Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Sept., 1888
Specification Accepted, 19th Oct., 1888
I, ISAAC DREICHLINGER, of 119, Avenue A, New York City United States of
America, Clerk, 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 an improvement in buttons, of the kind in which the head
is fixed on a shank provided with an eye or loop for fastening the button to a garment
or the like. These eyes or loops, as ordinarily made, project on a line with the
shank, so that the button when stitched to a garment or backing is free to swing
laterally or hang down so as to expose the fastening. The object of my invention is
to obviate this objection by a simple and efficient means, and provide a fastening
whereby the button will be held at all times in a rigid upright position and wherein
the eye, when attached to even the thinnest fabric, will not rip or tear the fabric, even
though the button be subjected to very hard usage. A further object of the invention
is to provide a means whereby, if found desirable, the button flap of a garment inay
be opened from top to bottom with a single pull of the flap, without injury to the
button or to the button holes.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specifi-
cation, in which Figure 1 is an enlarged sectional view of a button provided with my
improvement; Figure 2 is a detail view of the fastening shank detached from the
button head Figure 3 is a perspective view illustrating the said button stitched to a
piece of fabric; Figure 4 is a perspective view shewing a peculiarly constructed card
for holding the button; and figures 5, 6, and 7, are modified forms of the shank.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.
;
In carrying my invention into effect with, for instance, a glass button, I form a
fastening shank A of a single piece, or of two or more pieces, of wire or a metal
blank properly stamped. If the shank is constructed of a single piece of wire, the
said wire is doubled, its closed ends bent back to form a hook B, and its free ends
bent outwards to form flat eyes C and D in such manner that the shank will be
perpendicular to the common plane of said eyes. The hook B of the shank is thrust
into the glass head E while hot and soft and will be firmly retained therein. The

page_text: oppositely projecting eyes C and D form a flat fastening which, when stitched to the
garment, as shewn in figure 3, keeps the button in a position perpendicular to the
fabric. To apply the button to the card G, as shewn in figure 4, an oblong rectangular
tongue H is cut from the card and the T-shaped fastening shank introduced through
the slot thus made, the tongue closing in behind the head of the T, so as to hold the
button securely in place.
I desire it to be distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to any particular
form of the shank, or the use of any particular material in constructing the shank
and eyes; as for instance, as illustrated in figure 5, the shank may be provided at
the upper end with a ball B¹, instead of the hook B illustrated in figure 2; or the
said shank A may terminate at the upper end in a T-head B2 (figure 6) if desired;
or instead of constructing the shank and eye from wire, the same may consist of one
or two pieces of stamped metal, as illustrated in figure 7, in which the eyes are formed
in a disc and the shank projects perpendicularly upward from the said disc. The
shank, in this instance, may be made rigid and terminate in a hook, ball, or T-head,
or may consist of two spring arms properly joined to the body or disc. Again, if it is
found desirable, the button may be used as an ornament only, by passing the shank
through the goods, attaching one eye thereto, and engaging the unattached eye with
any form of hook suitably placed upon the garment.
Instead of inserting the T-head of the shank in the body of the button, the same
may be rivetted or otherwise secured to the outer surface of the said button; and
instead of a shank thus formed being constructed of a single piece of metal, the said
shank may be constructed of two pieces, one section of the head of the shank, and
one eye, being integral with each section.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A button provided with a shank and a flat fastening on the end of the shank
formed with eyes, substantially as shown and described.
2. A button provided with a shank and a flat fastening on the end of the shank
formed with eyes lying in a plane at a right angle to the shank, substantially as
shewn and described.
3. A button provided with a shank and flat eyes projecting from opposite end of,
and lying in a plane at a right angle to, the shank, substantially as shewn and
described.
4. The combination with a button having an enlarged T-shaped shank, of a card
having an oblong rectangular tongue forming a slot to receive the head of the
T-shank and adapted to close in behind the said head, substantially as shewn and
described.
5. The combination with the body of a button, of a shank having a head at one end
adapted for attachment to, or introduction in, the body and oppositely and laterally
.projecting eyes at its other end, substantially as shewn and described.
Dated this 18th day of September 1888.
ISAAC DREICHLINGER.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.