AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR SECURING BUTTONS AND FASTENINGS TO BOOTS AND SHOES OR OTHER MATERIALS, ARTICLES OR FABRICS
Year: 1884

page_text: COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
I, DAVID HUNTER BRANDON, of the firm of Brandon and Sons, 114a Queen
Victoria Street E.C. London, and 1 rue Laffitte Paris, France, Engineers and Patent
Agents, do solemnly declare the nature of the Invention for AN IMPROVED
MACHINE FOR SECURING BUTTONS AND FASTENINGS TO BOOTS AND SHOES OR
OTHER MATERIALS, ARTICLES OR FABRICS, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This Invention has for its object the production of an automatically operating
machine, whereby separate buttons and separate fastenings to secure the buttons to
a boot or shoe or other article, material, or fabric, may be presented to the said
boot or shoe or other article in correct position to enable the fasteners to be
automatically driven through the material and to be curled or clinched through the
medium of an anvil or clinching surface about the eye of the button so as to secure
the same to the said article.
In the machine illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, as embodying one.
practical form of this Invention the buttons are placed in a suitable recess or
hopper from which they pass into a button conducting chute or road-way along
which to the delivery end of the same, the said buttons travel by reason of their
own weight or gravity and are finally presented with the flat side of the shank and
eye in a predetermined position to enable the said eye to be entered by the point
of a fastener, the latter being presented in proper position with relation to the
delivery end of the button conducting chute by means of a fastener conducting
chute.
The fasteners employed and herein shown and as will preferably be used are
composed of tacks having a single prong and a head, but it is to be understood that
any other well known and suitable form of fastener commonly used in nailing
machines for boots and shoes, which fastenings are adapted to be driven and
clinched may be used instead, with proper changes in the fastener conductor, to:
adapt it to the particular fastener to be used.
These fasteners, if loose or disconnected fasteners are used, are first placed in
a suitable reservoir or hopper in communication with a fastener conductor, chute
or roadway, into which latter the fasteners are fed either by jarring or swinging/

page_text: the hopper in usual manner, and along down which the said fasteners move by
their own weight and gravity.
The end-most fastener at the delivery end of the fastener conductor, chute or
roadway, is acted upon at the proper time by a fastener carrier or transferer herein
shown as a slotted bar working at substantially right angles to the said chute or
roadway and engaging and transferring the fastener next to be driven into proper
position with relation to the driver to strike it, and also with relation to the
location of the eye of the button shank, so that the fastener, when driven through
the material to which the button is to be attached, will correctly enter the
said eye.
Co-operating with the said driver, is an anvil block or clinching surface, located
opposite the eye of the shank and at the side of the said shank opposite the
side thereof, which is next to the driver, so that, as herein shown, the point of
the fastener, after passing through the material, enters the center of the eye, meets
the anvil or clinching surface, and the latter causes the point of the fastener to
be curved or turned outward and back down, and about the shank of the said
eye, but it will be understood that the anvil or clinching surface may be so placed
and shaped, that the point of the fastener will strike against it just outside the
eye, and be curved over the shank and down through the eye, as in British Patent
No 5418, dated November, 14th, 1882, and the shoe or other article, or material in
which the fastener is driven, is at that time held between the underside of the
Lutton conductor-chute or roadway, and a yielding presser herein shown, as held
pressed against the said material, by a spring and adapted to be drawn back or
away therefrom by a cam.
The presser is adapted to be reciprocated in guide-ways formed on a fixed part of
the frame of the machine, and the button chute is also fitted to the said part of the
frame work, but the driver, anvil, or clinching surface, and fastener chute are
mounted upon a swinging frame, so that after a fastener has been driven, and before
it is released from pressure between the driver and the anvil, the said frame is
swung about its center to thus draw the button out from the holding and directing
groove in the said chute, and at the same time the said frame is swung sufficiently
far to insure the feeding of the material for the requisite distance, to properly space
the said buttons, thus placing them at the proper distance apart.
