Year: 1898

page_text: We, ARTHUR WEYERBUSCH and PAUL WEYER BUSCHI, both of Elberfeld,
Deweerthstrasse, No. 96-102, Germany, both Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in buttons, and the object of it is,
to produce a button, which can be used at both sides of a garment or any other
piece of woven textile material, leather or the like and which can be turned
wholly or partly round its fastening member, whether this be a stuff bunch or a
metal ear or eye or whether it be carried out in the shape of a cord forming
a loop, or even a little chain of a few links only attached to a metal eye of the
button.
In order to realise the first named object, the fastening member of the button,
in this case preferably a cord, is fixed between two layers of material edgeways
in the corner of a slit like a button hole, so that it stands at right angle to the
surface of the material, not parallel to it, as usual; the said button hole is just
large enough to allow the button to be passed through or to be turned by
90 degrees, either to one side or to the other, so that it then lies flat or parallel
to the surface.
The turning of the button round its bunch or fastening member is realised
by constructing this part so as to form, as it were, an independent organ or piece
together with its auxiliaries and fitted movably in the button proper.
This we can attain by various ways, namely:
First by making the button proper hollow, leaving a suitably large hole in the
bottom plate, of a stuff button for instance, laying or stay or small piece of wire
across this hole inside of the button and slinging a cord forming a loop round
the stay;
Secondly, by placing inside in the hollow part of the button a disc or washer
having two small holes just over the hole in the bottom plate of the button and
passing through these holes a cord or string to form a loop;
Thirdly by making a stuff bunch quite independent of the button and holding
the upper or inner part of this bunch enclosed in a metal cap so that it will rest
with the broad rim formed by this cap upon the edge of the hole in the lower
button plate while its soft part protrudes out of the button as usual;
A fourth variation of carrying out our idea consists in this, that a metal disc
or washer is provided by stamping with a perforated bulb like projection just
of the size of the hole in the bottom plate of the button, and that this washer
is laid movably in the button with the bulb projecting out of the hole; the
perforations in the bulb serve for fixing the button to the stuff by sewing, while
the button proper is free to be turned round the same.
These are a few examples how our idea may be carried out.
The gist and the essential of the invention in all cases is always that the
button proper can be turned wholly or partly round its fastening member, this
serving as turning pivot, and that, where desired, the button may be fastened

page_text: to a piece of garment edgeways to the surface of the stuff and turned by 90 degrees
towards the right side or the left side, lying there flat.
Dated this 10th day of October 1898.-
We, ARTHUR WEYERBUSCII and PAUL WEYERBUSCH, both of Elberfeld,
Deweerthstrasse, No. 96-102, Germany, both Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our invention relates to improvements in buttons, and the object of it is,
to produce a button, which can be rotated wholly or partly round its fastening
member, whether this be a stuff bunch or a metal ear or eve or whether it be
carried out in the shape of a cord forming a loop, or even a little chain of a few
links only attached to a metal eye of the button, and which, in the latter case,
can also be turned to either side of the material, to which it has been fastened,
when a suitable button hole has been provided for that purpose.
In order to realize the last named object, the fastening member of the button,
in this case preferably a cord, is fixed between two layers of material edgeways
in the corner of a slit like a button hole, so that it stands at right angle to the
surface of the material, not parallel to it, as usual; the said button hole is just
large enough to allow the button to be passed through or to be turned by
90 degrees, either to one side or to the other so that it then lies flat or parallel
to the surface.
The turning of the button round its bunch or fastening member is realized
by constructing this part so as to form, as it were, an independent organ or piece
together with its auxiliaries and fitted movably in the button proper.
This we can attain by various ways, namely: first by making the button proper
hollow, leaving a suitably large hole in the bottom plate, of a stuff button for
instance, laying a stay or small piece of wire across this hole inside of the button
and slinging a cord forming a loop round the stay:
Secondly, by placing inside in the hollow part of the button a disc or washer
having two small holes just over the hole in the bottom plate of the button and
passing through these holes a cord or string to form a loop;
Thirdly by making a stuff bunch quite independent of the button and holding
the upper or inner part of this bunch enclosed in a metal cap so that it will rest
with the broad rim formed by this cap upon the edge of the hole in the lower
button plate while its soft part protrudes out of the button as usual;
A fourth variation of carrying out our idea consists in this, that a metal disc
or washer is provided by stamping with a perforated bulb like projection just
of the size of the hole in the bottom plate of the button, and that this, washer
is laid movably in the button with the bulb projection out of the hole;, the
perforations in the bulb serve for fixing the button to the stuff by sewing, while
the button proper is free to be turned round the same.
These are a few examples how our idea may be carried out.
The gist and the essential of the invention in all cases is always that the
button proper can be turned wholly or partly round its fastening member, this

