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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 RNOELLE. BUTTON SETTING TOOL.

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Patented Mar. 8, 1892.

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B NOELLE BUTTON 'SBTTINQ TOOL. No. 470,628.

UNITED STATES:

PATENT Orrrcn.

ElVALD NOELLE, OF LUDENSCHEID, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT AUGUSTUS PANGHAUD, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

BUTTON-,SEiTTING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 470,628, dated March 8, 1892. Application filed October 21 1891. Serial No. 409,396- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EWALD NOELLE, a sub; ject of the German Emperor, residing at 47 Kolnerstrasse, Liidenscheid, lVestphalia, in the German Empire, have invented certain Apparatus for Securing Buttons to Garments or other Articles, of which the following is a specification. k F

This invention relates to apparatus mainly intended for securing buttons to garments or other articles, wherein the ends of a Wire sta ple (passed through a disk situated on one side of'theclothor material to which the button is to be secured) are caused to pass through the cloth or material, the said ends being then turned through the shank or loop of the butf ton, as hereinafter described. To effect this the disk and the staple, which is passed through it, are placed on a support or holder therefor, and the button is held by a holder provided with a recess or recesses situated on either side of the shank or loop of the button, so that when the cloth or material to which the button is to be attached is placed between the said holders andthey are brought toward each other by a leveror screw-press or other suitable device the ends of the staple enter the recesses on each side of the shank or loop, and, bybearin g on thesides of the said recess oirecesses, are caused to pass through the shank or loop and then to be turried down, so as to secure the button to the cloth or material.

I will describe, with reference to the accompanying drawings, the manner in which this invention may be carried into effect; but I do not limit myself to the precise details which Is'hall describe and illustrate.

Figure 1 represents in side elevation, partly in section, a machine constructed according to this invention. Fig. 2 represents in plan the preferred form of support for the disk and shank. Fig. 3 represents in half-section and half-elevation a form of holder for a button of a ring-form; and Fig. 4 is a plan of under side of the lower end thereof, drawn to alarger scale. Figs. 5 and6 are elevations, Fig. 5

A is the body part of the press, in which slides the plunger B, to the lower end of which the button-holderis secured by the screwb. The said plunger can be moved down by the lever 0, connected to the top of the plunger by the pin 0 and centered by the pin cZto one end of a link D, the other end of which is centered by the'pin d to the body part A, and the said plunger is returned to its raised'position by the spring b E is the holder for the button, carrying parts which grip the button between them,so that the shank is situated in a curved recess or curved recesses e, whose sides, when the press is operated,cause the ends of the staple to be bent through the shank and to be. then turned down after they have passed through the shank. r

F is the holder or support for the disk and staple, which supportF preferably consists of the part f, projected upward in the case f by a springf f is a cup for the disk, with a slotf in it for the passage of the staple, which rests at its bent part on the anvil f", the ends passing through holes in the. disk, as indicated by Fig. 10. f is a screw passing through the case and taking into a slot in the movable part, so that the said screw acts as a stop. If the ends of the wire staple be turned over so as only to be parallel with the opposite sides thereof, the button is liable to be detached by pulling by reason of the ends of the staple straightening out. cesses e is or are directed inward at the parts 6 (see Fig. 4) with which the respective staple ends last come into contact, so that the staple ends are directed or curved inward, as shown in Fig. 12, toward the opposite sides of the staple after the said ends have passed the To prevent this the recess or rebutton, and the other ends of the said arms.

or levers are pressed upon by a spring 9 between them to hold the button, the last-named ends when pressed together opening the jaws g to allow the button to be inserted or released. When the buttons are made of a ring form with a shank crossing from side to side of the ring, as shown in Fig.11, the end of U the button, and also having therein the curved recess or recesses e to turn over and inward the ends of the wire staple as aforesaid If the holder is to receive solid-topped buttons, it may be made as shown in Figs. 5to 8. Itis provided with a divided plate H for receiving the button, the parts It 71. of the plate sliding in slots 11 in the holder, the part h opening out from the part h by the spring '6 acting on it, when the plate is protruded I: from the holder, so that the button can be 1 placed with its shank between the plates and its under side resting on the said plates; lhe plates have in their meeting edges the; recesses 71 to receive the shank and on their under side the recesses e to direct and turn over and inward the ends of the wire staple,

. as aforesaid. When the button is put in place on the parts of the plate Hand it and the button are moved back into the slot '5 in the holder, the said parts close together and hold the button firmly in position while the: staple is passed through the shank. h are stops for limiting the motion of the; plate II in either direction. 1 The holders may be made removable from the plunger of the press, so that holders to suit various kinds of buttons can be inserted as required.

The apparatus may of course be used to atcertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,I declare that what I claim is nation, with the staple-holder, of the two-part button-holder, having one part pivoted to the other end, provided with grooves or recesses for bending the staple ends, said grooves being at the parts which act last upon the staple curved inward, whereby the points of the staple pass into the' fabric in an oblique direction to the surface thereof and are turned toward each other, substantially as and for 'the purposes specified.

' 2. In a machineof the character described, a button-holder comprising, in combination, a divided plate having one part pivoted to the other,a spring tending to separate.the two parts, recesses being formed in and between the two parts forbending the staple, and other recesses for the shank of the button, and a slotted support in which said plate slides and whereby the two parts of the plate are firmly gripped and held together duringthe operation of attaching a button, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two'subscribing witnesses.

EWALD NOELLE.

Witnesses:

- FRANK HESSENBRUCH, EDW. ESSENWEIN.

Barman.

1. In a machine for attaching buttons to ar-' holes of cloth and other material, the combi-

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