The fastener to be driven when transferred from the chute into position in line
with the driver, is acted upon by the latter, but before the point of the fastener
reaches the material, the said fastener is made to pass between the jaws of a
centering device mounted upon the upper end of a slide bar and projected from one
side of the latter, so as to be in line with the driver, the said centering device
acting to guide and direct the point of the fastening device, into the exact position
desired, with relation to the eye of the button-shank and the anvil or clinching
surface. The point of the fastener having been placed under the control of the
centering device, the latter commences to rise in unison with the driver, until the
upper end of the centering device meets the material, when the said centering
device stops, and the driver continues to move and completely drives the fastening,
the centering device having yielding jaws, whereby the head of the fastening.may
be driven out through the said jaws, the latter being acted upon by suitable
springs.
The machine herein described has been provided with means, whereby in case a
fastening fails to be presented to the transferrer to be carried from the chute to the
driver, the apparatus cannot act to feed the material and remove from the groove
of the chute, the button which should have been attached at the last operation of
the driver, but which was not attached by reason of the failure of a fastener to
arrive in proper position opposite the driver.
The fastener which it is preferred to use, is a tack, but instead thereof, any
usual other form of pronged fastener which may be presented to the driver to be
driven through the stock, and be made to enter the shank of the button may be.
emploved.

page_text: One part of the Invention in machines for setting buttons, consists in an anvil,
and a rest to hold the button in position with relation thereto, combined with a
driver, and a centering device to direct the tack with relation to the anvil and eye
of the button, to operate substantially as will be described.
Also in a machine for setting buttons, a grooved button conductor or chute,
down which the buttons are free to roll, the said conductor being curved. and
shaped to cause the shank of the button to be turned, to present the open cyc in
the path of movement of the point of the fastener before it meets the said eye.
Also, in a button conductor or chute, anvil against which to clinch the fastener,
a fastener conductor or chute, and an upwardly moved driver, combined with a
transferrer to transfer a fastener into position above the driver with its point
uppermost, and with a centering device for the fastener.
Also in a button conductor or chute composed of the under plate provided with
a groove and the top plate also provided with a groove, the under plate being of
diminishing width outside the groove therein toward the delivery end of the said
chute, whereby the button is permitted to roll along a portion of the said chuto
and to then arrive in position at the thin edge 32 with the eye of the button in
position to be entered by the fastener.
Also in a button conductor or chute, and the anvil, and means to carry it,
combined with the presser foot to clamp the material while the button is
being set.
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Also in a button conductor or chute and an anvil on which to clinch or curl the
point of the fastener, combined with a driver to drive the fastener, and with means
to operate the same and change the relative position of the said driver and button
chute horizontally to remove the button from the chute holding it.
Also in a fastener conductor or chute, and transferrer to carry a fastener to the
driver, and a driver, and support for the face of the material, and an anvil having
a clinching face, combined with a centering device or throat adapted to direct the
point of the fastener to the anvil to clinch the said point about the shank of the
button.
Also in a button setting machine, a rest for the button, and an adjacent anvil,
a driver to drive a fastener, and an interposed device adapted to receive the point
of the fastener and present it to the material and yield to the passage of tho
fastener between it as the latter is driven by the driver.
Also in a machine for setting buttons, an anvil having a clinching surface,
combined with a driver and means to automatically vary its stroke or movement
according to the thickness of the material.
Also in a machine for setting buttons, a fastener conductor or chute, a transferrer
and an anvil, combined with a button conductor or chute, a driver, and a feeding
lever, and with means substantially as hereinafter described, actuated by the
fastener to determine when the material shall be fed, whereby should the
presentation of a fastener be omitted the material will not be fed.
Also in a swinging frame, and a fastener conductor or chute, an anvil, and a
driver carried thereby, combined with a button conductor or chute, a feeding lever
and a presser foot, supported in another part of the frame work and with relation
to which the said swinging frame and its parts are made movable a greater or less
distance according to the distance to be preserved between adjacent buttons.
Also in a machine for setting buttons upon boots and shoes and other material, a
fastener conductor or chute a reciprocating driver opposite the end of which is
placed the fastener to be driven, and a centering device or throat for the point of
the fastener, combined with a button conductor or chute a stop to arrest the
undermost button in position opposite the said anvil.
