Upholstery button

A kitset for a button assembly including an outer body component forming at least part of the button periphery, a shank arranged to be anchored to and extend rearwardly of said outer body component and through a separate inner body component of plastics material, a recess provided in a rear face of said outer body component within which a periphery of said inner body component can engage and locate a covering engaged about at least a part of the outer body component and extending between the periphery of said inner body component and adjacent portions of said recess;

• wherein the inner body component comprises an annular washer having a peripheral rim which is an interference fit in said recess of said outer body component, a substantially flat inner face which in use faces towards the recess of the outer body component, a contoured outer face, an aperture through said washer through which the shank is adapted to project and on which said washer is adapted to be substantially non-releasably snap-fitted, an annulus of reduced thickness about said aperture terminating in a region of maximum thickness which tapers towards the peripheral rim of the washer to define the contoured outer face.

A button comprising an outer body component of plastics material and an inner body component of plastics material trapped substantially non-retrievably within a recess in the rear of the outer body component on a shank anchored on said outer body component and extending rearwardly thereof and through said inner body component, the edges of the inner body component being trapped securely between engaging surfaces of said outer and inner body components;

• wherein the inner body component comprises an annular washer having a peripheral rim which is an interference fit in said recess of said outer body component, a substantially flat inner face which in use faces towards the recess of the outer body component, a contoured outer face, an aperture through said washer through which the shank projects and on which said washer is substantially non-releasably snap-fitted, and an annulus of reduced thickness about said aperture terminating in a region of maximum thickness which tapers towards the peripheral rim of the washer to define the contoured outer face.