Abstract: A fastener assembly that allows a user to change the appearance of a leather good such as clothing or an accessory by interchangeably attaching ornamentation to clothing or accessory, changing the appearance of the leather good. The fastener assembly is easy to use and only requires a user to place an ornament having an anchor attached over a base attached to a leather good and rotating to lock the ornament in place. The fastener assembly has a plurality of flanges on the anchor that prevent the ornament from rotating and falling off the base. A disk magnet inside the anchor further locks the ornament onto the base. The fastener assembly is useful for a wide variety of clothing and accessories made of leather or leather-like materials. The style of ornament is without limit.

Abstract: There is provided an end stop. A male member and a female member are configured to sandwich opposing side edge portions of a pair of fastener tapes from both sides thereof in an upward and downward direction. The male member includes a circular disk-shaped male base member and an inserting male portion. The female member includes a circular disk-shaped female base member and a receiving female portion. A facing surface of at least one of the male base portion and the female base portion is provided with a protrusion group. The protrusion group is configured so that a plurality of protrusions protruding to come at least in contact with each fastener tape are arranged to be spaced from each other at predetermined angles over the entire circumference of the facing surface along a circumferential direction thereof.

Abstract: A rivet is applied from a rear surface of a fabric for mounting a burr on a front surface of the fabric. The rivet comprises a disk-shaped base, and a shank projecting from and concentrically with the base. The base includes an annular recess around a proximal end of the shank, which is depressed in a direction opposite to the shank-projecting direction, and a flange radially outward from the recess. The flange includes a plurality of bumps which are raised from an upper surface in the shank-projecting direction. The bumps may be provided on the upper surface of the flange at equal circumferential intervals, and a top of each of the bumps may be a curved face. The recess may have an inclined outer surface adjacent to the flange. Each of the bumps may have an inclined inner surface extending continuously from the inclined outer surface of the recess.

Abstract: A decorative cover for interchangeable attachment to buttons to change the appearance of the button. The decorative cover includes a base member with a hollow bore extending through at least one end thereof, and a decorative part permanently attached to an opposite end. An inner surface of the bore frictionally engages an outer edge of the button to retain the base member in place but permit it to be removed when desired. In one embodiment the base member is an elastomeric material having a durometer to enable the button to press into an inner surface of the bore. A detent may be provided in the bore to engage the button to assist in holding the decorative cover in place. In another embodiment the base member is longitudinally split into two semi-cylindrical segments that spread apart to enable a button to be engaged between them.

Abstract: A button fastener made of metal for fastening a button such as a male snap button or a decorative button to a cloth, includes a plate-like base and a cylindrical post projecting from a center area of the base. The upper end face of the post is open as a top opening, and the lower end face of the post is open in the center area of the base as a bottom opening. To the button fastener, a closing member which closes the inside of the post at a proximal side thereof is provided. The closing member is a closing part which has been cut out, by a punch, of an unfinished post of a semifinished product which is fabricated to the button fastener and then displaced by the punch through the inside of the unfinished post toward the lower end.

Abstract: A press stud comprises a male element and a female element, which show, when coupled, a capacity for mutual transverse displacement with respect to the coupling direction to move, when subjected to tension acting in a substantially transverse direction with respect to the coupling direction, from an uncouplable position to a locked position. An elastic centring member exerts an elastic force on the male element and/or on the female element to keep them in the uncouplable position in the absence of tension acting in a substantially transverse direction with respect to the coupling direction.

Abstract: A button having three cooperating elements, 1) a traditional rivet, whose pin is engaged and held inside a corresponding housing centrally on the back of 2) a cylindrical joint with enlarged head, which is frontally provided with a central cylindrical conduit receiving a shank that centrally protrudes from the back of 3) a button head.

Abstract: A tack button 10 comprised of one component constituted as a cap 14 bounding a compartment 34 and as a second component a tack 12 undergoing an operative position of movement resulting in a free end 36 of the tack expanding 38 into the cap compartment 34 to hold the tack button 10 in place.