Figure 1 is a right hand side elevation of a machine embodying this Invention.
Figure 2, is a front elevation thereof.
Figure 3, is a plan or top view.
Figure 3 shows.the cam grooves of the hubs-developed.
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page_text: Figure 5a, is a section of the fastener chute on the dotted line yy.
Figure 6, is a detail showing part of the mechanism instrumental in producing
the feed.
Figure 7, is a plan view of Figure 6..
Figure 8, is a front view of Figure 7.
Figures 9 and 10, show in side elevation and plan the button receiver or hopper,
and its connected chute or conductor.
Figure 11, is a section of Figure 10, on the dotted line x-x.
Figure 11a, a section on the dotted line y* y².
Figure 12 a rear elevation of Figure 9.
Figure 13, is a detail with the mouth or funnel of the receiver cut off the top
plate of the receiver being considered transparent so as to represent the agitator
and the shelf upon which the agitator places the buttons, the cover of the chute
being partially broken out to show the road-way or groove and along which the
buttons roll or slide.
Figure 14, is a section of Figure 13, on the line x²x².
Figures 15 to 19, inclusive are details to be referred to of the button chute, anvil,
driver, and presser, the said Figures showing how a fastener is inserted through
the material into the eye of a button and clinched.
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Figure 20 is a détail in elevation of the presser foot and means for operating it.
Figure 21, is a section of Figure 20 on the dotted line ³.
Figure 22, is a plan of Figure 4, with part of the anvil lever removed.
Figure 23, a section of Figure 4, on the dotted line 5.
Figure 24, shows one of the fasteners separately.
Figure 25, a detail of the fastener transferrer.
The main shaft A of the machine, supported in suitable bearings of the framo
work A¹ has placed loosely upon it a driving wheel A, the hub of which is provided
with an annular groove a, which receives the fork a¹ of a shipper A³, adapted to
slide on a guide A' forming part of a main frame A¹ the said shipper being moved
in one direction by the spring As, and in the opposite direction by the cam Aº, fast
on the main shaft A, the side of the said cam working against a pin A7 under the
control of a treadle, the said cam and spring A° operating in conjunction with the
pin A under the control of the operator, to insure the engagement of the clutch
parts of the pulley and cam to drive the main shaft A or to disengage the parts
and leave the shaft at rest, so that the machine will stop itself automatically and at
a certain definito position of the main shaft, whenever the pin A is permitted
to rest. .
At its opposite end the shaft A has a bevel gear B, which engages a bevel
wheel B¹ on a vertical shaft B2, having suitable bearings B³ held in hubs a' of a
swinging frame B by set screws B³.
The lower hub of the swinging frame rests upon a bearing a fixed with relation
to the main frame A¹.
The top of the gear B¹ is provided with a cam groove 100 which receives in it a
roller or stud at the end of an arm B° of a rocker shaft B7 having suitable bearings
in the frame work and having a second arm B3 which is adapted to strike the
inclined face 2 of a projection C of the feed controlling device shown as an elbow
lever having its fulcrum on a bolt C2 attached to the swinging frame B* the arm C³
of the said elbow lever being normally held in the position Figure 6, by the
spring 99, so that the end of the arm C rests against the rear end of the detector b,
shown best in Figure 7.
The rock shaft B7 and its arms constitute what we shall call the feed lever and
it has a feed adjusting device 6' the position of which on the said feed lever may
be varied and determined by the screws or adjusting devices 63, 6, the further the

page_text: end of the adjusting device b* from the said lever the greater the feed and vico
versa.
The face 2, of the projection C is in the radius of the shaft B' so as to avoid
sliding friction between the said face and the feed adjusting device be while the
latter by pushing against the said face 2, causes the swinging frame to be vibrated
against the stress of the spiral spring 65, but. the feed lever cannot strike the
projection C unless the head of the fastener 5 supposed to be a tack such as shown
separately in Figure 24, has been forced through the delivery channel 4, which
intersects the groove or way 20, of the fastener conductor or chute D' and in its
passage has acted against the finger 6, shown in dotted lines Figure 7, projecting
from the lower end of the sleeve of the fastening detector b, the said detector being
held in place by a screw c¹ which serves as a fulcrum for it, the said detector being
acted upon by a spring c³ which normally keeps the said finger 6 in the road way
and in the path of the head of the fastener, and this detector will be operated as
will hereinafter be described.
