc d into which a key may be
introduced for screwing the disc d towards the disc b.
In the modifications shown in Figures 8 and 9 the pins a are loose and provided
with heads, and are passed through holes in the button. When fastening the button
in the cloth the button is placed against the cloth and then the pins are introduced
through the holes in the button and passed through the cloth and folded on the inner
side of the disc b, as above described.
The button will thus be attached to the cloth in a manner similar to a button
attached by thread, inasmuch as the cloth will be pierced at several places thus
rendering the formation of a special hole in the cloth unnecessary.
The attachment for braces and other articles represented in Figures 10 and 11
consists of a plate e having a hole fornied therein with a flange g around the same.
In connection with the hole is a slit likewise surrounded with a flange h³ except at
its point of connection with the hole f. The flange is surrounded by a spring i
bent inwards as at i¹ and extending through apertures in the flange ². The spring i
partly closes the slit and extends around a portion of the hole f. The spring i may
be secured by means of a tongue & pressed out of the plate and folded close to the
spring.
When buttoning the braces, the button is introduced through the hole f and by
pulling the braces the neck of the button pushes away the spring i and enters thic
slit h. The spring then prevents the button from getting out of the slit, when how-
ever the strap or piece is pulled the spring yields to the pressure of the neck of the
button and the attachment can thus be removed from the button.
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 button, which, for the purpose of fastening it to the cloth, is provided with a
number of pins projecting from the underside of the button or passed through it and
adapted to be passed through the cloth, and with two discs, one of which has holes
corresponding to the pins, and either with flexible pins at the edge or with a screw
threaded stud in the centre, and the second with corresponding notches in the edge or
a screw threaded hole in the centre between which discs the pins passed through the
cloth, and the first disc and then folded, are located.
2. An attachment for braces and other articles made of sheet metal or the like and
having a hole surrounded by a flange and from which a slit extends also surrounded by a
flange which latter carries a spring the ends of which pass through apertures in the
flange thus partly closing it in order that the button may be engaged in and disengaged
from the slit.
1000
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.