Abstract: A pressure button, of the type comprising a male portion and a female portion, to be applied on flaps to be connected, the female portion comprising a fixing element for fixing an active female element, the latter including a plurality of resilient tabs which are mutually arranged with a ring arrangement about a housing recess for housing a projecting part of the male portion. The active female element of the button comprises an annular body to which a clamp element including a plurality of points projecting outside of the active female element is affixed. In particular, the assembling means for assembling the female portion are so arranged as to operate at a separated and moved away position from the resilient tabs, thereby the assembling of the female portion, for applying the latter on a respective material flap, can be performed without modifying the mutual shape and/or arrangement of the resilient tabs, thereby preserving the rated clamping pressure of the button.

Abstract: A button is disclosed that includes a die cast button body for which a secondary or an additional process (e.g., a squeeze process) is unnecessary and for which a degree of freedom for design of the upper surface center of the button body can increase. A shank of a fastening member is provided with a shank distal end having a small diameter, a shank proximal portion having a larger diameter than that of the shank distal end, and a shank stepped portion. A shank receiving space of the button body for receiving the shank is provided with a shank receiving small diameter portion which receives the shank distal end and which has an axial length larger than that of the distal end, a shank receiving large diameter portion which receives a distal side part of the shank proximal portion, and a shank receiving stepped portion. The shank receiving stepped portion has a stepped portion edge boundary with the small diameter portion.

Abstract: A button comprises a button body (10, 10a, 10b) and a prong (20, 20a, 20b) adapted to be arranged on the side of cloth (30) opposite to the side thereof on which the button body mentioned above is set in place to nip the cloth therebetween and to fixedly secure the button body to the cloth. The button body mentioned above contains an outer shell member (13), which comprises a button back (15, 15a, 15b) and a cap (14, 14a, 14b), and an insert (11, 11a, 11b) accommodated in the outer shell member. In order to make a whitish button which could be heretofore obtained only by plating, at least the button back mentioned above is made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy. Preferably, the button back mentioned above is made of an aluminum alloy containing 3-6% by weight of magnesium, and the cross-sectional thickness of the above-mentioned button back is in the range of 0.25-0.6 mm. Further, it is desirable that the above-mentioned cap and the insert should also be made of an aluminum alloy.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sandwich button including: (1) a collet having a generally cylindrically shaped stem having at a first end a first annular flange extending about a peripheral portion of the first end and extending axially away therefrom; (2) a back member having opposed first and second surfaces, a first attaching member, and a centrally disposed through hole, the first surface of the back member abuts a surface of the first annular flange, an annular lip extends circumferentially about the through hole and axially away from the second surface of the back member, a portion of the lip forms an interference fit with a portion of the stem and defines an interference zone having a non-circular cross-sectional shape, the interference fit prevents relative rotational movement of the back member and the collet; and (3) a shell member having a second attaching member extending axially away from a first surface of the shell member, the second attaching member fixedly engaging the first attaching membe

Abstract: An accessory for a writing board, a file or the like, characterized in that it at least consists of a holder (4) which can be provided to a file or the like (3) whereby this holder (4) works in conjunction with or can work in conjunction with a binding mechanism (5) of the type comprising elements over which documents (8) that are provided with openings (9) can be threaded on the one hand, and whereby this holder (4) can be manually attached to a file or the like (3) on the other hand.

Abstract: Ring binder mechanism with special pronged fasteners secured thereto for fastening it to a binder, the special fastener per se, and a method of making the fasteners involving sheet metal stamping.

Abstract: A stud snap system includes a pin, a receiver, and a stud. The receiver fixedly engages with the pin and also fixedly engages with the stud to attach of the stud snap system to a material. The material can include apparel, clothing, sportswear, outdoor gear, fabrics, coverings, and textiles. Use of the receiver affords a large selection of options for materials and geometries to be used for the stud since the pin is not directly engaged with the stud.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tack which prevents puckering phenomenon from being generated when the tack is pierced into cloth and enables a firm engagement between the tack and a boss portion of a button. In the tack for button, a cylindrical post stands on the center of a seat plate and a quadrangular pyramid shaped head is formed at an end of the post. The head is pointed such that a vertical angle of each of peripheral faces of the head is in a range of 20 to 40°. Four corners on a proximal periphery of the head are protruded out of an outer peripheral face of the post so as to form an engaging portion which bites into a wall face of an attaching hole in a boss portion of the button. When the tack is pierced into cloth, because the head makes a linear contact with the cloth and it is pointed, no puckering phenomenon occurs, thereby making it possible to engage and fix the tack to the boss portion firmly.

