# US 10,371,346 B2 · Device to illuminate novelty buttons > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,371,346 B2 - Document ID: US10371346B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/206,217 - Filed: 2016-07-08 - Published: 2017-01-12 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2015-07-08 - Applicants: Thomas D'Ercole - Inventors: Thomas D'Ercole - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10371346B2 ## CPC - F21V 3/0625: {the material diffusing light, e.g. translucent plastics} - A44B 1/04: Ornamental buttons - F21K 2/06: using chemiluminescence - G09F 3/12: by pins, staples, or the like - G09F 13/18: Edge-illuminated signs - G09F 21/023: {fixed on clothing} - F21V: FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - A44B: BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE (fastenings specially adapted for footwear A43C) - F21K: NON-ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES USING LUMINESCENCE; LIGHT SOURCES USING ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; LIGHT SOURCES USING CHARGES OF COMBUSTIBLE MATERIAL; LIGHT SOURCES USING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AS LIGHT-GENERATING ELEMENTS; LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - G09F: DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS ## Abstract A novelty button illumination device comprises a circular disk body having a circumferential rim. A recess is provided in the rim that holds in place one or more glow sticks. The illumination device engages a novelty button by either the novelty button's pre-existing pin-and-clutch fastening device or by a fastening device affixed to the illumination device. When engaged, the device together with the novelty pin may be worn on clothing and the like. The glow sticks are bent and snapped to activate a chemical light producing reaction and after such activation may be placed into the recess. Thereafter, during the time the glow sticks continue to glow, the novelty pin is illuminated by the glow sticks in the circumferential rim, enhancing the user's enjoyment in using the novelty pin illuminating device. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A device comprising a circular disk body having means in which to engage a novelty button and a circumferential rim wherein said rim has a recess that engages a chemiluminescent material, wherein said device is capable of illuminating a novelty button installed therein; wherein when said novelty button is installed in said device, the chemiluminescent material encircles the installed novelty button; wherein when the user of said device desires to exchange a novelty button that has been installed in said device, said device allows the user to disengage said novelty button from the device by pushing the installed novelty button outward from the body of said device thereby disengaging said installed novelty button and thereafter swapping out the installed novelty for a different novelty button that is installed into said device by pushing said different novelty button the body of said device until said different novelty button is secured thereto; and further wherein said exchange does not require the use of a tool. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein said means in which to engage a novelty button one or more apertures in which a pin and hook fastener on a novelty button are inserted through said apertures and are able to be engaged. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The device according to claim 2, comprising two apertures spaces so that the pin portion of the fastener on a novelty button is inserted through one aperture and the hook portion of the same fastener in inserted through the second aperture wherein when both the pin and hook of the novelty pin are inserted through the apertures of the device, the pin in still capable of being inserted into a material and then out of the same material and still be capable of engaging the hook of the novelty pin. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1 further comprising a flange that encircles the outer edge of the rim wherein said flange is parallel to said circular disk body. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein said recess extends beyond the plane of the circular disk body. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The device of claim 5, wherein said recess has an external wall that extends perpendicularly above the plane of the circular disk body. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The device of claim 6, further comprising a flange extending outward from the top of said wall of said recess wherein said flange extends outward and is parallel to the plane of the circular disk body. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein said chemiluminescent material is a glow stick. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein said recess creates a tension fit with the glow stick wherein said tension fit retains said glow stick in said recess. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein said device is comprised of a transparent or translucent material. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The device according to claim 10, wherein said transparent material is a flexible plastic. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein said recess is configured so as to retain a commercially-available glow stick wherein when said glow stick is inserted into the recess the ends of said glow stick meet and the glow stick completely surrounds the edge of the circular body disk. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein said an inner circular portion has been removed from the circular disk body. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The device according to claim 13, wherein the inner edge of the circular disk body created by the removal of said inner circular portion is curved inward so as to engage the edge of a commercially-available novelty button securing said button to said device. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein said rim is designed so as to have an outwardly extending flange made of a flexible material that extends partially over the circular disk body. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The device of claim 15, wherein said flange is capable of securing a novelty button in place with said device. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, further comprising elastic indentations formed into the recess. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The device according to claim 17, wherein said indentations extend outward from the recess towards the center of the device wherein when a novelty button is inserted into the device said indentations become deformed so as to allow said novelty button to be flush with device and then said indentations revert back to the original shape causing the device to apply pressure to said novelty button which secures said novelty button to the device. ### Claim 19 (depends on 17) The device according to claim 17, wherein said indentations extend into the recess of the device wherein when a chemiluminescent object is inserted into the recess of said device said indentations become deformed so as to allow said chemiluminescent object to be flush with said device and then said indentations revert back to the original shape causing the device to apply pressure to said chemiluminescent object which secures said chemiluminescent object to the device. ### Claim 20 (depends on 2) The device according to claim 2, comprising a singular aperture of sufficient size to provide for the fastening means of the novelty button to extend past the device when said novelty button is inserted into the device providing for unfettered access to the fastening means by the user.