Improved Pincers for Fixing Button-hole Protectors in Leather.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application. 18th Feb, 1896-Accepted, 18th Apr., 1896
COM LETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Pincers for Fixing Button-hole Protectors in Leather.
1, CUNO SANDER, of 46 Moselstrasse, Frankfort-on-the-Main, in the Empire of
Germany, 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
n and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to pincers for fixing horseshoe-shaped button-hole protectors
in leather.
These pincers are represented in the accompanying drawing.
Figure 1 shows a vertical section of the pincers half open;
Figure 2 shows the same closed;
Figure 3 represents the inner side of the shank a of the pincers;
Figure 4 represents the inner side of the shank e of the pincers;
Figure 5, the front side of the finished button-hole, and
Figure 6 shows the rear side of the finished button-hole.
The shank a of the pincers has its front end made in the form of a dove-tail guide b
upon which the sliding piece c is adapted to move. By the spring d fixed upon the
shank a this sliding piece is pushed forward to the other shank e of the pincers to
such an extent that it projects about 6 millimetres; a pin a 1 fixed in the pincers
and situated at the end of the slot in the sliding piece c preventing a further
forward movement. For enabling the horseshoe-shaped button hole protector made
of wire to be at once submitted to the action of the pincers at the proper place, the
shank e of the pincers carries a pin f which is passed through the button hole to be
protected and engages behind it with a recess g, whilst on each side of the same
there is a small oval recess (Figures 2 and 4). Between the long shanks i of the
pincers a spring k tends to hold the pincers continually in an open position. The
leather is placed in such a position that the pin f will engage with the button hole
to be protected, while the button hole protector 7 is in the position represented in
Figure 1. If now by overcoming the pressure of the spring the two shanks of the
pincers are pressed together the sliding piece c will be forced back by the shank e,
and the projecting ends of the button hole protector will be bent by being thus
forced into the opposite recesses h (Figures 2 and 4) and pressed against the
leather; at the same time the hook shaped portion is pressed against the other side
of the leather so that the button holes protected in the described manner have the
appearance represented in Figures 5 and 6.
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. Pincers for fixing horseshoe-shaped button-hole protectors firmly against the
leather on both sides, wherein a sliding piece c is arranged to be displaced upon a
shank a of the pincers having a dove-tail guide b, into which sliding piece the
wire serving as a button hole protector is placed, and which after guiding the wire
is automatically forced out of the way by the pressure of the pincers, so that the
wire may be pressed flat against the leather.
2. In pincers for fixing horseshoe-shaped button hole protectors in leather a

page_text: device comprising a pin
upon one shank and a corresponding depression g upon
the other shank for the purpose of enabling the button hole protector to be easily
put in the leather at the proper place.
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