Abstract: An anchor/tether assemblage for use with a security slot in a portable electronic article that provides a securement for securely attaching the portable article to a stationary fixture. The anchor includes an internal member, an external member, and a means for securing them together. The internal member includes a right angle portion inside the portable article that is approximately parallel to the inside wall. The external member has a clamping surface that abuts the outer surface of the portable article and a knob for attachment of the tether. The external member has an aperture into which the internal member fits and is removably secured by a screw that extends through the external member and into a threaded hole in the internal member. The tether denies access to the screw when attached to the knob. The tether has a locking head with an opening for attachment to the knob and a cable extending from the locking head.

Abstract: An anchor device for use with a security slot in a portable electronic article that provides an anchor for attaching a cable or other security device. The anchor device includes an internal member, an external member, and a securement for securing them together. The internal member includes a right angle portion inside the portable article that is approximately parallel to the inside wall. The external member has a clamping surface that abuts the outer surface of the portable article. The external member has an aperture into which the internal member fits and is secured either permanently or removably. The preferred removable securement is a screw that extends through the external member and into a threaded hole in the internal member. The securing device denies access to the screw when engaged with the external member. The external member provides an anchor for removably attaching the security device.

Abstract: An anchor device for use with a security slot in a portable electronic article that provides an anchor for attaching a cable or other security device. The anchor device includes an internal member, an external member, and a securement for securing them together. The internal member includes a right angle portion inside the portable article that is approximately parallel to the inside wall. The external member has a clamping surface that abuts the outer surface of the portable article. The external member has an aperture into which the internal member fits and is secured either permanently or removably. The preferred removable securement is a screw that extends through the external member and into a threaded hole in the internal member. The securing device denies access to the screw when engaged with the external member. The external member provides an anchor for removably attaching the security device.

Abstract: An alloy button including a socket member, and a stud for fastening to the socket member to secure it to the cotton fabric of a piece of garment, the socket member having a cylindrical socket body, an axial mounting hole defined within the socket body, a tapered bottom hole at one end of the socket body for guiding the plain end of the stud into the axial mounting hole, a coupling hole at one end of the axial mounting hole remote from the tapered bottom hole for retaining the plain end of the stud, a tapered flange outwardly raised from one end of the socket body around the coupling hole, and a tapered top hole defined within the tapered flange and covered with an ornamental cap.

Abstract: The male component of a press-stud has a dome that extends, so as to form an undercut region, from a first base that is formed by blanking and plastic deformation from a metal plate.An intermediate tubular element, which is also formed by blanking and plastic deformation from a metal plate, is inserted axially in the dome, affecting part of its internal extension. The intermediate tubular element extends from a second base to be seamed to the first base by folding the perimetric edge of the first base.A stem protrudes from a third base and has such a cross-section and length as to pass through the intermediate element, perforating the fabric to which the male component of the press-stud is fixed, and to deform against the dome, interposing a wider region between the dome and the end of the intermediate element.

Abstract: A button for clothing, comprising a metallic dome associated with an equally metallic bell-shaped part, which contains a core and is associable with the fabric of the item of clothing by means of a nail. The core is provided with a disk-shaped portion with which an axial stem is associated; the free end of the stem has a square cross-section and is force-fitted inside the bell-shaped part, which becomes complementarily shaped by plastic deformation at least at its corners, producing an association in which mutual rotation of the parts is prevented. The stem is provided with a blind axial channel for the engagement of the nail and the front surface of its end is provided with first raised portions adapted to engage the fabric and to cooperate with second raised portions that extend from the facing surface of the head of the nail.