The shaft B2. has a cam hub D2 which receives a roller or stud of the anvil
carrier D³ shown as a lever pivoted at D*, the said carrier being provided at its
forward end with a suitable groove to receive the anvil D* having a clinching
surface 8, see Figure 4, against which the end of the tack or fastener strikes and is
curved, curled over or clinched as represented in Figure 10, where a fastener and
its head are shown in white, the said fastener being inserted in the material 10 of
a boot or shoe or other article, the button being marked 12.
The anvil has a prong 9 to enter the eye of the button shank, center it, and as
will be hereinafter described assist in feeding the button out of the guide-way of
the button chute or conductor E.
The anvil is made longitudinally adjustable in a groove in the carrier, and abuts
at one end against an adjusting screw 13 held in a cap E¹ which acts as a clamp
to hold the anvil in place, the said cap being forced down on the anvil by a
screw 14. The carrier D³ has a link E2 attached to it and to a radius bar E³
pivoted at E on a part of the swinging frame B'.
The lower end of the said radius bar is shown as forked to embrace a block 16
on a stud or bolt 15, the latter being connected with a dove tailed slide E³ fitted
into a dove tailed groove made in the frame B'.
The slide E has attached to it by bolt 17 and in an adjustable manner, the
fastener transferrer or carrier F, the forward end of the latter being entered into
the groove or way 4 before. referred to, the said transferrer being provided with a
longitudinal slot 18 shown in Figure 25, and in dotted lines Figure 4.
The fasteners 5 dropped into the receiver or hopper F¹, pivoted at F2 and slotted
at its front end at 19 see Figure 5, are permitted to pass out through the said slot.
into the groove 20, having the cross section shown in that detail Figure 5a, where
it will be seen that the groove is T-shaped. so that the enlarged circular head of
the fastener 5 is guided in the horizontal part of the said groove while the prong
part stands in the vertical part of the groove with its point uppermost.
The fasteners travel down along the groove 20 of the said chute or conductor the
lower end of which is curved as best shown in Figures 3 and 22, and the endmost
fastener stops, when the transferrer E is drawn back against the abutment or
wall 23 forming part of the said chute as shown by the black dots Fig. 22, which
latter in the groove 20 are intended to represent the shanks of the fasteners 5.
As the transferrer c is moved forward from the position Figure 22, its end.
strikes against the edge of the head of the fastener, and pushes the said fastener
along in the groove or way 4, placing the said head in position just immediately.
above the driver c which is fitted into a slot at or near the end of the chute or
conductor D¹ as shown in Figure 7.
As the transferrer moves the fastener along in the said groove 4, the head of the
said fastener strikes the finger 6, and in its passage beyond the said finger turns it.
and the detector b about its center c¹ so that the end 24 thereof extends into the
groove in the transferrer E and the shoulder at the end of the said groove, acts to

page_text: further turn the detector so that its rear end wings in the direction of the arrow
thereon Figure 7, far enough to cause the said detector to act against the arm C³ of
the feed regulating lever and turn it about its center C far enough to place the
projection C in line with the forwardly moving feed lever. B6, B7, B8, as described
where it is locked by the engagement of the end 24 and the slotted end of the
transferrer while the feed lever by its part 6° acts against the projection C, and
causes the swing frame B to be moved or vibrated for the necessary distance:
If a fastener should fail to arrive in proper position in front of the transferrer as
the latter is moved forward; the finger 6, would not be acted upon and moved;
because it can be moved only by the head of a fastener, and consequently the
detector would not be moved so that its end 24 will be caught in the slot of the
transferrer, and hence the detector will not be turned to operate the feed regulating
lever, and the feed lever as it is moved forward will not strike the projection C,
and the swinging frame will not be moved, and the feed of the material will not
take place, nor will the button which was to be fastened by the tack which failed
to come into position be withdrawn or thrown out of the button chute.