page_text: serving as turning pivot, and that, where desired, the button may be fastened
to a piece of garment edgeways to the surface of the stuff and turned by 90 degrees
towards the right side or the left side, lying there flat.
On the accompanying drawing buttons constructed according to our invention
are shown in a few manners of execution and realizing the ideas indicated above.
Fig. 1 is a cross section of a button having the fixing member slung round a
movable stay in the button proper;
Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1 seen from below;
Figs. 3 and 4 are two similar views of a button having in place of the stay a
movable washer or disc;
Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of an oblong button or so called clog button;
Fig. 6 is a bottom view of the same;
Fig. 7 shows an example of a button, the top part of which can only be turned
round on the fastening member consisting of a washer with a bulbous projection;
Fig. 8 is a plan view of this button seen from below;
Figs. 9 and 10 are two similar views of our new button having a stuff bunch
as fastening member on which the upper part can be turned;
Figs. 11-13 show in detail this stuff bunch and the manner of fixing it to
the button proper in an enlarged scale;
Figs. 14 16 show the manner of fixing and using the new button.
According to the two first manners of execution, Figs. 1-4, the button con-
sists of an upper part or button proper similar to an ordinary button, that is
of a sheet metal plate a covered with stuff and of a bottom part b also of sheet
metal, both these metal parts being connected together in known manner, holding
the stuff covering fast between their edges. The space between the two parts a
and b is left hollow, in order to be able to place therein a stay c of wire (Fig. 1
and 2) or in its place a disc or washer d (Fig. 3 and 4) having 2 holes d
punched therein. The wire stay is nearly of equal length and the disc d is of
nearly equal diameter as the diameter of the hollow space in the button, so that
they can be turned therein freely. Round the stay e, or through the holes d
in the disc d respectively, a string e is slung, and this serves as a fastening means
for the button like an eye or a bunch in ordinary buttons; its ends being sewn
to the stuff or to the garment as indicated in Figs. 14 to 16.
The button shown by Figs. 5 and 6 differs from that of Fig. 1 and 2 only in
its shape, being made oblong instead of the circular form of the other one; it
being intended to serve as what is termed a clog button"; it can be fixed to
a garment like the button described first, but it can not be turned round on its
fastening member so much as the circular button.
The example shown by Figs. 7 and 8 possesses in place of the wire stay c or
of the disc d of Figs. 1, 5 and 3 respectively, a disc f, provided in the center
with a bulblike projection g and holes stamped therein and by means of which
the button can be fixed to a garment by sewing; in every other respect the button
resembles the buttons of Figs. 1-4. In place of the bulbous projection the
disc might be provided with a wire eye rivetted to the disc or such eye might be
formed of the metal of the disc itself in a similar way as the bulb by stamping
as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 7.
The button shown by Figs. 9-13 is provided with a stuff bunch / like ordinary
stuff buttons. The upper part however of the bunch is enclosed in a casing
and by the lower flange of this casing the bunch rests on the edge of the central
hole of the bottom plate of the button, the stuff part of the bunch passing freely
through said hole so that the bunch can be turned round. In order to secure this
bunch centrally in its place a cap 7 is placed over it, fitting exactly in the central
hole of the filling material m of the button. The cap at the same time guards
the bunch against being clamped tight between the upper and lower part of the
button so that the button proper can always be turned round the bunch when
this is fixed to a garment.
The button just described and shown by Figs 7-13 is not intended to be fixed

page_text: like the buttons of Figs. 1-6 but like ordinary stuff buttons, in comparison with
which it has however the advantage that it can be turned on its fastening member
and that in consequence it will not be worn so soon as those; because the covering
stuff will always present another side to the parts rubbing against it. Thus for
instance when being buttoned it will pass easier through the button hole because
it can be rolled into the hole, as one might say, instead of being slipped therein
and then the rubbing edges of the hole will always touch another part of the edge
of the button.
Figures 14-16 show the use and manner of fixing a button of our new con-
struction according to Fig. 1. The holding cord e is fixed between the stuff
directly in or before a special button hole, so that the button stands edgeways
in the middle of this button hole, and that by turning it then by 90 degrees it
can be placed on either side of the stuff as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 15.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1/ A button for fixing by sewing having a fastening member consisting either
of a cord, an eye or of a bunch of metal or stuff, said fastening member being
connected to a stay, a disc of similar piece placed freely between the upper and
lower part of the button and projecting through a hole in the bottom part of
the button, allowing the button proper to be turned round this stay or disc and
the fastening member and to be fixed in such a manner to a garment or other
piece of stuff adjacent to a button hole therein, that it can be layed to either side
of the stuff, by striking it through the button hole and turning it either to the
right or left by 90 degrees the whole as described and illustrated and for the
purpose set forth.
2/ In a button as characterized in Claim One in combination with a stay c
placed freely movable between the upper part a and the lower part b a cord
slung round said stay and projecting out of the hole in the bottom plate 6 to
serve as a fastening means as described and illustrated.
3/ In a button as characterized in Claim One in combination with a disc d
placed freely movable between the upper part a and the lower part 6 a cord e
passed through holes in said disc and having its both ends projecting out of
the bottom plate b of the button to serve as a fastening means for the same as
described and illustrated.
4/ In a button, the upper part of which can be rotated on its fastening member,
in combination with a disc g placed movably between the upper part a and the
lower part a bulbous projection provided with holes or an eye in its
place connected to the disc, said projection or eye serving as a fastening means
for the button as described and illustrated and for the purpose set forth.
5/ In a button, the upper part of which can be rotated on its fastening member,
in combination with a stuff bunch h being provided with a casing i, a cap 1
covering the upper part of said stuff bunch and being placed movably in a cen-
tral excavation of the filling piece m between the upper part a and the lower
part of the button with the stuff bunch h projecting out of a hole in the bottom
part 6 so as to serve as a fastening means for the button as described and illus-
trated and for the purpose set forth.
Barmen, the 23rd day of June 1899.
ARTHUR WEYERBUSCH.
PAUL WEYERBUSCH.
Per Karl J. Mayer,
Agent.