[0001] This model refers to an improved button.
[0002] Object of the present model is to be advantageously and effectively used in the textile
sector, especially in the clothing industry, which the following description will
make explicit reference to without thereby losing its general nature, in order to
achieve an optimal and effective closure of overlapping parts of garments, such as
jackets, coats, windbreakers etc.
[0003] A further object of the present model is to provide a button that after being applied
to a garment, enhances its appearance.
[0004] The structural and functional characteristics of the present model and its advantages
over prefabricated buttons belonging to the known art and currently available on the
market will be clearer and more evident from the claims below, and in particular from
an analysis of the description that follows, made with reference to the attached schematic
drawings, and relative to a preferred but not-limiting embodiment of the button, wherein:
- The Figure is a plan, partly sectional, view from below of the improved button, in
its first operating position;
- Figure 2 is a lateral, A-A sectional, view of the button illustrated in figure 1;
- Figure 3 is a plan, partly sectional, view from below of the improved button, in its
second operating position; and
- Figure 4 is a lateral, A-A sectional, view of the button illustrated in figure 3.
[0005] With reference to the attached figures, B globally indicates an improved button to
be used in the clothing industry, in order to achieve an optimal and effective closure
of overlapping parts of garments, such as jackets, coats, windbreakers and the like.
[0006] Button B comprises a cylindrical body 1, the inside 1 a of which is hollow and a
substantially U shaped movable eyelet 2 is located inside it.
[0007] The eyelet 2 can, when in use, be fixed to a portion of the fabric of the above-mentioned
garment (not shown) by passing textile stitching thread (not shown) or by using a
similar tool, and it is mounted and coupled to the body 1 in such a way as to project
from a bottom closure 3 of the body 1 by means of the interposition elastic means
4 coupled to the eyelet 2.
[0008] In particular, as it is clearly shown in the annexed figures 1 to 4, the elastic
means 4 are advantageously defined by spiral compression spring 5 with conic profile,
which - when in use - pushes and constantly keeps the eyelet 2 in the retracted position
(Figure 4), against the inner upper portion 1 b of the body 1, substantially and mostly
hiding the eyelet 2 within the body 1 of the button B.
[0009] In this way, during the steps fixing the button B to a portion of the garment (Figures
1 and 2), the eyelet 2 is pulled "out" by overcoming the contrasting thrust force
of the spring 5, so as to allow the easy passage of the thread, which will constitute
the fixing stitching to the portion of the garment, and after completing this stitching
operation, the thrust of the spring 4 will push and constantly keep the eyelet 2 in
the retracted position, thus creating optimal adherence to the portion the garment
on which it has been fixed and thus properly hiding the eyelet 2.
[0010] Moreover, the presence of the elastic spring 5 allows the easy and quick mobility
of the eyelet 2 so that the button B can be easily extracted from its corresponding
fastening buttonhole during the buttoning/unbuttoning operations of the two portions
of the garment to which the button B was stitched.
1. Improved button (B), characterized in that it comprises a body (1), in the inner hollow part (1a) of which a U shaped eyelet
(2) is located, said eyelet (2) being movably fixed to a portion (1b) of said body
(1) by the interposition of elastic compression means (4,5).
2. Button according to claim 1, characterized in that said elastic means (4,5) comprise a spiral spring (5).
3. Button according to claim 2, characterized in that said spring (5) has a conical profile.
4. Button according to one or more of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that said eyelet (2) is adapted to be pulled out by means of said elastic means (4,5)
from a bottom closure (3) of said body (1).
