Decorative Button Cover With Sliding Engagement Mechanism

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in easily and quickly exchanging buttons on garments for aesthetic reasons without requiring sewing skills, as existing methods are cumbersome and time-consuming.

Innovation Solution

A decorative button cover system that includes a button slider with a slot and channel configuration, allowing for easy attachment and detachment of decorative button covers, which can be slid onto existing buttons, eliminating the need for sewing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional button replacement methods are used, then button aesthetics can be changed, but the process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvebutton aesthetics exchangeabilityVSAvoidbutton replacement time

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The button system is divided into two separate components: a permanent base button attached to the garment and a removable decorative button cover. This segmentation allows the decorative cover to be easily exchanged without replacing the entire button assembly, thus reducing time loss while maintaining aesthetic versatility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism (the button cover with engagement features like slots, channels, and protrusions) that mediates between the user and the base button. This intermediary allows easy attachment and detachment of decorative elements without requiring direct manipulation of the garment's buttonholes or sewing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If traditional button replacement methods are used, then button aesthetics can be changed, but sewing ability is required

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvebutton aesthetics exchangeabilityVSAvoidbutton replacement ease

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The button cover is designed to be self-attaching and self-detaching through mechanical engagement features (slots, channels, protrusions, and recesses) that automatically secure the decorative cover to the base button without requiring external sewing tools or skills. The user simply slides the cover onto the button, and the engagement features hold it in place.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If a secure button attachment is used, then button stability is improved, but the button becomes difficult to remove for exchange

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvebutton attachment stabilityVSAvoidbutton removal ease

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The button attachment system transitions from a static permanent fixation to a dynamic reversible connection. The engagement features (protrusions fitting into recesses, friction-fit surfaces) provide stable attachment during wear but allow easy detachment when needed, enabling the system to adapt between these two states based on user needs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The button cover uses partial engagement features that provide sufficient stability for normal wear conditions but do not create permanent or irreversible attachment. The engagement is excessive enough to prevent accidental detachment during use but insufficient to prevent intentional removal, achieving the right balance between stability and exchangeability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS11464295B2Decorative button cover systems

Publication Date: 2022.10.11 SWITTUN LLC

AI summary

A decorative button cover system is disclosed herein. The decorative button cover system can include a button slide portion configured to slidably receive at least a portion of a button of a garment, and the decorative button cover system can include a decorative portion attached to the button slide portion. The decorative button cover system can also include a button of a garment configured to at least partially insert into button slide.