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US 5,379,888 AGranted
Sew free button assembly
OwnerMargaret A. Rentosinventor
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Abstract
A sew free replacement button unit in which at least one button is attached to the top side of a fabric section having an adhesive underside. A releasable backing sheet is applied to the adhesive underside of the fabric section and the button is sewn to both the fabric section and the backing sheet.
Claims8
A sew-free button assembly for use with an article of clothing, said assembly comprising:
- a fabric section having a front face and a back face,
- an adhesive tape applied to the back face of said fabric section,
- a releasable backing sheet applied to said adhesive tape that can be peeled away from said adhesive tape to expose an adhesive surface on said fabric section,
- a button mounted on the front face of said fabric section and being attached to both said fabric section and the backing sheet by a common thread member whereby the thread member tears away from the backing sheet when the backing sheet is peeled away from said adhesive tape.
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A sew free button assembly in association with a garment having a plurality of spaced apart button holes aligned along one edge of a garment closure provided on said garment, said assembly including:
- a fabric section having a front face and a back face,
- an adhesive tape applied to the back face of said fabric section,
- a releasable backing sheet applied to the adhesive tape so that said fabric section can be removed from the backing sheet without degrading bonding properties of said adhesive tape,
- a series of buttons mounted in spaced apart alignment upon the front face of the fabric section, the button spacing being equal to that of button hole spacing formed in a preselected garment,
- each of said buttons being attached to both said fabric section and the backing sheet by a common thread member whereby the thread member tears away from the backing sheet as it is peeled from the fabric section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.