Improvements in Spring or Snap Button Fasteners for Securing Gloves and other Articles of Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1900
Improvements in Spring or Snap Button Fasteners for Securing
Gloves and other Articles of Wearing Apparel.
I, CARL AUGUST PFENNING, of Barmen-Rittershausen, Rhenish Prussia, in
he Empire of Germany, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
nvention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement and accompanying
lrawings.
My said invention relates to spring or snap button fasteners used for securing
gloves, gaiters, leggings or other articles of wearing apparel.
In the type of such fasteners in which the head of one half is pressed into a
recess fitted with springs carried by the other half, the material being confined
between plates having oblique edges, it is of the greatest importance that the
two halves of the fastener should be immediately one upon another. Thus not
only will the faces of the material be drawn more closely together but the lock
of the fastener is better protected against any accidental opening, because even
should the material thus joined be pulled from any direction, the lock plates of
the fastener cannot be canted into an oblique position relatively to each other.
In order to effect the object of making the halves of the fastener fit closely
and tightly together under my invention, I stamp or press the head or button of
the lock plate from the metal out of which the plate is formed and provide such.
head or button with a neck disposed slightly above the face of the plate. The
lock springs of the other locking plate or half of the fastener when the head is
pressed into the recess are arranged to engage with the neck at the time when
the faces of the two halves are brought closely into contact.
The accompanying sheet of drawings shows my invention to an enlarged scale.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of the half of the fastener carrying the head or
button and also of the ring by which the material is secured.
Fig. 2 is a similar section of the other half of the fastener carrying the recess
which receives the securing button, and also of the confining ring for the material.
Fig. 3 is a plan view of the underside of Fig. 2 with the confining ring removed
and
Fig. 4 shows in section the halves of the fastener joined together.
In constructing a fastener in accordance with my invention I stamp or press
the head or button a out of the same metal or material as the plate b and ast
above the surface of the plate I form the button with a neck c (Fig. 1). e
position of this neck c is so adjusted as that when the button a is pressed home
5 into the recess d of the other half of the fastener, the springs g, which normally
each
protrude through slots into the recess d, snap into the neck e at the moment
when the faces of the two halves of the fastener b and f rest tightly upon
other (Fig. 4). Thus any play between the halves of the fastener is obviated and
they are firmly held together.
In order to fasten the material of the glove or other article of apparel to the
halves of the fastener, the edges of the material are pressed over the points s
of the plates 6 and f respectively and the confining rings r¹ are placed upon

page_text: the material and pressed down, the points s passing through the holes o and being
then clamped down. The material is thus bent over the inclined sides of the
fastener halves by means of the oblique or inclined edges of the confining
rings so that the faces of the material lie in the same plane as the base
plates of the halves 6 and f and are thus brought into close contact with each
other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
A spring or snap button fastener for gloves and other articles of apparel, the
head or button a of which is stamped out of or formed in one with the flat lock
fastener half 6 and provided with a neck c arranged so that when the button is
pressed into the recess of the other half of the fastener a spring or springs engages
with the neck c and confines the flat faces of the halves of the fastener tightly one
upon the other, the faces of the material, which is pressed down over the oblique
edges of the fastener halves, being also brought into close contact substantially
as described and illustrated.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1899.
For the Applicant,
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
Chartered Patent Agents,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester.