Improvements in Button-setting Pliers.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Button-setting Pliers.
I, HERMANN RAFFLENBEUL, residing at Hofgeismar, Province of Hesse,
Germany, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The present invention relates to improvements in devices for fastening shanked
buttons to leather, cloth or other material and especially to shoes and hoots. Such
an improved device is shown in side elevation on the accompanying drawing and
the essential feature of this improved device consists in the double armed lever b.
This latter is pivotted at d to the hanger of the device. The stamp a, being
ordinarily held by a helical spring in its uppermost position within a suitable
guiding block, is provided at its lower end with a slot, arranged rectangularly
to the axis of the stamp, for introducing the loop shank of the button to be
fastened and with a crescent shaped recess for receiving and bending the pin for
clamping the loop shaped button shank. For a perfect operation of the device it
is necessary that the stamp should have an easy up and down motion and at the
same time be secured against a rotary motion. To ensure this the front end e of
the shorter arm of the lever b is rounded off and engages a transverse slot pro-
vided in the lower part of the stamp a, as is clearly shown in the drawing. By
operating the lever the stamp is lowered and lifted and is at the same, timo
prevented from turning within its guiding block.
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FRANZ DICKMANN,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Button-setting Pliers,
I, HERMANN RAFFLENBEUL, residing at Hofgeismar, Province of Hesse,
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:
The present invention relates to improvements in devices for fastening shanked
buttons to leather, cloth or other material and especially to slippers, shoes and
boots. The essential feature of my invention consists in the arrangement of a
double armed lever, the shorter arm of which is adapted to take into a trans-
verse slot in the vertically movable driver or stamp and serves to impart to this
driver or stamp an alternating up and down motion and to prevent it at the same
time from turning within its guiding block,

page_text: The drawing, furnished with the Provisional Specification, represents suoli a
fastening device in side elevation, some parts being broken away to make it
more readily understood.
The double armed lever is pivotted at d to the hanger e of the device. The
stamp or driver a, being ordinarily held by a helical spring in its uppermost posi-
tion within a suitable guiding block, is provided at its lower end with a slot,
arranged rectangularly to the axis of the stamp, for introducing the loop shank
of the button to he fastened and with a crescent shaped recess for receiving and
bending the pin for clamping the loop shaped button shank.
For a perfect operation of the device it is necessary that the stamp or driver
should have an easy up and down motion and at the same time be secured against
a rotary motion, as otherwise the pin would not properly take into the loop shank
of the button. To ensure this, the front end e of the shorter lever arm is rounded
off and engages a transverse slot provided in the lower part of the stamp or
driver a, as is clearly shown in the drawing.
By operating the lever 6 the stamp or driver is lowered or lifted in a vertical
direction and is at the same time prevented from turning within its guiding block.
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:-
In a device for fastening buttons to leather, cloth or other material the double
armed lever b, pivotted to the frame of the device, and engaging with the rounded
off front end e a transverse slot provided in the lower part of the vertically movable
driver or stamp, the parts being constructed, arranged and working substan-
tially as described and shown.
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