Abstract: A button wherein the deformable shank of a rivet (which carries the enlarged portion that is to pass through a buttonhole) must be caused to penetrate through a layer of textile or other carrier material and to thereupon enter a retaining device having a portion which deforms the free end portion of the rivet. The rivet is part of the male component of a universal joint which further comprises a socket secured to the rear surface of the enlarged portion.

Abstract: A multi-element product and the method of making it which product is held together by a rivet. The product includes a hard layer adjacent a compressible soft layer to form a composite. A hole in the hard layer receives an anvil which is urged into the compressible layer. The rivet, which may be carried to its drivable position by a projection, is driven against the anvil to deform the rivet end.

Abstract: An attaching device for attaching a fastener element to a garment fabric includes a stud body having an enlarged head and including a clinching member and a relatively thick reinforcing member joined with the clinching member and forming at least a part of the head, the clinching member having at least one shank extending substantially perpendicular to the head and adapted to be clenched with the fastener element. A cap is formed of a synthetic resin and injection-molded over at least a peripheral edge portion of the head. The stud body includes a cap-retaining portion in the form of a plurality of recesses formed in the peripheral edge portion of the head and held in locking engagement with the material of the molded cap for firmly retaining the cap in position against removal from, and rotation relative to, the head.

Abstract: The magnetic button, comprises a male element and a female element which cooperate magnetically with one another, and fixing elements for rearwardly fixing the male and female elements to flaps of fabric. The male element comprises a disk-like body in material sensitive to magnetic attraction and the female element comprises a disk-like body and a magnetic element for attracting the male element. The male element has, on its rear side, a recess tapering towards a hole for the insertion of a tubular end of a fixing element which has, on the opposite side to the tubular end, a collar adapted to retain a flap of fabric, or of other material, arranged on the rear side of the male element. On the bottom of said recess, at the hole, there is a substantially conical protrusion which penetrates into the tubular end pushed into the recess, through the hole, to open out and upturn the tubular end along the walls of the recess to rigidly associate the fixing element and the male element to one another.

Abstract: An open-faced button includes a button body having an annular reinforcement plate disposed between an annular flange of a button back and an annular cap so as to prevent undesirable deformation of the annular flange which would otherwise occur when a tack is staked into the button body to attach the latter to a garment fabric.

Abstract: In a button which includes a button body and a tack member adapted to be joined with the button body when attaching the button to a garment fabric, the button body has a contractible and stretchable hollow hub in the form of a double tube composed of an outer tube integral with a button back and projecting downwardly therefrom and an inner tube separate from the button back and telescopically connected to the outer tube. A spring is mounted between the inner and outer tubes so as to normally urge the inner tube toward the button head.

Abstract: A button body of an open-faced button includes an ornamental face disk rotatably supported on a cylindrical retainer firmly fitted in the tubular stem of a button back. The retainer has an axial hole for receiving the shank of a tack, and a radial groove extending transversely across the axial hole. The radial groove and the axial hole is separated by a locking step extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the retainer. When the shank is staked into the retainer to attach the button body to a garment fabric, a front end of the shank is deformed into an axially compressed and radially swelled end portion and held in interlocking engagement with the locking step of the retainer.

Abstract: A button includes a button body and a tack member for attachment of the button to a garment fabric. The button body includes an annular brace holding a button back and a head plate peripherally together. The head plate is made of a die-cast zinc having its front surface exposed to view. The annular brace and the buton back are made of a metal plate having a high ductility conducive to prolonged service life.

Abstract: A button assembly includes a hollow button body having a garment-engaging base portion through which a shank of an eyelet is inserted into the botton body for being staked on the base portion to join the button body with the eyelet. The base portion includes a plurality of retaining ribs projecting into the interior of the button body for retaining thereon an annular curled edge of the shank when the eyelet is axially compressed. The ribs stiffen the base portion and increases the effective thickness of the base portion with the result that the shank can be joined with the button body by a relatively small rivetting force because the end portion of the shank to be deformed becomes short. With the interiorly projecting ribs, the base portion has a planar outer surface engageable flatwise against a garment fabric so that the button assembly can be attached neatly onto the garment fabric without any damage or wrinkles on the garment fabric around the button assembly.

