US1323365A - Button-fastening - Google Patents

Description

I. B. JOHNSON.

BUTTON FASTENING.

I APPLICATION FILED MAY 1. 1919.

1,323,365, Patented Dec. 2,1919.

6 Ida Basseififofizzson IDA BASSETT JOHNSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS IBUTTON-FASTENING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 2, 1919.

Application filed May 7, 1919. Serial No. 295,261.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IDA Bsssnr'r JoHNsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Button-Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garments, especially those for children, such as the underwaist to which the outer garments are buttoned, and more particularly to the method of securing the buttons in place thereon.

Generally stated, the object of the invention is to provide a novel and simple method of securely attaching the buttons to the underwaist, or other garment, so that each button will be capable of sustaining considerable weight and strain, and whereby the buttons will not be liable to tear away from the cloth to which they are secured.

It is also an object to provide certain de-- tails and specific features tending to increase the effectiveness of this particular method of attaching buttons to a garment.

To these and other useful ends the invention consists in matters hereinafter set forth and claimed, and shown in the accompanydrawings, in which Figure 1 is a view showing a childs underwaist, in a flattened or spread-out condition, having the buttons attached thereto in a manner involving the principles of the invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view showing one of the button fasteners secured in place under the waist-band of the garment.-

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line 3-3 in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a perspective of one of the button fasteners, showing the two buttons at the opposite ends thereof, the whole forming a unit.

As thus illustrated, the garment may be of any suitable character, but is preferably provided with a waist-band 1 secured to the outer surface thereof. Each button fastener comprises a strip of tape doubled around to form an inner layer 2, an outer and lower end portion 3, the latter being folded upwardly against the portion 2, and an outer and downwardly folded portion a having its lower end portion 5 doubled under and turned upwardly to rest against the portion 3, in the manner shown more clearly in Fig. 4:. The upper portion 6 of the end of the practically endless loop thus formed contains the button 7, the latter having two holes for this purpose, and the lower portion 8 of this endless loop contains the button 9, so that each button pulls from a strong point of attachment on the garment. The loop of tape thus formed is placed against the cloth of the'garment, and the waist-band 1 is then placed over the loop, as shown more clearly in Figs. 2 and 3, and a line of stitching 10 is formed along the'upper edge ofthe waist-band, and through the tape of the button fastener, so that the upper button 7 is supported by the depending portion 11 formed by the stitching down of this projecting portion of the loop. A similar line of stitching 12 is formed along the lower edge of the band, through the portions 2, 3, 5 and i, as shown, so that the lower'projecting portion 13 of the loop'hangs down and supports the button 8 a distance below the lower edge of the waist-band.

In the practical application of these butmade up in quantities, byfrunning a short transverse line of stitching through the portions 2,3, 5 and 4, thereby to permanen ly close the loop, so that the buttons cannot be removed before the fasteners are secured to the garment. Then other workers can take the fasteners and sew them to the garments in the manufacture of waists or other garments, thus providing a very strong connection between each button and the cloth of thegarment. Or, of course, the fasteners thus made up, each strip and its two but tons constituting a unit, with the short transverse line of stitching to hold the tape together, as stated, can be manufactured and the line of stitching 12, and then upwardly r to the top of the waistband again, so that the two portions of this stitching come together and. form a point near the lower edge of the waist-band, thus very strongly securing the various layers of fabric together-that is to say, the cloth of the waistband, the several thicknesses of tape, and the cloth of the garment, it being understood that this stitching 14 extends through all of these difi'erent layers. In this way, the tape is so strongly attached to the cloth that it is not liable to pull away.

It will be seen that the middle or intermediate portions of the endless loop are superposed one upon the other, so that the two thicknesses of tape, such as the portions 2 and 4, are secured one upon the other on the waistband, against the body of the garment, and this is then given added strength by the stitching which extends up and down the waist-band.

lVhat I claim as my invention is 1. A button fastener comprising a flexible strip of material folded to form an endless loop, and a button carried at each end of said loop, the intermediate or middle portions of the loop lying one upon the other and providing a plurality of thicknesses which are adapted to be secured in superposed relation to a garment.

2. A button fastener as specified in claim 1, the end portions of the strip being lapped one upon the other, and the plurality of thicknesses being fastened together by a transverse line of stitching, thereby to prevent removal of the buttons before the fastener is secured to the garment.

3. A button fastener as specified in claim 1, in combinationwith a waist-band extending over the superposed portions of the loop between the two buttons, so that one button is above the other, and stitching securing the waist-band and the loop to the cloth of the garment, the upper end portion of the loop and its button hanging down against the waist-band, and the lower end portion of the loop and its button hanging down against the garment, substantially as described.

4. A button fastener as specified in claim 1, in combination with cloth extending over the intermediate superposed portions of said loop, leaving the two buttons and the end. portions of the loop exposed, and stitching for securing the cloth and loop to the garment.

5. A button fastener as specified in claim 1, in combination with the cloth of a garment, and stitching extending through the garment and through the plurality of super posed thicknesses provided by the portions of the loop between the two buttons.

6. The combination of a garment, an end less loop of tape with a button at each end thereof, a waist-band extending over the middle portion of the endless loop, the loop and band forming superposed thicknesses, leaving the two buttons and the end portions of the loop exposed, so that the buttons can swing around, and stitching to secure the waist-band and tape to the garment, whereby the upper button hangs down against the waist-band and the lower button hangs down against the garment, said tape extending downward in two superposed thicknesses and transversely of the waistband, and the stitching extending through the waist-band and tape and the garment.

7. A garment as specified in claim 6, and a V-shaped line of stitching extending downwardly from the upper edge of the band to a point at or near the lower edge thereof, and then upwardly to the upper edge of the band.

IDA BASSETT JOHNSON.

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