Button mounting device

Claim 2

A button mounting device comprising in combination: a male tack means including an elongated barbed shaft having at a disTal end portion thereof radially outwardly-extending barbs directed toward a tack head thereof; a female barbed-shaft receiving-means of a metallic composition and for lockably receiving said distal end portion and barbs thereof, having a hollow first cap structure with an open bottom and with an upper cap central aperture defined by inner distal ends of downwardly-directed radially-inwardly-extending tongue-flanges of the first cap structure, the inner distal ends being lockably engageable of said barbs against withdrawal of the barbs, the female barbedshaft receiving-means including downwardly-extending upright wall structure of said first cap structure, upwardly-directed radially-outwardly-extending flanges being formed from and cut at upper ends thereof from said upright wall structure and being integral at base ends thereof to remaining portions of said upright wall structure.

Claim 3

A button mounting device of claim 1, in which the male tack means includes a head having an underface which extends in a plane substantially perpendicular to said upright wall structure and which is located in juxtaposition to and above an upper edge of the upright wall structure when the barbed shaft is locked through the upper cap central aperture to the female barbed-shaft receiving means.

Claim 4

A button mounting device of claim 2, including a button having a substantially flat underface with a central recess into which recess said upright wall structure is mounted therein with said upwardly-directed radially-outwardly-directed flanges extending laterally into button structure fused therearound.

Claim 5

A button mounting device of claim 3, including a second cap structure defining downwardly directed mounting-flanges fused at lower ends thereof to the button flat underface at points located laterally outwardly from said upper edge, and the cap structure defining a second aperture therethrough positioned to be aligned with said aperture.

Claim 6

A button mounting device of claim 2, including a button having a substantially flat underface with a central recess into which recess said upright wall structure is mounted therein with said upwardly-directed radially-outwardly-directed flanges extending laterally into button structure fused therearound, the button including a recess base-surface as a recessed bottom to said central recess, and a hollow cylindrically shaped tube structure extending substantially linearlly upwardly through said aperture and being movable axially within said aperture, and the hollow cylindrically shaped tube structure including at a lower end thereof a spring-retaining abuttment, said barbs being lockably engageable within said hollow cylindrically shaped tube structure, and spring means mounted biasingly between a lower face of said top and said spring-retaining abuttment such that the said hollow cylindrically shaped tube structure is spring biased axially away from a direction of mounting of the elongated barbed shaft whereby the female barbed-shaft receiving means of a mounted button when the elongated barbed shaft is mated is able to be pulled away outwardly from the sheet mounting material for the fastening of a button after which fastening the button snaps back into a snug position to the sheet mounting material.

Claim 7

A button mounting device of claim 5, in which the spring means includes a coil spring structure and a cap structure to which the spring-retaining abuttment is fused, said coil spring structure being positioned such that the coil spring structure becomes compressed when a button mounted on the flanges is pulled away from a sheet material onto which the button mounting device is mounted when the male tack means is mated.

Claim 8

A button mounting device comprising in combination: a male tack means including an elongated barbed shaft having at a distal end portion thereof radially outwardly-extending barbs directed toward a tack head thereof; a female barbed-shaft receiving-means of metallic composition and for lockably receiving said distal end portion and barbs thereof, having a hollow first cap structure with an open bottom and with an upper cap central aperture defined by inner distal ends of downwardly-directed radially-inwardly-extending tongue-flanges of the first cap structure, the inner distal ends being lockably engageable of said barbs against withdrawal of the barbs, the female barbed-shaft receiving-means including downwardly-extending upright wall structure of said first cap structure, upwardly-directed radially-outwardly-extending flanges being formed from and cut at upper ends thereof from said upright wall structure and being integral at base ends thereof to remaining portions of said upright wall structure, the male tack means including a head having having an underface which extends in a plane substantially perpendicular to said upright wall structure and which is located in juxtaposition to and above an upper edge of the upright wall structure when the barbed shaft is locked through the upper cap central aperture to the female barbed-shaft receiving-means, and a button having a substantially flat underface with a central recess into which recess said upright wall structure is mounted therein with said upwardly-directed radially-outwardly-directed flanges extending laterally into button structure fused therearound, and a second cap structure defining downwardly directed mounting-flanges fused at lower ends thereof to the button flat underface at points located laterally outwardly from said upper edge, the second cap structure defining a second aperture therethrough positioned to be aligned with said aperture, and in which the second cap structure further defines within the second aperture, and shearably attached to an edge-defining structure of the second aperture a hollow cylindrically shaped tube structure extending upwardly and of predetermined inner diameter greater than outer ends of said bars, the tube structure being receivable of the barbed shaft axially thereof within space of the tube structure such that the tack head''s said underface is spaced away a predetermined distance from the button flat underface when the barbed shaft is mated engagingly at the distal end portion thereof with said radially-inwardly-extending tongue-flanges.

Claim 9

A button mounting device comprising in combination: a male tack means including an elongated barbed shaft having at a distal end portion thereof radially outwardly-extending barbs directed toward a tack head thereof; a female barbed-shaft receiving-means of metallic composition and for lockably receiving said distal end portion and barbs thereof, having a hollow first cap structure with an open bottom and with an upper cap central aperture defined by inner distal ends of downwardly-directed radially-inwardly-extending tongue-flanges of the first cap structure, the inner distal ends being lockably engageable of said barbs against withdrawal of the barbs, the female barbed-shaft receiving-means including downwardly-extending upright wall structure of said first cap structure, upwardly-directed radially-outwardly-extending flanges being formed from and cut at upper ends thereof from said upright wall structure and being integral at base ends thereof to remaining portions of said upright wall structure, the male tack means including a head having having an underface which extends in a plane substantially perpendicular to said upright wall structure and which is located in juxtaposition to and above an upper edge of the upright wall structure when the barbed shaft is locked through the upper cap central aperture to the female barbed-shaft receiving-means, and a button having a substantially flat underface with a central recess into which recess said upright wall structure is mounted therein with said upwardly-directed radially-outwardly-directed flanges extending laterally into button structure fused therearound, and a second cap structure defining downwardly directed mounting-flanges fused at lower ends thereof to the button flat underface at points located laterally outwardly from said upper edge, the second cap structure defining a second aperture therethrough positioned to be aligned with said aperture, and in which the second cap structure further defines within the second aperture, and shearably attached to an edge-defining structure of the second aperture a hollow cylindrically shaped tube structure extending upwardly and of predetermined inner diameter greater than outer ends of said bars, the tube structure being receivable of the barbed shaft axially thereof within space of the tube structure such that the tack head''s said underface is spaced away a predetermined distance from the button flat underface when the barbed shaft is mated engagingly at the distal end portion thereof with said radially-inwardly-extending tongue-flanges.