Button medallion
AssigneeTecre Co., Inc.
InventorBenjamin A. Braunberger
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AssigneeTecre Co., Inc.
InventorBenjamin A. Braunberger
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A universal assembly machine manufactures button medallions. The machine comprises a rotatably indexable die table to which are mounted pickup and crimp dies. A ram die is advancable and retractable in a pickup stroke and a crimp stroke by means of a handle. Indexing the die table causes a shifter post to rotate a ram outer ring into a pickup mode or a crimp mode to suit the ram pickup and crimp strokes, respectively. The universal assembly machine also manufactures buttons with flat backs. To make a button medallion, a flat back button is loaded into the pickup die. The ram die is advanced in a third press stroke to bend the shell frusto-conical wall of the flat back button inwardly to be flat and parallel to the flat back. The thin edge of the button medallion enables it to be used as an attractive embellishment on flat surfaces.
A button medallion comprising:
For an award of the type having a shallow circular recess with a flat seat,
A button medallion useful for embellishing an object having a flat surface comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.