Improvements in Button Fasteners.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th May, 1892-Accepted, 2nd July, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Button Fasteners.
I, AUGUST EDUARD MÜLLER of Elberfeld Rhenish Prussia, 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 ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a new and simplified means for fastening buttons
especially for fastening shoe buttons and the like. It consists in the main of a part
forming a flat disc or ring and a sort of a hook having two shanks one of which
being cut accross so that it can be opened, and closing by its own spring action.
I carry out the button fastener in three manners of construction, which I show
on the accompanying drawings in which
Figs. 1, a, b, c and d show the first design with a solid plate,
Figs. 2, a, b, c and d show the second variation having a ring support,
Figs. 3, a, b, c & d show the third modification having a ring with a sling thrown
over the hook.
According to Figure 1 there is soldered or otherwise fixed to a solid plate A a
sort of a hook B forming a closed sling and having one of its shanks cut open
obliquely at C. The hook B is made of steel wire, so that the opened shank will
act like a spring. The hook is now fixed to the leather D by sticking it through a
hole cut therein as indicated on the drawing and then the button E is secured.
therein by pressing its eye into the hook at the open cut C, which is immediately
closed again by the spring action of the steel wire shanks and thus the button is
held fast.
According to Figures 2, a, b, c & d the solid plate A. is dispensed with and in its
place a ring A' bent out of the wire itself which forms the hook B₁ is used. This
ring is formed by bending the wire so as to form somewhat like a half round circle
or in the shape similar to a heart having the two ends going radially towards the
circumference in the same level as this and being then bent upwards to form the
sling or hook B. This is again cut or left open at C' so that a button E' can be
introduced and held therein in the same manner as was described before. This
button fastener is fixed to the leather in the same manner as the button fastener
shown by Figure 1 and described above.
The variation shown by Figs. 3, a, b, c, & d differs from the preceding one by
the manner of forming the flat ring. Here the wire is first bent so as to form the
two egg shaped (or circular as shown in dotted lines) rings A2 A3; the ends of the
wire B2 & B3 which are to form the sling or hook B are carried then along unaer-
neath the part F and here they are turned upwards at right angle to form the sling
or hook B which has the opening C2 as the other designs serving as entrance for
the button E².
From the Figures 3 a & b it will be seen that this button fastener being fixed to
a shoc or inserted in the leather as those described, has the great advantage that
the ends forming the hook or sling passing underneath the part of the ring
cannot be pulled upwards so easily because they would have to bend the part
as well.
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 fastener holding the button in a sling B formed by the two shanks of
a hook having an entrance C and being fastened to a solid plate A.
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page_text: shanks of a hook having an entrance C¹ and forming a ring A' standing at right
angle to the hook.
3.) A button fastener holding the button in a sling B2 formed by the two elastic
shanks of a hook, having an entrance C² and forming two rings A2, A3 which are
connected by a part F passing over the ends of the wire forming the sling B2 before
they are bent vertically to the rings A² & A³.
Dated this 23rd day of May 1899
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KARL S. MAYER,
Agent for A. E. Müller.