US2025663A - Button fastener - Google Patents

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G. IULIANO BUTTON FASTENER Dec. 24, 1935.

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Patented Dec. 24, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 6 Claims.

My invention relates to a fastener for attaching buttons to garments without the sewing of, or the tying of knots in, the attaching cords or tapes. It is particularly adapted to securing buttons to fur coats and other heavy garments.

The object of my'invention is to make it possible to more quickly and securely to attach buttons to heavy garments.

A further object is to permit the ready removal of buttons so attached without the necessity of cutting or untying the connecting cords or tapes, when it is desired-to clean, alter, or mend the garment, or to move the buttons to a new location.

A still further object is to provide abutton fastener that will protect the edges of the hole in the garment through which the connecting cords or tapes pass, and which will prevent them from tearing the cloth or fur surrounding the opening.

Other objects will appear more fully in the description which follows.

At present buttons are attached to fur or other heavy garments by passing two cords or tapes from the button through an opening in the garment and thence to an underbutton known as a button fastener, to which the cords or tapes are tied. Not only is this a relatively slow and tedious method of attaching the buttons but it is difficult to obtain a uniformity of attachment. Furthermore when it is necessary to subsequently remove the button, as is frequently the case, the process of detaching without injuring the cords or tapes, that are, with fur or cloth-covered buttons an integral part thereof, is even more laborious and. time consuming. No protection to the edges of the hole through which the cords .or tapes pass is given by the button fastener and as a result these cords bear on the edges when the button is under strain. Many tears in garments have their origin at the buttons.

' I have found that by providing a buttonshaped fastener with a center hole having a raised rim, and with additional holes that have slotted openings or gateways from the outer circumference of the fastener, these present shortcomings can be overcome. Passing the pair of cords or tapes from the button through the garment and then through the center hole of my fastener and next passing and repassing these cords through the other holes, as I describe later, will cause the cords to be securely affixed by friction. The slots are provided to the secondary holes to permit a rapid engagement of the cords with the holes, and by providing the fastener with a convex surface clearance for the cords or tapes is provided between the garment and the fastener and additional ease in handling is made possible.

An operator can quickly learn the movements necessary to lace or secure the cords or tapes to 5 my button fastener and a rapid, uniformly stressed connection will be made. The raised rim or collar about the center hole engages in the opening made in the garment for the connecting cords o-r tapes and prevents the narrow cord or tape edges 10 from contacting the fur or cloth of the garment.

Not only is my button fastener useful for the purposes above outlined, but it may be used in other cases where a pair of cord ends need to be laced to an attaching or anchoring device.

The drawing illustrates one embodiment of my invention although I do not limit my invention to the particular form shown. The four figures contained in the drawing are:-

Fig. 1. A full face view of the button fastener. *2!) Fig. 2. A side view of the button fastener.

Fig. 3. A face view of the button fastener as it appears in use securing a button to a garment.

Fig. 4. A side view of the button fastener as it appears in use securing a. button to a garment. e25

Referring to the numbered parts in the four views, each part carrying the same identifying number wherever shown, the construction and use is as follows:-

Hole 1 is in the center of the fastener extending through its entire depth, its diameter being suificient to accommodate a pair of cords or tapes leading from the button. Where hole l opens on the convex surface it is surrounded by raised rim 2 that extends above the convex surface of the fastener a distance corresponding to the usual thickness of the cloth or fur of which the garment is composed and with which the button fastener is employed.

Secondary holes 3, l, 5 and 6 are dispersed equidistant from each other, about midway between the center and the outer circumference of the button fastener. Each of these holes are of a diameter sufficient to accommodate a pair of cords or tapes. It is apparent that it is not essential that these holes be spaced an equal distance apart, but they can be located in various relative positions.

Gateways orslots I, 8, 9 and Ill provide access to the holes 3, 4, 5 and 6. These gateways are, at the holes, narrower than the thickness of a single connecting cord or lace in order to retain such a cord or lace in the hole, and, to furnish ease of ingress flare outward to the outer circumference of the fastener.

It is desirable to have these gateways disposed as I have shown them in Figures 1 and 3 so that an operator can, admitting cord to the holes, in three out of the four holes do so with a motion of the hand in the same direction. This makes for more efficient and speedy operation. I do not limit my invention, however, to either this arrangement or number of gateways and holes as I realize that many forms of my invention may be employed.

Cords II and I2 leading from button l3 are shown laced to my button fastener in a manner that will securely attach the button to garment Id. The particular method of lacing illustrated here by Fig. 3 consists in passing cords H and I! through hole l. Cord H is passed through slot 9 to engage in hole 5 and is then passed between the garment and the button fastener to engage in hole 6 via slot H3. It is then passed from hole 6 to engage in hole 5 which again brings it between the garment and the fastener. From hole 5 it is brought up through hole 4 and the end of this cord I! terminates a short distance from the flat face of the fastener.

In a like manner cord l2 after coming out of hole I is passed downward through hole 3 and then between the garment and the fastener up through hole 6 and from there is engaged in hole 3 and once more between the garment and the fastener. it is now brought upthrough hole 4 to terminate a short distance therefrom.

My button fastener may be made of any suitable material, such as celluloid, horn, shell, ivory, metal, rubber or the like.

I realize that various button fasteners and lacing devices have been heretofore made and I do not claim to have originated such a device, but I do claim to have invented an improved form.

What I claim is:-

1. A button fastener comprising a disc having a convex surface, a centrally located hole surrounded on the convex surface by a raised rim, and a plurality of additional holes through the disc each of such additional, holes having a gateway from the outer periphery.

2. A button fastener comprising a disc having a convex surface, a centrally located hole surrounded on the convex surface by a raised rim, and having a plurality of additional holes through the disc, each of such additional holes having a gateway from the outer periphery consisting of a slit narrower at the hole than the thickness of the lacing.

3. A button fastener comprising a disc having a convex surface, a centrally located hole sur- 5 rounded on the convex surface by a raised rim, and having 4 additional holes through the disc connected by means of gateways to the outer periphery of the disc such gateways consisting of slits narrower at the holes than the thickness of 10 the lacing.

4. A button fastener comprising a disc having a convex surface, a centrally located hole surrounded on the convex surface by a raised rim, 4 additional holes equally distributed on the disc midway between the center and the outer circumference, each of such additional holes opening out upon the outer periphery through slits that are at the holes narrower than the thickness of the lacing.

5. A button fastener comprising a disc having a convex surface, a centrally located hole surrounded on the convex surface by a raised rim, 4 additional holes equally distributed about the center hole and located midway between the center hole and the outer circumference of the disc, each of such additional holes opening out upon the outer periphery by means of slits narrower at the holes than the thickness of the lacing, two of the diametrically opposite slits joining their holes with the outer periphery in the shortest possible distance while the other pair of slits have their lengths in a direction almost parallel to the line or diameter along which the first two lie.

6. A button fastener comprising a disc having a convex surface, a centrally located hole surrounded on the convex surface by a raised rim, 4 additional holes equally distributed about the center hole and located midway between the center hole and the outer circumference of the disc, each of such additional holes being connected to the outer periphery by means of slits narrower at the holes than the thickness of the lacing, two of the diametrically opposite slits joining their respective holes with the outer periphery in the shortest possible distance; the other two slits having their lengths almost parallel to one of the first two and opening out on the same side or segment of the disc.

GAETANO IULIANO.

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