IMPROVEMENTS IN STUD BUTTONS OR LACING STUDS FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER GARMENTS.
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John William Scott, of Victoria House, in the
City of Worcester, Button Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STUD BUTTONS OR LACING STUDS FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND
OTHER GARMENTS.
"
Sealed the 5th June 1874, and dated the 8th December 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John William Scott
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 8th December 1878.
I, JOHN WILLIAM SCOTT, of Victoria House, in the City of Worcester,
Button Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STUD BUTTONS OR LACING STUDS FOR BOOTS,
SHOES, AND OTHER GARMENTS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in stud buttons or lacing
studs especially intended for boots, shoes, and gaiters, and also other
garments, whereby the usual method of lacing through eyelet holes
is dispensed with and the strength of the garment less interfered
with.

page_text: The Invention consists in making necks to buttons of sufficient depth,
which when on the garment enables fa lace to be wrapped round them
and drawn tight, the lace being retained against the shoulders of the
button head. I prefer to make the button of solid butt leather com-
pressed into shape, and to ffix two pieces for prongs of metal into the
body of each so that the projecting ends can be spread outwards
and bear upon a peculiarly formed plate or indented disc arranged
against the inner surface of the article on which it is to be fitted.
The body of the button may also be made of any material such
as metal, and the neck formed by stamping or otherwise, as found
convenient, or the neck may be of leather, ebonite, wood, bone, and
the body or face of metal; or this order may be reversed and shanks
may be fitted to be passed through holes and then held by piston
fasteners in the usual manner.
I also propose to make the stud button so as to attach to the boot or
other article of dress by means of an eyelet, which when passed through
the leather and spread over a ring on the other side receives the stud
firm and rigid upon the upper surface.
I am aware that laces of boots and shoes have been passed over the
lips of hooks, but hooks have been found objectionable both in
appearance and from their liability to catch the trouser or other
articles, and to bend down with pressure, and to catch the stirrup in
riding, and also to break off and otherwise bend out of place; they also
cut the laces and become clogged with dirt, disadvantages entirely
overcome by my Invention.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John William Scott in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 8th June 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WILLIAM SCOTT, of Victoria House, in the City of Worcester, Button 3
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Eighth day of December, in the year

page_text: of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John William Scott, Her
special licence that I, the said John William Scott, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John William
Scott, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STUD BUTTONS OR LACING STUDS FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND
OTHER GARMENTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
John William Scott, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said.
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John William Scott, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to improvements in stud buttons or lacing
studs especially intended for boots, shoes, and gaiters, and also other
garments, whereby the usual method of lacing through eyelet holes
is dispensed with and the strength of the garment less interfered
with.
The Invention as represented in the accompanying Drawings consists
in making necks a, Figure 1, to buttons of sufficient depth, which when
on the garment enables a lace to be wrapped round them, as in
Figures 2 and 3, or in any other suitable manner and drawn tight, the
lace being retained against the shoulders b, b, of the button head c. I
prefer to make the button of solid butt leather compressed into shape,
and to fix two pieces or prongs d, d, of metal into the body of each, as
in Figure 4, so that the projecting ends can be spread outwards, as in

page_text: Figures 4 and 4, and bear upon a peculiarly formed plate or indented
disc e, Figure 5, arranged against the inner surface of the article on
which it is to be fitted.
The body of the button may also be made of any material such as
metal, and the neck and also the prongs, as in Figure 6, formed by
stamping or otherwise as found convenient, or the neck may be of
leather, ebonite, wood, bone, and the body or face of metal; or this
order may be reversed and shanks in one or more pieces, of metal, as in
Figures 7, 8, and 9, may be fitted to be passed through holes and then
held by piston fasteners in the usual manner.
In some cases I make the stud button so as to attach to the boot
or other article of dress by means of an eyelet which when pinned
through the leather and spread over a ring 9, Figures 4 and 7,
on the other side secures the stud firm and rigid upon the upper
surface.
I am aware that laces of boots and shoes have been passed over the
lips of hooks, but hooks have been found objectionable both in
appearance and from their liability to catch the trousers or other
articles, and to bend down with pressure, and to catch the stirrup in
riding, and also to break off and otherwise bend out of place; they also
cut the laces and become clogged with dirt, disadvantages entirely
overcome by my Invention.
The stud button may have screw pins put through them from the
outside, as in Figure 10, or from the inside, as in Figure 11, the former
of which is held in position by a threaded socket piece, the latter by the
screw pin taking direct into the stud button.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,―
Firstly. The manufacture and employment of stud buttons in leather
with necks a, as described with reference to Figure 1 of the Drawings
annexed, for the tying lace to be wrapped round and be retained by
projecting shoulders b, b, as set forth.
Secondly. I claim the manufacture and employment of leather stud
buttons in which prongs, pins, or their equivalents are compressed and
held, as shown in Figures 1, 4, 7, 8, and 9, of annexed Drawings, such

page_text: stud buttons having specially formed necks a and shoulders b, as and for
the purposes set forth.
Thirdly. I claim the manufacture and employment of stud buttons
with prongs or pins in metal, as described with reference to Figure 6 of
the annexed Drawings for the purposes set forth.
Fourthly. I claim the methods of securing stud buttons upon boots,
shoes, and other articles of dress, substantially in the manner described
and shown when such stud buttons have necks a and shoulders b, as
and for the purposes set forth.
.
In witness whereof, I, the said John William Scott, have hereunto
. set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of June, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four.