US65932A - Benjamin mosbb and bavid tellott - Google Patents

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I Letters'r Patent No. 65,932, dated tuue 18, I1867.

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' Be it known that we, BENJAMIN MOSER and DAVID YELLOTT, offBrooklyn, in the county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Button-Fastening, and n'e-doghereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled iri theart to-make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specication.

The present invention relates to an attachment to buttons, studs, and other similar articles Worn uponV clothing, whereby they can be so secured to the clothing as to render it impossiblefor them to become detached therefrom and thus lost as the clothing is worn. In the accompanying-plate of vdrawings our improved button? fastening is illustrated- Figure 1 being a view of the under side of a button' with our fastening applied thereto, but on'asomeivhat enlarged scale; and

Figure 2, a section taken in the plane 0f theline :c iigr 1. i 4 1 A, in the dra-wings, represents a button, which may bemade of lanyof the ordinary forms, styles, and shapes, and of-any of the materials usually employed for such.upurpose, whether metal, glass, ivory, bone, India rubber, ete. To the back or under side of the button A our improved fastening, C, is applied or attached, which fastening consists of tivo similar arms D D2, one, D, of which is stationary', while the other, D2, is hung so as to swing around npon'thcbutton, and thus be susceptible oi' being either broughtin the same planewith the fixed arm, either above or below the same, according as lit-.is arranged, or to be brought in the pasition shown in g. 1, that is, so as to form an extension oncontinilation and be in the same line with the xed arml D, the movable arm being secured or held in either one of the tu'o'positions above stated by means of a spring-` l catch, E, (secured to the movable arm so as to turn with it,) engaging withthe hatches a at suitable vpointsin the rim Gr on `the back side of the button. l Y

When the button having the fastening attachment abovedescribed is to be applied to a garment, the movable arm of the fastening is tirstto be brought under the stationary arm, when, putting them through the button-hole in the garment, turn the movable arm until it 'comes into the position shown in iig. 2, Where the spring-catch holds it, thusisecuiiely fastening the button to the garment, as is obvious without any further explanation.

Having thus'described our invention, we claim as new, and desire ,to secure by Letters Patent- The fastening for buttons, etc., herein described, the same consisting of the arms D D2 and spring or other suitable catch, substantially as specified. I

The'above specification of our invention lsigned by us this 19th day` of October, 1866.

a BENJAMIN MOSER,

DAVID YELLOTT.

Witnesses: i

WM. F. MCNAMARA, 'ALBERT W. BROWN.

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