The cam G also fast on the shaft B2 receives in its groove a stud or roll of a
lever G³, mounted on a movable fulcrum G³ held in ears of a short lever G pivoted
to the frame B at G³ the outer end of the said lever G₁ being attached to a lifting
spring G the extent of upward movement of the lever G2 being regulated by a
suitable stop G7, attached to the frame B. The forward end of lever G2 is forked
or otherwise shaped to engage a suitable projection e, from the driver bar e¹ to
which the driver G is attached by a set screw 26.
The cam G¹ during each rotation acts by the link H attached to the rear end of
the receiver F¹ to raise and lower the said receiver or turn it about its pivot F2,
thus constantly agitating the fastenings and ensuring their movement a few at a
time out from the said receiver into the groove 20, of the receiver conductor or
chute D¹, and also it will be noticed that the said lever G³ at the same time acts to
reciprocate the driver bar and driver.
Provision has been herein made to accommodate the stroke of the driver to the
thickness of the material, and this is accomplished through mounting the lever G³
on a movable fulcrum, and on inspection of Figure 4, it will be understood, when
the end of the driver bar or a shoulder 33, thereon meets the lower end of the
centering device or throat N at 34, that the further movement of the driver bar
will be arrested provided the upper end of the centering device or throat rests
against the material, and during the further movement of the rear end of the
lever G by the cam G¹, the fulcrum G³ descends without lifting the driver, and
consequently we are enabled to impart to the driver a variable throw so that the
extent of the curve in the body of the fastener is more or less as the material is
thin or thick.
The driver will be permitted to end its driving stroke short of the end of the
centering device or throat such distance being usually a little more than the
thickness of the head of the fastener in order that the said head under all
thicknesses of material will occupy the same position with relation to the material,
and by adjusting the length of the driver or its bar so that its end will fall more
or less short of the material, the fastener may be driven less or more,
The buttons 2 in quantity, are dropped into the funnel H2, from which they
issue into the hopper or receiver H³, made as a circular box the bottom of which is
set at an incline or tipped downward toward the front of the machine, and which
contains within it the button agitator H shown as a disk or hub having brushes or
arms 28.
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The hub of the agitator is mounted at the upper end of a shaft H extended
upward through a hub H below the button plate H7 of the hopper or receiver.
The shaft H³ has a gear M which is driven from a gear M¹ fast on shaft B' through
an intermediate M². The bottom plate H' is herein shown as constituting a part
of the under plate 27 of the button chute or conductor E. This plate 27, has a
rounded groove or channel 30; extended from the said receiver, to the delivery end

page_text: of the said chute, and communicates at its upper end with the said receiver H³ so
that buttons may enter the said groove and roll or slide along the same to the
delivery end of the chute.
Inside the receiver, and next to one of its circular walls there is placed a grooved
bridge or race g upon which the buttons are raised by the arms of the agitator so
that their heads resting next the inner wall of the receiver as shown in dotted lines
Figure 13, roll along in the said race, the shanks of the buttons projecting. toward
the center of the said receiver.
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The agitator sweeps the buttons along the race g, and from the end of the latter
which is extended through the outlet 29 of the receiver into a pocket at the said
outlet, as best shown in Figure 18, the heads of the buttons then entering the
groove 30 of the under plate 27 along down which groove the said buttons roll
until they arrive at a point near the delivering end of the said button chute.
In Figure 11, it will be seen that the under plate 27 is the widest along the
straightest part of the chute, and by such construction the button shank is kept
horizontal and the button is free to roll because it stands on its edge, but as the
button reaches the lower curved end of the chute, the top plate of the chute is
made the widest, see section Figure 11a, and the groove in it is a little wider or
larger than the groove in the under plate 27, and consequently the button is
permitted to tip over so that its shank points downward at an angle of about
10 degrees and bears upon a knife edge 32.
The end-most button of the series of buttons with the open part of the eye
uppermost will be arrested by a yielding stop 33, see Figures 10 and 26, and
exactly at its proper position with relation to the driver and anvil, so as to insuro
the entrance of the prong 9, into the eye of the button as the carrier D5, is turned
in the direction of the arrow on it Figure 4.
