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Description

.(No Model.)

H. S. ROGKWOOD. BUTTON FASTENER.

No. 449,648. Patented Mar. 31, 1891.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THE HOLMES MANUFACTURING COMPANY,

OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,648, dated March 31, 1891: Application filed October 14, 1890. Serial No. 368,096- (No model.)

to that class of button-fasten ers which are gen-.

erally known as eyelet button-fasteners, to distinguish them from so-called staple button-fasteners; and my invention consists in an eyelet button-fastener made in disk form,

which can be readily attached to or removed from the eye of the button, as will be clearly understood by referring to the drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved fastener. Fig. 2 represents a section of the same, taken on the line a: 00, Fig. 1, showing the button in proper position. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the fastener and button combined. Fig. 4 is a section taken on line y y, Fig. 1.

In eyelet button-fasteners as heretofore made the tongue which passes through the eye of the button is liable to be bent by constant strain out of its original and proper form, so as to allow its free end to project beyond the convex surface of the disk, thus causing considerable annoyance to the wearer from its frequent catching into the meshes of the stocking, which results in tearing the same or bending the tongue so that it will press into the flesh of the foot. It is the object of my invention to obviate these difficulties, and, furthermore, to so form the tongue that it is practically impossible to disarrange the tongue so as to prevent the fastener from being readily removed from the button when desired.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a slightly-hollowed disk provided with the cut-out tongue a, which is made in curved form, the end 6 of which is turned inward, so as to enter the shallow cavity of the said disk. Near the center of the disk, as at b, the tongue may be arched to an extent preferably of about the diameter of the wire of which the button-eye cut out as to leave openings 0 on both sides of the tongue a, the ,edges of the said openings 0 being turned inward, as shown in Fig. 4. It will thus be seen that there will be no angular edges or projections exposed to contact with the stocking, and that therefore it will be impossible for the disk to get caught in the fabric or to injure the same.

Whenever it is desired to fasten a button, the inwardly-turned end of the tongue is passed throu h the eye of the button and the disk is turned so as to cause the tongue to slide along in the eye until the latter reaches the arched portion of the tongue near the center of the disk.

The tongue a is so cut from the disk that it will start directly forward from its attaching-point, then curve to one side and backward, so that the end of the tongue will not be liable to project injuriously from the disk when in use.

I claim as my invention- A button-fastener consisting of a concave disk provided with an integral tongue out centrally therefrom, the said tongue extending forward from its connecting-point, then curving to one side and backward, and terminating in an upturned end, substantially as described.

HOYVARD S. ROOKWOOD.

Witnesses:

S. SOHOLFIE'LD, H. S. BABCOCK.

is made, and the disk itself is so-

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