US656419A - Button. - Google Patents

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BUTTON.

(Application filed June 2, 1900.) (No Model.

Fig.2. r -i WITNESSES INVENTDR Patented Aug. 2|, I900. F. ULDFIELD. l

, UNITED STATES PATENT. GFFIGE.

FREDERICK OLDFIELD, or PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO THE MORLEY BUTTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SACO, MAINE, AND BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.- r

shaped blank with more than four points, the long points for the legs alternating with the short points for the clenching-spurs and all the periphery of a central BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters PatentNo. 656,419, dated August 21, 1900.

Application filed June 2 1900.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK OLDEIELD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham 5 and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Buttons, of whichthe following is a specification. My invention consists inan improved staple or metallic fastener for the attachment of buttons or button-heads to cushions or like articles and in a button into which myimproved stapleeutersas a com ponentand char? acteristic part.

In the, drawings, Figure 1 shows a form of blank from which my improved staple is struck up; Fig. 2, a perspective view of my improved staple; Fig. 3, a side view of the head of my improved staple, showing the clenching-spurs wherewith the staple is se Fig. tie a cross-secmy improved cured to a button-head. tion of the button-head with staple embedded therein.

The staple which forms part of my inven tion is made of sheet metal of proper quality, such as is used inthe manufactureof sheetinetal staples or rivets. The blank outof which my staple is formed is struck up in the,

w shape shown in Fig. I and is,ronghly speaking, star-shaped. The long points a of the star constitute the legs offthe staple and the short points 0 the clenching-spurs wherewith the staple may be attached to abutton-hea'd. The dotted lines 11 are the lines at or near which the staple-legs a are bent downward, and the dotted lines2 2 are the lines at or near which the elenching-spurs c are-bentupward. The centralportion 5, located within these dotted lines, forms the crownor of my improved staple.

In this described embodiment of my invention I have showna staple with two legs and two clenching-spurs. 1 The staple may be eon-' structed, if desired, by makingthe arranged about table.

The tool by which the elenehingspurs are; cut in forming blanks should be soshaped as Serial No. 18,808. (No model.)

to give the points and edges of the spurs an outside bevel, the bevels of the Spurs 0 as seen in the blank being all toward one side of the blank. Fig. 2 shows the staple with the legs Ct bent downward from the table b and the clenching-spurs a bent upward there from. If it is desired to have the clenchingspurs c bent outward upon being forced into a solid penetrable material like that of a button-head, the spurs should, be bent, as indicated in Fig. 3, so that the bevelsof the spurs face each other.- Then the deflection of the spurs will be as indicated in the dotted lines inflFig. 3. A reverse arrangement of the spur-bevels will result in inward deflection. To form a button of which this improved staple, is a characteristic portion, I take a button-head of some solid penetraole material-such as, for instance, compressed paper or woOd-pulp-and press the spurs c of the staple into the button-head. In Fig. 4 I have t shown the button-head d in cross-section,with the spurs c of my improved staple embedded therein and self-defiected outward. In order togive asm 00th finish to the button, sufficient pressure should be applied to forcethe button and staple together, so that table bot the c staple is sunk flush with thelower surface of the button-head. r What I c1aim, and desire to ters Patent, i s-- v y y i v 1. A fastener for cushion-buttons and like articles consisting of a one-piece staple provided with a table portion, legs depending at intervals from the periphery of the table portion and clenching-spurs bentupward from the table portion with their bases [atthe periphery thereof in the intervals between the legs..

2. Ar-fastener for cushion-buttons and like articles consisting of a one-piecestaple provided with a square table,l0ng legs bent downward from opposite sidesof the table M and short clenching-spurs bent upward from the other two sides of the table.

3. A fastener, for cnshion-bnttonsa-nd like articles consisting of a one-piece staple provided witha table portion, legs depending at intervals from the periphery of the table portion and clenching-spurs bent upward from secure by Lettable starthe table portion with their bases at the periphery thereof in the intervals between the legs, said clenching-spurs being each beveled on one'side.

4. A button, consisting of a solid head of penetrable material and a one-piece staple provided with a table porti0n,legs depending at intervals from the periphery of the table poriion and clenching-spurs bent upward from the table portion with their bases at the periphery thereof in the intervals between the legs, said clenching-spurs being embedded in the button-head.

5. Abutton, consisting of a solid head of penetrable material and a one-piece staple provided with a square table, long legs bent downward from opposite sides of the table and short clenching-spurs bent upward from the other two sides of the table said clenching-spurs being embedded in the button head.-

6. A button, consisting of a solid head of penetrable material and a one-piece staple provided with a table portion, legs depending at intervals from the periphery of the table portion and clenching-spurs bent up- Ward from the table portion with their bases at the periphery thereof in the intervals between the legs said clenching-spurs being each beveled on one side, the said clenchingspurs being self-deflected and embedded in the button-head.

' 7,..A button, consisting of a solid head of penetrable material and a one-piece staple provided with a table portion, legs depending at intervals from the periphery of the table portion and clenching-spurs bent upward from the table portion with theirbases at the periphery thereof in the intervals between the legs said' clenching -spurs being each beveled on one side, the said clenchingspurs being self-deflected and embedded in the button -head and said table being sunk flush with the lower surface of the buttonhead. 4

Signed by me at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, this 14th day of May, 1900.

. FREDERICK OLDFIELD. WVitnesses:

CHARLES M. HORTON,

G. H. ANDERSON,

WALTER C. BENNETT.

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