The centering device or throat N attached to the upper end of the bar N2 by a
screw 34, is composed of a head provided with two spring held jaws 35, 36, pivoted
at 37, see Figure 22, the spring 38 acting thereon being held by a screw 39 inserted
in the said block.
The bar N is acted upon by the spring N³, one end of which is connected with
a bolt N* attached to the frame B and its other end with a pin N5 extended from
the said bar through a slot N6, see Figure 4, in the swinging frame 'B' and
consequently the upper end of the centering device or throat is self adapting to the
thickness of the stock, but the said bar N2 is drawn down by the lever O, pivoted
to the frame B at O', the said lever having a stud or roll to be acted upon by the
one sided cam 02, fast on the shaft B².
The driver bar e¹ is held in its groove by the dove-tailed gib p it in turn being
held in place by screws pl.
The underside of the under plate 27 of the chute E serves as a support for the
material upon which the button is to be set, as the centering device or throat
strikes the said material.
The material is held up against the said support by the presser foot P herein
shown as inverted from the position commonly occupied.by presser feet in sewing
machines.
This presser foot P has a throat P which is entered by the centering device or
throat of the fastener, and is attached to a presser bar P³, extended through
guides P4, forming part of the rigid frame A. the said bar passing through a spiral
spring P which has its lower end rested on a projection P5 of the frame A the
upper end of the said spring receiving against it a collar P7, adjustably attached to
the said bar, the said spring acting normally to elevate the said presser foot and
cause it to clasp the material 10 against the support referred to as shown in
Figure 16.
The presser and its bar are moved automatically to release the material 10 and
to permit it to be fed by a lever Po pivoted at 36 forked at one end to embrace a
stud or block P of the said bar, and having at its other end a. roll or stud to be

page_text: acted upon by the cam O2 before described, but by a portion of the said cam at the
rear side of the shaft B
To depress the presser for the introduction or removal of the material, the
presser rod is extended below the frame work A¹ as in Figure 2, and has joined to
it a link supposed to be attached to a treadle or foot piece.
The swinging frame is normally held against the back stop 8 shown as a bolt by
the spring b.
Having introduced the material 10 between the support and presser foot as
described, and a button having arrived against the stop, the pin A7 is depressed to
permit the clutch portions of the driving mechanism to come together and start the
machine.
The carrier is moved to introduce the prong 9 of the anvil into the eye of the
shank and place the clinching surface 8, opposite the said eye, and at the same
time the transferrer E is moved forward to carry the fastener into position above
the end of the driver. G.
When the head of the fastener is thus placed above or in line with the driver,
the point of the said fastener is just below the contiguous ends of the spring held
centering device or throat, and the upward movement of the driver causes the
point of the fastener to be moved up between the contiguous ends of the jaws of the
said centering device, the latter thus being at rest a short distance from the under
or wrong side of the material after which the centering device and driver move in
unison toward the material, and the centering device striking the material through
the throat P2 is stopped thereby but the driver continues to operate against the head
of the fastener, and drives its point through the material and against the clinching
surface 8, of the anvil causing the point of the fastener to be curved or curled or
clinched over so as to enclose the wire of the shank of the button, the driver
stopping substantially in its driving movement preferably just before its end arrives
opposite the end of the centering device, as described.
As the fastener is being clinched to secure the button in place, the presser foot
is automatically lowered by the cam 0 to release the material sufficiently to
permit the same to be fed, which is done as soon as the fastener is clinched by the
feed lever or its part 2 striking against the projection C causing the swinging
frame B to be turned about the shaft B2, thus carrying the anvil, driver, and tack
chute D¹ away from the delivery end of the button chute E, and the prong 9, being
in the eye of the button shank, the button is drawn froin the groove of the button
chute past the spring stop 33, and the material clamped between the centering
device and the end of the anvil D³ is moved far enough to place under the then
endmost button of the button chute, that portion of the material which is to
receive the next button, and just before the centering device and anvil release the
material to enable the frame B to be swung back into its normal position by the
spring 65, the presser foot is elevated by the spring Po to clamp the material so that
it cannot be displaced until the next button has been set.
