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Description

W. L. BARRON. MEANS FOR SECURING BUT-TONS T0 FABRICS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 20, 1918.

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from the body-fabric and protect the fastening stitches against abrasion. It has also been proposed. to use a short metal sleeve for the purpose of spacing-the button 'from the body-fabricg the fastening stitches passing withinthe sleeve. "lFhe first of the above mentioned enpedients for forming the desired neck is defective for the reason that the winding thread soon becomes worn and breaks or the end thereof becomes loosened did and unwinds, much to the annoyance of the wearer of the garment. The metal sleeve expedient is undesirable for the reason that the comparatively sharp edges at the opposite ends of the sleeve are apt to abraid or cut the fastening stitches or the threads of the fabric to which the button is secured. llf the fastening stiches are tightly formed, so as to draw the button and metal sleeve tightly together and against the body fabric, the desired flexibility of the connection between the button and fabric isdestroyed and tilting of the button when insertlng it in a complementary buttonhole is liable to unduly strain the fastening stitches. if the fastening stitches are not tightly formed the likelihood of the ends of the sleeve to abraid or cut the stitching thread is increased.

Still further, it has been roposed to form a neck integral with the button but this expedient materially increases the cost of the buttons and unduly increases the strain upon the fastening stitches when the button is tilted from side to side in inserting it in a complementary buttonhole. Furthermore, if the neck of the button is made small enough in diameter to be suitable it is easily broken 0d".

The present invention has for an object to provide an improved, inexpensive and durable nec we g expedient for use in con nection with buttons secured to body-fabrics, garments or the like, whereby the button will be secured in the desired spaced relation to the body-fabric and the fastening stitches protected, and whereby the button ing the fastening stitches.

- re the above end a small disk of yielding may be readily tilted without unduly strain-- and preferably flibl'OllS material, such as felt or the likethrough which a sewing needle may be readily passed, is positioned between the button .and body-fabric so as to form a nonraveling, non-abrading, yielding and more or less resilient neck for the button adfording a maximum of protection for the fastening stitches.

lln the accompanying drawings, Figure l is aside elevation of the button as secured to a body-fabric or section of a garment. l igs. 2 and 3 are cross-sectional views and liig. d is a disassembled perspective view .of the invention.

-. According to the present invention, in its preferred embodiment, a button 1 having a plurality of centrally disposed sewing eyes 2 is yleldingly held in spaced relation with the body-fabric 3 by means of a disk 41- of.

yielding, penetrable and preferably resilient material such as felt, leather, rubber or the like and the group of fastening stitches 5 which are passed through the eyes 2 of the button, the disk t and the body fabric 3. Although the specific character of the stitches 5 is immaterial, said stitches may, if

formed by a machine, comprise a needle thread and a lower or shuttle-thread inter locked at d, d. llt will be readily appreciated that the disk at forms a yielding neck which holds the button spaced from the fabric and permits the button be tilted relatively to the fabric, as shown in Fig. 3, with out aording a fulcrum about which the button can be tilted as a lever to strain the fastenin stitches. Moreover, when the button is ti' ted, the material of the disk d will be compressed, as at 7, Fig 3, and the penetrative portions of the stitches which are held separated by the yielding wall d of material a'dforded by the disk t will assume an easy curve instead of being bent sharply about a corner of hard non-yielding material. original position as the compressed edge of the disk recovers its original thiclmesa y the use of the present expedient, necks ldd ldd

en released the button assumes its ltd ' a of various heights may be readily formed by providing disks i of various thicknesses.

Such disks may be made by simply punching them from sheet material and, for this reason, may be'cheaply prepared by the gar- ,ment manufacturer contemplating their use.

The term fabric is used herein in its broadest sense and is intended to include any sort of thinsheet material to which butfa ric, and a relatively small disk of yield-- against abrasion.

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tons are customarily attached.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention, What ll claim herein is 1. As a new article of manufacture, a

body-fabric, a buttonhaving sewing eyes, fastening stitches passing through the sewin eyes and securing the button to the bodying penetrable material between the sewing eyes and the body-fabric and servin as a neck .to space the button from the b0 y-fabric and to protect the fastening stitches 2. As a new article of manufacture, a body-fabric, a button spaced from said body fabric, and'meansf for securing said button .in spaced relation to theibody fabric, said ,means including a disk of yielding penetrable material disposed intermediate the butfabric, and fastening means extending in a direction normal to the surface of the body-fabric from the button through the disk and into the body-fabric.

' yielding nsiaois 3. As a new article of manufacture, a body-fabric, a button spaced from said bodyfabric, and means for securing said button in spaced relation to the body-fabric, said means including a separate disk of yielding penetrable material disposed intermediate the button and body-fabric, and smaller in size than the button, and fastening stitches goassing through the button, the disk and the dy-fabric.

4. As. a new article of manufacture, a body-fabric, a button having a plurality of sewing eyes, fastenin stitches passing through said eyes and into the body-fabric and a relatively small disk of soft material separate from the button and serving to fabric, and the stitches-passing through the button, the disk and body-fabric and servin to hold the parts intheir above described relative positions. 7

In testimony whe'eof I have signed my name to this specification.

L. BARRON.

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