Improvements in Collar Studs and Solitaires.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Nov.,
1898
Complete Specification Left. 9th Aug., 1899-Accepted, 23rd Sept., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Collar Studs and Solitaires.
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of the Firm of A. M. & Wm. Clark, of 53,
Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of
Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication
to me by Frank W. Taylor, of 51, Davidson Block, St. Paul, in the County of
Ramsey and State of Minnesota, United States of America) to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a stud for collars and cuffs, which may
be inserted with facility and which when in place will not be liable to become
accidentally detached. The stud is made of metal or other suitable material and
it consists of a shank, carrying a disc at one end, and a head at the other, the
latter having a cross bar which extends transversely through the head. The
shank is formed with two opposite flat sides and two opposite curved sides which
latter in cross section are segmental. The ends of the cross bar are bevelled, the
planes of the bevels converging in a direction away from the disc or upwardly.
This bevelling facilitates the passage of the cross bar through a button hole and
the lower surface of the cross bar being horizontal, or at a right angle to the
shank, an accidental withdrawal or disengagement of the stud is guarded against
effectively.
Did thin 14th day of November 1898.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London.
Improvements in Collar Studs and Solitaires.
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of the Firm of A. M. & Wm. Clark, of 53,
Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of
Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication
to me by Frank W. Taylor, of 51, Davidson Block, St. Paul, in the County of
Ramsey and State of Minnesota, United States of America), and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to provide a stud or button for collars and cuffs,
which may be inserted with facility and which when in place will not be liable
to become accidentally detached. To this end I construct the stud as fully
described hereinafter and particularly pointed out in the claim.

page_text: Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
Specification in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a stud embodying the
invention and Figure 2 is a plan of such stud. Similar characters of reference
indicate corresponding parts in both figures.
The improved collar stud or solitaire is made of metal or of any other suitable
material and consists of a shank A, a disc B, a head C, and a cross bar D. The
shank has two opposing flat sides a and two opposing curved sides a¹ which latter
in cross section appear segmental. One end of the shank is connected centrally
with the disc B while the other end terminates in the spherical head C. This
head carries the cross bar D which extends through it and, as shewn at d, the ends
of the cross bar are bevelled the planes of the bevels converging in a direction
away frm the disc B or upwardly. This bevelling facilitates the passage of the
cross bar D through a button hole and the lower surface of the cross bar being
horizontal, or at a right angle to the shank A, an accidental withdrawal or
disengagement of the stud is guarded against effectually.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
The herein described collar stud or solitaire having a cross bar with bevelled
ends passing through the head at the end of the shank substantially as set forth.
Dated this 9th day
1000
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London.