If the fastener fails to be delivered properly to the driver the feed lever in its
movement fails to strike projection C, and the material is not fed, and the button
remains in the button chute with the prong 9, in the eye of the shank, and is not
fed. In order to keep a record of the number of buttons set by the machine, the
latter will be provided with a counting mechanism shown in Figure 1 and 2.
This counter is shown as a box 97, within which as usual are several gears and
pinions making a train to drive a pointer 90 over a scale, the main ratchet 96.of
the train being engaged by a pawl 95 attached to the hub of the swinging frame B₁,
the said pawl acting to turn the said ratchet one step at each return movement of
the frame.
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The box of the counter is attached to the fixed frame A¹.
Prior to this Invention a button has been secured in place by a tack, the tack
and button being held by a pair of plyers having an anvil, the button and tacks
being applied thereto singly. by hand,

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. In a machine for setting buttons, an anvil, and a rest to hold the button in
position with relation thereto, combined with a driver, and a centering device to
direct the tack with relation to the anvil, and eye of the button, to operate,
substantially as described.
2. In a machine for setting buttons, a grooved button conductor or chute down
which the buttons are free to roll, the said conductor being curved and shaped
substantially as described to cause the shank of the button to be turned to present
the open eye in the path of movement of the point of the fastener before it meets
the said eye for the purposes set forth.
3. The button conductor or chute, anvil against which to clinch the fastener, a
fastener conductor or chute, and an upwardly moved driver, combined with a
transferrer to transfer a fastener into position above the driver with its point
uppermost, and with a centering device for the fastener, to operate substantially as
described.
4. The button conductor or chute composed of the under plate provided with a
groove and the top plate also provided with a groove, the under plate being of
diminishing width outside the groove therein toward the delivery end of the said
chute, whereby the button is permitted to roll along a portion of the said chute
and to then arrive in position at the thin edge 32 with the eye of the button in
position to be entered by the fastener, substantially as described.
5. The button conductor or chute, and the anvil, and means to carry it, combined
with the presser foot to clamp the material while the button is being set,
substantially as described.
6. The button conductor or chute and an anvil on which to clinch or curl the
point of the fastener, combined with a driver to drive the fastener, and with means
to operate the same and change the relative position of the said driver and button
chute horizontally to remove the button from the chute holding it, substantially as
described.
7. The fastener conductor or chute, and transferrer to carry a fastener to the
driver, and a driver, and support for the face of the material, and an anvil having
a clinching face, combined with a centering device or throat adapted to direct the
point of the fastener to the anvil to clinch the said point about the shank of the
button, substantially as described.
8. In a button setting machine, a rest for the button, and an adjacent anvil, a
driver to drive a fastener, and an interposed device adapted to receive the point of
the fastener and present it to the material and yield to the passage of the fastener
between it as the latter is driven by the driver, substantially as described.
9. In a machine for setting buttons, an anvil having a clinching surface, combined
with a driver and means to automatically vary its stroke or movement according
to the thickness of the material, substantially as described.
10. In a machine for setting buttons a fastener conductor or chute, a transferrer
and an anvil, combined with a button conductor or chute, a driver, and a feeding
lever, and with means substantially as described actuated by the fastener to
determine when the material shall be fed, whereby should the presentation of a
fastener be omitted the material will not be fed, substantially as described.
11. A swinging frame, and a fastener conductor or chute, an anvil, and a driver
carried thereby, combined with a button conductor or chute, a feeding lever and a
presser foot, supported in another part of the frame work and with relation to
which the said swinging frame and its parts are made movable a greater or less
distance according to the distance to be preserved between adjacent buttons,
substantially as described.
12. In a machine for setting buttons upon boots and shoes and other material,
a fastener conductor or chute a reciprocating driver opposite the end of which is

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the fastener; combined with a button conductor or chüte a stop to arrest the
undermost button in position opposite the said anvil, substantially as described.
Dated this Sixth day of May 1884.
or WILLIAM, A. BOLAND, AND.
GEORGE W. PRENTICE.
D. H. Brandon, Agent,
114 Queen Victoria Street, E.C.
London.