A. Machine for Fastening Buttons on Leather or other material so as to be Capable of Turning.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 9th Jan., 1892—Accepted, 27th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A. Machine for Fastening Buttons on Leather or other material so
as to be Capable of Turning.
I, LOUIS THIELMANN of 14 Parlamentstrasse Barmen, in the Empire of
Germany Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its purpose to so fasten buttons, especially such for
boots and shoes, which are connected with the leather or other material by
means of a rivet pointed in front and having a flat head, as to render them
capable of turning. The machine for accomplishing this purpose is in the main
as follows: The matrice die is secured on a slide guided in a frame and con-
nected with a lever revoluble about a pivot. Said lever when at rest is held
back with the slide by means of a spring or other suitable device. It is shifted
forward by hand towards the rivet held in an opposite part of the frame,
whereby the button is fastened to the material. The rivet is held in the known
manner between the frame and a fork-shaped spring, the head of the rivet lying
between these two parts, while the pointed part protrudes. The button however
is so held on the matrice die by a spring screwed on the slide that the eye of
the button lies in a corresponding cavity of the die while said spring presses
on the head of the button. The connection of the button with the rivet and
with the leather or other material is effected in the known manner, the point
of the rivet first penetrating the leather and, on further movement of the lever,
being bent round by a corresponding hollowing of the die bed and laying itself
round the eye. The bending round takes place in such a manner that the point
of the rivet does not again penetrate the material but lays itself outside the
same against the stem of the rivet point. The button is thereby rendered
capable of turning. On the returning of the lever the leather or other material
with the button connected with the rivet can be removed from the frame. To
prevent the slide from rising during work, a protective plate is secured there-
over on the frame.
Dated this 7th day of October 1891.
HUELSER & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Machine for Fastening Buttons on Leather or other material so
as to be Capable of Turning.
I, LOUIS THIELMANN of 14 Parlamentstrasse, Barmen, in the Empire of
Germany Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its purpose to so fasten buttons, especially shoe buttons which
are connected by a device by means of a rivet pointed in front and having a flat
head with the leather or other material, as to render them capable of turning,
further to fix the button on the matrice die of the device in a corresponding and
simple manner

page_text: Fig. 3 is a plan of the device.
Fig. 4 is a view of the matrice die b etc. in natural size showing how button a'
with its eye a' is fixed and held in the matrice die 6 and how the rivet c is held.
Fig. 5 shows the matrice die as moved forward onto the rivet, the button being
therefore fastened.
Fig. 6 is a front view of the matrice die b with button.
Figs. 7, 8 and 9 illustrate in longitudinal sections and plan a modification of the
device, like or analogous parts being designated with the same letters as in
Figs. 1 to 6.
d Fig. 5 is the material to which the button a is connected by rivet c.
The matrice die b is secured on a slide g, which is guided in frame f and connected
with a lever i revoluble about a pivot h. Lever i in its position of rest is pressed
back, in the direction indicated by arrow 4, with slide g in any suitable manner, for
instance by spring k. Said lever is shifted by hand in the opposite direction
towards the rivet, whereby the button is fastened to the material.
The rivet c is put in or secured in the known manner between the frame and a
fork-shaped spring m, the head of the rivet lying between these two parts, while the
pointed pin projects as shewn in the drawing.
The button a however, in contradistinction to the known manner, is so held at the
matrice die b by a spring e secured by screws e', that the eye a² of the button lies
in a corresponding hollowing of the matrice die and the spring e presses on the
head a' of the button. The connection of the button with the rivet c and with
the stuff or material is effected in the known manner, the point of the rivet first
penetrating the leather and on further pressure with lever i being bent round by
corresponding recesses and pressed into and slung round the eye a³ of the button.
This bending round takes place in such a manner that the point does not again
penetrate the material, but lays itself outside the same against the shaft of the rivet
point; thereby the button becomes capable of turning. On the lever i being drawn
back as indicated by arrow 1, the material & with button a in connection with
rivet c can be removed finished from the frame. To prevent slide 9 from rising
during work, a plate n with screw n' is secured over the same on the frame.
g
The principal feature of the modified arrangement shewn by Figs. 7 to 9 is, that
this arrangement could be termed horizontal, while the above described arrange-
ment is vertical. The pressing lever i for instance lying in the modified arrange-
ment horizontal, can also be easily moved by the foot, while the fastening process
can be better watched and the handling of the apparatus is more commodious.
Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section with the mechanisms at rest, while Fig. 8 shows
the mechanism as pressed down.
The button a and rivet c are not shown. 6 is the matrice die for fixing the button.
fis the frame to which is secured so as to be revoluble about pivot h a one-armed
horizontal lever i having a cam-like projection which presses upon the slide g
revoluble about pivot o. Slide 9 carries at one end the matrice die 6 and receives
its downward movement, as indicated by arrow p, by the same direction of move-
ment of lever i, which, by the eccentricity of presses down the slide 9. The spring k
located below lever i tends to press the slide and thereby the lever i into their
normal positions Fig. 1.
The matrice die b, as is clear from the drawing, makes no parallel but a partial
circular movement, whereby the bending of the pin, i.e. the fastening of the button
is better performed, though the work is in the main the same as in the first described
arrangement.
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 device for fastening eyed buttons on leather and the like, consisting of a

page_text: carrying the fastening rivet e passed through the leather or other material, Figs. 1
to 6, substantially as set forth.
2) A device as referred to in Claim 1, in which the matrice die 6 with slide
makes a partial circular movement about a pivot by the pressure of a one-armed
horizontal lever i Fige. 7 to 9 substantially as set forth.
Dated this 9th dow of January 1800
LOUIS THIELMANN,
By Huelser & Co.,
His Agents.