Button assembly with detachable button cover
OwnerJason W. Riceinventor
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Abstract
The use of decorative clothing fasteners may be limited by a maximum practical size of a button hole in the fabric of the clothing. Larger decorative buttons, or buttons with alternative shapes, may be used by forming a button hole on the inner piece of fabric to be attached, while the outer piece of fabric includes both an attachment to the inward facing button, and an attachment location for a decorative button cover, which may be of any shape or size. The use of other attachment methods other than buttons may benefit from the disclosed arrangement and may include snap fasteners, friction fasteners and hook and loop type fasteners.
Claims17
A button assembly with a detachable button cover, the button assembly being adapted to button a first fabric portion to a second fabric portion, the button assembly comprising:
- a first button element attached to the first fabric portion, the first button element being adapted to button to a second button element;
- a second button element attached to the second fabric portion, the second button element being adapted to button to the first button element;
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- a button cover, the button cover being removably attachable to the first button element, the button cover being viewable when the first fabric portion is buttoned to the second fabric portion.
An inward facing button adapted to button an outer fabric layer to an inner fabric layer, comprising:
- a first button element fixedly attached to the outer fabric layer and extending inwardly through a button hole in the inner fabric layer;
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- a button cover attachable to the first button element, the button cover being viewable when the first fabric portion is buttoned to the second fabric portion.
A method of attaching two portions of fabric, comprising:
- forming at least one hole in an inner fabric portion;
- fixedly attaching a fastener to an outer fabric portion, the fastener including a solid portion extending inwardly from the outer fabric portion towards the inner fabric portion;
- passing a flange portion of the fastener through the hole in the inner fabric portion, the flange portion adapted to be removably attached to the inner fabric portion;
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- attaching a button cover to an outer portion of the fastener adjacent to the outer fabric portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.