Child-proof button

• US 6,618,909 B1
• Filed: 08/02/2002
• Issued: 09/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shih-Sheng Yang
• Original Assignee: Shih-Sheng Yang
• Inventors: Yang, Shih-Sheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Sandy, Robert J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): JACKSON, ANDRE L
• Application Number:
  US10/209,882
• Publication Number:
  US 20030182768A1
• Time in Patent Office: 410 Days
• Field of Search: 241/13.MP, 241/13.R, 24/94, 24/95, 241/140.5, 241/149, 241/141.1, 241/141.2, 246/91, 246/21, 411/501
• US Class Current: 24/113.0MP
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 1/08 Constructional characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3611 Deflecting prong or rivet
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/367 Covers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3672 Metal or plastic caps
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3685 Button with shank for friction grip fastener

Abstract

A child-proof button includes a base formed with a tubular portion at one end thereof, and a disc portion at another end thereof, the tubular portion being used for riveting, the disc portion having a plurality of notches, a metal body portion made of zinc and by die-casting and having a plurality of pawls at a circumferential edge thereof and a recess at a center thereof, the metal body portion being provided with a plurality of through holes, the base being fitted in the metal body portion with some of the notches coincident with the through holes, the metal body portion together with the base being further processed with injection molding and plastic not only covers the metal body portion but also enters coincident the through holes and the notches, thereby forming a plastic cover even more firmly attached to the metal body portion.

Claims

1. A child-proof button comprising:

a base formed with a tubular portion at one end thereof, and a disc portion at another end thereof, said tubular portion being used for riveting, said disc portion having a plurality of notches;

a metal body portion made of zinc and by die-casting and having a plurality of pawls at a circumferential edge thereof and a recess at a center thereof, said metal body portion being provided with a plurality of through holes, said base being fitted in said metal body portion with some of said notches coincident with said through holes, said metal body portion together with said base being further processed with injection molding and plastic not only covers said metal body portion but also enters coincident said through holes and said notches, thereby forming a plastic cover even more firmly attached to said metal body portion.

2. The child-proof button as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pawls are larger at a root portion thereof and a smaller edge is at a free end thereof, said edge being bent inwardly to engage firmly with said base.

3. The child-proof button as claimed in claim 1, wherein said recess has an uneven, convex surface.

4. The child-proof button as claimed in claim 1, wherein said disc portion of said base has eight notches.

5. The child-proof button as claimed in claim 1, wherein said metal body portion has six through holes.