Snap

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You can share your knowledge by improving it (how?) according to the recommendations of the corresponding projects. The two halves of a snap button riveted in leather. The male part (above) has a groove which allows it to be held in place by the springs of the female part (below), all clicking when the snap is closed.

A snap fastener is a closure device instead of a button and consists of two metal elements, one of which engages in the other by pressure. It was invented in Grenoble for the glove in 1886, by Albert-Pierre Raymond and patented under the name of "button-clasp with spring". Riveted, it keeps the appearance of a traditional button externally but is more practical than the button and the buttonhole. Notes &

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