US1844283A - Button loop - Google Patents

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R. J. HODGE Feb. 9, 1932.

BUTTON LOOP Filed Jan. 8, 1930 H D T E V N PM: E E RT J H :1 1: [3 E ATT) Patented Feb. 9, 1932 UNITED STATES PATET OFFICE ROBERT J. HODGE, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, .ASSIGNOR TO THE AllEEEICAN BUCKLE COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CON- NEOTICUT BUTTON LOOP Application filed January 8, 1930. Serial No. 419,432.

This invention relates to button loops and especially to loops made from a single piece of wire and having at the base of the loop substantially abutting extremities relatively secured by a clip coupling.

T he objects of the invention are to provide substantially abutting extremities of a button loop with enlargements co-operating with the structure of the clip to movably secure the extremities therein; and to provide a clip coupling for a button loop, the structure of which clip co-o 3erates with the enlarged terminals of the loop to movably maintain the enlargements within the clip.

The invention consists of the novel constructions, to be hereinafter described or claimed, forcarrying out the above stated objects and such other objects as may hereinafter appear.

The character of the invention may be best understood by reference to one illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by the several figures in the accompanying drawings of which the Figure 1 is a frontelevation of a. button loop in normal condition; the Figure 2 is a side elevation thereof; the Figure 3 is a front elevation with the clip illustrated in cross-section and the loop in an expanded condition; and the Figure l is an enlarged perspective and fragmentary view of the clip member.

The device as illustrated by the figures of the drawings, is a button loop for connecting a suspended strap to a button provided by a garment to be thereby supported, the button loop comprising a suspension loop 1. a button receiving loop 2, and a button retaining loop 3, the loops being associated in axial alignment. The button loop is preferabl formed of a. single piece of resilient wire,'a middle portion of which is bent to form an elongated suspension loop 1 having the horizontal bar 4, the remaining portions of the wire cooperating'ly formed to provide the loops 2 and 3 having the intermediatecontracted portion 5. The wire extremities are provided with the enlargements 6 each of which is preferably formed by looping the wire back upon itself to provide the elongated eye 7. The clip coupling is made of sheet metal folded over the extremities and comprising, as best illustrated by the Figure 4-, the top portion 8 having the depression 9 and the marginal recesses 10, the side portions 11, and the overlapping flanged portions 12 and 13, each of the side portions 11 having the spaced lugs 14: struck inwardly therefrom, the lugs 14 of one side portion 11 being in alignment Within the clip with its oppositely positioned lug ll ot' the other side portion 11, the aligned lugs 14 substantially extending across the clip interior. In folding the clip over the wire extremities, including the enlargements 6, the side wire portions of the loop 3 are enclosed within the recesses and the lugs 14 project into the eyes 7.

In operation, the shank 15 of a button with in the receiving loop 2, as illustrated by the Figure l, is unable to move into the retain-' ing loop 3 while the enlarged extremities 6 are substantially abutting, but with the ap plication of sufficient force behind the shank 15 it may be urged into the contracted portion 5 which is thereby expanded, and into the retaining loop 3, the inter-engaged lugs and eyes relatively sliding and thus providing the loop extremities with a limited freedom of movement within the clip coupling, the resiliency of the wire immediately restoring the button loop to its normal contracted condition following the expansion illustrated by the Figure 3.

I claim A button loop comprising a pair of spring arms cooperatingly bent to form associated loops in axial alignment and having an intermediate normally contracted portion, the extremities of the arms having looped enlargements substantially abutting and providing elongated eyes in relative longitudinal alignment in the plane of the button loop, and a clip coupling enclosing the enlargements and providing a pair of lugs inwardly directed from opposite directions for engagement within. each eye to limit the relative movements of the enlargements within the coupling upon the expansion of the contracted portion.

ROBERT J. HODGE.

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