US1380268A - Cuff-button - Google Patents

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.1. SULLIVAN. CUFF BUTTON.

UNITED STATES MICHAEL JOI-IN SULLIVAN, OF HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

' CTIEF-BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 31, 1921.

Application led September 30, 1920. Serial No. 413,731.

T 0 all wko/m, t may concern.'

Be it lrnown that I, MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident yof Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Cuff-Button, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

In connection with cuff buttons, it is a well appreciated fact that' considerable difculty has been experienced in that it has been difficult for the wearer to release the cuff buttons to permit the opening of the cuff.

With this in view, cuff buttons have been placed upon the market which include two separable sections adapted to be connected substantially intermediate their two outer edges. Each section is applied to one of the button holes of the cuff of the shirt, and retain this member in applied position. Upon it being desired to open the cuff however, this may instantly be done upon separating the sections of the button thereof.

Considerable difliculty has been experienced in connection with this class of device, in that the buttons of this type have been difcult to manufacture, and the separable connection provided has been either so rigid as to render it extremely difficult to separate the sections of the cuff button, or so loose, that these sections have often accidentally become detached one from the other, to the discomture of the wearer.

With this in mind, I have constructed a cuff-button which shall be extremely simple in construction, so that the same may lend itself readily to manufacture, and in which a separable connection between the parts is effected, which will permit of the ready detachment of one of the sections from the other, although at the same time holding these sections against any accidental detachment.

Reference is had to the attached sheet of drawings as illustrating one practical embodiment of my invention, and in which- Figure 1 is a sectional side view showing the parts of the cuff buttons in applied position.

Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate the parts as shown in Fig. 1, but showing the same detached one from the other.

ed to extend through and receive the button f hole of a cuff of a shirt.

Similar t0 this, a second section of the cuff button includes also a base portion 12, and a barrel 13 serving the same purpose as that of the barrel 11. In addition to the t base portion provided in this latter section, a face plate 111 may conveniently be associated with the outer face of the same, such face plate being preferably ornamental and being capable of receiving the initials of the user, if this is desired.

Contact plates 15 and 16 respectively, are aiiixed to the free edges of the barrels 11 and 13, conveniently by means of an up-turned flange portion 17 adjacent the edges of these contact plates, which flange portion envelops the free edges of the barrels 11 and 13.

Aftixed to one of the contact plates, and conveniently forming an integral portion of the same, is the male portion of a separable fastener. This part of the fastener conveniently includes a stud 18 terminating in a head 19, such stud being conveniently split, as has been indicated at 20, to permit of a compressing of the head 0f the same.

It is now to be noted, that a spring 19 is arranged within the head 19 of the stud, such spring preferably including an M- shaped body portion having its limbs engaging the inner faces of the head at diametrically opposite points, and intermediate the supports 20 thereof. Directly to the rear of the head, and approximately intermediate the ends of the stud 18, an annular groove 21 is provided, for a purpose hereinafter more fully specified.

.A second contact plate 16 preferably carries the female portion of the separable fastener, such portion presenting a rearwardly extending wall 22, forming a socket 23, the inner face of said wall being formed with an inwardly extending flange 24;, at a position approximately intermediate its extremities.

It will now be understood, as has been Vaforedesoribed, that the cuff button openings of the shirt conveniently eng-age the barrels 11 and 13, and it will be understood that little likelihood exists of these portions becoming displaced. A moving of the parts to effect an introduction of the head 19 into the socket 28, and a continuance of this movement, will result in the sections of the head 19 becoming compressed upon being engaged by the flange 24, subsequent to which the portions of the fastener will seat, the flange 24 projecting into the groove 21.

By this construction, any accidental disconnection of the parts of the culi? button will be precluded although, as will readily be appreciated, the same may be readily separated if this is desired.

Obviously numerous modifications of structure might readily be resorted. to without in the least departing from the spirit of my invention, which l claim as- A cuff button, including a pair of sections Veach comprising a base, a barrel secured to said base, a contact plate secured to the free edges of said barrel, one of said contact plates being formed with a rearwardly extending wall presenting a socket, said socket being formed substantially intermediate its depth with an inwardly extending flange, the second of said contact plates being formed with a stud terminating in a head, said stud being split throughout its entire length, and being formed with a groove substantially intermediate its extremities,

the said flange being adapted to co-act with said groove, and anlVI-shaped spring arranged within the head of said stud for expanding the split portion of the same.

MICHAEL JOHN SULLIVAN.

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