Improvements in Fastening Devices for Gloves and other Articles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Nov, 1898-Accepted, 23rd Dec., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastening Devices for Gloves and other Articles.
I, LUCIUS NATHAN LITTAUER, of Gloversville, State of New York, United States
of America, Merchant, 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:-
My present improvement relates principally to the socket member of the class
of fastening devices for gloves and other articles which consist of a resilient or
spring stud member attached to one flap and a rigid socket member attached to
the other flap of the glove or other article, the socket member being adapted to
receive and hold the stud member and to release the same as desired by the exercise
of convenient force.
The object of my present invention is to improve upon the constructions hereto-
fore known and to furnish a socket member which may be cheaply and conveniently
made, securely attached to the glove or other article, sightly in appearance and
which may effectively perform its function of receiving, holding and releasing the
stud member above mentioned.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 5 is a vertical sectional view of my
improved socket member attached to the fabric and in position and condition to
perform its functions above mentioned. Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 are respectively
views of the parts used in the construction of the socket. A represents the cap of
the socket, which is struck up out of sheet metal and is provided with a downwardly
turned flange adapted to be turned over and embrace the upper flange of the tubular
piece B (Figure 2) which is made so as to flare outwardly from the bottom upwards
as shown. The top of the cap being made flat, or nearly so, the circular edge of
the upper flange of the tubular piece B may be tightly held within the clasp of the
turned over flange of the cap A, as shown in Figure 3. The cap and the tubular
piece B being thus fastened to each other, a hole is made in the fabric 1) of a size
sufficient to receive the downwardly tapering tubular piece B. The tubular piece B
is then put through such hole in the fabric until its further progress is arrested by
the turned over portion of the upper flange of the cap A as shown in Figure 5.
A metallic washer C, preferably saucer shaped in section as shown in Figure 5, is
then placed upon the opposite side of the fabric as shown in Figure 5 and so that
the downwardly tapering portion of the tubular piece B passes through the central
aperture of the washer. The parts being thus brought together are then placed
in a suitable press whereby the lower flange of the tubular piece B is forced upward
and into a substantially vertical position as shown in Figure 5, and the lower part
of the tubular piece B is forced outward so that the exterior diameter of the lower
part of the tubular piece B becomes greater than the central aperture in the washer.
When this operation is completed the washer prevents the tubular piece B being
withdrawn from the fabric and the tubular piece B holds the exterior cap A securely
and firmly to the fabric and the socket is adapted to receive, engage with, and
release a spring stud which has been properly proportioned in size. Owing to the
peculiarities of my construction the exterior surface of the cap may be made flat

page_text: or nearly so and the cap will therefore project but slightly above the fabric to which
it is attached and for that reason is less liable to injury than caps which project
prominently above the surface of the fabric. The exterior surface of the cap may
also be conveniently stamped or embossed with a tasteful design or a trade mark.
The tubular piece and washer may also be employed as a support for and as means
for attaching to the fabric a spring stud by merely substituting a spring cap for
the cap A above described.
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:-
1. In a fastener for gloves and similar articles, the combination of a flanged cap
piece, a flanged tubular piece and a washer, the flange of the cap piece interlocking
with the flange of the tubular piece and the tubular piece being adapted to in part
pass through the central opening of the washer and being held therein by expan-
sion, and to receive and hold a spring stud by means of its lower edge, substantially
as described.
2. In a fastener for gloves the combination of the flanged cap A, the flanged
tubular piece B and the washer C.
3. In a socket adapted to receive a stud, the combination of the cap A, the doubly
flanged tubular piece B, and the washer C,
Dated this 22nd day of November 1898
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.