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J. T.- THORNTON. BUTTON.

No. 415,659. Patented Nov. 19, 1889.

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JONATHAN T. THORNTON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

BUTTON.

v SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,659, dated November 19, 1889.

- Application filed March 22, 1889 Serial No. 304,376. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JONATHAN T. THORNTON, of the city of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shirt Buttons or Studs; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings making a part of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, in which- Figure 1 represents my improved button, showing the position of the arms as in use. Fig. 2 represents the same, showing the arms in position ready to be inserted into abuttonhole of a garment. Fig. 3 represents the under surface of the disk, through which the two arms are held and operated in their relative position to each other. Figs. .4, 5, 6, and 7 are detailed parts. Figs. 8 and 9 represent another form of arms that may be used in connection with the swivel-joint, which I do not deem necessary to describe in this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in shirt buttons or studs which are designed for ordinary button-holes in wearing-apparel; and it consists in the arrangement of operatingarms, to be attached on the under surface of the front plate of a button or stud that in their operation in connection with a swiveljoint they may be held firmly in position in securing the but-ton in the button-hole of a garment, as hereinafter described.

Heretofore buttons or studs have been made in various ways, with springs in connection with operating-catches, a construction objectionable 011 several accounts, being more or less complicated, increasing the liability of getting out of order, and adding expense to the manufacture. It has been my object to make a button or stud not open to these objections. This I first accomplished by forming a swivel-joint'with two narrow operatingarms, for which improvement Letters Patent of the United States were granted to me May 6, 1873, No. 138,595. Inasmuch as a button with narrow arms (referred to) is more adapted in its use to eyelet-holes, I have further im- To enable others skilled in the art to manufacture and use my invention, Iwill proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, A, Figs. 1 and 2, represents the front plate of an ordinary button.

B and B are the two arms, each of which may be made from a single blank, similar in shape, as shown in Fig. 5, and bent or formed in a die at an angle shown in the same figure. The lower or connecting end is bent in the form of a hook and provided with a small recess 0' near the bend. On the opposite edge a small tooth-like projection is made for a catch in holding the two arms from swinging too easily when in use.

C, Fig. 3, represents the disk through which the arms extend and are held to the front plate A, and D,Fig. 6, is a round connectingplate provided with a small projection 6 upon its peripheral surface and having two narrow holes cut through near its center, leaving a central cross-bar of a suitable length for the width of the two arms B and B,which may be connected side by side in passing and closing each hook end around said cross-bar, so that the angular bent endv of each may stand in opposite directions when set in use, by which arrangement said arms may be made to swing as on a pivot.

The disk 0 is so constructed with a concentric depression-upon the inner side in connection with a depressed segment of a circle of a larger size to receive the conn ecting-plate D, with its projection e, and having a suitably-shaped hole out through :its center for the purpose of the swinging arms B and B to be operated therein.

In the construction of my improved button the arms B and B being arranged upon the central cross-bar of plate D,the free ends of said arms are passed through the hole in the disk 0. The plate D,with its projection e, is made to enter the concentric depression of the said disk O, the projection e resting in the depressed segment of theenlarged circle of the aforesaid disk. The cap A is fitted over the top and its edge turned inward in holding the different parts together for the working of the button. It may be plainly seen that by this arrangement the arms B and B may be set in the position shown in Fig. 2 for entering a button-hole of a garment, and while in the act of pressing them through the tendency of the button-hole sides is to swing the arms in position, as shown in Fig. 1, previous to locking. The depressed segment of the enlarged circle of disk C forms a passage for the working of projection e, and,

in connection with said projection, serves as a check to the arms B and B, with plate D, from the swiveling or inturning beyond the dividing-lines for their two extreme positions. In locking the two swinging arms B and 13 they are swiveled or turned in position, as represented by dotted lines in Fig. 4:. An eccentric edge portion of disk 0, as formed by the hole from its center on either side, is made to enter in the recess 1" of said arms B and B, thus holding their extended ends parallel with the front plate A and firmly in position as in use.

In removing the button from the garment in which it is applied the arms are swiveled or turned in an opposite direction to which they were turned for locking. The button may then be easily withdrawn.

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The recessed arms B and B, connected to plate D, with its projection e, in combination with front plate A and disk 0, said disk being constructed with a concentric and segment depression for the operation of plate D therein, all as arranged for swiveling and locking the arms in their relative positions, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

JONATHAN T. THORNTON.

Witnesses:

WALTER H. BARNEY, CHARLES L. SPENCER.

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