Improvements in Hand-presses or Tongs for Mechanically Attaching Buttons.
Year: 1895

page_text: Reprinted as amended in accordance with the decision of the Chief Examiner
dated the 24th day of June 1905.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in Hand-presses or Tongs for Mechanically
Attaching Buttons.
I, GUSTAV RAFFLENBEUL, of Schwelm, Westfalia, Germany, Manufacturer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and it what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to hand-presses or tongs for mechanically attaching
buttons with wire-loops or eyes, to shoes, garments and other articles, by means of
thin wire-pins with flat heads, by linking them together in bending the wire-pin
end to form an eye after it has been introduced into the wire-loop of the button.
The new device invented by me is represented in the accompanying drawing, in
which:
in
Fig. 1 is a side-view of the working part with the ends of the handles broken off,
open state.
Fig. 2 is a side-view of the same, closed, and partly in section
Fig. 3 is a top-view of Fig. 1
Fig. 4 is a top view of Fig. 2
Fig. 5, 6 and 7 show in an enlarged scale the spring-clamp for holding the
button,
Figs. 8, 9 and 10 show the same as fixed to the sliding bolt holding a button,
indicated by dotted lines.
I arrange one of the two hand-levers A, which form the device in question with
an open forked top of such peculiar shape that the bifurcation is one sided and
branches off nearly at a right angle to turn up again at right angle into a part
parallel to the stem A; the one of the two fork-branches, forining the continuation
of the handle has a cross-piece B¹ bored horizontally to receive a sliding-bolt B,
Fig. 2; the other N, standing opposite and parallel to the first, carries at its top a
pin-holder with a spring-clamp K
The sliding bolt B is surrounded outside by a coiled spring D which is placed
between the bored cross-piece or bush B¹ and a head at the outer end of the bolt,
so that the spring D is exerting a constant pressure outwards upon the bolt B; at
the end, inside the gap, this bolt carries a spring-clamp F formed of one piece of
flat steel-plate fixed by a pin C, serving at the same time as an attacking point for
the upper arm of lever L when the tongs are closed, and as a stop for the back-
stroke of the bolt B.

page_text: In the connecting branch M of the gap is a flattened part embraced by the upper
slotted arm of lever L which is articulated by pin to M, so that in closing the
two handles A and 1, the bolt B is moved to meet the pin-holder K and pressed
against it tightly in a straight line. The button-holding end of bolt B has a rounded
cavity, so that when the wire-loop of a button is held by the holder or spring-
clamp F, and a headed pin is held by the pin-clamp K and the stuff, to which the
button is to be fixed, is placed into the gap and the tongs are closed, the pin
penetrates through the stuff into the eye of the button, then into the rounded cavity
of the end face of bolt B and there it is bent round the wire of the eye of the button
in order to formn an eye also and so to fasten the button to the stuff, as seen Fig. 2.
I beg to observe that this particular part of the apparatus is not new and I do not
claim it as my invention.
The enlarged views Figs. 5 to 10 show the button clamp F, taken off, and also, in
place. What I consider as being new is the whole-arrangement-with-the-one-handle
joined-to-the-other-in-the-peealiar-manner;--and--shaping-the--other-one-that-it-ean
serve-as-a-guide-for-the-bolt---B--in--one-branch-and-be-take-up-the-wire-pin-in-the-
other-branch arrangement of the spring clamps K and F on the fork branch N and
on the bolt B respectively.
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:
+)-A-button-attaching-hand-press-or-device-in-shape-of-tongs-for-fastening-metal
loop--exed--or-wire--eyed-buttons--by--headed--pins--to--shoes-or-parts-of-garments,
eonsisting-of-a-pair-of-articulated-hand-levers,-the-one;--A;--being--provided-with-a
one-sided-bifurcation,-having-two-parallel-branches,-the-other-lever-L-being-jointed
to-it-at-L'-in-the-bifurcation-by-its-slotted-top-part-embracing--the--latter;-the-said
branches-of-the-forked-hand-lever-A-having-their-top-ends-differently-arranged;-the
one-having-n-bored-cross-piece-or-bush-B'-with-a---sliding--belt--B--carried--therein
taeing--the--other--top--which--is--provided--with-a-spring-elamp K-for-holding-the
headed-pins--and--said--sliding--bolt--being--provided--at-the-inner-end,-facing-the
elamp-K-with-a-cavity-for-bending-the-shunk-of-the-headed--pin--into--a-loops--and
with-a-spring-elamp-F,-fixed-by-a-pin-C-to-said-inner-end-of-bolt-B;-a-spiral-spring
D-being-wound-round-the-bolt-B-between-the-bush-Bi-and-an-enlarged-head-at-the
other--end-of-bolt--B;-the--projecting-ends-of--the--pin--C-being--embraced-by-the
ends-of-the-forked-lever-L
2nd) In combination with a button-attaching hand-press of the construction
described as-specified-under-1) the spring-clamps K and F of U shape and forming
but one piece each, and fixing clamp F by a single pin C only. serving-at-the-same
time-for-moving-the-sliding-bolt-B-forwards-and-limiting-its-back-stroke.
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GUSTAV RAFFLENBEUL.
Per Karl J. Mayer,
Agent.