Fastener attaching machine having means for orienting caps, buttons, and the like
AssigneeScovill Manufacturing Company
InventorJonathan Asa Foults
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Abstract
Button, cap, or the like is oriented as it is rolled along trough contacting a friction surface and then is placed directly into a setting die. Prior to the setting operation, the die is shifted in a rotary movement to a selected position to reorient the button depending on the heading which it should have on the garment.
Claims9
In an attaching machine for fastener elements each having a depression offset from its center, the machine having a vertically fixed die surrounded by a vertically movable element-receiving gripping head and a movable setting plunger adapted to cooperate with the die, a horizontally disposed slide bracket directed at said head and a pusher for moving the element along the slide bracket to the head, said bracket having means for rotating the element, the pusher having a depression-engaging finger adapted to hold the element from rotating and hold the rotary orientation of the element once the orientation is in a predetermined direction as the element moves along the slide bracket;
- the improvement including means to rotate the die and head about a vertical axis to re-orient the fastener element to the desired extent prior to the descent of the setting plunger toward the die.
For an attaching machine having an attaching post and cooperant die adapted to attach fastener elements such as buttons and snap fasteners to fabric, a re-orienting means adapted to impart a rotary shift to the fastener element supported on the post, the re-orienting means comprising gear means coaxial with the attaching post and means rotatably linking the fastener element and the gear means and a gear rack engaging the gear means, linear movement means for the gear rack and adjustable stop means limiting the travel of the gear rack so that the movement of the rack, driven by the linear movement means, will be terminated outwardly at a selected point thereby limiting the rotary movement of the fastener element.
A fastener attaching machine comprising a post and die, the post being rotatable, means for delivering the fastener element to the post in a predetermined orientation, means for holding the fastener element centered on the working end of the post and means for imparting to the post once it has received the fastener element a rotary shift to a selected rotary position, and means for moving the die toward the working end of the post to work the element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.