New or Improved Loop Button.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 16th May, 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Loop Button.
I GUSTAV HEUSER of 280 Broadway in the City County and State of New
York United States of America Button 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 that class of buttons that are provided with loops for
connecting them with another fixed button; and the object of my invention is to
provide a button of this kind, in which the loop is fixed firmly and securely and
in such a manner that it lies parallel or nearly parallel with the back of the
button.
The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts and details,
which will be fully described hereinafter and finally pointed out in the claim.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a face view of my improved loop button.
Figure 2 is a rear view of the same.
Figure 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same.
Figure 4 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of another construction, and
Figure 5 is a face-view of another construction.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Referring to Figures 1, 2 and 3, A represents the face or head of the button,
C the filling and E the back, which is made in the shape of a flat ring projecting
some distance beyond the edges of the head A. A grooved sheet-metal ring or
large eyelet B serves for clamping the head A and ring shaped back E together.
A filling piece F is placed in said ring.
The open ends of the loop D are inserted between the inner edge of the ring
shaped back E and the outer edge of the grooved ring or large eyelet B, and when
said grooved ring or eyelet is compressed to clamp the head A and ring shaped.
back E together the ends of the loop D are also clamped and thus held firmly and
securely on the button.
In the construction shown in Figure 4 the head A which may if desired be
provided with a covering, is clamped on the back plate E' provided with a central
aperture. The inner ends of the loop D are placed through the central aperture
of the back plate F, and the eyelet 13' is placed into said aperture of the back-
plate E' and the eyelet B' is placed into said aperture in such a manner that the
inner flange of the eyelet rests on the end of the loop.
The outer ends of the eyelet are then doubled over or flattened as shewn in
Figure 4 for the purpose of securely holding the eyelet in place in the aperture,
whereby the inner ends of the loop D are clamped between the flanges of the
eyelet and the edges of the opening in the back plate E', whereby the loop D is
held firmly and securely on the back-plate. A head or filling of any kind can be
placed into the back-plate and the edges of the back plate clamped over said
head or filling in the usual manner.
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:
The combination with a button head of a back-plate for the same having a
central aperture, an eyelet placed into said aperture in the back-plate and a loop
having its ends passed through the aperture in the back-plate between the edge of

page_text: the aperture and the edge of the eyelet, said eyelet being clamped to the back
plate, whereby the ends of the loop are securely attached to the back-plate
substantially as herein described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 14th day of April 1891.
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
17 & 18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.