Button locking device
OwnerBen Williams, George H. Millerinventors
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Abstract
A flexible looped buttoning device for use on garments and other items of fabric to safeguard against the involuntary opening or separation of two or more buttoned fabrics.
Claims13
In the combination of a first fabric with a button permanently fastened thereto and a second fabric with an edge and a button hole adjacent said edge for receiving said button therethrough and to expose said button beyond said second fabric whereby to releasably button the two fabrics together, the improvement for locking the two fabrics together notwithstanding release of the button from the button hole and comprising a flexible link, means permanently securing one end of the flexible link to the first fabric, said flexible link extending between said fabrics from said button and being looped over the edge of the second fabric and said other end of the flexible link encircling exposed button whereby to lock the two fabrics together notwithstanding release of the button from the button hole.
In the combination of a first fabric with a button permanently fastened thereto and a second fabric with a button hole for receiving said button therethrough and to expose such button beyond said second fabric whereby to releasably button the two fabrics together, the improvement for locking the two fabrics together notwithstanding release of the button from the button hole and comprising a flexible link, anchor means anchoring one end of the flexible link to one of said fabrics, the other end of the flexible link comprising a loop encircling the exposed button whereby to be retained by the button in the event that the button slips through the button hole and to link the two fabrics together notwithstanding release of the button from the button hole, said second fabric having an edge adjacent the button hole, said flexible link being looped over the edge of the second fabric from its connection to said anchor means to its loop encircling the exposed button.
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