Stitching to Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1886

page_text: Stitching to Wearing Apparel.
We SARAH ELIZABETH JACKSON, of 21 Cheapside, Oldham, in the County of
Lancaster Dress Maker, and MAURICE SEWELL MORTON, of 9 Whitehouse Terrace,
Blackley near Manchester in the same county, Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
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These improvements relate to a novel and effective means of securing buttons
without stitching, to wearing apparel and consist in the employment for the
purpose of a metallic plate (by preference stamped out of sheet metal) having
projecting tongue on one side thereof and which is suitably bent to act as a spring
to allow the shank or eye of the button to pass over such tongue into a loop
formed therein opposite the centre of the plate and which loop then serves to keep
the button in position.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1. represents a front view, Fig. 2. a back
view and Fig. 3. a side sectional view of the metallic plate forming the essential
feature of the invention and Fig. 4. shews the same applied to a button. Fig. 5.
represents a front view, Fig. 6. a back view Fig. 7. a side sectional view and
Fig. 7 a plan view of a modification of the same plate and Fig. 8. shews the same
modification applied to a button.
In all the views a. is the metallic plate provided with a spring tongue b. formed
by preference by stamping the same, along with the plate, out of a piece of hard
brass or other sheet metal, and so that the loop c. shall be opposite the centre of
such plate as seen more clearly in Fig. 1. 3. and 5.
This is effected by either stamping the tongue b. partially or entirely out of the
face of the circular plate itself, for instance as seen in Figs 1. 2. and 3. and which
is preferred as being the stronger arrangement, or the circular plate may be left
intact and the tongue be formed in the first instance as a projecting piece 6¹
(as seen in Figs 7 and 7") and be then bent back to form the spring tongue as seen
is Figs 5. 6. and 8.
In securing a button in accordance with this invention, the shank of the same
is passed through a hole previously formed in the article of wearing apparel until
it projects on the opposite side thereof. The tongue of the metallic plate is then
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page_text: slipped into the hole or eye formed in the projecting part of the shank of the
button until arriving in the loop herein before mentioned when the spring becomes
instantly released and the button is effectually locked in position. In removing a
button it is only requisite to pull back the spring tongue and to slip the same out
of the shank when the button is free to be removed again.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is -
1st The improved method of and apparatus for securing buttons to articles of
wearing apparel without stitching, substantially as herein before described.
2nd The improved construction of metallic plate and spring tongue substantially
as and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
3rd In securing buttons to articles of wearing apparel the employment of the
improved metallic plate and spring tongue substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for the Applicants.