Abstract: An item such as a fabric-based item may have a layer of fabric such as a layer of woven fabric. The fabric layer may include insulating warp and weft strands. Conductive strands may be woven into the fabric layer and may form electrodes for a touch sensor. Chemical etching or other processing techniques may be used to form an array of openings. In each opening, some or all of the insulating warp and weft strands may be removed so that each opening passes partly or fully through the fabric layer and locally thins the fabric layer. Keys may be formed from key members and switches. The key members may overlap respective locally thinned areas of the fabric layer formed from the openings. The conductive strands may extend across the openings and may be overlapped by the key members and switches.

Abstract: A sewing accessory, namely, a button anchor and attachment system, with a button head and an anchor part. The anchor part includes two prongs that are attached to each other and the button head at the back face of the button head. The button anchor is attached to a garment by using a button anchor hole-puncher tool to punch a hole through the garment, inserting the anchor part of the button anchor in a closed position through the hole, and then bending the two prongs of the anchor part apart into an open position. The button anchor hole-puncher tool has a small blade on the front end and a handle on the back end.

Abstract: A button includes a button body that is placed over a first main surface of a sheet having the first main surface and a second main surface opposing to the first main surface, the button body having a hole over the first main surface; a fixing member including a base that is placed over the second main surface, and a shaft that projects from the base and passes through the hole from the second main surface towards the first main surface side, in which a distal portion of the shaft includes: a plate-like base portion provided over the button body and covering the hole; and a plurality of ribs integrally formed with the base portion and onto a surface of the base portion, and radially extending from a center to a circumference of the base portion.

Abstract: A button includes a button body that is placed over a first main surface of a sheet having the first main surface and a second main surface opposing to the first main surface, the button body having a hole over the first main surface; a fixing member including a base that is placed over the second main surface, and a shaft that projects from the base and passes through the hole from the second main surface towards the first main surface side, in which a distal portion of the shaft includes: a plate-like base portion provided over the button body and covering the hole; and a plurality of ribs integrally formed with the base portion and onto a surface of the base portion, and radially extending from a center to a circumference of the base portion.

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: 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: This disclosure relates to a clip for securing together adjacent collapsible, expandable, self-locking, self-supporting structures which include a plurality of pairs of crossed rod elements pivotally joined in scissored fashion to each other and to hubs having openings therein, the structures having at least one hub of each section adjacent each other, and the clip having at least two stems with each stem being interlockingly received in an associated opening of the adjacent hubs to thereby secure the structures to each other in any one of a plurality of different configurations.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite article including a hollow body having a decorative metal plate attached thereto. The method includes the forming of a decorative metal plate and the attachment of the plate to a hollow body. The method can be best described by its application to the manufacture of a push button which involves the following: Forming a rectangular sheet of aluminum which sheet has at least one decorative brushed surface. Machining the brushed aluminum surface of the aluminum sheet in an annular pattern around the perimeter of the sheet to remove a uniform thickness of the aluminum thereby leaving a central rectangular island of brushed aluminum. The central rectangular island thus formed is surrounded on all sides by the machined surface which functions as an apron around the island. All of the machined surface apron on both long sides of the rectangular island is removed leaving tabs of apron extending from the opposite short ends of the rectangular island.

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: Device for the fastening of buttons (12) to a piece of garment (56), exhibiting a first portion provided with a number of button holes, and a second portion, to which the buttons shall be fastened without sewing with their projections. A holding means (5) is arranged to hold the buttons (12) in a position in between them corresponding to the position in between the buttonholes and means for holding the first portion of the garment. A feeding device (3, 4) for the buttons (12) extends to the mentioned holding means (5). A second holding means (6) with means (50) is arranged to hold the second portion of the piece of garment, and a processing means (52) for the fastening of the projections. The second holding means (6) is fixed and has its device for holding the second portion of the piece of garment substantially pointing in upwards direction.

Abstract: This invention comprehends a button mounted in the rear portion of the spinning style fishing reel to operate a self-centering bail mechanism. The button includes a cantilever spring arm that cooperates with recesses formed in the button mounting passage. Biasing means are incorporated within the button to prevent it from inadvertently sliding back and forth.

Abstract: A method of fastening a button or the like to a garment such that the garment will be buttoned up after the fastening operation, wherein said button is composed of plastic and initially comprises a button head and a stem projecting from the button head, the stem having an outer end for piercing the garment and for deformation by ultrasonic vibration, a central section characterized by a substantially smooth profile, and an inner section flaring into the button head, the method comprising the steps of: providing a button hole in a first portion of the garment; placing said first garment portion in an overlying relation with a second portion of the garment; positioning said button such that the button head is disposed on the side of said first garment portion opposite to said second garment portion and such that the stem extends through the button hole and pierces at least partly through said second garment portion; and deforming the outer end of the stem by ultrasonic vibration thereof.

Abstract: A hook for a hook-and-eye fastener comprises a body including a base having a plurality of angularly spaced prongs for penetrating a garment fabric, and a circular retainer including a central raised portion having a plurality of angularly spaced ridges, an intermediate flaring portion extending outwardly from the central raised portion, and an annular peripheral lip portion extending from the intermediate flaring portion and directed toward the central raised portion. Each of the prongs is located between two of the adjacent ridges and has a bent end portion disposed in a retainer pocket defined jointly by the intermediate and lip portions in surrounding relation to the central raised portion.

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, 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.