US49595A - Improvement in buttons - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

WM. B. WHITE, OF NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO EGBERT S. RICHARDS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,595, dated'August 22, 1565.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. WHITE, of North Attleborough, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Button; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the followin g speciication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of Which- Figure l is a front View, Fig. 2 a rear View, and Fig. 3 a transverse section, of one of the said buttons. Fig. 4 is a section of the perfo` rated metallic cup constituting the eye of the button.

In making my said button I compose it not only of a body or disk, A, of glass, stone, or other suitable material, but of a flanged cup, B, sunk Within auvoritce made through or in the central part of the said body. rIhe general form of the iian ged cup is analogous to that of a hat or a percussion-cap, the flange c thereof being either an entire annulus or consisting of a series of star points or projections, as seen In L Fig. 1. The bottom of the cup Iperforate with two or more holes, Z1 b, for reception ofthe thread used in sewing' the button to an article.' The hanged cup I make of metal, and it may be struck from a plate thereof by suitable dies. It should be pressed into the cavity in the button-body so as to tightly t therein, and, if desirable, it may be cemented therein.

When the button is fastened to a garment the cup will hold and protect those parts of the fastening-thread which may be on the front of the button.

I claim- The improved button, as made of the perforated metallic ianged cup B and the hat annnlus or disk A, as described, arranged and combined together substantially as specied.

WM. B. WHITE. Witnesses:

F. P. HALE, Jr., WM. TItEsoo'r'r.

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