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US 5,101,541 AGranted
Snap button
AssigneeYoshida Kogyo K.K.
InventorHirokazu Watanabe
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Abstract
A snap button for attachment to a garment fabric comprises a socket member, a plug member snappingly engageable therewith and a spring member accommodated in the socket. The socket member includes a cylindrical hub and a bottomless collet having an annular flange which has a plurality of ridges adapted to be folded radially inwardly over the spring and over the hub, respectively.
Claims3
A snap button for attachment to a garment fabric which comprises:
- (a) a socket member comprising:
- (i) a cylindrical collet having a central through opening;
- (ii) an annular flange extending radially outwardly from said collet;
- (iii) a cylindrical hub having its lower marginal edge flared to form an anchoring lug;
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- (iv) an annular spring larger in diameter than said opening;
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- (b) a plug member having an enlarged head portion, a reduced neck portion and a horizontally extending leg portion;
- said annular flange being provided on its upper surface with a plurality of relatively long upwardly projecting first ridges spaced circumferentially adjacently around said opening and a plurality of relatively short upwardly projecting second ridges spaced circumferentially adjacently around an outer peripheral edge of said flange, said first ridges being adapted to be folded radially inwardly over said spring and said second ridges being adapted to be folded radially inwardly over said anchoring lug.
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