Abstract: A tack button utilizes a pivot tack that has a long taper on its shank which prevents buckling and a subsequent loose connection of the assembled button parts, particularly the assembly of the back member of the button with the fabric to which the button is being attached. The long tapered shank curls as the assembly process is carried out so that a curled structure is within the button shell and is positioned to clinch the back member to the fabric.

Abstract: A button body of a tack button comprises a back member, a front member, and a backing core fitted securely in a space formed between the two members, the back member has a plurality of projections formed on the side in contact with the core. The projections are formed either directly on the back member or downwardly in a reinforcing groove formed in the member.

Abstract: A capped eyelet, for attachment of a snap fastener member to a garment fabric, comprises an eyelet body including a shank with a flange, a cap covering over the flange and secured to a periphery thereof, and at least one punched buffer wing projecting from the flange and having at least one rib. The buffer wing is resiliently deformable to absorb an endwise force applied to the shank when the eyelet is axially compressed for being joined with a snap fastener member. At that time the rib is engageable with the upper end portion of the shank to assist in absorbing the riveting force.

Abstract: A tiltable button has a two-piece interior part of rigid material including a disk-like member non-turnably held between a cap and a button back, and a separate socket member extending through a hollow hub of the button back and joined with a tack member with a garment fabric therebetween. The disk-like member has at least one unyielding off-center leg. The socket member has a collar portion which is loosely received in the hollow hub and through which collar portion there extends at least one groove receptive of the leg so that the disk-like member and hence the button body can be manually tilted with respect to the axis of the socket member but are prevented from turning about their own common axis.

Abstract: A button for attachment to a garment fabric comprises a capped button body and a tack member adapted to be joined with the button body, wherein a shank of said tack member includes a free end portion being deformable into a radially uniformly and axially compressed configuration, a radially cold-pressed recessed portion disposed adjacent to said end portion, and a deformation-free stem portion.

Abstract: A tack member, which is adapted to be joined with a button body for attachment of a button to a garment fabric, has a shank composed of a tapering end portion and a stem portion. The shank has a cold-pressed recess near the tapering end portion. The tapering end portion is in the shape of a pyramid with its tip end disposed off the axis of the shank toward the recess so that the tapering end portion is bendable about the recess as its tip end is forced against the inner side of a cap of the button body during insertion of the shank into a hollow hub of the button body, during which time the stem portion opposes bending or other deformation.

Abstract: A button includes a button body having a funnel-shaped button back and a cap mounted on a wide end of the button back, and a tack member adapted to be joined with the small end of the button back for attachment of the button to a garment fabric, the button as attached to the garment fabric defining a hollow interior. The button body includes at least one channel extending between an inclined outer peripheral portion of the button back and an annular rim of the cap secured to the inclined outer peripheral portion. A liquid which has entered in the button's hollow interior can be drained through the channel from the hollow interior.

Abstract: A button for being attached to a garment fabric has a button body composed of a double-walled tubular stem with an annular flange extending radially outwardly therefrom, a cap having an internal back place mounted on the annular flange, and a tack member having a central shank for penetrating the garment fabric and for extending into the tubular stem to join the tack member to the button body with the garment fabric interposed therebetween. The annular flange includes a first marginal wall flaring radially outwardly and having a plurality of radially outward projections. The cap also has a second marginal wall fitted over the first marginal wall and including a plurality of protuberances deformed radially outwardly by the projections, respectively. The projections and the protuberances are held in interlocking engagement for preventing the button body and the cap from rotating relatively to each other.

Abstract: A tack member, which is adapted to be joined with a button body for attachment of a button to a garment fabric, has a shank of a hollow and solid combined structure. The shank is composed of a tapering hollow end portion and a solid base portion. The hollow end portion is deformable into a balloon-like shape, radially swelled and axially compressed, as its tip end is forced against a cap of the button body on its inner side during insertion of the shank into a hollow hub of the button body, during which time the solid base portion opposes bending or other deformation.

