Button making – Miscellaneous
Patent
1997-01-07
1999-03-16
Jones, Eugenia A.
Button making
Miscellaneous
83 19, 83 55, 83862, 264153, 264163, B29D 1900
Patent
active
058816119
ABSTRACT:
A punch button (32) has a central disc (36) integral with and separable from an outer peripheral annular ring (38). The disc and ring are joined by a breakaway portion (40) of reduced thickness. A pair of peel points or pilot cuts (50 and 52) may be provided on distally opposite sides of the disc, and if so, the disc is initially separable from the ring at the peel points and then rotatable about a rotation axis perpendicular to an axis through the distally opposite pilot cuts. The punch button is formed by providing a strip of material of a first thickness, placing the strip in a die, performing an inner cut with the die and partially cutting through the strip to yield first and second subpieces joined to each other by material of a second reduced thickness, and performing an outer cut with the die and cutting all the way through the strip to yield a piece composed of the first and second subpieces providing the disc and ring. The pilot cuts are performed by the die during performance of the inner cut and to a deeper depth than the inner cut. All of the cuts are performed in a singular die step operation wherein an outer punch (58) is moved toward an inner punch (66) in one axial direction to perform the inner cut, the pilot cuts, and a portion of the outer cut, and continuing movement of the outer punch in the one direction and simultaneously moving the inner punch in the same direction in unison with the outer punch to complete the outer cut.
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Gruber Donald
Wagner David
Jones Eugenia A.
Serigraph Inc.
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