Improvements in Button Fasteners for Boots, Gloves, and other articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 24th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 30th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Button Fasteners for Boots, Gloves, and other
articles.
I WALTER WILLIAM TAMBS, of Whitmore Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in buttons, and primarily to the method
or arrangement by which such buttons are secured to the article of wear, such said
buttons being applicable to boots, gaiters, gloves, trousers and most other articles
of general use.
It consists broadly of a button head having a tubular shank which passes through
the material and also through a back plate and there eyeletted to such plate after
the following manner :-
The precise form and construction may be somewhat modified without departing
from the nature of this my invention as for instance the button head may be firmly
fixed upon the shank, or, in some cases it may be attached thereto in a swivel
or loose fashion; the button head may be of metal and secured by closing tools &c.,
loosely or fixed, upon the shank; or such head may be of glass, papier maché or
other suitable material, and moulded or otherwise suitably connected or carried
upon the shank.
I will therefore describe it as applied to a boot, and having a papier maché
button head:-
I cut out and form a button head back plate, or what I will term a neck plate,
having in its centre a hole to receive the shank, and having its outer edge suitably
prepared for attachment to the head. The shank is then formed of a tubular
section, having its one end turned over or formed into an outer flange, and its other
end tapered slightly for a short distance along its length. The shank is now passed
into the neck plate, which latter is then secured to the button head, sufficient room
being provided in the underside of the head to permit of a free swivel like motion
of the same upon the shank. Thus the head is secured to the shank. A hole is
now pierced in the material to which the button is to be attached, and the other
end of the shank passed through. A metallic plate or washer is then passed on to
the end of the shank, when by suitable eyeletting tools the end of the shank is
eyeletted on to the plate thus firmly securing the button to the article.
Instead of tapering the end of the shank where it enters the hole in the article,
it may be bulged at such part to form a shoulder thereon, or other similar device
may be adopted. This tapering or bulging of the shank may be adopted at both
ends of the shank if desirable.
Dated this 27th day of June 1891.
CHARLES 1. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Button Fasteners for Boots, Gloves, and other
articles.
I WALTER WILLIAM TAMBS, of Whitmore Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Jeweller 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in buttons, and primarily to the method
or arrangement by which such buttons are secured to the article of wear, such
buttons being applicable to boots, gaiters, gloves, trousers and most other articles
of general use.
It consists broadly of a button head having a tubular shank which passes through
the material and also through a back plate and there eyeletted to such plate after
the following manner:
The precise form and construction may be somewhat modified without departing
from the nature of this my invention, as for instance, the button head may be
firmly fixed upon the shank, or, in some cases it may be attached thereto in a
swivel or loose fashion; the button head may be of metal and secured by closing
tools &c. loosely or fixed upon the shank; or such head may be of glass, papier
machie or other suitable material, and moulded or otherwise suitably connected or
carried upon the shank.
In order to more fully explain this my invention I have appended hereunto
an illustrative sheet of drawings, upon which are figures and letters of reference,
similar letters referring throughout the several views to the same thing or part,
and in which :-
:-
Fig. 1, is a sectional view of this my invention.
Fig. 2, is a view, as it appears externally.
Figs. 3, and 4, are modified sectional views of my invention.
Figs. 5, and 6, are detailed sectional and plan views of the button head, back, or
neck plate.
Figs. 7, and 8, are detailed sectional and plan views of the shank washer.
Figs. 9, and 10, are detailed views in elevation and plan of the tubular shank.
Fig. 11, is a sectional plan of the shank on line 1-1.
I cut out and form the plate A, which I will term the neck plate, in which is
pierced the hole B.
C is the tubular shank, which is formed from a blank into the tubular shape
having its upper end flanged over at D, and also slightly tapered at E.
In some cases I may dispense with the tapering of the end of the shank, and leave
it plain. Also I may modify the particular manner of making the tubular shank,
that is I may make the shank in any ordinary manner known, the manner shown
however serves the purpose very well. F is a shank washer the purpose of which
is hereinafter explained.
I now pass the shank into the neck plate A, see (Fig. 1.) which latter is then
secured to the head G. The mode of attachment of the head to the said neck
plate, will of course depend upon the character of the material of which the
head is made, that is, it may be moulded, or pressed thereon, as in the case of
papier machie, or other similar substance while in the plastic condition as seen
in Figs. 1, and 2, or a dished head G', being closed thereon with closing tools,
in the case of metal, as seen for instance in Fig. 3, or being cast thereon,
as in the case of glass, see Fig. 4. A hole is now pierced in the material H, to
which the button is to be attached, and the other end of the shank passed through
such hole.
The washer F, is now passed on to the shank, and by suitable tools, the end of the

page_text: shank is eyeletted or flanged outwards as seen at I, sec Fig. 1, thus preventing its
removal therefrom.
In some cases I may further form a shoulder or bulged part J, upon the shank,
see Fig. 3, instead of tapering it; but otherwise proceed in the manner described
as to Fig. 1. Or in other cases I may modify the shape of the shank washer, so
that it shall eyeletwise be passed through the fabric, as seen in Fig. 3, and used
with the tapered or the bulged form of the shank.
The modification shewn in Fig. 4, may be secured to the fabric &c., either in the
manner shewn and described in Fig. 1 or Fig. 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
1. The employment and use in a boot or other similar button, of a tubular shank
arranged and secured to a hollow head, and to the material, in the manner shown
and described in Figs. 1, 2, 5 to 11, inclusive, also in the modified form described
and shown in Fig. 3.
2. The combination with a boot or other similar solid button head, of the
tubular shank arranged and secured to the material, in the manner shown and
described in Fig. 4.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1892.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
12, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Applicant's Agent.