Abstract: A button comprises a button face member; a support plate having a center hole for supporting the face member; a hollow shank having upper and lower open ends, a constricted neck at its upper portion and a shoulder extending downward from the neck, the neck having a smaller diameter than the hole, the shoulder having a larger diameter than the hole; a bending guide member in the form of a ball disposed within the shank and having a spherical surface; an engaging member having a center bore extending therethrough and disposed within the shank under the guide member; and a fastening member having a piercing needle. The support plate is loosely fitted around the neck and prevented from slipping off by an enlarged top portion formed at the upper end of the neck after the support plate has been loosely fitted around the neck. The support plate and the face member fitted over the plate form a button head, which is pivotably turnably supported by the shank.

Abstract: A button or the like to be joined in one-point - fastening having two parts lying on both sides of the carrier material, the two parts to be connected to one another. One of the button parts has a hollow shaft, the pointed front end section of which is off-set with respect to the rearward shaft section by means of nominal breaking positions.

Abstract: A round disk having a central aperture therein, such as the base of a shotgun shell or a facsimile thereof is utilized in the fabrication of a fastener, and a tubular member such as the sleeve of a primer is positioned through the aperture and formed into a fastening member. When an actual shotgun shell is utilized, the base is separated from the remainder of the shell, and the inner end of the shell primer is utilized to retain an external member which sandwiches a sheet of material such as fabric, leather or the like, therebetween. The shotgun shell type fastener may be utilized as a button, snap, decorative attachment or the like.

Abstract: A double-layered counter holder plate having a support bent from an inner layer thereof, the support supporting the inner and outer layers spaced opposite one another by resting on an inner surface of the spaced layer, the latter layer serving as a support for rolling the claws of a closure, the inner layer being overlapped by the claws.

Abstract: A two piece grommet assembly comprising an inner and an outer member wherein each member has an enlarged head at one end formed to bear upon opposite sides of a panel skin. The outer member has a recessed area intermediate its ends and the inner member has a weakened section on the shank portion which is adapted to deform into the recessed section of the outer member upon the application of opposing axial force on the two members. The weakened section of the inner member is comprised of a reduced cross-sectional thickness portion which collapses upon the application of axial force, causing the reduced thickness portion to flow inwardly into intimate contact with the recess in the outer member, locking the members together in the panel skin.

Abstract: A button comprises a button face member; a support plate having a center hole for supporting the face member; a hollow button shank having upper and lower open ends, a constricted neck at its upper portion and a shoulder extending downward from the constricted neck, the neck having a smaller diameter than the center hole, the shoulder having a larger diameter than the center hole; a bending guide member disposed within the shank and having a slanting surface at its bottom for bending and guiding; an engaging member having a center bore extending therethrough and disposed within the shank and under the bending guide member; and a fastening member having a piercing needle. The support plate is loosely fitted around the neck of the shank and retained thereon by an enlarged top portion formed at the upper end of the neck after the support plate has been loosely fitted around the neck.

Abstract: A button, particularly for clothing pieces, comprising a foot part secured on a clothing piece with clamping of the carrier material, and a button plate freely tiltably seated on the foot part. The foot part includes a head end which is formed with an insert opening freely tiltably receiving therein a tilting pin connected to the button plate.

Abstract: A ring binder adapted to be secured to an article by at least one integral rivet, the ring binder comprising a substantially rigid integral upper plate supporting a pair of pivotable lower plates to which a plurality of ring members are mounted, the rivet comprising (1) a barrel that is in direct engagement with the upper plate and (2) a plurality of claws for securing the article, wherein at least 75% of said claws extend away from a longitudinal axis of the barrel. Also disclosed is a rivet adapted to secure a ring binder to an article, the rivet comprising (1) a barrel for engaging the ring binder and (2) a plurality of claws for securing the article, wherein at least a majority of the claws generally extend away from a longitudinal axis of the barrel.