Tag fastener

• US 3,238,586 A
• Filed: 01/04/1965
• Issued: 03/08/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Felix Stoffel Hans
• Original Assignee: Felix Stoffel Hans
• Inventors: FELIX STOFFEL HANS
• Application Number:
  US04/423,118
• Time in Patent Office: 428 Days
• US Class Current: 24/453
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/16 by clamps
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/42 Independent, headed, aperture pass-through fastener
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/75 having a joining piece extending through aligned openings in plural members

Claims

1. A RESILIENT BUTTON DEVICE ADAPTED FOR RELEASABLY ATTACHING AN IDENTIFYING TAG OR THE LIKE TO A SUPPORT MEMBER HAVING A RELATIVELY THIN RIGID WALL SECTION WITH AN APERTURE THEREIN, SAID BUTTON DEVICE COMPRISING:

AN ELONGATED BODY MEMBER FORMED SYMMETRICALLY ABOUT A LONGITUDINAL AXIS AND HAVING A CYLINDRICAL BEARING SUPPORT PORTION THEREFOR OF LIMITED LENGTH INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS THEREOF AND ADAPTED TO BE SNUGLY RECEIVED WITHIN AND RELEASABLY SUPPORTED BY THE APERTURE OF THE RELATIVELY THIN WALL SECTION OF THE SUPPORT MEMBER, ONE END SECTION OF SAID ELONGATED BODY MEMBER BEING APPROXIMATELY OF PARABOLOID SHAPED AND HAVING AN INNER TERMINAL END FORMING A SHOULDER INTERMEDIATE THE LENGTH OF SAID BODY MEMBER AND WITH A DIAMETER APPRECIABLY LARGER THAN THAT OF SAID CYLINDRICAL BEARING SUPPORT PORTION, A GENERALLY RADIAL WALL INTERCONNECTING THE TERMINAL SHOULDER END OF SAID PARABOLOID SECTION AND THE ADJACENT END OF SAID CYLINDRICAL BEARING SUPPORT PORTION OF SAID BODY MEMBER, A GENERALLY PART-SPHEROIDAL SECTION CONNECTING THE OPPOSITE END OF SAID CYLINDRICAL BEARING SUPPORT PORTION AND HAVING A TERMINAL SHOULDER END EXTENDING TOWARD THE OTHER END OF SAID ELONGATED BODY MEMBER, SAID TERMINAL SHOULDER END OF SAID PART-SPHEROIDAL SECTION BEING OF A DIAMETER APPRECIABLY LARGER THAT THE TERMINAL SHOULDER END OF SAID PARABOLOID SECTION, FLANGE MEANS FORMED ON THE SAID OTHER END OF SAID ELONGATED BODY MEMBER, SAID FLANGE MEANS HAVING A RADIAL WALL FACING TOWARD SAID ONE END OF SAID BODY MEMBER AND BEING OF A DIAMETER APPRECIABLY LARGER THAT THE DIAMETER OF SAID PART-SPHEROIDAL SECTION, AN ANNULAR CHANNEL OF A WIDTH APPRECIABLY LESS THAN THE LENGTH OF SAID CYLINDRICAL BEARING SUPPORT PORTION FORMED BETWEEN SAID PART-SPHEROIDAL SECTION AND SAID FLANGE MEANS AND OF A DIAMETER APPRECIABLY GREATER THAN THE DIAMETER OF SAID PARABOLOID SECTION, SAID ANNULAR CHANNEL BEING ADAPTED TO RECEIVE AND SECURE THE IDENTIFYING TAG OR THE LIKE THEREIN IN CONTACT WITH SAID RADIAL WALL OF SAID FLANGE BY ITS FRICTIONAL FIT WITHIN SAID ANNULAR CHANNEL.