An Improved Shirt Collar Fastener.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Aug., 1892-Accepted, 15th Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Shirt Collar Fastener.
We, ALFRED EMERY SAYERS, of 55 Broadway, Ealing, in the County of
Middlesex, Hosier, and WILLIAM HENRY TUCKER, of 394 Edgware Road, in the
County of London, Clothier, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
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Our invention relates to an improved shirt collar fastener, for the purpose of
fastening the back of an ordinary collar to the shirt, in place of the usual button
and button hole.
This invention is constructed with a back plate and a projecting pin. At the
end of the pin is a male thread, the point of which is passed through the back part
of the shirt neck band. On the end of the pin we attach a metal plate by the pin
or male screw fitting into a female screw in the centre of the said plate. At the
top of the front or aforesaid plate we fix a lever hung on centres with a spring
for the purpose of the said lever to pass through the ordinary button hole at
the back of the collar, when the lever is forced downwards and held secure by the
spring.
It will be understood that the foregoing is given by way of illustration, and that
the shapes, materials and proportions of the parts may be varied in many ways
within the scope of our invention.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1891.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Shirt Collar Fastener.
We, ALFRED EMERY SAYERS, Hosier, residing at 55 Broadway, Ealing, in the
County of Middlesex, and WILLIAM HENRY TUCKER, Clothier, residing at
394 Edgware Road, in the County of London, 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 an improved shirt collar fastener, for the purpose of
fastening the back of an ordinary collar to the shirt, in place of the usual button
and button hole.
We attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying
drawing, in which—
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the fastener separated;
Fig. 2, is an elevation of the fastener attached to a shirt-collar;
Fig. 3, is an elevation of the fastener separated :
Fig. 4,
an elevation of Fig. 3 attached to a shirt-collar.
Portions of Figs. 2, and 4, are broken off for want of space.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
This invention is constructed with a back plate a and a projecting pin 4 with a
female thread, the point of which is passed through the back part of the shirt neck
band To a sunk disc we fix a male screw e and on the front of the said disc we
attach the shank d and head e as in Fig. 1; we then connect the back plate a and
the front or head e together by screwing up the parts rigidly together as
in Fig. 2.
If preferable we construct our invention as in Figs. 3, and 4, where we attach

page_text: a male screw g to a sunk back plate a, and to a plate we fix a shank d with a
front e, the said shank being provided with a female thread at h. The fastener is
fixed to the shirt collar by passing the screw g through the back of the collar f
and is secured by means of screwing thereto the shank d as in Fig. 4.
able head may be attached to the shank d with or without a spring.
Any suit-
It will be understood that the shapes, materials and proportions of the parts,
may be varied in many ways within the scope of our invention.
We are aware that prior to our invention shirt collar fasteners have been made
with various shaped heads and shanks. We therefore do not claim such as any
part of our invention.
.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. In a shirt collar fastener, the combination of the back plate and projecting
pin having a female thread, with a sunk dise and the male screw for connecting
the two parts together after the pin has been passed through the back of a shirt
collar, substantially as described.
2. In a shirt collar fastener, the combination of the sunk back plate and pro-
jecting male screw, with a disc and a female thread inside the shank, to secure the
two parts together after the projecting male screw has been passed through the
Lack of a shirt collar, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 23rd day of August 1892.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicants.