US2067224A - Button or the like - Google Patents

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1937- R. HLUCKINS 2,067,224

BUTTON OR THE LIKE Filed Dec. 12, 1955 MHiVENTOR; V J

, Patented Jan. 12, 1937 2,067,224 BUTTON on THE LIKE Royal Huckins, Waterbury, Conn., assignor to Scovill Manufacturing Company, Waterbury, Conn., a corporation of Connecticut Application December 12, 1935, Serial No. 54,051

Claims. (Cl. 40-20) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE The present invention relates to buttons and the like which have a design, character or other ornamentation on their top, and aims to provide certain improvements therein.

Heretofore it has been impossible to feed buttons having a design or ornamentation on their top, in automatic button feed mechanisms so as to definitely locate or position the design at-the button-attaching station whereby to insure attaching the button to a garment or other article with the design in desired position. To do this,

of course, is highly desirable, since it will thereby be possible for the design on the buttons, which may be the manufacturer's .trade mark, to be always in correct position on the garments. Such proper positioning will not only enhance the appearance of the garments, but will also enable others, in viewing the garment, to read the trade mark on the buttons at a glance, thereby adding advertising value of benefit to the manufacturer. In a co-pending application of Edmund D. Janes, Serial No. 54,050 filed December 12, 1935, there is disclosed a tack button having a design,

ornamentation or trade mark on its top adapted for use in button-feeding and attaching machines,

said button having meansthereon which bears a definite relation to the design and adapted for cooperative action with means on the buttonfeeding mechanism for orienting the design so that it will always have a definite position when it reaches the button-attaching station. The particular form of the invention disclosed in said Janes application shows a tack button or the like of the top shell type, the'top shell having an integral tab or lip which bears a definite relation to the design thereon extending over the back of the button for registering the design with a button-attaching means. The tab or lip which is formed of the metal of the shell is relatively thin, and upon being bent down over the back of the button provides but a limited thickness of metal for cooperative engagement with the means on the button-feeding mechanism for registering the design.

The present invention constitutes an improvement on the integral tab type of top shell button disclosed in the J anes application and has for its primary object the provision of means for increasing the effectiveness of the tab in establishing registry of the design in a button-feeding mechanism. This object I accomplish by forming in the back of the button an arcuate track or groove over which the tab engages and in which track or groove 9. pointer or other means on a buttonregistering mechanism will ride until it encounters the tab bridging the track, thus making the action of the mechanism more positive. The invention will be better understood from the detailed description which follows, when considered 5 in conjunction with the accompanying drawing,

wherein:--

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a tack button em bodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the button shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a section taken substantially along the plane of the line 33 of Fig. 2.

The drawing shows my invention as applied to a conventional form of tack button, which coml5. prises a cap or shell H! of generally circular configuration having an inturned marginal lip ll engaging over a complemental upturned marginal lip l2 on a flange I3 extending outwardly'from a cylindrical hub 14, the bottom of which has an inturned flange l5 defining an axial opening. The parts l2 to IE may be said to constitute the body portion of the button; Mounted within the button between the cap l0 and thefiange I3 is an anvil plate It, and disposed between said anvil plate and the inturned flange I5 is a filler element ll having an axial opening therethrough in alignment with the opening through the flange l5 for receiving the pin of a tack or staple in the course of attaching thebutton to a garment or other 3 article. The cap or shell In on its top is provided with an ornamental design 18, herein shown as consisting of the word or trade mark "ScovilP, the name of the assignee of this invention, disposed across the button in a straight line. Obviously'the design may consist of any word, character, emblem or ornamentation, as desired. The tack button thus far described is merely byway of illustration and the invention is not limited thereto but has general application to any type of 40 tack button, top shell button or other analogous device, as will presently appear.

According to my invention the cap or shell I0 is formed with an integral lip or tab l9 which bears a definite relation to thedesign l8 on the top of the shell, and as herein shown said tab extends along the horizontal diameter of the cap or shell in alignment with the design l8 and has lateral edges 20 extending parallel to said diam- 5o eter. The tab [9 maintains its definite relation to the design on the top after the assembly of v the cap upon the body. as shown in Fig. 2, in the course of which assembly the tab I9 is bent back over the flange I3 01 the body portion.

p Y aoeaaee The tab l9 being integral with the top shell in What I claim is:

which is formed of relatively thin sheet metal, 1. A button or the like, comprising a top and provides a protrusion at the back of the flange 53 a body having a flange underlying the top, said is fed down ton-attaching mechanism.

2| which is bridged by the tab l9 when it is bent A bu r the l Comprising op a d back over the flange l3 as shown in Figs. 2 and a body having a flange underlyin the p, Bald 3 it will thus be appreciated that a pointer or top having a design thereon, said flange having operate to definitely. orient the button for registry at the button-attaching station. The button provided with a track such as 2i makes it possible to flatten down Although I have shown and described my invention as applied to a tack button of the top shell type, it is to be understood that the concept overlying the body I a button-attaching mechanism and means on said body for increasing the efi'ectiveness of the tab in establishing registry of the design.

' ROYAL HUCKINS.

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