Improvements in Fastenings for Garments and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1899-Accepted, 2nd June, 1899
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Communicated from abroad by WILLIAM STREETER RICHARDSON, of Boston,
in the County of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, United States of
America, Gentleman.]
Improvements in Fastenings for Garments and the like.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
5, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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:-
1
This invention relates to a tubular fastening or rivet having a preformed flange
and a tubular shank and consists in providing the shank with the following
described means whereby the co-operating flange of the fastening is developed
and formed from the shank in the act of setting the fastener.
Referring to the accompanying drawing:
Figure 1 shows in plan a form of flat blank from which the fastening or rivet
may be made.
Figure 2 is a view in plan of a similar blank differing only from the blank of
Figure 1 with respect to the location of the flange developing recesses.
Figure 3 is a view in side elevation of a complete fastening or rivet formed
from a flat blank similar to the flat blank of Figure 1.
Figure 4 is a view in plan of said rivet or fastening inverted, showing its pre-
formed finishing flange.
Figure 5 is a similar view of a rivet or fastening representing a slight modifi-
cation in the shape of the preformed flange to which reference will hereinafter
be made.
Figure 6 is a view in horizontal section of the complete rivet upon the dotted
line 6-6 of Figure 3 and in plan of the preformed flange below said dotted line.
Figures 7 and 8 represent in elevation fastenings or rivets which have been
set from the complete form of Figure 3 to establish a bulging fastening flange.
They are formed from flat blanks similar to those of Figures 1 and 2 reduced
to the form of Figure 3, and show the difference in the location of the fasten-
ing flange due to a difference in the position of the flange determining or develop-
ing recesses with respect to the preformed flange.
Figure 9 is a view in longitudinal section of a ball member of a fastening and
of my improved fastening or rivet used in conjunction therewith for fastening it
to a glove or fabric and it shows my improved fastening in its set form.
Figure 10 is a section of a button and of my fastenings used to secure it to a
garment and shows the fastening flange as developed to a greater extent than
shown in Figure 9.
Figure 11 is a view representing my fastening as used in riveting together
two pieces of material.
Figure 12 is a sectional view of a button and my improved fastener in longi-

page_text: tudinal section to further illustrate the variation in the shape and position of its
fastening flange.
Figure 13 is a view in plan of the rivet and material shown in Figure 11, and
Figure 14 is a view in perspective of a tubular fastening in which the shank
slits are not extended through the preformed flange.
I prefer to make. the fastening from a flat sheet metal blank although I do
not confine myself thereto and in the drawings I have shown a blank which is
adapted to provide the shank of the fastenings with two longitudinal sections
or sides.
A, Figures 1 and 2, represents the blank. They are substantially alike except-
ing with respect to the flange starting and developing recesses, the variations in
the position of which will be hereinafter explained. Each blank has the wide
end sections a, the outer edge of which are curved and the intermediate rect-
angular connecting section a¹ in the edges a² of which are two sets of recesses a³
and the single set of recesses at. The blank is reduced by any suitable forming
means to the complete fastening B represented in Figures 3, 4, and 6, and which
complete fastening has a preformed flange b provided by the end sections a of the
blank, the closed top or end b¹ and the tubular shank be formed from the rect-
angular section a¹ of the blank and consisting of the two sections or sides 63, 64
curved in cross section and having between them the longitudinal slits 65 from
which extend into the said parts or sides 63, 64 lateral recesses 66 provided in the
blank by the recesses a³, and which recesses 66 in conjunction with the slits 65
provide means for the formation of the fastenings flange which co-operate with
the preformed flange in the act of setting the fastener.
The recesses at of the blank A are at the centre of its length and they are used
for the purpose of permitting the freer and easier drawing and shaping of the
metal blank in forming it into the closed top or end of the fastener.
The recesses a³ may be located in the blank anywhere between the recesses a
and the end a. In Figure 1 these recesses are nearer the recesses at and when
so placed they locate the recesses 66 of the fastening nearer the closed end b' than
the preformed flange b or as in Figure 3.
In Figure 2 these recesses a³ are farther removed from the recesses a¹ and there-
fore in the complete fastening will be nearer the preformed flange than repre-
sented in Figure 3. These lateral recesses in the sides of the shank so weaken
that upon the application of a setting pressure to the fastening the sides give
way on the line of these recesses and begin to separate and fold outwardly, the
slits permitting this operation to take place, and this outward folding continues
so long as the pressure is applied and until a flange of any desired width or form
is established. The relation of these lateral recesses with respect to the ends
of the fastening determines the relation of the flanges of the fastening when set
to each other and also to the part or thing which they may fasten to a glove,
garment or other article. These developing recesses may also vary as to shape
and as to size.
In Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 the edges of the sides 63, 6 and of the parts which
make the preformed flange abut and the slits or lines of division are repre-
sented as extending from the closed top the entire length of the shank and
wholly through the preformed flange, but I would say that my invention will
be practiced if these slits or lines of division do not extend into or through the
flange, and in Figure 14 I have represented a construction in which they do not
extend through the flange. In this event however the fastening will not be formed
from a flat metal blank of the shape shown in Figures 1 and 2 but from the type
of flat blank usually employed in the manufacture of eyelets having preformed
flanges and shanks with closed ends.
In Figures 5 and 8 I have shown the preformed flange of the fastening as having
a circular bead or rim c about the entrance to the cavity of the fastening and
upon the under side of the flange. This bead or rim is used in connection with

page_text: he setting die for maintaining the shape of the flange and preventing the separa-
ion thereof during the operation of setting the fastening, and it co-operates with a
houlder of the setting die which is arranged to bear against it during its setting
operation.
The various types of flange developed from the shank are represented in several
of the figures. For instance, in Figures 7 and 8 the sides of the fastening are
formed into a bulbous fastening flange, the difference in the shape and location
of the flange in the figures being occasioned by the difference in the location of
the flange determining recesses 66.
Figure 9 also represents the fastening as having a flange of the bulbous order
and as used for attaching a ball or stud member of a fastener to a glove or
garment.
In Figure 10 the sides of the fastening are represented as developed into a
Hat fastening flange and the fastening is shown as attaching a type of button to
a garment.
In Figure 11 the fastening is represented as a rivet and the sides as developed
into a flat fastening flange.
In Figure 12 the sides of the fastening are developed into a bulbous flange
and the fastening is represented as securing a button with a tubular shank to a
garment or material.
It will thus be seen that the fastening not only has means whereby the shape
or form of its fastening flange may be varied, but also means whereby the shape
and location of the flange may be previously established as well as the lengths of
the tubular section of the fastening between the two flanges.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
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1. As an improved article of manufacture a fastening having a preformed
flange and a tubular shank separated into sections or parts by longitudinal slits,
which sections or parts are provided with the fold determining recesses 66 extend-
ing from said longitudinal slits, whereby the said sections or parts are given a
disposition to fold outwardly upon the application of end pressure to the fastening.
2. A blank from which a tubular fastening of the character specified is formed,
having the section a which provide a preformed fastening flange, the intermediate
section a¹ which forms the tubular part of the fastening and the sides of which
are adapted to be folded outward to form a fastening flange, which section a¹
has shallow recesses a³ in its edges for determining the place of said fold, and
the recesses a for assisting in the formation of the closed end of the fastener.
3. In a tubular fastening a hollow shank having side parts united at their
inner ends and separated from each other by longitudinal slits, the said side parts
having recesses extending into them from the slits to form predetermined places
upon which they will fold outward on the application of end pressure to the
fastening.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.