Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Nov., 1887
Specification Accepted, 27th Dec., 1887
I, HENRY OWEN, of 72, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturing Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to that class of buttons, studs, solitaires, and the like, in
which the fastening and unfastening through a button hole or other narrow slit or
opening is facilitated by turning the button sideways on the shank, so that the said
button no longer stands at right angles to the shank, but lies in the same, or nearly
the same, plane as the shank.
The accompanying drawings shew the nature of my invention.
In Fig. 1, A is a side view, and A' is a plan of a metal bar.
B, Fig. 2, is a plan of the back plate of a button made according to my invention.
This plate has a slot C, passing nearly across from side to side, and wider than the
bar A.
D is a link or shank which fits on to the bar A by the opening g, and is capable of
sliding on the said bar from a¹ to a².
Fig. 3 shews the back plate B in combination with the bar A and link D; the said
link being shewn as slid to one side, and lying in the same plane as the plate. This is
the position of the link intended to facilitate the passage of the button through the
button hole or other opening.
Figs. 4 and 5 shew a spring of special form, which is fitted between the back and
front plates of the button.
This spring is to steady the link D. When the link is at the centre of the button,
and standing at right angles to the same, the part d d, of the link D, fits into the
recesses e e in the spring.
Fig. 6 shews my invention as applied to a sleeve link.
The same letters indicate the same parts as in the previous figures. It will be
understood that the link D-in Fig. 6-may be slid to the same position as D in
Fig. 3, so as to allow the button to pass freely through the button hole.
The link D is shaped as shewn in order to secure the following advantages. First,
it slides freely on the bar A, and is guided by that alone.

page_text: Secondly, the extension of the part d d gives a firmer bearing in the recesses e e of
the spring, which lies behind the plate B and bar A. Thirdly, if any undue
strain be brought to bear on the link D, sufficient to spring the bar A outwards, the
small lugsff cause the strain to be partly borne by the back plate B.
Modified forms of bar, back plate, and spring are shewn by H, I and J. The back
plate I has three openings cut through it, k k and l. The ends of the bar H pass
through the openings k k, and are bent at right angles, at m m, to bear on the spring J.
The link D slides on the bar H, and is steadied, when in the central position shewn,
by engaging in the opening l.
Fig. 7 shews a stud constructed according to my invention, and having the movable
button N turned sideways ready to pass through a button hole.
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. The bar A and sliding link D in combination, for the purposes set forth.
2. The spring shewn in Figs. 4 and 5, for the purposes set forth.
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3. The combination of the bar, back plate, link, and spring, shewn in Figs. 3 and 6.
4. The modified forms of bar H, back plate I, and spring J, as shewn.
5. The combination of the bar H, back plate 1, and spring J, as shewn.
6. The sleeve link shewn in Fig. 6.
7. The stud shewn in Fig. 7.