US1430008A - Separable button - Google Patents

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H. EDDY. SEPARABLE BUTTON. APPLICATION FILED MAY 2. I922.

65 U hm m m 3 a w L I O Q AT T DHNE Y I Patented Sept. 26, 1922.

ALBERT HENRYEDDY,QF1EDGEWOOD scrarroiv, nrronn rsmmn.

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Application filed Kay 2, 1922. Serial No. 557,834.

To all whom it may concern: 9 Be it known that I, ALBERT HENRY EDDY, a citizen of the United States-residing at Edgewood Station, in the county of Providence and State of'Rhode Island, havein vented a new and useful Improvement in Separable Buttons, ofwhich the following is a specification. i I

In the usual construction of separable buttons, the parts are usuallyseparated by a direct pull apart andare secured, together by forcing the parts together on a line withthe axis of the parts. i

The object of my invention is to improve the construction of a separable button, whereby the parts are separated sidewise by sliding one part out of the other and secured together by sliding one part into the other.

A further object of my invention is to form a spring snap integral with one of the separable members, whereby when one of the members, is slid into the other, it will snap into the other member and lock the members together, against a direct pull apart of the members.

Another object of my invention is {to pivotally secure the heads to the posts or stems of the button members, thereby a1- lowing the heads to swing on the button posts and making the buttons particularly adaptable to soft cuffs.

Another object of my invention is to producesuch a separable button in which the hollow posts or shanks are practically smooth and continuous and in which there is no sidewise projecting members or p'rotuberances to interfere with the button holes of the cufis.

My invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction of a separable button, said separable button having details of con struction, as will be more. fully set forth hereinafter, and claimed.

Figure 1 is an edge view of my improved separable button in the closed osition and showing one of the members in a partly separated position, in broken lines.

Figure 2 is an inner face view of the spring button member having-the spring means for holding the other button member.

Figure 3 is a face view similar to Figure 2 of the inner fastening button member showing the rigid means which is slidably secured in the spring means of the spring button member. p l

l Figure tis aside View ofthe separable button, 1n the closed position.

F igure 5 1s a1transversesectional .view

taken on line 5, 5 of Figure 1, through the button looking in theldire'c'tion of the arrow A. and a FigureG is a central longitudinal sectional view through the button' taken on line 6, 6

heads in full, p

' Figures 11,2, 3,4 and:5'."a'r'e enlarged and Figure 6'is greatly enlarged; 3 In the drawing 7 indicates the spring'button member and 8 the inner fastening button member of my improved separable button. Each member 7 and 8 has a hollow ovalpost 9 in the end of. which is a slot 10 exof Figure 1 and'sho'wi ng the pivoted button tending in the direction of the longer axis of the oval post. In each slot 10 is a lug 11 on the back of a button head 12. The lug 11 is pivotally secured in the slot 10 by a pivot pin 13,, through the post 9 and lug 11, as shown in Figure 6. The inner end of the post 9 of the spring member 7 is formed into a fiat circular end 14 having an inwardly turned over lip 15. in the form of a crescent, as shown in Figure 2. In the sides of the post at each end of the crescent is out two slits 16, 16 each slit 16 extending at an angle from a small. hole 17 to the ends of the lip 15, as shown in Figure thereby forming the ends of the lip 15 into curved spring arms 18, 18 having ends 19, 19

which extend beyond the longitudinal axis formed by the turned over lip 15 on the spring member 7.

The button members 7 and 8 are fastened together by sliding the end'20 of the member 8 over the end 14 of the member 7 and forcing the circular lip 21 by the spring arms 18, 18 of the member 7' and into the crescent shaped groove under the crescent shaped lip 15 of the member 7. This first forces the spring. arms 18, 18 apart which then snap or closes around the edge of the circular lip 21, thereby fastening the members together, in one operation. The members of the button are separated by a reversal of this operation. I

When in use in the button holes of a soft cuff, the heads of the button will pivot on the button posts, thereby allowing the button heads to conform to the shape of the cuffs.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new:

1. A separable button having laterally separable posts, one post having an int-val dly turned over crescent shaped lip and spring arms formed integral With the post, the" other post having a circular lip adapted to be forced by the spring arms and under the crescentshaped lip on the first mentioned post and a button head pivotally secured to each post whereby the separablemembers of the button are locked together against a direct pull. apart of the members,

2. A separable button particularly adapted for soft cufi's and having laterally separable posts, one post having a circular end with an inwardly turned .over crescent shaped lip, spring arms formed integral With the post the other post having a circular end on which is a circular lip adapted to be forced by the spring arms and under the crescent shaped lip on the first mentioned post, and a button head pivotally secured to each post, whereby the separable members of th 'butt'on are locked together against a direct pull apart of the members and the button heads Will adjust themselves to the Empe or soft cuffs;-- 7

3. In a separable button having laterally separable posts, spring arms formed integral ,With. one, ofthe posts for holding the posts ALBERT HENRY EDDY.

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